Other West End roles include Enjolras and Javert in Les Misérables, Raoul in Love Never Dies and Maximilian in Candide. ONLY THE BRAVE’s original concept was by Steve Coleman, Matthew Brind, Rachel Wagstaff and Steve Marmion. Produced by Wales Millennium Centre, Soho Theatre, Daniel Sparrow Productions and Birdsong Productions.ĭavid Thaxton won an Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Giorgio in the Donmar Warehouse production of Passion. This emotionally charged new musical brings to life the passion, camaraderie and courage of an incredible generation. With a book by Rachel Wagstaff, music by Matthew Brind and lyrics by Steve Marmion, ONLY THE BRAVE tells the heart-breaking and inspirational true story of two couples brought together by war, Captain John Howard (David Thaxton) and his wife Joy (Caroline Sheen), and Lieutenant Denham Brotheridge (Neil McDermott) and his wife Maggie (Emilie Fleming). Clockwise from top left – Emilie Fleming, Neil McDermott, David Thaxton, Caroline Sheen Before that, she appeared in Daniel Evans’s production of Oliver! at Sheffield Theatres.Īlso in the cast will be Graham MacDuff (Spamalot, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, Miss Saigon, London’s West End), David Albury (Love Story at Union Theatre, Porgy & Bess at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, national tour of The Lion King), Karl Anthony Queensborough (Prince Charming in Cinderella at Lyric Hammersmith, A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes at the Tricycle Theatre), Helen Hobson (Bakkhai at the Almeida, Sunny Afternoon at Hampstead Theatre, Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Donna in Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales and Novello Theatres), Nikki Mae (Mamma Mia! at Novello Theatre, national tours of High School Musical 2 and Evita), Gwydion Rhys (Celyn Jenkins in Tir and Dai Jones in Cara Fi), Max Bowden (2015 national tour of Birdsong, played Justin Fitzgerald in BBC 1’s Waterloo Road), Steffan Lloyd-Evans (Jack in Jack & the Beanstalk at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, national tours of Godspell in Concert and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), Moyo Akandé (appearing in Rachel Wagstaff’s Flowers for Mrs Harris at Sheffield Crucible in May 2016, credits including White Christmas at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Macbeth and Lightning Child at Shakespeare’s Globe), Thomas Aldridge (Made in Dagenham at Adelphi Theatre, The Secret Garden and Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep, High Society at Shaftesbury Theatre), and Rebecca Craven (Tracy Turnblad in Leicester Curve production of Hairspray, Rhiannon Salt in BBC 1’s Waterloo Road).
It will be Wales Millennium Centre’s first production of a full-scale, original musical.Įmilie Fleming starred as Cosette in Les Misérables last year at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End. Based on the real lives of men and women caught up in the D-Day landings, this new production will be directed by Steve Marmion, Artistic Director of London’s Soho Theatre. Caroline Sheen & David Thaxton – credit Shaun WebbĮmilie Fleming will join the previously announced David Thaxton, Caroline Sheen and Neil McDermott to head the cast of the new British musical, ONLY THE BRAVE, premiering at the Wales Millennium Centre from 28th March to 2nd April 2016.