Hans Rye & Emily Lynn to Lead London Theatre Workshop's VOTE FOR ME'

The London Theatre Workshop has announced the cast for the upcoming UK première of the musical comedy VOTE FOR ME: A MUSICAL DEBATE which runs at their boutique theatre venue in Fulham, West London this May, direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway run.

HANS RYE will play Republican candidate Senator Buddy Rounsaville opposite EMILY LYNNE ('She Loves Me' - Landor) who will play the Democratic Candidate Governor Janet Tilghman. ARVID LARSON (Closer Than Ever - Jermyn St.) will play Janet's long-suffering husband Roger Tilghman, alongside JENNIE JACOBS as Buddy's pushy wife Amy Rounsaville. Attempting to control the proceedings will be LUCY GRAINGER (Fifty Shades of Grey - the Musical) as Robyn Fiedler, the moderator of the debate, and spinning each of the answers will be JOE LEATHER (Bathhouse the Musical) in the role of The Advisor.

VOTE FOR ME is a musicalized Presidential debate where you pick the winner. Candidates dance and sing their way through the three-ring circus of American politics, and audiences cast their votes to help determine the outcome of the show. The musical was commissioned by Robyn Goodman, the producer of Avenue Q, and penned by Drew Fornarola and Scott Elmegreen, who sought to create a heightened satire of American life that spoke to the state of their culture - in their case American political culture - at its best and its worst.

The musical premièred at the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival, and played a sold out run off-Broadway at Roy Arias Stages in the summer of 2014.

Produced by Olga Marie-Pratt on behalf of the London Theatre Workshop, it will be directed by Dom O'Hanlon with musical direction by Chris Guard.

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