Casting announced for Damn Yankees at Landor

Jonathan D Ellis will lead the cast of Damn Yankees at the Landor Theatre which opens on 7 October (previews from 1 October).

Ellis, whose stage credits include Les Misérables and Blood Brothers, will play the Mephistophelean Applegate in Adler and Ross' "Faustian musical about baseball".

He will be joined by Poppy Tierney as Lola, Alex Lodge as Joe Hardy and Tony Stansfield as Van Buren, the role he first played in the 1990s West End run.

The remaining cast comprises Nova Skipp, Gary Bland, Douglas Fanning, Barnaby Hughes, Joel Burman, Sam Stone, Kiel Payton, Ben Sell, Sam Lathwood, Emily Wigley, Kayleigh Thadani, Christopher Tendai and
recent graduates Elizabeth Futter, Sophie May Whitfield, Samson Ajewole and Leah Pinney.

Damn Yankees runs at the Landor Theatre from 1 October to 8 November.