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Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT

By: Feb. 18, 2013
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Gavin Lee and Kristen Beth Williams are leading the new cast of the West End hit musical Top Hat as Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont. They are joined by Olivier award nominee Alex Gaumond as Alberto Beddini and Clive Hayward as Horace Hardwick, with Vivien Parry (Madge) and Stephen Boswell (Bates) continuing in the production. BroadwayWorld has a first look below.

Jerry Travers, the famous American tap dancer, arrives in London to appear in his first West End show. Travers meets the irresistible Dale Tremont, the girl of his dreams, and follows her across Europe in an attempt to win her heart.

Ensemble and swing members are Michelle Andrews, Caroline Bateson, Jeremy Batt, Charlie Bull, Alan Burkitt, Matthew Cheney, Louise Davidson, Russell-Leighton Dixon, Matt Gillett, Jonny Godbold, Ian Goss, Fenton Gray, Alyn Hawke, Lauren Jade, Paul Kemble, Jenny Legg, Martin McCarthy, Grace McKee, Debbie Paul, Holly Rostron, Callum Train, Lois Urwin, Graham Vick, Alexandra Waite-Roberts and ARon Wild.

Directed by Matthew White and choreographed by Bill Deamer, Top Hat has set designs by Hildegard Bechtler, costume designs by Jon Morrell, wigs by Campbell Young, lighting design by Peter Mumford, sound by Gareth Owen, new orchestrations by Chris Walker, musical supervision by Richard Balcombe and musical direction by Daniel Jackson. With music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and based on the RKO motion picture, the screenplay by Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott has been adapted for the stage by Matthew White and Howard Jacques and is presented by arrangement with RKO Pictures LLC, Warner Bros Theatre Ventures Inc. and the Irving Berlin Music Company.

Top Hat is produced by Kenny Wax, and his partners on the production are Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley, TEd Hartley, Flora Suk-Hwa Yoon and Lee Menzies.

For more information, visit: www.tophatonstage.com

Photo Credit: Tristram Kenton

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
The Company

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
The Company

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
Kristen Beth Williams and Gavin Lee

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
Gavin Lee and Company

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
Gavin Lee and Kristen Beth Williams

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
Gavin Lee and Kristen Beth Williams

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image
Alex Gaumond

Photo Flash: First Look at Gavin Lee, Kristen Beth Williams and More in UK's TOP HAT  Image



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