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Cast: Mazelle in Joe’s, Edwards Is Queen, WoodsDate: 15 June 2010 Former X Factor finalist Brenda Edwards will join the West End cast of Queen musical We Will Rock You for a limited ten-week season from next Monday 21 June 2010 at the Dominion Theatre. Edwards fills in as Killer Queen, a role she’s already played in the show’s touring production, for long-serving cast member Mazz Murray, who is taking a maternity break. Since competing on X Factor in 2005, her stage credits have included Chicago, Carmen Jones and Brenda’s Gospel Christmas. Set in the future, We Will Rock You tells the story of a world in which globalisation has meant the death of real music in favour of computer-produced cyber stars, a status quo which the rebel Bohemians, harking back to the Golden Age of rock (embodied by Queen), are trying to overthrow so that they can write and perform their own music. An unintentional hero ends up saving the kids of Planet Mall from the tyrannical Killer Queen and discovers the place of living rock. We Will Rock You has a book by Ben Elton and features 32 of Queen’s greatest hits including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Under Pressure", "Radio Gaga" and, of course, "We Will Rock You". It’s directed by Elton, choreographed by Arlene Phillips and designed by Mark Fisher and Willie Williams. The current cast is led by Peter Murphy (as Galileo) and Sabrina Aloueche (Scaramouche), along with Louise Bowden (Meat), Ian Carlyle (Britney), Garry Lake (Pop) and Alex Bourne (Khasoggi). In other musical casting news: American disco diva Kym Mazelle, whose 1980s and 90s chart-toppers included “No More Tears”, in the revival of Leiber and Stoller musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe. Ahead of a possible transfer, the production runs at the fringe Landor Theatre 20 July (previews from 13 July) to 22 August 2010, although, due to previous commitments, Mazelle will only appear from 13 to 25 July. And at Regent’s Park’s Open Air Theatre, full casting has been announced for artistic director Timothy Sheader’s production of Into the Woods, which runs from 11 August to 11 September 2010 (previews from 5 August) as part of this year’s Stephen Sondheim 80th birthday celebrations. Helen Dallimore (the original West End Glinda in Wicked) and Michael Xavier (currently in Love Story at Chichester) will play Cinderella and Cinderella’s Prince/The Wolf, along with Simon Thomas, Amy Griffiths, Beverley Rudd and previously announced cast members Hannah Waddingham, Jenna Russell, Marc Antolin, Valda Aviks, Billy Boyle, Gaye Brown, Sophie Caton, Alice Fearn, Mark Goldthorp, Amy Griffiths, Mark Hadfield, Amy Ellen Richardson, Ben Stott and Gemma Wardle. - by Terri Paddock Related Content| Internal Links |  | Top Ten: London shows for half term - 23rd Oct 2012 features |  | Oliver Tompsett & Rachael Wooding join cast of We Will Rock You - 12th Sep 2012 news |  | Ben Elton hits back at We Will Rock You critics? - 15th May 2012 gossip |  | Photos: Robert De Niro rocks up to WWRY's tenth birthday - 15th May 2012 photos |  | Opening: Chair, Detroit, Orton's Butler & Sunshine Boys - 14th May 2012 news |  | Noel Sullivan takes over from Gaumond in We Will Rock You, 20 Feb - 31st Jan 2012 news |  | Cast: Lauren Samuels Joins WWRY, Hanson is Lazy Elf - 29th Sep 2011 news |  | Photos: Popstars Pop Up for Pudsey in West End Musicals - 31st Aug 2011 news |  | Cast: Gaumond Is WWRY's New Galileo, Duncan Betwixt - 4th Jul 2011 news |  | Top Five: Shows to See With Your Dad for Father's Day - 13th Jun 2011 features |  | We Will Rock You   - 1st Jun 2011 reviews |  | WOS TV: Up Close With ... Anthems' Brian May - 18th Apr 2011 interviews |  | Royal Wedding Fever Hits Tkts in Leicester Sq??? - 18th Apr 2011 gossip |  | Longrunners Extend: WWRY, Mousetrap, Les Mis - 21st Mar 2011 news |  | Review Round-up: Open Air Goes Into the Woods - 19th Aug 2010 roundup |  | 1st Night Photos: Seeing Red & Stars in Woods - 17th Aug 2010 photos |  | Into the Woods    - 17th Aug 2010 reviews |  | Kevin Kennedy Leads West End We Will Rock You - 16th Aug 2010 news |  | Jessica Spends Three Nights in Joe's for Steph - 10th Aug 2010 news |  | Brief Encounter With ... Jenna Russell - 29th Jul 2010 interviews |  | Landor Gets Closer, Extends Joe’s with LaBarrie - 28th Jul 2010 news |  | Smokey Joe’s Café   - 21st Jul 2010 reviews |  | 1st Night Photos: Dorothys Support Steph at Joe's - 19th Jul 2010 photos |  | WOS TV: Brenda Edwards On ... Bringing the X Factor to WWRY - 8th Jul 2010 tv |  | Rainbow's Steph Fearon Leads Smokey Revival - 8th Jun 2010 news |  | Waddingham & Russell Go into Woods, More Cast - 31st Mar 2010 news |  | Musicals Extend: Chitty, Blood, We Will Rock You - 20th Apr 2004 news |  | Producer De Niro Flies In to Launch We Will Rock You - 26th Mar 2002 news |

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