Full cast set for 'A Face in the Crowd' at the Young Vic

Tony and Olivier Award-nominated actor Ramin Karimloo will star as Lonesome Rhodes and actor, singer, songwriter, and playwright Anoushka Lucas will play Marcia Jeffries.

The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of A Face in the Crowd, stage adaptation of the 1957 film with a score by Elvis Costello and book by book by Sarah Ruhl. The musical opens at the Young Vic on 10 September and Kwame Kwei-Armah directs.

Joining Tony and Olivier Award-nominated actor Ramin Karimloo as Lonesome Rhodes and actor, singer, songwriter, and playwright Anoushka Lucas as Marcia Jeffries, are Stavros Demetraki (Oklahoma!, The Vote) as Joey D and Olly Dobson (Back to the Future the Musical, Just for One Day) as Mel Miller.

Emily Florence makes her professional stage debut as Betty Lou, with Howard Gossington (Patriots, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) as Sheriff Hosmer/Ensemble, Andrew Coshan (Groundhog Day, A View from the Bridge), Sadie-Jean Shirley (Ain’t Too Proud, White Christmas), Chris Jenkins (Jack Absolute Flies Again, War of the Worlds), Durone Stokes (Groundhog Day, The Lion King), Vicki Lee Taylor (Heathers the Musical, Mrs Doubtfire), and Annie Wensak (Flowers for Mrs Harris, My Fair Lady) in the ensemble, and Jasmin Colangelo (Groundhog Day, Legally Blonde) and Bobby Windebank (The Time Traveller’s Wife, Rock of Ages) as swings.

A Face in the Crowd tells the story of local radio producer Marcia Jeffries, who interviews drunk drifter Rhodes in his jail cell and gives him a slot on her show, through which he gains dangerous levels of popularity and celebrity.

The creative team includes lighting designer Jackie Shemesh, musical supervisor and musical director Phil Bateman, sound designer Emma Laxton, and choreographer Lizzi Gee.

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Photo credit: Olly Dobson, Ramin Karimloo, and Anoushka Lucas. (Photos by Ruth Crafer, Andy Brown, and Sergei Sarakhanov)