New production photography is released today for award-winning murder mystery musical Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! produced by Francesca Moody Productions, Kater Gordon, Wessex Grove and Fiery Angel.
This joyful new musical comedy is currently in previews at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End where it will play a strictly limited season until 14 September after thrilling audiences in Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester.
Reprising their roles from the original production, Bronté Barbé (Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre) plays Kathy, Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma! Young Vic/ West End) is Stella and Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who: Time Fracture, Immersive LDN) is Erica+.
They are joined by Elliot Broadfoot (I Should Be So Lucky, UK Tour ) as Justin+, Hannah-Jane Fox (Close-Up, the Twiggy Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory) as Felicia, Elliotte Williams-N’Dure (Moulin Rouge, West End) as DI Sue Shaw+ and Ben Redfern (The Witches, National Theatre) as David Slatter+.
The West End company is completed by Jennifer Caldwell (Six the Musical, UK Tour), Chelsea Hall (Bring It On the Musical, UK Tour) and Sorelle Marsh (The Time Traveller’s Wife, West End and Storyhouse, Chester). Musicians will be Andrew Hilton (Musical Director / Keys 1), Catherine Benson (Associate Musical Director / Keys 2), Laura Browne (Guitar) and Philip Williams (Drums).
Originally brought to the stage by Francesca Moody Productions (Fleabag, Olivier Award winner Baby Reindeer, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons) and Kater Gordon (2:22, Vanya) Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2022.
The production reunites the writing and musical talents of Jon Brittain – Book and Lyrics / Co-Director (The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Apple TV, Olivier Award winner Rotterdam) and Matthew Floyd Jones – Music and Lyrics (Frisky and Mannish) who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed, Fringe First award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad). Fabian Aloise (recently nominated for an Olivier Award for Sunset Boulevard) Co-Directs and Choreographs.
A series of special events and workshops celebrating the new musical will run alongside Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! throughout June. Deborah Francis-White and Susan Wokoma celebrate the theme of friendship in the show by hosting a Best Friends night on 14 June. Other special guest hosts will include Giovanna Fletcher, Anthony Horowitz, Rosie Jones, Nick Mohammed, Sara Pascoe and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Writers behind Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! will come together to discuss the abundance of new homegrown musicals currently in the West End, while Jon Brittain (Book & Lyrics/Co-Director of Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! ) and Matthew Floyd Jones (Music & Lyrics) lead workshops on writing for musical theatre.
