Cast for Your Lie in April has been announced

The manga musical will play for two nights only at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on the 8th and 9th April

After 10 sold-out West End performances of Death Note the Musical in Concert, its producers are to stage the European premiere of one of the most popular romantic stories and greatest tearjerkers in manga history, Your Lie in April – The Musical in Concert.

This musical adaption of a manga favourite story, Your Lie in April, brings to life the poignant story of Kōsei Arima, a young piano prodigy, and his inability to play following his mother’s death. He strikes a friendship with violinist Kaori Miyazono and she slowly encourages him to perform again.

This adaption is based on Your Lie in April, a five-million-selling manga by Naoshi Arakawa published by KODANSHA LTD. ©Naoshi Arakawa/KODANSHA.

Zheng Xi Yong (Spring Awakening) and Rumi Sutton (Hex) will lead the show as Kōsei Arima and Kaori Miyazono while joining them will be Rachel Clare Chan (Death Note), Joanna Ampil (Miss Saigon) and Dean John-Wilson (Death Note).

The rest of the cast features Eu Jin Hwang, Julie Yammanee, Jade Albertsen, Lauren Chia, Hannah Yun Chamberlain, Imogen Rose Hart, Yuki Abe, Chris Fung, Ernest Stroud, JoJo Meridith, Michael Lin, Samuel How and Jason Wang-Westland.

The book of the musical is by Riko Sakaguchi, the English language book by Rinne B. Groff, music by Frank Wildhorn, and lyrics by Carly Robyn Green and Tracy Miller. Music arrangement and orchestration by Jason Howland, director and choreographer Nick Winston, musical supervisor by Katy Richardson, set design by Justin Williams, costume design by Kimie Nakano, lighting design by Simon Sheriff, sound design by Adam Fisher, musical director Chris Poon, producers are Carter Dixon McGill Productions, Indie Theatrical UK, Pinnacle Productions, Scott Prisand and Cuffe & Taylor, in association with Rob Kolson and Liesl Wilke.