Keala Settle to join & JULIET in West End

https://twitter.com/bazbam/status/1483160870691737610?s=21

Hi. Bring her back to Broadway in the inevitable transfer and you can have all my money that I was already going to give to this show anyway.

Jordan Catalano said: "I immediately thought of her doing it on Broadway, when I saw this news. I think it’s perfect casting for that role."

Or, dare you say... f**king perfect! Cannot wait to hear reports on her Angelique.

She seems to have a lot more notoriety in the UK for some reason.

Did anyone else watch that National Lottery show? It was great but there was an interview with Keala where she had a (very good) British accent which was bizarre. It wasn’t that she was trying to be funny or anything she was just speaking normally and all of a sudden is British.
It was odd.

She's also in the London production of Sister Act this summer

Updated On: 3/18/22 at 08:31 AM

Jordan Catalano said: "Did anyone else watch that National Lottery show? It was great but there was an interview with Keala where she had a (very good) British accent which was bizarre. It wasn’t that she was trying to be funny or anything she was just speaking normally and all of a sudden is British.
It was odd."

Her father is British so she’ll have grown up around the accent and I assume she has British Citizenship. She’s leading a detective TV show where she uses a British accent and it’s shockingly good, especially as I’ve seen her in interviews in New Zealand and Australia where she uses a flawless Kiwi accent (which will have come from her mother). The way she can flip between three different accents is incredible. She’s a real chameleon and I hope she gets a project worthy of her talents.

ACL2006 said: "Just odd she's joining the Sister Act revival. Are there no roles for her on Broadway currently?"

With her new TV show, and joining two separate West End shows it seems that maybe the UK is just her focus. There were still Broadway roles available for Stritch when she hightailed it to London. Sometimes people just want something different, or have other priorities.

Updated On: 3/18/22 at 12:06 PM

Kind of a thankless role for her in Sister Act, no?

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Kind of a thankless role for her in Sister Act, no?"

Perhaps she understudying mother superior?

jacobsnchz14 said: "https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/new-photos-released-for-and-juliet-in-the-west-end_56270.html

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Curious to see if Settle eventually comes back to Broadway with her Angelique.

As far as I know, MTL is not making the transfer.

EDSOSLO858 said: "jacobsnchz14 said: "https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/new-photos-released-for-and-juliet-in-the-west-end_56270.html

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Curious to see if Settle eventually comes back to Broadway with her Angelique.

As far as I know, MTL is not making the transfer."



Interesting. I'm curious who they get to play Juliet then. Have there been any rumblings or speculation on who''s doing it on Broadway?