Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! transfers to the West End
by Best of Theatre Staff on Wednesday 7 February 2024, 9:11 pm in Upcoming and New Shows
Francesca Moody Productions, Kater Gordon, Wessex Grove and Fiery Angel are delighted to announce that award-winning smash-hit murder mystery musical Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! will transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End for a strictly limited season from 25 May - 14 September after thrilling audiences in Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester. Tickets are now on-sale with 5000 under £25 and a ticket lottery to be announced. Press Night will be Wednesday 5 June 2024.
Bronté Barbé (Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre) and Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma! Young Vic/ West End) will reprise their roles as Kathy and Stella alongside Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who: Time Fracture, Immersive LDN) who will once again play Erica. Further casting is to be announced.
Originally brought to the stage by Francesca Moody Productions (Fleabag, Olivier Award winner Baby Reindeer, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons) and Kater Gordon (2:22, Vanya) Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2022. The production reunites the writing and musical talents of Jon Brittain - Book and Lyrics / Co-Director (Olivier Award winner Rotterdam) and Matthew Floyd Jones - Music and Lyrics (Frisky and Mannish) who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed, Fringe First award-winning A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad). Fabian Aloise (who was nominated for an Olivier Award, WhatsOnStage Award and Stage Debut Award for Jamie Lloyd’s Evita) Co-Directs and Choreographs fresh from his success as choreographer on Lloyd’s Sunset Boulevard (West End).
BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull's least successful true crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own!
This big-hearted, laugh out loud musical follows the unlikely crime-fighting duo as they put their friendship on the line to become part of the story. Can they crack the case, (and become global podcast superstars) before the killer strikes again…?