News: Award-winning Musical Comedy Kathy And Stella Solve A Murder! Transfers To The West End


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February 7, 2024
News: Award-winning Musical Comedy Kathy And Stella Solve A Murder! Transfers To The West End

Musical Comedy Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! transfers to the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited run from the 25th May to the 14th September. It previously ran for audiences in Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester.

Bronte Barbe (Newsies, Toubadour Wembley Park Theatre) and Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma!, Young Vic/West End) will reprise their roles as Kathy and Stella alongside Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who: Time Fracture, Immersive LDN) who will play Erica. Further casting for the West End production is to be announced.

The production is brought to the stage by the producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, Francesca Moody Productions and producer of 2:22 and Vanya, Kater Gordon. Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! Won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Festival 2022. With a book, lyrics and co direction by Olivier Award winner Jon Brittain (Rotterdam), Music and Lyrics by Mathew Floyd Jones (Frisky & Mannish) and co-direction and choreography by Fabian Aloise (Sunset Boulevard), the production is set to be a hit!

BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull’s least successful true crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own!

This big-hearted, laugh out loud musical follows the unlikely crime-fighting duo as they put their friendship on the line to become part of the story. Can they crack the case, (and become global podcast superstars) before the killer strikes again…?

See production images below taken by Ellie Kurttz