Summer Strallen to Join Beetlejuice The Musical for a Strictly Limited Run
by Best of Theatre Staff on Monday 20 July 2026, 2:07 pm in Cast Changes and Announcements
Four-time Olivier Award-nominee Summer Strallen joins the company of Beetlejuice The Musical as Delia Deetz for a strictly limited season, taking over from Aimie Atkinson from Monday 3 August 2026.
Crossroads Live and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures have announced that four-time Olivier Award-nominee Summer Strallen will join the company of Beetlejuice The Musical as the endlessly optimistic, crystal-obsessed life coach Delia Deetz for a strictly limited season. Strallen takes over the role from Aimie Atkinson, playing from Monday 3 August to Monday 2 November 2026.
"I'm beyond excited to have the time of my afterlife this summer as I join the company of the West End's most deliciously unhinged show, stepping into the delightfully deluded world of Delia," said Strallen. "Playing Delia feels suspiciously like being typecast as Summer circa 2017 – all crystals, moon ceremonies, affirmations, and an unwavering belief that the universe has a plan! I can't wait to revisit that chapter of myself and bring my own brand of inspirational 'good vibes' to the Deetz family. My crystals are charged… now let's see if they can handle the Netherworld."
During her break from the production, Atkinson – an original West End cast member of SIX: The Musical – will make her Broadway debut, reprising her Olivier Award-nominated role as Katherine Howard at the Lena Horne Theatre. She returns to Beetlejuice The Musical in the West End on Wednesday 3 November 2026.
Strallen's extensive West End credits include Top Hat, Love Never Dies, Young Frankenstein, The Sound of Music, The Drowsy Chaperone and CATS. Her wider work spans theatre, television and film, with screen credits including Wicked, Wicked: For Good, Archie and Casualty.
Strallen joins current cast members David Fynn as Beetlejuice and Tom Xander as the alternate, alongside Hannah Nordberg as Lydia Deetz. David Hunter and Chelsea Halfpenny star as newly-dead homemakers Adam and Barbara Maitland, with Alasdair Harvey as Charles Deetz.
Beetlejuice The Musical made its West End debut this year at London's Prince Edward Theatre, where it plays a limited run through to Saturday 17 April 2027. Based on Tim Burton's beloved 1988 movie classic, this wildly funny – and weirdly life-affirming – musical tells the tale of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager sharing her home with a pair of newly-deads and the demonic ghost-with-the-most, Beetlejuice.
The West End production reunites the show's celebrated Broadway creative team, with a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, and direction by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge! The Musical).