Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist are heading to the Lyric Theatre

The brand-new musical will play for one week only from 20 September

This brand-new musical, come gig, come ballet, is from some of the most exciting figures in modern British Theatre. Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist will be lighting up the West End for one week only as a taster of what is to come. 

Cake: The Marie Antoinette playlist has an award-winning creative team including Olivier winners Drew McOnie (In the Heights; Jesus Chris Superstar) and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia – The Globe)

Will reprising their role from the UK tour Zizi Strallen will appear as Marie Antoinette and Renée Lam as Jeanne. Further casting will be announced later.

Cake combines a multi-genre pop score with 18th-century France to retell a story that sparked a revolution. When Marie Antoinette married King Louis, her reputation was already tarnished by gossip. But when she is implicated in a crime to defraud the crown jewellers of a diamond necklace, it is not just her reputation at stake, but the monarchy and France itself.

Cake was originally commissioned by Paul Taylor-Mills (Heathers & In the Heights) and promises to re-define our expectations of what a musical can be.