Amanda Coutts and Rolan Bell Join West End Hit We Will Rock You

Yes, they’re having a good time, and they don’t want to stop at all! We Will Rock You vets Amanda Coutts and Rolan Bell are joining the musical’s long-running West End production beginning October 7. Coutts will return to the role of Meat, and Bell will play Britney. Directed by Ben Elton, the futuristic Queen musical continues at London’s Dominion Theatre.

Coutts first joined We Will Rock You in 2007 as a Scaramouche and Meat cover before taking over the role of Meat in the West End production and Scaramouche in the UK touring production. She also appeared in the musicals Fame, Footloose and West Side Story. Bell is coming off the international arena tour of the production in which he played Britney. His additional stage credits include Ragtime, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen Jones and The Harder They Come. TV audiences know Bell for his recurring role as Theo in Eastenders.

They join a cast that includes Oliver Tompsett (Galileo), Rachel Wooding (Scaramouche), Brenda Edwards (Killer Queen), Kevin Kennedy (Pop), and Alasdair Harvey (Khashoggi).

Packed with the hits of the legendary band, We Will Rock You tells the story of a young rebel named Galileo who tries to overtake a powerful corporation in a futuristic dystopia. The show includes 24 Queen songs, including “We Are the Champions,” “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Somebody To Love.”