Picture Animation and Locksmith Animation musical comedy led by Cynthia Erivo, has added Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff and Catherine Tate to its voice cast. Minogue will voice Clowder, the Cat Witch, Groff will voice Robin Goodfellow and Tate will voice the Fairy Gothmother, joining Erivo as Jayne Staplegun in the animated feature. Erivo shared the news at her Thursday evening Hollywood Bowl concert “Let Me Sing to You.” The second half of the Bowl show opened with an orchestral piece built on “Hard to Believe,” Jayne’s song from the film, which is about a group of “delightfully defiant, rule-breaking fairies.” Erivo introduced Groff and Tate, then revealed that Minogue, who was seated in the audience, would be joining the cast.
The cast also includes Serrana Su-Ling Bliss as Fei Chang, James Acaster as Stickers and Dee Bradley Baker as Groundbeef, along with Ncuti Gatwa as Butterwort. Set in contemporary London, “Bad Fairies” is directed by Megan Nicole Dong and co-directed by Olivier Staphylas, from an original screenplay by Deborah Frances-White. Tony Award winners Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (“Six: The Musical”) are writing the original songs, with a score by Isabella “Machine” Summers of Florence and the Machine.
Pictures Animation, in a statement. We can’t wait for audiences to meet them next May.” “I’m so excited to be part of ‘Bad Fairies,’ alongside the incredible Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Groff and such a brilliant cast of voices,” said Minogue. It’s a little bit magical, a little bit mischievous and a whole lot of fun.” “Clowder needed to be impossibly glamorous and hilariously chaotic in the same breath, and Kylie was always the dream,” said director Megan Nicole Dong.
Williams, character designer Uwe Heidschötter, heads of story Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt, and production designers Justin Hutchinson-Chatburn and Mike Redman. Minogue is represented by Jason Weinberg at Untitled and Polly Bhowmik at Context Management. Groff is represented by Brian Boone and Joe Michota at CAA.
Tate is represented by Jeremy Barber at UTA and Robert Taylor at The Artists Partnership.
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