Top Hat confirms tour casting

The cast has been announced for the 2025 UK tour of Top Hat, opening on 18 September at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking.

Produced by Kenny Wax and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions, the stage version of the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film features Irving Berlin standards including “Cheek to Cheek”, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”, “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

Reprising their roles from the Chichester Festival Theatre run will be Phillip Attmore as Jerry Travers, Sally Ann Triplett as Madge Hardwick, James Clyde as Bates and Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Alberto Beddini.

Amara Okereke joins as Dale Tremont with James Hume as Horace Hardwick. Further casting will be announced for the 2026 UK and Ireland dates.

The touring company also features Lindsay Atherton, Rhiannon Bacchus, Jeremy Batt, Freddie Clements, Pedro Donoso, Bethan Downing, Autumn Draper, Tilly Ducker, Maddie Harper, Stuart Hickey, Laura Hills, Connor Hughes, George Lyons, David McIntosh, Jordan Oliver, Emily Anne Potter, Joe Press, Molly Rees Howe, Kirsty Sparks and Toyan Thomas-Browne.

The production is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, with music and lyrics by Berlin and a book by Matthew White and Howard Jacques. The creative team includes Peter McKintosh (set design), Yvonne Milnes and Peter McKintosh (costume design), Gareth Valentine (musical supervision), Stephen Ridley (musical direction), Chris Walker (orchestration and arrangement), Tim Mitchell (lighting), Paul Groothuis (sound), Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting (casting), Carol Lee Meadows (associate director and choreographer), Cameron Wenn (associate director), Ben Davies (associate set designer), Imogen Clarke (associate lighting designer), Rich Pomeroy (associate sound designer), Luke Holman (associate musical director) and Richard Pitt (resident director and choreographer).

Following its Chichester run, Top Hat will visit Woking, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Wimbledon, Canterbury, Liverpool, Cardiff, Sunderland and Manchester before a five-week Christmas season at the South Bank Centre in London.

The 2026 tour will then continue to Sheffield, Dublin, Glasgow, Eastbourne, Southend, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Norwich, Salford and Southampton.