Death Takes A Holiday - production images released
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PRODUCTION images have been released for the European premiere of the new musical Death Takes A Holiday. To view them, click here.
Previously Posted: Producers have announced that there has been a cast change for the upcoming European première of the musical Death Takes A Holiday, which runs at Charing Cross Theatre from January 23 (previews from January 16) to March 4, 2017.
Due to unforeseen circumstances Maxwell Caulfield has withdrawn from the production and the role of Duke Vittorio Lamberti will now be played by Mark Inscoe.
Mark Inscoe played Hugh Dorsey in Thom Southerland’s acclaimed production of Parade at Southwark Playhouse. His many musical theatre credits include William Desmond Taylor in Mack & Mabel (Chichester), Emile de Becque in South Pacific and Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady (Kilworth House), Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (Leicester Curve), Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (Palace ) and Tabarro in La Cage Aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory).
He joins Zoë Doano (as Grazia Lamberti), Chris Pelulso (Death/Prince Nikolai Sirki), Gay Soper, Kathryn Akin, Anthony Cable, Trudi Camilleri, Ken Christiansen, Scarlett Courtney, Sophie-May Feek, James Gant, Matthew McDonald, Ashley Stillburn, Samuel Thomas, Helen Turner.
In Northern Italy, shortly after World War One, Death disguises himself as a handsome young prince to try to understand why life is so precious and death so feared. But when he unexpectedly falls in love with a newly engaged young woman, this mysterious stranger discovers that love may in fact be stronger than death.
Death Takes A Holiday was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards when it premièred Off Broadway in 2011.