New musical 'SMALLTOWN BOY' to receive West End workshop next month

Smalltown Boy explores love, rebellion, and the search for belonging. Set in New York’s East Village in the summer of 1983, the show follows a teenage runaway who flees suburbia and is swept into the city’s underground New Wave scene - just as the AIDS crisis emerges and the world around him begins to close in.

The musical's musical score, orchestrated and music directed by Mark Crossland, features 22 iconic tracks including “Smalltown Boy,” “Tainted Love,” “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” “Always” and “True Colors”.

The workshop cast will consist of Aimie Atkinson (Pretty Woman, Savoy Theatre) as ‘Jenny New Wave’, Benjamin Cameron (Book of Mormon, International Tour) as Simon, Rosanna Hyland (Back To The Future The Musical, Manchester Opera House/Original West End Cast) as ‘Madga’, Rob Fowler (Bat Out of Hell, Original West End Cast, Toronto, UK and International Tour) as ‘John’, Aonghas Ewen (Sleeping Beauty, Belgrade Theatre Coventry) as ‘Scotty’, Adam Filipe (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, UK & Ireland Tour) as ‘Max’, Jack Butterworth (Here We Are, National Theatre) as ‘Robbie’, Grace Mouat (The Jonathan Larson Project) as ‘Julia’, Kat Ronney (Titanique, Criterion Theatre) as ‘Lisa’, Jo Foster (Into The Woods, The Bridge Theatre) as ‘Deeds’, Lucca Chadwick Patel (Mean Girls, The Savoy) as ‘Rick’, Liv Andrusier (Fiddler on the Roof, Regents Park Open Air) as ‘Thal’ and Olly Manley (Hairspray, UK Tour) as ‘Dave’.

The workshop presentation of Smalltown Boy will take place at @sohoplace.