HE WILL ROCK YOU !!

A NEW ‘GALILEO’ FOR

QUEEN & BEN ELTON’S ‘WE WILL ROCK YOU’

London’s smash hit musical, Queen & Ben Elton’s ‘We Will Rock You’ has a new leading man. Swedish born Peter Johansson, making his West End debut, has taken on the role of Galileo, the unintentional hero who ends up saving the kids of Planet Mall from the tyrannical Killer Queen and discovers the place of living rock.

Johansson becomes only the third actor to be awarded the role, following on from Tony Vincent, who created the role and now recreates it in the Las Vegas production, and the show’s most recent Galileo, Mig Ayesa, who departs the show having reached 3rd place in Rock Star, the TV search to find a new lead singer for INXS and now follows a solo path in the USA.

Johansson, whose previous Europe-based stage achievements include lead roles in musicals such as ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘A Chorus Line’, has understudied and frequently played the Galileo role during Ayesa’s absence from the show during the Rock Star trials. He now formally becomes the show’s leading man, performing nightly alongside show veteran Hannah Jane Fox, cast in the role of Galileo’s feisty on-off girlfriend, Scaramouche.

Now well into it’s fourth year, the Queen and Ben Elton musical continues to be one of the West End’s most consistent successes. In August the show achieved the distinction of becoming the longest running show ever staged at the Dominion Theatre, taking the record from the previous holder, Disney’s ‘Beauty & The Beast’, which played for 3 years 3 months. ‘WWRY’ has now been seen by over 4 million in London and productions in Spain, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan and Las Vegas, USA.

In the role of Galileo, Johansson will see the musical into spring 2006.

Says Peter; “It can’t get much better than playing the role of Galileo, in the best show in the West End”.

Scaramouche, Galileo and Pop!

 

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