Full cast announced for Bat Out of Hell the Musical at the London Coliseum

Full casting announced for Bat Out of Hell the Musical.

Full casting has now been announced for the upcoming London production of Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell the Musical which opens at the London Coliseum on 20 June 2017, following previews from 5 June, for a limited season until 22 July 2017.

Joining the previously announced Andrew Polec as Strat and Christina Bennington as Raven, will be Rob Fowler as Falco, Sharon Sexton as Sloane, Aran MacRae as Tink, Danielle Steers as Zahara, Dom Hartley-Harris as Jagwire, Giovanni Spano as Ledoux and Patrick Sullivan as Blake.

The ensemble cast will include Jemma Alexander, Emily Benjamin, Stuart Boother, Georgia Carling, Natalie Chua, Jonathan Cordin, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Jordan Lee Davies, Olly Dobson, Hannah Ducharme, Phoebe Hart, Rosalind James, Michael Naylor, Eve Norris, Tim Oxbrow, Andrew Patrick-Walker, Benjamin Purkiss, Anthony Selwyn, Courtney Stapleton and Ruben Van keer.

Bat Out Of Hell - The Musical features a book by Jim Steinman and Stuart Beattie, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman, direction by Jay Scheib, choreography by Emma Portner, with musical arrangements and supervision by Michael Reed. Set design is by Jon Bausor with costume design by Meentje Nielsen, video design by Finn Ross, lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, sound design by Gareth Owen, orchestration by Steve Sidwell, and musical direction by Robert Emery.

This brand new musical is described as a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love, set against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city adrift from the mainland. Strat, the forever young leader of The Lost, has fallen for Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical, ruler of Obsidian. Bat Out Of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling over 50 million copies worldwide.

The stage musical will include songs such as "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth", "Bat Out Of Hell", "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" and "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad", as well as two previously unreleased songs, "What Part of My Body Hurts the Most" and "Not Allowed to Love".

Meat Loaf will be joined by the cast of the production for a launch event at 5pm this evening, Thursday 3 November outside the London Coliseum as the box office official opens.

Bat Out of Hell tickets for the London production are now on sale.