Casting Announced for Top Hat Musical
The Chichester Festival Theatre Production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat has announced the cast for the 2025 UK tour which opens at the Edinburgh Playhouse from 30th September 2025.
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Last Updated: 1 September 2025 13:44
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Reprising their roles from Chichester Festival Theatre will be Phillip Attmore (So You Think You Can Dance) as Jerry Travers, Sally Ann Triplett (Cabaret) as Madge Hardwick, James Clyde (Matilda the Musical) as Bates and Alex Gibson-Giorgio (Mamma Mia!) as Alberto Beddini. Amara Okereke (My Fair Lady) joins the cast as Dale Tremont and James Hume (Kiss Me Kate) as Horace Hardwick. Further casting to be announced for the 2026 UK and Ireland tour dates.
The musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne – effervescent, elegant and exhilarating – Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs: the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her heart – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns.
Phillip Attmore is one of Broadway’s most exciting performers and 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. He makes his UK debut as Jerry Travers. His US credits also include Hello, Dolly!, Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood and TV’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Amara Okereke won the 2018 Stage Debut Award for her role as Cosette in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre. Further theatre credits include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at London Coliseum, Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire at Sheffield Crucible and Spring Awakening at the Almeida Theatre. Film credits include the upcoming The Choral (directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner).
James Hume won the Toni Fell Competition and Hilda Deane Award for Outstanding Achievement. His theatre credits include Kiss Me Kate (Barbican), A Christmas Carol (Old Vic), The Phantom of the Opera (West End and UK/Ireland Tour).
Sally Ann Triplett has enjoyed many distinguished London roles including Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gran in The Witches and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for which she won a WhatsOnStage Award (National Theatre) and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!.
James Clyde’s extensive theatre credits include Mr. Wormwood in Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, and various roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company including in King Lear, Cymbeline, Tamburlaine, Tartuffe, Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet, Days of Significance, Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night.
Alex Gibson-Giorgio’s theatre credits include Sinatra The Musical at the Birmingham Rep, Zorro The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre, Rags at the Park Theatre and Mamma Mia! Australia Tour, TV credits include: One Day for Netflix and Taika Waititi’s Time Bandits for Apple TV+.
The touring cast is completed by 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 Ann Potter, Joe Press, Molly Rees Howe, Kirsty Sparks and Toyan Thomas-Browne.
Top Hat is currently playing at Chichester Festival Theatre until 6 September, having opened to rave reviews. The UK tour opens at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking on 18 September before visiting a further nine venues: Milton Keynes (Milton Keynes Theatre), Edinburgh (Edinburgh Playhouse), Nottingham (Theatre Royal), Wimbledon (New Wimbledon Theatre), Canterbury (Marlowe Theatre), Liverpool (Liverpool Empire Theatre), Cardiff (Wales Millennium Centre), Sunderland (Sunderland Empire Theatre), Manchester (Manchester Opera House), ahead of a five-week Christmas season at the South Bank Centre in London.
Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s original West End production won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out.
Acclaimed American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall stages this brand-new production. A nine-time Tony nominee and three-time winner for her choreography on the Broadway productions of Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game and Anything Goes, her most recent revival of Anything Goes – which played at London’s Barbican, on a UK tour, and was also televised – received nine Olivier Award nominations in 2022 and Kathleen herself received the award for Best Choreographer. She has worked on more than twenty Broadway shows and she is the first woman to have directed a play, directed a musical and choreographed a musical on Broadway.
With Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Top Hat is adapted for the stage by Matthew White & Howard Jacques. Joining Director and Choreographer Kathleen Marshall on the creative team are Set Designer Peter McKintosh, Costume Designers Yvonne Milnes and Peter McKintosh, Musical Supervisor Gareth Valentine, Musical Director Stephen Ridley, Orchestrator & Arranger Chris Walker, Lighting Designer Tim Mitchell, Sound Designer Paul Groothuis, Casting Director Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting, Associate Director & 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 & Choreographer Richard Pitt.
The UK and Ireland tour of Top Hat is produced by Kenny Wax and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.
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