Full casting announced for Million Dollar Quartet's London transfer
by Best of Theatre Staff on in Cast Changes and Announcements
The Barn Theatre's production of Million Dollar Quartet has completed its company for this autumn's London run, with Connor Payne, Christopher Erasmus, Joe Bence and Joey Bradick joining the previously announced Darren Day at The Arts at Marble Arch from 4 September.
Every role is now cast for the London transfer of Million Dollar Quartet, the Barn Theatre production that arrives at The Arts at Marble Arch: powered by TodayTix for a strictly limited season from Friday 4 September to Sunday 6 December 2026. Press night is Tuesday 15 September at 7pm. Built by Barn and Steve Spiegel for TRW Production announced the casting this morning.
The four musicians at the centre of the story are played by Connor Payne as Elvis Presley, Christopher Erasmus as Johnny Cash, Joe Bence as Jerry Lee Lewis and Joey Bradick as Carl Perkins. Payne reprises the role after Ruth The Musical at Wilton's Music Hall, Assassins and A Man of No Importance; Bence also returns, having appeared in the Death Comes to Pemberley UK tour and The Farm at Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Erasmus has been seen in Winghaven Park and Beauty and the Beast, and Bradick in Humbug at Waterloo Vaults and The Cavern Club UK tour.
They line up alongside Darren Day, announced earlier as Sam Phillips, the Sun Records producer who put the session together. Completing the company are Jenay Naima as Dyanne, whose credits include MJ The Musical at the Prince Edward Theatre and Silence! The Musical at the Turbine Theatre; Geraint Downing as Brother Jay, previously in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic and The Lord of the Rings at the Watermill Theatre; and Josh Haberfield as W.S. "Fluke" Holland, whose work includes Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story and Aladdin at the Lighthouse, Poole. The entire London company reprises the roles it played in Cirencester.
The show revisits a single night - 4 December 1956 - when the four men found themselves in the same Memphis studio by chance and recorded together. This autumn's run marks 70 years since that session, and the score gathers the songs that came out of the era, among them Blue Suede Shoes, Fever, Walk The Line and Hound Dog, played live by the cast.
Jonathan O'Boyle directs, with choreography by Joanna Goodwin, set and costume design by Libby Watson, lighting design by Alex Musgrave, sound design by Nick Lodge and musical supervision by Lee Freeman. The book is by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux.
The move to London follows an extended summer season in Cirencester, and continues the Barn's habit of developing work in the Cotswolds for wider audiences under its Built By Barn banner - a route already travelled by its 2023 production of I'm Sorry Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember, which went on to the West End and a UK tour, and by The King's Speech, which tours next.
Critics gave the Barn run four stars. The Stage wrote: 'Under O'Boyle's assured direction, we get the real people, rather than the legends that they became.' The Daily Mail found that 'The high voltage encore to Jonathan O'Boyle's production gets the audience to their feet.'