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& Juliet cast: first look at the brand new musical portraits

The new musical has tunes by composer impresario Max Martin

Jordan Luke Gage and Miriam-Teak Lee in & Juliet
Jordan Luke Gage and Miriam-Teak Lee in & Juliet
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Official cast portraits have been released for brand new musical & Juliet, showing off the cast in the costumes designed by Paloma Young.

You can buy tickets for the piece here.

Directed by Luke Sheppard (In the Heights) the show imagines what would happen if Shakespeare's Juliet rebelled against her story and didn't die at the end of the play, carving out a life for herself instead. The show features tunes from the massive catalogue of Martin music, including Katy Perry, The Weeknd and Backstreet Boys.

The cast is led by Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet alongside Oliver Tompsett, David Bedella, Cassidy Janson, Arun Blair-Mangat, Melanie La Barrie, Jordan Luke Gage and Tim Mahendran.

& Juliet has just opened for a limited run in Manchester, before coming to the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End at the beginning of November.

David Bedella (Lance)
David Bedella (Lance)
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The cast of & Juliet
The cast of & Juliet
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Cassidy Janson (Anne Hathaway), Oliver Thomsett (Shakespeare
Cassidy Janson (Anne Hathaway) and Oliver Tompsett (Shakespeare)
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Melanie La Barrie (Nurse)
Melanie La Barrie (Nurse)
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Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo) and Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
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Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo) and Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo) and Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
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Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)
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Arun Blair-Mangat (May)
Arun Blair-Mangat (May)
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Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo)
Jordan Luke Gage (Romeo)
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Tim Mahendran (Francois)
Tim Mahendran (Francois)
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The ensemble includes Jocasta Almgill, Josh Baker, Alishia-Marie Blake, Ivan De Freitas, Rhian Duncan, Danielle Fiamanya, Kieran Lai, Nathan Lorainey-Dineen, Jaye Marshall, Grace Mouat, Antoine Murray-Straughan, Kerri Norville, Christopher Parkinson, Dillon Scott-Lewis, Kirstie Skivington and Alex Tranter.

With a book by David West Read, Jennifer Weber is choreographing the show, which has set design from Soutra Gilmour, costume design by Young, musical supervision, orchestration and arrangement by Bill Sherman, lighting by Howard Hudson, sound by Gareth Owen, musical direction and additional arrangements by Dominic Fallacaro and casting by Stuart Burt.