Top Hat gives tour casting update

A casting update has been given for the ongoing UK tour of Top Hat, which reopens tomorrow night in Sheffield following a season in London.

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 London season at the Southbank Centre will be Phillip Attmore as Jerry Travers, Amara Okereke as Dale Tremont, with James Hume as Horace Hardwick, James Clyde as Bates and Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Alberto Beddini.

WhatsOnStage Award-winner Emma Williams will be joining as Madge Hardwick, with Zak Edwards also joining the ensemble.

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 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).

The 2026 tour will be visiting Sheffield, Dublin, Glasgow, Eastbourne, Southend, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Norwich, Salford and Southampton.