{"id":700168,"date":"2026-01-16T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:37:10","slug":"wrestling-musical-babyface-reveals-cast-and-adds-london-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700168\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling musical Babyface reveals cast and adds London performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1709049\" title=\"KM Lane, Genesis Lynea, Cassius The Neon Explosion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KM-Lane-Genesis-Lynea-Cassius-The-Neon-Explosion.jpg\" alt=\"KM Lane, Genesis Lynea, Cassius The Neon Explosion\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>KM Lane, Genesis Lynea, Cassius The Neon Explosion, provided uncredited by the production<\/p>\n<p>Casting has been announced for the work-in-progress performances of Babyface \u2013 The Fierce Wrestling Musical.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Seiriol Davies (How to Win Against History), the cast includes an array of musical theatre performers and professional wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a \u201crags-to-spandex story,\u201d it follows queer best friends Gruff and Rezi from Rhyl as they climb the ranks of wrestling.\u00a0The comedy will feature professional wrestling in a real ring.<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes\u00a0James Ifan\u00a0(Kinky Boots),\u00a0Rex Hayes\u00a0(To Kill A Mockingbird),\u00a0Genesis Lynea\u00a0(Six) and\u00a0Iestyn Arwel, alongside\u00a0Cadi Mullane, Nic Myers\u00a0and Elis Myers-Sleight. They\u2019re joined by professional wrestlers Nightshade, KM Lane, Cassius The Neon Explosion\u00a0and\u00a0Darcy Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Babyface will be directed by\u00a0Debbie Hannan\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Holmquist,\u00a0with musical supervision and arrangements by\u00a0Geraint Owen,\u00a0musical direction by\u00a0Sioned Evans,\u00a0wrestling choreography by\u00a0Ed Gamester,\u00a0and casting by\u00a0Harry Blumenau.<\/p>\n<p>First seen in Birmingham as part of BEAM2025, the piece has been in development for three years. Presented by Jafar Iqbal and PW Productions, the first public performance will be a part of Chester\u2019s Storyhouse Queer Festival on Wednesday, 11 February 2026. An extra performance has been added, taking place at Pleasance, London on Friday, 13 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KM Lane, Genesis Lynea, Cassius The Neon Explosion, provided uncredited by the production Casting has been announced for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115905524150164351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}