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Ben Jackson Walker, who created the role of Romeo in the original Broadway production of & Juliet, has joined the cast of the U.K. and Ireland tour of that hit jukebox musical.

Walker began performances April 19 and will continue through the end of the tour, which launched in July 2024 at the Manchester Opera House. The tour is currently playing the Birmingham Hippodrome through May 3.

Walker, who made his Broadway debut in & Juliet, joins a touring cast that includes Gerardine Sacdalan as Juliet, Lara Denning as Anne, Sandra Marvin as Angelique, Kyle Cox as Francois, Jordan Broatch as May, and Jay McGuiness as Shakespeare. Ranj Singh and Lee Latchford-Evans alternate in the role of Lance. (Matt Cardle will reprise the role of Shakespeare in Southend May 5-10).

Also in the cast are Harriet Caplan-Dean as Eleanor, Alexander Kranz as Lennox, Andil茅 Mabhena as Augustine, Liam Morris as Richard, Psalms-Nissi Myers-Reid as Lucy, Michael Nelson as Henry, Toni Paise as Violet, Katie Ramshaw as Nell/Lady C, Aaron Shales as Gregory, Rosie Singha as Judith, Nia Stephen as Imogen, Samuel Wilson-Freeman as Fletcher, and Joe Wolstenholme as swing.

Nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, & Juliet flips the script on the William Shakespeare classic, imagining what would happen next if Juliet hadn鈥檛 ended it all over Romeo. Featuring a book by David West Read, the score includes a mix of tunes by Max Martin and more, including 鈥淪ince U Been Gone,鈥� 鈥淩oar,鈥� 鈥淚 Want It That Way,鈥� and 鈥淐onfident.鈥�

The production also has direction by Luke Sheppard, choreography by Jennifer Weber, musical supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements by Bill Sherman, scenic design by Soutra Gilmour, costume design by Paloma Young, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Gareth Owen, video projection design by Andrzej Goulding, hair, wig, and makeup design by J. Jared Janas, and musical direction and additional orchestrations by Dominic Fallacaro.

& Juliet made its world premiere in September 2019 at the Manchester Opera House in England, before moving to London鈥檚 West End from 2019-2023, where it won three Olivier Awards. The show had its North American premiere in July 2022 in Toronto before heading to Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where it continues. The Broadway production was nominated for nine 2023 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

& Juliet is presented by Martin and Tim Headington and is produced by Martin, Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd, and Rebecca Quigley.

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See Walker in the original Broadway cast of & Juliet in the gallery below:

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