Cabaret Casting: Ifans, Nuttall, Maxwell Martin???
Date: 11 July 2006
More names have been thrown into the
Cabaret casting hat: Welshman
Rhys Ifans for the emcee as well as
Amy Nuttall and
Anna Maxwell Martin for Sally Bowles. Best known to film fans as Hugh Grant's dopey flatmate Spike in the 1999 film
Notting Hill, Ifans’ other screen credits include
Enduring Love, Not Only But Always, Love, Honour and Obey and
Twin Town. He was last seen on the London stage playing the maniac in the 2003 Donmar Warehouse production of
Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Former
Emmerdale star Nuttall is currently playing Eliza Doolittle in the tour of
My Fair Lady. Maxwell Martin is best known for her many heavy-hitting play credits including
His Dark Materials, The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters, Dumb Show and
Honour as well as TV’s
Bleak House. Other names mentioned in connection with Rufus Norris new staging of Kander and Ebb’s Nazi Germany-set musical have included
Star Wars’ Natalie Portman,
Dr Who’s Billie Piper,
Denise Van Outen,
Martine McCutcheon and, improbably, cross-dresser
Eddie Izzard for Sally and
Sheila Hancock for the part of her hard-bitten landlady Fraulein Schneider (See
The Goss, 26 Jun 2006). The production opens on 10 October 2006 (previews from 22 September) at the West End’s Lyric Theatre.
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