Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat the Musical will be hitting the road on a UK tour, opening on 18 September at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre. Casting has now been announced for the 2025 tour dates.
Reprising their roles from Chichester will be Phillip Attmore as Jerry Travers, Sally Ann Triplett as Madge Hardwick, James Clyde as Bates and Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Alberto Beddini.
Attmore is one of Broadway’s most exciting performers and the winner of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer for Shuffle Along and the Playbill Breakout Performance Award for On the 20th Century. Top Hat marks his UK debut. Triplett has enjoyed many West End roles including Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gran in The Witches, Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!, and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for which she won a WhatsOnStage Award.
Clyde’s theatre credits including Mr Wormwood in Matilda the Musical and various roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, whilst Gibson-Giorgio has been seen in Sinatra the Musical at the Birmingham Rep, Zorro the Musical at Charing Cross Theatre and Rags at the Park Theatre.
Joining the touring cast as Amara Okereke as Dale Tremont and James Hume as Horace Hardwick. Okereke won the 2018 Stage Debut Award for her role as Cosette in Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre, before going on to star in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum, Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire at the Crucible Theatre and Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre. Hume won the Toni Fell Competition and Hilda Deane Award for Outstanding Achievement, and has been seen in Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican, A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic, and The Phantom of the Opera in the West End and on tour.
Completing the touring cast are 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.
Casting for 2026 tour dates is still be announced.
Acclaimed American director Kathleen Marshall directs and choreographs the production alongside set designer Peter McKintosh, costume designer Yvonne Milnes and Peter McKintosh, musical supervisor Gareth Valentine, musical director Stephen Ridley, orchestrator and arranger Chris Walker, lighting designer Tim Mitchell, sound designer Paul Groothuis, casting director Natale Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting, associate director and choreographer Carol Lee Meadows, associate director Cameron Wenn, associate set designer Ben Davies, associate lighting designer Imogen Clarke, associate sound designer Rich Pomeroy, associate musical director Luke Holman and resident director and choreographer Richard Pitt.
Tickets are now on sale for tour dates across UK, including a winter season at London’s Southbank Centre, from tophat-musical.com.
