Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist

Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist description

Hot West End star Zizi Strallen and SIX's Renée Lamb are back in their original roles as Marie Antoinette and Jeanne in a revolutionary musical blending multi-genre pop with musical theatre and ballet. Don’t miss this feisty feast of colour and fun.

Fancy a piece of Cake?

Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist will arrive at London's The Other Palace this autumn for a strictly limited season. And that means you need to get your skates on, since the try-outs at the Lyric Theatre in 2023 knocked audiences’ socks off. Colourful, funky and sophisticated, this quirky musical has ‘hit’ written all over it. Grab tickets while you can.

Zizi Strallen has an enormous musical theatre catalogue behind her, including Rock Follies, Strictly Ballroom, Mary Poppins, Cats, Scrooge, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hairspray and Chicago to name a few. As well as Six, the talented Renée Lamb has appeared in Be More Chill, Little Shop of Horrors and Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World.

The plot follows the gossip and scandal surrounding Marie Antoinette, the last queen consort of France before the revolution blew the royal family to oblivion. The trigger ending her unpopular reign turned out to be a false one – Marie did not in fact steal the diamond necklace that caused such an unholy scandal in the 1700s. But it proved the final straw for the ordinary people of France who were fed up with her affairs, illegitimate children, extravagance and disrespect for their struggles.

A fabulous creative team

The award-winning creative team includes writers Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia), Tasha Taylor Johnson (The Cat In The Hat), and Jack McManus. The set and costume design is by Sami Fendall, the lighting design by Joshie Harriette and the casting by Will Burton.

Bronagh Lagan (Cruise) and Christopher Tendai (Closer To Heaven) join as director and choreographer, inspired by the original work done by Drew McOnie (In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar).

Paul Taylor-Mills, Artistic Director of The Other Palace, is delighted to bring Cake to the venue, calling it a “brand-new genre busting musical”. Come along for the vibrancy, the fun, the costumes, the big hair and the searing hot gossip.

Playing at The Other Palace (venue info)