Lead casting and creatives of a new musical version of Dodie Smith’s classic book 101 Dalmatians have been announced, ahead of a UK and Ireland tour launching at the New Wimbledon Theatre in June.

For a character that gets a little less than nine minutes of screen time in her 1961 screen debut, Cruella de Vil has an outsized legacy. Over the years, the villain of Disney’s original animated “101 ...