APARTMENT 40C Set for London Theatre Workshop

Apartment 40C, a new musical conceived, written and workshopped at London Theatre Workshop, will get its world premiere at the new bijou theatre in Fulham in a season running from Wednesday 3 December to Saturday 20 December. Press night is Friday 5 December at 7.30pm.

Apartment 40C, written by joint London Theatre Workshop Artistic Directors Ray Rackham (book and lyrics) and Tom Lees (music), explores how relationships are affected by the endless possibility of choice. Told over the course of one evening, the musical examines decades of love, happiness, regret and loss; chances taken and options missed; and how it is sometimes impossible to make any kind of distinction between the past and the present.

It features six actors playing two characters:

Alex Crossley as Katie
Alex James Ellison as Eddie
Peter Gerald as Edward
(West End credits include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Thenardier in Les Miserables, and on tour Noah Claypole in Oliver!, Jesus in Godspell)
Nova Skipp as Kathryn
(West End credits include: Aspects of Love, The Phantom of the Opera, Salad Days, The Sound of Music)
Drew Weston as Ed
Lizzie Wofford as Kate

Ray Rackham and Tom Lees were the team behind London Theatre Workshop's inaugural production of Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days. They are nominees for Best Director of a New Production of a Play or Musical (Rackham) and Best Musical Director of a Fringe Musical (Lees) at this year's Broadwayworld Awards for Ordinary Days, which itself has been nominated in the Best Musical category at both the Broadwayworld and Off West End Theatre Awards. They were also Director and Musical Director of London Theatre Workshop's production of Just Another Love Story, a new Stephen Sondheim revue, which ran in the theatre in June 2014, and was recipient of the "Artistic Excellence" Angel Award at the Brighton Festival.

Apartment 40C will be followed by the world premiere of the musical Yarico, a powerful, epic story of forbidden love, betrayal and redemption, based on a true story that fired the world's imagination and contributed to the social movement against the slave trade. Produced by John and Jodie Kidd, it will get its world premiere in London in February 2015.