Full cast announced for Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

As previously announced, Jason Donovan will star as Coach Bolton during the Manchester run, with Harry Judd taking over during the London run. Starring across both venues will be Disney icon KayCee Stroh as Ms Darbus, Tobias Turley as Troy Bolton, Leonor Correia as Gabriella Montez, Caitlin Tipping as Sharpay Evans and Luke Bayer as Ryan Evans.

Joining them will be Char Burnett (Frozen; The Book of Mormon, West End) as Taylor McKessie, Jordan Benjamin (Hamilton; The Little Big Things, West End) as Chad Danforth, Simeon Beckett (Back to the Future, West End; Hamilton, UK & Ireland tour) as Zeke Baylor, Olivia O’Connor (Why Am I So Single?, West End) as Martha Cox, Yna Tresvalles (Ballad Lines, Southwark Playhouse Elephant; Six, UK & International tour) as Kelsi Nielson and Curtis Patrick (Thespians, UK tour; Young Frankenstein, Hope Mill Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse) as Jack Scott.

The cast is completed by Alexander Black (Grease, Independence of the Seas), Eleanor Bye (Nine, Hope Mill Theatre; Robin Hood, New Wimbledon Theatre), Harriet Caplan-Dean (&Juliet, UK & Ireland tour; Six, UK tour), Alison Driver (Singin’ In The Rain, Royal Exchange Theatre; The Frogs, Southwark Playhouse), Conor Luke Drury (Dick Whittington, Broadway Theatre, Catford), Mary Francis (professional debut), Sonia Gil-Lubeiro (professional debut), Tamsin January (Moulin Rouge, UK & Ireland tour; TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, West End), Joseph Lennox (Cats, International Tour), Lucas Morlotti (Robin Hood, The Capitol Horsham), Katie Mulligan (Beauty and the Beast, Churchill theatre, Bromley), André Phipps (MJ The Musical, West End), Meg Silsby (professional debut), Kade Stenson (Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury), Ethan Vijn (Choir of Man, West End; Hamilton, UK & Ireland tour) and Eddie Zickerman (professional debut).

Based on the 2006 Disney Channel original movie that blew up into a pop culture sensation and spawned two sequels and a spin-off, High School Musical is set in the fictional East High School, where basketball hero Troy Bolton and brainy Gabriella Montez fall in love, causing their diametrically opposed social circles to come into conflict. When Troy and Gabriella are considered for the school's upcoming musical, the ambitious Evans twins set out to take them down.

The stage adaptation, which has enjoyed significant success in regional theatres around the world and had its London premiere at the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in 2008, has a a book by David Simpatico with music adapted, arranged and produced by Bryan Louiselle and is co-directed by Hope Mill founders Joseph Houston and William Whelton. It features beloved songs from the film such as Breaking Free, We’re All In This Together, Get’cha Head in the Game, Stick to the Status Quo and many more.

High School Musical will open at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on 12 October 2026 and run until 3 January 2027, with a press night on 20 October 2026.

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