The cast also features Josefina Gabrielle, Tiffany Graves, Paul J. Medford, Ebony Molina and Mark Umbers.

The company is completed by Rachael Archer, Jack Edwards, Richard Jones, Gemma Maclean, Zak Nemorin, Richard Roe, Annalisa Rossi, Carl Sanderson, Jez Unwin and Jayde Westaby. The production is directed by Matthew White, with choreography by Stephen Mear, set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright, musical supervision and direction by Nigel Lilley, orchestrations by Chris Walker, lighting by David Howe and sound design by Gareth Owen.

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With book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, the show follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a woman who always gives her heart and her dreams to the wrong man. Cy Coleman's score features such standards as "Big Spender," "Where Am I Going?," "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This."

Outhwaite was last seen on the London stage in the original cast of Matthew Warchus' revival of Boeing-Boeing. Other London theatre credits include Breathing Corpses and Flesh Wound for the Royal Court and Oliver! at the London Palladium. She is known on television for her roles in "Red Cap," "Hustle," "Frances Tuesday," "Hotel Babylon" and "EastEnders." She can currently be seen in the ITV1 drama "The Fixer" and will also shortly be seen in the new BBC1 drama "Paradox." On film, she has been seen in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream," "Back Waters" and "Out of Control."

Gabrielle has recently been seen in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park production of Hello, Dolly!. She appeared as Laurie in the National's production of Oklahoma! that subsequently transferred to the West End's Lyceum Theatre (both opposite Hugh Jackman) and Broadway's Gerswhin Theatre (opposite Patrick Wilson). Other West End credits include The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre), The Witches of Eastwick (Prince of Wales), Chicago (Adelphi) and Fame (Cambridge).

Graves has appeared most recently in Chicago (Cambridge Theatre), and Shout! at the Arts. Paul J. Medford was an original company member of Five Guys Named Moe at the Lyric Theatre.

Molina's most recent stage credit is Adam Cooper's Shall We Dance at Sadler's Wells. She has also appeared in Dorian Gray, Nutcracker!, The Car Man and Edward Scissorhands, all for Matthew Bourne's New Adventures Company.

Umbers has most recently been seen in the ITV1 drama "Mistresses" and he has just finished filming the BBC 1 re-working of "The Turn of the Screw" to be shown at Christmas. His theatre credits include Funny Girl for Chichester Festival Theatre, The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre, The Vortex for the Donmar Warehouse and My Fair Lady, Candide and The Merchant of Venice for the National Theatre.

Director Matthew White has previously directed The Last Five Years and Little Shop of Horrors at the Menier. The latter production transferred to the West End's Duke of York's and New Ambassadors Theatres, and recently completed a U.K. National tour.

The Menier Chocolate Factory is currently represented in the West End by its production of La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse (running through Jan. 2), which is now also Broadway-bound. Its production of A Little Night Music also transferred to the West End's Garrick Theatre and is now playing (with a mostly new cast) at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. It officially opesn Dec. 13.

To book tickets, contact the box office on 020 7907 7060, or visit www.menierchocolatefactory.com