Broadbent and Kelly to Star in Doyle's London Amadeus

By: Jul. 20, 2006
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Casting for Tony Award-winner John Doyle's upcoming London revival of Amadeus has been announced.  Amadeus will open at Wilton's Music Hall in London's East End on September 19th.

The production will star Jonathan Broadbent as Mozart and Matthew Kelly as Salieri, with Jess Murphy as Constanze.  Eamonn O'Dwyer, Sebastian Bates, Sam Kenyon, Philip Battley, Harry Napier, Michael Howcroft, Susannah Van Den Berg, Elisa Boyd, Sioned Saunders, Michael George Moore, Benedict James and Juliet Leighton-Jones will also be featured in the cast of the Peter Shaffer play.

Doyle's hit revival of Sweeney Todd, for which he won the Best Director of a Musical Tony, is currently playing the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. His acclaimed Cincinnati Playhouse staging of Company, starring Raul Esparza, is also set to bow on Broadway this coming fall. Both productions feature its actors doubling as the show's orchestra; Doyle's Amadeus will employ a similar approach.

Broadbent's credits include Kenneth Branagh's upcoming film version of As You Like It, as well as "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" and a 1999 TV version of "Alice in Wonderland."  His UK stage credits include "Master Harold"...and the boys and The Mill on the Floss. 

Kelly is an Olivier Award-winner for 2004's Of Mice and Men.  His UK stage credits includes Don Quixote and Twelfth Night, and he has been seen on film and TV in the BBC's "Bleak House," "Cold Blood," Two Stops to Bank and more.

The winner of the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play, Amadeus tells the (fictionalized) story of composer Antonio Salieri's rivalry with the brilliant young Mozart. It ran for 1,181 performances upon opening at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 17th, 1980. Ian McKellen, who played Salieri, and director Sir Peter Hall both won Tonys. The 1984 film version, starring Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham, also scored numerous Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The possibility of bringing Doyle's Amadeus to the West End has been mentioned, but nothing has been confirmed so far.



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