"Obviously" from The Great British Bake Off Musical | Grace Mouat in the West End

Set to play a limited engagement through to 13 May, the piece's world premiere run in Cheltenham received a hearty review from WhatsOnStage and no less than four nominations at the 23rd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical and Best Regional Production.

Based on the seminal TV series that pits aspiring bakers against one another across a series of culinary challenges, the musical is penned by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary.

The creative team includes director Rachel Kavanaugh, choreographer Georgina Lamb, set, costume and cake designer Alice Power, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Ben Harrison, orchestrator Tom Curran, musical supervisor Mark Collins, assistant musical director Chris Poon and casting director Jim Arnold.

Appearing are John Owen-Jones (Les Misèrables, The Phantom of the Opera), reprising his role as silver-fox judge Phil Hollinghurst. Joining him is Haydn Gwynne (Anything Goes, Billy Elliot the Musical) as Bake Off judge Pam Lee.


Joining them are Scott Paige (The Addams Family) and Zoe Birkett (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) playing comedy presenter Kim.

The contestant cast includes Grace Mouat (Legally Blonde, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella), Claire Moore (Mary Poppins), Charlotte Wakefield (The Boy In The Dress), Damian Humbley (Merrily We Roll Along), Catriana Sandison (Evita), Jay Saighal (Hedda Gabler), Michael Cahill (Martin Guerre) and, making his West End debut, Aharon Rayner.

Georgie Westall (A Christmas Carol), Stuart Hickey (Come From Away) and Jamil Abbasi (making his West End debut) will join the show as understudies, while Aanya Shah, Amelie Rouse and Maisy Mein will share the child role of Lily.

Tickets for The Great British Bake Off Musical are on sale now.