Noel Sullivan To Join West End WE WILL ROCK YOU From Feb 20

Having performed the role over 300 times in the highly successful UK national tour of the show, singer/actor Noel Sullivan is to join the original London production of the Queen/Ben Elton hit musical We Will Rock You in a reprise of his lead role of Galileo.

Sullivan joins the WWRY London cast next month taking over the role from the departing Alex Gaumond, and makes his first night appearance on the Dominion Theatre stage on Monday February 20.

Gaumond, who joined  the London cast of We Will Rock You last August after his award-nominated appearance in Legally Blonde,  leaves the show to focus on his recording career. Gaumond’s farewell performance will be Saturday February 18.

First coming to the attention of the public in 2001 as a member of the original TV talent search band, Hear’Say, former Welsh choir boy Sullivan has since gone on to carve himself a rising career in musical theatre.  He has appeared in a host of stage musicals includingFame, Grease, Love Shack, Flashdance, and Simply Ballroom, as well as high profile concert performances including the Royal Gala opening of his home country Wales’s Millennium Centre.

Sullivan is cast through to late October and will serve as part of the company which will take We Will Rock You to its marathon 10^thanniversary which will be celebrated at the theatre May 14 and through the London 2012 Olympics.   Throughout the Games the show will rock on as normal. The regular performance schedule of shows Monday – Saturday with additional Saturday matinee will continue unchanged.

Sullivan joins an on-going cast which includes Lauren Samuels as Scaramouche, Brenda Edwards as Killer Queen, Kevin Kennedy as Pop, Rachel John as Meat, Alasdair Harvey as Khashoggi, and Wayne Robinson as Britney.

Playing to over 12,000 people weekly, and a standing ovation at ever show, We Will Rock You has now been seen by close on 6 million people at the Dominion alone and over 13 million worldwide.  It is now the 7th longest running musical currently playing in the West End in a list that includes Les Miserables,  Phantom of the Opera,  Blood Brothers, Mamma Mia!, Chicago and Disney’s  The Lion King.

The Olivier Awards 2011 saw We Will Rock You officially crowned the UK’s favourite show in the only vote cast entirely by the public.

The show is presently booking to October 2012.

WE WILL ROCK YOU is a Queen Theatrical Productions/Phil Mcintyre Entertainment/Tribeca production. Book and direction Ben Elton. Music and Lyrics Queen. Music Supervisors Brian May and Roger Taylor.  Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London, W1. (Tottenham Court Road tube station).  Box Office: 0870 169 0116 (24hrs)

Performances Monday – Friday 7.30pm.  Saturdays 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Additional matinee last Wednesday each month and school holidays 2:30pm.