Hannah Waddingham & Clive Rowe join Kiss Me Kate at Chichester

As previously tipped Hannah Waddingham will join Adam Garcia (Bill Calhoun) and Holy Dale Spencer (Bianca) to play Lilli Vanessi in Trevor Nunn's Kiss Me Kate at the Chichester Festival Theatre which will open June 18th. Stephen Mear will choreograph.

Also just announced are Clive Rowe and David Burt who are inspired casting for the pair of gangsters who sing Brush Up Your Shakespeare.

Waddingham currently has a small part in the film of the musical Les Miserables and has worked with Nunn before in his production of A Little Night Music. She most recently starred in the West End revival of The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West.