Menier's Sunday to Transfer to West End with New Leading Lady

The Menier Chocolate Factory production of Sunday in the Park with George, which is running at the Chocolate Factory through March 12, will have a West End transfer. The show will begin a limited engagement at the Wyndham's Theatre on May 13. While Daniel Evans, who plays George, is set to move with the production, current leading lady Anna Jane Casey will not appear in the West End mounting of the tuner. Guys and Dolls' Jenna Russell will instead play Dot/Marie at the Wyndham's.

Sunday in the Park with George features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. This production of the tuner, directed by Sam Buntrock, has been a huge hit at the Menier Chocolate Factory, where its entire run is sold out. Variety's Matt Wolf wrote of that mounting: "Ravenously emotional and exquisitely if surprisingly cast in its demanding central roles, the first London Sunday in 15 years marks another bold step forward for the fast-ascending Menier Chocolate Factory. The received wisdom about Sunday is that its first act is a near-complete show unto itself that gets complicated, not always satisfyingly, by the modern stuff after intermission, when its anguished hero learns to 'move on.' Well, think again. As reimagined by the 30-year-old Buntrock with a quiet bravado sure to shoot him up London's theatrical food chain, the two halves of James Lapine's book seem as mutually necessary and intertwined as Sondheim's defiant artistic impulse is bound up with the visionary at his musical's core."

Sunday in the Park with George is scheduled to officially open at the Wyndham's on May 23.