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Patrick Doyle, currently appearing as an Angel in the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, provides the vocals for the title song in The Boxtrolls, a full length stop-motion from Laika and Focus Features, who brought audiences the Oscar-nominated Coraline and ParaNorman. In the song written by Monty Python's
Eric Idle with Oscar-winning Atonement composer
Dario Marianelli, Doyle voice-matches Academy Award-winner
Ben Kingsley as the evil Archibald Snatcher's alter ego, M. Frou Frou. The animated feature topped the UK/Ireland box office when it began it's foreign release across eight markets, and arrives in theaters nationwide on September 26th. The soundtrack, featuring Doyle, is currently available for download on iTunes. Based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, a misunderstood cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear shells.The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs (voiced by
Isaac Hempstead-Wright), since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher (Academy Award-winner
Ben Kingsley) who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kind-hearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and an adventurous rich girl Winnie (
Elle Fanning) to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change - and cheese. Doyle is best known for his comedic turn as Garv in
20th Century Fox's The Sitter, opposite
Jonah Hill. On Broadway, he originated the role of Chantal in the 2010 Tony-winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Red Bull Theatre's revival ofVolpone,
Vineyard Theatre's production of
Tarell McCraney's Wig Out!, and the BAM/NYCO production of Anna Nicole: The Opera. He broke tradition as the first countertenor to portray the role of Fruma-Sarah, in the North American tour of Fiddler on the Roof opposite Topol,
Theodore Bikel, and
Harvey Fierstein. Other touring credits include the North American tour of Mary Poppins, the Asian and European tours of West Side Story and the Asian tour of Fame: the Musical. Doyle's television appearances include "Orange is the New Black," "Law and Order," and "The Kennedy Center Honors."
