Producer Enda Markey has announced the talented cast that will join Anna O’Byrne and Marina Prior in the lavish concert presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL – A CONCERT in Sydney and Melbourne this September.
Charismatic West End star Danny Whitehead will be playing the coveted role of Billy Bigelow. Whitehead most recently starred in the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End. His previous credits in the UK include the Narrator in Blood Brothers, Enjolras in Les Misérables, as well as Wicked, Sweeney Todd, South Pacific, The Secret Garden and more. His concert credits have seen him perform at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues, including the Royal Albert Hall. This is Whitehead’s first role in Australia since relocating here last year.
Blake Bowden is also joining this celebrated company, as the naïve and adorably shy fisherman Enoch Snow. Bowden recently wowed audiences as Brad and Frank’n’Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera and Elder Price in The Book of Mormon. Helpmann Award winner Kerrie Anne Greenland will play Carrie Pipperidge, Julie’s lively friend and co-worker. Greenland’s roles include Ellen in Miss Saigon, Eponine in Les Misérables and Violet in Side Show, among many others.
As the menacing seaman Jigger Craigin will be Andy Conaghan (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Les Misérables, Shrek). Veteran actor Tony Llewellyn-Jones will play the heavenly Starkeeper and Dr Seldon. Llewellyn-Jones has appeared in dozens of plays for the Sydney and Melbourne theatre companies as well as the role of Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady, directed by Dame Julie Andrews. Paula Arundell (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Death of a Salesman) plays the formidable Mrs Mullin. Former Australian Ballet star Jasmin Durham will play Louise.
Carousel – A Concert will be presented at Sydney’s State Theatre from 3 – 4 September, and at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from 7 – 8 September. For more information, visit carouselconcert.com.
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