Kyle Riabko will star opposite fellow original cast members Daniel Bailen and James Williams in the forthcoming UK premiere of New York hit What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
The trio will be joined by newcomers Greg Coulson, Anastacia McCleskey, Stephenie McKeon and Renato Paris for the musical’s run at the London Bridge venue from 3 July to 5 September.
First staged at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2013, What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined will take audiences on a 90-minute non-stop musical journey combining nostalgia and innovation with more than 30 of the American singer and composer’s greatest hits.
Directed by Olivier Award winner Steven Hoggett, the show features tunes recorded by some of the music industry’s best known artists and features everything from Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head and I Say A Little Prayer to Walk On By, What’s New Pussycat? And I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself.
The musical’s London run will see Riabko (Hair on Broadway), who conceived the production alongside David Lane Seltzer, reunited with Bailen and Williams after performing together in what the New York Times described as an “artfully staged show” in the US.
They are joined by Riabko’s Hair co-star McCleskey, McKeon (The Commitments, Palace Theatre), singer/songwriter Paris and The Selecter band member Coulson.
The production will open at the Menier Chocolate Factory following the current run of Alan Ayckbourn’s Communicating Doors, which closes on 27 June.
Theatre fans eager to see a snippet of the Bacharach-filled show can also head down to Trafalgar Square this weekend, where the show joins a host of other London musicals performing as part of this year’s West End LIVE with MasterCard. You can see the full weekend line-up here.