Full Casting Announced For Blithe Spirit Starring Angela Lansbury At The Gielgud Theatre

 

In order to observe a spiritualist first-hand for a planned novel, writer Charles Condomine (Charles Edwards) and wife Ruth (Janie Dee) invite friends the Bradmans (Simon Jones and Sandra Dickinson) to dinner and a séance with local clairvoyant Madame Arcati (Angela Lansbury), whom they are certain is a fake.

 

That all changes when the ghost of his first wife, Elvira (Jemima Rooper) is summoned - and overstays her welcome in the following days, causing a rift between Charles and his at first disbelieving and then jealous second wife. The feuding wives, ghost and flesh, hatch plot and counter plot to sabotage each other’s and Charles’ existence – but will they succeed?

 

Most recently Jemima Rooper (Elvira) created the role of Rachel Crabbe in One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre. She went on to play the part on tour, in the West End and on Broadway. Sandra Dickinson (Mrs Bradman) has had an auspicious career acting on stage and screen for over 35 years. She recently played Miss Dinsmore/Dora Bailey in the hugely successful Singin’ in the Rain at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End. Simon Jones (Doctor George Bradman) is reprising the same role he played in the Broadway production of Blithe Spirit alongside Angela Lansbury whilst Patsy Ferran (Edith) is making her professional stage debut in the production.

 

Andrew Tomlins