Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’ To Cast A Song-And-Dance Spell At London’s National
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There’s some seriously scary stuff going on at London’s National Theatre as the venue prepares for a musical version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches that will feature book and lyrics by playwright Lucy Kirkwood, who’s also an executive consultant on Succession.
Music and lyrics are by Dave Molloy, who won acclaim for the book and score he wrote for Broadway show Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
The show is a co-production between the National and the Roald Dahl Story Company. Katherine Kingsley (The Larkins) will play the Grand High Witch, whose only objective is to eliminate all children from the planet and turn them into mice. “She’s a tyrannical narcissist, truly she’s really evil.
There’s no escaping the fact that she’s a bad person,” Kingsley told us. “It’s a great role,” she laughed. “There’s a lot of fun to be had with her, but equally she’s utterly terrifying.” Kingsley, who can be seen in Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, said that she has thoroughly enjoyed workshopping the show with director Lyndsey Turner and her creative team at the National’s development studios on the South Bank near Waterloo.
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