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Kim Criswell, Daniel Evans, Gareth Gates, et al. Set for Broadway to West End Gala

Daniel Evans
(© Tristan Fuge)
Daniel Evans
(© Tristan Fuge)

Updated casting has been announced for Broadway to West End – by Special Arrangement, a gala concert taking place October 4 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in tribute to the work of Tony Award-winning orchestrator William David Brohn.

The event, to be conducted by Stephen Brooker and Martin Koch and directed and choreographed Bill Deamer, will raise money for the children’s cancer charity Clic Sargent. It will include songs from Carousel, Crazy for You, Miss Saigon, Wicked, Oliver!, Curtains, The Three Musketeers, and Sweet Smell of Success.

The cast will include Anthony Andrews, Rosemary Ashe, Graham Bickley, Ima Castro, Kim Criswell, Jacqui Dankworth, Daniel Evans, Gareth Gates, Alison Jiear, Alexia Khadime, Alistair McGowan, Robyn North, Charlotte Page, Nicholas Parsons, Jodie Prenger, Joanna Riding, and Rebecca Thornhill.

Special appearances will also by made by composers Stephen Flaherty and Claude-Michel Schönberg, songwriters George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Broadway orchestrator Christopher Jahnke, and guest conductor Gareth Valentine.

For more information, visit Whatsonstage.com.