Douglas Hodge earned the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Albin, who with his partner Georges owns the eponymous St. Tropez nightclub where he stars as his glamorous drag persona, Zaza. "It is impossible to praise Hodge's wonderfully, deeply touching performance too highly. This is one of those thrilling, high-definition performances that will linger long in the memory of all who see it," wrote Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph. "Douglas Hodge is simply wonderful in a spangled frock, and a hilarious and adorable blend of burliness and effable sweetness," hailed Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday. "His softly smiling relationship with the audience is enchanting."
Hodge will make his Broadway debut with LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. His theatre credits also include Guys and Dolls, Titus Andronicus, Dumb Show (Olivier nomination). His film work includes Vanity Fair, Scenes of a Sexual Nature and the upcoming The Descent 2. His television work has included roles in "Mansfield Park," "Middlemarch" "Men of The Month" "True Love" "Red Cap" "It Could Be You" "The Way We Live Now" and "Spooks".
Terry Johnson is a multi-award winning playwright and director and is Literary Associate at The Royal Court Theatre. He has been honored with nine major British Theatre awards, including two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In recent years, he has had 10 productions running in London's West End, including Rain Man, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John's Glasses and The Memory of Water. He has worked with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production) and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffries. He has written and directed for international television, most recently "The Man Who Lost His Head" for ITV and "Not Only But Always" for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and a BAFTA for Rhys Ifans. He wrote and directed "‘Cor Blimey!" for ITV.
Choreographer Lynne Page's credits include: Never So Good (National Theatre) Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End) Bad Girls the Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield) There Came a Gypsy Riding and The Late Henry Moss (Almeida) Fabulation (Tricycle Theatre) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC) Bat Boy - the Musical (West End) Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Tell Me on a Sunday (West End) The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre) Meat (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Jesus Christ Superstar (European tour). Film: Hippie Hippie Shake (Working Title) Fred Claus (Warner Brothers). TV: "Phoo Action" "Billy Goat" "Brazen Hussies" "The History of Tom Jones" (BBC) "The Last Detective" (ITV) "That's So Graham Norton" (Channel Four).
The production features set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright and lighting design by Nick Richings. Orchestrations are by Jason Carr. Wig and makeup design is by Richard Mawbey.
Further casting and production information will be announced soon.
