The Maltese actor Yandrick Agius has been cast in Moulin Rouge! The Musical for its next run at the Piccadilly Theatre in London.

A law graduate, Agius has been studying a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre at the prestigious Arts Educational School in London since 2019, graduating this year.

He has formed part of various local productions in recent years, but this is his first prestigious casting in London’s famous West End.

Set in Paris, 1899, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled extravagance, of bohemians and aristocrats, of boulevardiers and reprobates, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the story of a lovesick American writer, Christian, and Satine, the dazzling star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub.

When their lives collide at the Moulin Rouge, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be thwarted by the nightclub’s host and impresario, Harold Zidler, and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including Satine. Together with his Bohemian friends – the brilliant and starving artist Toulouse-Lautrec, and the greatest tango dancer in all of Paris, Santiago – Christian stages a musical spectacular in an attempt to save the Moulin Rouge and win the heart of Satine.

The show’s new run will kick off on 17 October and it is the second year that the musical is being hosted at the Piccadilly Theatre.