Cast Announced For MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at The Hayes
Merrily We Roll Along will open at the Hayes in June this year.by BWW News Desk
The award-winning producer of Sweet Charity and Little Shop of Horrors, Luckiest Productions, and Hayes Theatre Co, today announced the cast for the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along. A thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success, Merrily We Roll Along will open at the Hayes in June this year.
Returning to Hayes Theatre Co in the role of Mary Flynn is Helpmann Award winner and one of Australia s finest leading ladies Elise McCann (Matilda, Everybody Loves Lucy). In the role of Charley and also returning to the Hayes for the first time since he played Sonny in Xanadu will be Ainsley Melham, who starred as the title role in Disney s Aladdin across Australia and on Broadway. Recent WAAPA graduate Andrew Coshan (Jersey Boys, MTC s A View from the Bridge) will perform the r
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