Cynthia Erivo Expands Voice Cast for Warner Bros. Musical Comedy Bad Fairies
Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff, and Catherine Tate are joining Cynthia Erivo in the voice cast of the upcoming animated musical comedy Bad Fairies. Erivo revealed the new casting additions during her concert, “Let Me Sing to You,” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Production is currently underway in London, with DNEG Animation serving as the digital partner on the Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation feature. The film is scheduled to open in theaters in May 2027.
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Hollywood Bowl Concert Reveals New Roles
During the second half of her Hollywood Bowl performance, Erivo introduced an orchestral arrangement of “Hard to Believe,” a song from the film written for her character, Jayne Staplegun. Erivo then introduced Groff and Tate before announcing that Minogue, who was in the audience, would also join the project.
Minogue will voice Clowder the Cat Witch, Groff will voice Robin Goodfellow, and Tate will voice the Fairy Gothmother. They join Erivo, who stars as Jayne Staplegun, in the animated feature.
Additional voice cast members include Serrana Su-Ling Bliss as Fei Chang, James Acaster as Stickers, Dee Bradley Baker as Groundbeef, and Ncuti Gatwa as Butterwort.
Creative Team Behind the Contemporary London Fairy Tale
Megan Nicole Dong directs the film, co-directed by Olivier Staphylas from an original screenplay by Deborah Frances-White. Tony Award winners Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are writing the original songs. Isabella “Machine” Summers of Florence and the Machine is composing the score, while Ian Eisendrath serves as executive music producer.
“Bad Fairies is about characters who break the rules to do some good, and Cynthia brings that spirit to everything she does, so there was no better way to share this news than from the Hollywood Bowl stage in her voice,” Bill Damaschke, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, said in a statement.
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