Pride and Prejudice: Musical cast
Pride and Prejudice cast
Cast of "Pride and Prejudice: A New Musical"
The cast preserved in the 2020 filmed release is the company from TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's world-premiere production. Robert Kelley directed the staging at Palo Alto's Lucie Stern Theatre, where performances ran from December 4, 2019, through January 4, 2020. The professional recording keeps the theatrical casting intact, including several actors who play two socially opposed characters. That doubling is practical, but it also suits Jane Austen's world, where a change of dress and posture can separate a respectable relation from an aristocratic threat.
Mary Mattison as Elizabeth Bennet
Mary Mattison plays Elizabeth Bennet, the second Bennet daughter and the musical's dramatic center. Her performance carries "Headstrong," "Walk Through Mud," "What Kind of Man" and Elizabeth's later reassessment of Darcy. Mattison gives Elizabeth a quick physical response to every insult, proposal and piece of gossip. That alertness helps the filmed version because the camera catches judgments before Elizabeth states them. Mattison also avoids turning independence into permanent certainty. Her expression changes during Darcy's letter and the Pemberley sequence, where Elizabeth realizes that her confidence has outrun the evidence.
Justin Mortelliti as Fitzwilliam Darcy
Justin Mortelliti plays Mr. Darcy. His casting corrects a recurring error in copied online summaries that assign the role to Seton Chiang. Chiang appears in the ensemble, while Mortelliti is the production's romantic lead. Mortelliti had appeared on Broadway in Escape to Margaritaville and in the original Las Vegas company of Rock of Ages before joining TheatreWorks. His rock-musical experience gives Darcy's sustained pop writing a clean attack, although his most useful choice is restraint. Early scenes keep his arms, shoulders and gaze tightly controlled. The physical tension makes "Against My Will" sound like an argument Darcy is losing with himself.
The Bennet Family
| Performer | Role | Cast Function |
|---|---|---|
| Sharon Rietkerk | Jane Bennet | Plays Elizabeth's older sister and the emotional center of the Bingley courtship. |
| Melissa WolfKlain | Mary Bennet | Supplies solemn commentary, awkward musical confidence and dry family comedy. |
| Chanel Tilghman | Kitty Bennet | Follows Lydia's social impulses and helps establish the younger sisters as a comic pair. |
| Tara Kostmayer | Lydia Bennet | Turns flirtation into the family's central crisis through her elopement with Wickham. |
| Heather Orth | Mrs. Bennet | Drives the marriage campaign with panic, calculation and broad comic timing. |
| Christopher Vettel | Mr. Bennet | Uses dry detachment until Lydia's disappearance exposes the cost of parental inaction. |
The five Bennet sisters read clearly as separate personalities. Rietkerk's Jane is composed and vocally warm, which makes Bingley's withdrawal feel harsher than it might in a broader comic production. WolfKlain's Mary treats every observation as an intellectual announcement. Tilghman and Kostmayer give Kitty and Lydia restless speed, while Mattison's Elizabeth watches them with a mixture of affection and embarrassment. Orth plays Mrs. Bennet at high comic pressure, yet the performance keeps one practical fact visible: the Bennet daughters face financial insecurity because the estate is entailed away from them.
Travis Leland as Charles Bingley and Sharon Rietkerk as Jane Bennet
Travis Leland plays Charles Bingley opposite Sharon Rietkerk's Jane. Leland makes Bingley open, eager and easily directed, which distinguishes him from Darcy before either romance becomes complicated. His posture relaxes around the Bennets, while Darcy studies the room as though it contains legal evidence. Rietkerk answers that openness with restraint. Their courtship therefore depends on what neither character says forcefully enough. The musical gives them melodic warmth, but Darcy and Caroline still control the plot because Bingley lacks confidence in his own judgment.
Taylor Crousore as George Wickham
Taylor Crousore plays George Wickham, the officer whose charm supplies Elizabeth with a false account of Darcy. Crousore does not signal villainy too early. His relaxed manner and immediate fluency contrast with Darcy's awkward reserve, so Elizabeth's preference appears reasonable during their first encounter. The performance becomes sharper after Lydia's elopement, when the same ease starts to look like practiced evasion. Wickham has fewer opportunities for psychological confession than Darcy, but his social technique drives the musical's argument about appearance and evidence.
Brian Herndon as Mr. Collins and Dani Marcus as Charlotte Lucas
Brian Herndon plays Mr. Collins, the clergyman whose proposal to Elizabeth combines entitlement, rehearsed humility and economic logic. His comic precision matters because Collins can become a disposable caricature. Herndon instead keeps the character's institutional power visible: Collins will inherit Longbourn, and his patron is Lady Catherine. Dani Marcus plays Charlotte Lucas, whose decision to marry Collins receives more sympathy through "Happiness in Marriage." Marcus presents Charlotte as practical rather than defeated. Her choice exposes the difference between Elizabeth's principles and the smaller margin available to an unmarried woman without Elizabeth's confidence or romantic luck.
Monique Hafen Adams as Caroline Bingley and Anne de Bourgh
Monique Hafen Adams plays Caroline Bingley and Anne de Bourgh. Caroline uses polished manners as a weapon, particularly when Elizabeth arrives at Netherfield with mud on her clothes. Adams gives each compliment a visible calculation. Anne requires the opposite physical approach. She is quiet, medically fragile and treated by Lady Catherine as part of a marriage arrangement with Darcy. The double casting places aggressive social competition beside a woman who has almost no control over her proposed future.
Lucinda Hitchcock Cone as Lady Catherine and Mrs. Gardiner
Lucinda Hitchcock Cone plays Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Mrs. Gardiner. The pairing covers two older women who advise Elizabeth for different reasons. Lady Catherine uses rank, volume and interrogation to preserve an expected marriage between Darcy and Anne. Mrs. Gardiner uses observation and affection, especially during the visit to Pemberley. Cone separates them through vocal placement and pace. Lady Catherine delivers conclusions before anyone can answer. Mrs. Gardiner listens long enough to notice Elizabeth's changing response to Darcy.
Supporting and Ensemble Cast
- Sean Fenton plays Colonel Fitzwilliam, whose conversation with Elizabeth accidentally reveals Darcy's interference in Bingley's relationship with Jane.
- Seton Chiang appears as a footman and townsperson. He does not play Darcy in the filmed production.
- Samantha Jane Ayoob appears as a lady's maid and townsperson.
- Additional company members populate Meryton, Netherfield and the formal dances, allowing the staging to turn gossip into visible group behavior.
The ensemble has a structural job beyond filling the ballroom. Paul Gordon repeatedly lets the community sing judgments before the principal characters have reached their own conclusions. The company turns Bingley's fortune into public property, comments on Elizabeth's behavior and supplies the social pressure behind each marriage. In that sense, the cast's most important supporting character is Meryton itself: a small population that treats income, clothing and romantic attention as shared information.
Cast verification: Principal casting was checked against TheatreWorks Silicon Valley publicity, BroadwayWorld's November 14, 2019 cast announcement, the production photography archive maintained by Carla Befera & Company, Playbill's regional production record and the filmed edition's credit listings. The verified leads are Mary Mattison as Elizabeth Bennet and Justin Mortelliti as Mr. Darcy.
Last Update:July, 09th 2026