Exciting cast announced for Riki Lindhome’s Drop
Dead Gorgeous
Pleasance Dome, King Dome, 1 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL
Friday 2nd August – Saturday 24th August 2024 (select dates), 23:00
A sneak peak of the new musical based on the 1999 cult-classic film written by Lona Williams Drop Dead Gorgeous will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe. The ultimate life and death beauty pageant scandal will be brought to life on stage by iconic performers as an innocent competition takes a dark dive into a murder mystery to remember. Presented by special arrangement with Warner Brothers Theatricals and featuring an original score written by Riki Lindhome (Wednesday, Netflix; Knives Out; Garfunkel and Oates Comedy Duo), beauty standards have never been so high stakes.
Catch a sneak peak of the new musical Drop Dead Gorgeous, based on the 1999 cult classic film written by Lona Williams, set to premiere at Edinburgh Fringe on 2nd August. The ultimate life and death beauty pageant scandal will be brought to life on stage by iconic performers as an innocent competition takes a dark dive into a murder mystery to remember.
Taking part in this mystery will be actress and singer-songwriter and X Factor’s semi-finalist Diana Vickers (GIVE OUT GIRLS, Comedy Central). Vickers will be starring in this to-die-for beauty contest, as well as the new musical hitting Fringe this year I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical. Vickers is known for the West End revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; BIG The Musical, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Gais Energy Dublin; and SON OF A PREACHER MAN directed by Craig Revel-Horwood.
Multi award-winning Australian actor, singer, comedian and screenwriter best known for her work with sketch group, Aunty Donna, Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, ABC, Netflix) joins the cast. Renowned for her sell-out one-woman comedy-as-philosophy shows across Melbourne, Sydney, London, New York, LA and Edinburgh, Brasier also debuted a solo show Average Bear to sell out audiences at London, LA, and Off-Broadway in March, and has her solo show Michelle Brasier: Legacy at this year’s Fringe.
Actor, writer and musician Tori Allen-Martin (Unforgotten, ITV; London Kills, BBC; Wild About You, West End) will also be leaving the ski slopes in I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical to join this cast of killer contestants. She has worked extensively for artists such as Eliza And The Bear, Lynda Carter, Fatboy Slim, and Idris Elba when she was commissioned to turn Elba’s Mandela album into a musical, leading to a workshop at The Dominion Theatre.
New York based musician, actor and comedian Charlene Kaye (KAYE) will be donning a sash and crown after her hit solo show TIGER DAUGHTER: OR, HOW I BROUGHT MY IMMIGRANT MOTHER ULTIMATE SHAME, also at Fringe this year! KAYE has toured internationally alongside acts such as Arctic Monkeys, alt-J and St. Vincent, and even played SNL with Coldplay.
Award-winning writer and actor Natalie Arle-Toyne (Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning; Eddie and the Slumber Sisters, National Theatre Scotland; CATS winning Rhinoceros, Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre). Arle-Toyne’s one-woman comedy shows have toured the world, and she is recognised for her roles in BBC’s Comedy Feeds and River City among others.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is debuting at Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a work in progress. Produced by Alchemation, an award-winning theatrical producing office founded by Kevin McCollum (The Notebook, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Devil Wears Prada, SIX (North America), Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights), be among the first audiences to hear the killer new songs.