Kelsey Grammer Will Star in North American Premiere of The Boy Friend

Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer (La Cage aux Folles, Frasier, Discovering Neverland) will star within the North American premiere of the Menier Chocolate Manufacturing facility manufacturing of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Buddy.

The manufacturing, which opened to acclaim in London in December 2019, will play Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre March 29–Might 3. The musical, as beforehand introduced, replaces the tour of the Tony-winning revival of Hiya, Dolly!. The Jerry Herman musical will not play Toronto this season.

Tony nominee Grammer, who can be making his Canadian stage debut, will star as Lord Brockhurst. Extra casting can be introduced later.

Matthew White, who beforehand helmed productions of She Loves Me and Little Store of Horrors, directed the London revival, which continues by March 7. The solid is led by Jack Butterworth (Hamilton) as Bobby van Husen, Olivier Award winner Janie Dee (Carousel, Comedian Potential) as Mme. Dubonnet, Adrian Edmondson (Neville’s Island) as Lord Brockhurst, Tiffany Graves (Candy Charity) as Hortense, Dylan Mason (Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one) as Tony, Amara Okereke (Les Misérables) as Polly, and two-time Olivier nominee Issy van Randwyck (Fascinating Aida, Kiss Me Kate) as Woman Brockhurst.

Set in Madame Dubonnet’s ending faculty within the French Riviera, the musical follows a bunch of younger women as they develop up and fall in love.