The Vaults, Southwark Playhouse - 22 February 2012 - 31 March 2012

Cast

Vlach Ashton

Mensah Bediako

Kit Benjamin

Glenn Carter

Gareth Chart

Morgan Deare

Dayle Hodge

Robyn North

Roddy Peters

Donovan Preston

Jonathan Redfern

Ryan Sampson

Jane Webster

★★★★★ 'We'll be lucky to see a better musical all year in London.' Sunday Express

★★★★ 'Burns with peculiarly haunting relevance.' The Telegraph

'It's hard to imagine a better cast than this one.' The Observer

Kentucky, 1925. Floyd Collins, soon to be acclaimed as the ‘greatest caver ever known’, dreams of finding fame and fortune underground. When a cave-in leaves him trapped 55 feet below the earth’s surface, the media circus above ground makes a very personal tragedy a national sensation.

Tina Landau and Adam Guettel’s award-winning musical has been described as ‘dazzling’ (Stephen Sondheim) and ‘a giant leap forward for musical theatre’ (The Independent). A blistering account of the events that occur when a personal disaster becomes public news, this ground-breaking musical is an examination of the media’s reaction to the events in the cave, the various attempts to rescue Floyd and a moving insight into his family’s suffering.

Floyd Collins was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical (1996), an Obie for Best Score and seven Drama Desk nominations including Best Direction, Best Book and Best Musical. This production, specially conceived for the cavernous depths of Southwark Playhouse’s Vault space, marks its first London revival in over ten years.