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Blitz!

Blitz!

Open Date: 6 Feb 20 to 7 Mar 20

Blitz! Britain and Germany are at war but on the streets of London so are the Jewish Blitztein family & the cockney Lockes. When their children fall in love a poignant, funny & unforgettable wartime romance unfolds amidst the air raids. From the writer of OLIVER! Creatives to be announced

Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days

Open Date: 4 Jan 20 to 2 Feb 20

Tom Brown’s School Days For all ages. Phil Willmott's new musical adaptation sets the timeless classic of public school life amongst a generation who will go on to fight in the Battle of Britain. Creatives to be announced

Whistle Down the Wind

Whistle Down the Wind

Open Date: 28 Nov 19 to 21 Dec 19

Whistle Down the Wind The time is the late 1950s, the place, a small village in Lancashire. Hurrying to a barn with three rescued kittens, Cathy, a schoolgirl, discovers a stranger hiding there. She recognises Him immediately as Jesus Christ and tells her sister, Nan. The next day their brother Charles also learns of their discovery. They decide t...

The Green Fairy

The Green Fairy

Open Date: 30 Oct 19 to 23 Nov 19

The Green Fairy “Come into my world, for just a minute, and cast all your doubts aside…” Tonight, Jo saw her daughter Wendy sing for the first time in the pub where she used to work - they don’t seem to have a relationship. Jo doesn’t seem to have a relationship with anyone really, and the Green Fairy wants to know where it all went wrong... Mem...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Open Date: 2 Oct 19 to 26 Oct 19

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Based on the best selling novel of the same name, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is the delicious story of a platinum crowned gold-digger from Little Rock and her escapades to find herself a rich man. Creatives Director - Sasha Regan Choreographer - Zak Nemorin Musical Director - Henry Brennan Designer - Justin Williams Co...

Hello Again

Hello Again

Open Date: 28 Aug 19 to 21 Sep 19

Hello Again Michael John LaChiusa’s musical adaptation of the 1897 play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler. Hello Again explores the fine line between love and lust through a series of love affairs & sexual encounters among ten characters placed over the 10 decades of the 20th century. Times may have changed but has the nature of love? LaChiusa’s ada...

Showtune

Showtune

Open Date: 7 Aug 19 to 24 Aug 19

Showtune Prepare yourself for a slice of musical theatre heaven. An entire evening of Jerry Herman music and lyrics. Showtune delivers everything that its title promises and then some! No lyric is left unsung in this top-notch retrospective of Herman's phenomenal career in songwriting. Familiar tunes from such illustrious titles as ‘Hello Dolly...

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Open Date: 15 May 19 to 8 Jun 19

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens Reminiscent of the Memorial Quilt that inspired it, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a patchwork of personal stories and free verse. Told with love, honesty, and humour, it's a tribute to those we lost to the AIDS epidemic and those who've been left behind. In supoprt of Make A Difference ...

Can-Can!

Can-Can!

Open Date: 6 Feb 19 to 9 Mar 19

Can-Can! A fun and frivolous new musical featuring the larger than life performers of the Moulin Rouge who scandalised Paris in the 1890s. The newly arranged score features a treasure trove of gorgeous operetta melodies by Offenbach, Lehar and others culminating in the famous Can-Can itself. Creatives Director - Christian Durham Choreographer -...

Striking 12

Striking 12

Open Date: 28 Nov 18 to 23 Dec 18

Striking 12 It’s New Years’ Eve and Brendan is done. His fiancée has left him, he’s going to lose his job and his boss is making him work late. The last thing he wants to do is celebrate. A chance encounter with a lightbulb seller changes everything. Springing to life with a punchy score of pop, rock, jazz and more, Striking 12 is the perfect way...

Brass the Musical

Brass the Musical

Open Date: 31 Oct 18 to 24 Nov 18

Brass Set during the First World War, Brass tells the story of a group of men from an amateur Leeds-based brass band who enlist to fight as part of the Leeds Pals regiment.  They leave behind their wives and sweethearts who are left to pick up the pieces in the munitions factory. The women learn to play the instruments their brave men have left in...

Midnight

Midnight

Open Date: 5 Sep 18 to 29 Sep 18

Midnight The UK première of Midnight a haunting new musical thriller that matches a darkly witty psychological drama with a heart-breakingly beautiful score ... As the clock ticks towards midnight on New Year’s Eve, a husband and wife talk nervously about what the future holds for them and their fellow citizens. Welcome to Azerbaijan, part of th...

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

Open Date: 8 Aug 18 to 1 Sep 18

Around the World in 80 Days Follow Phileas Fogg and his adorable madcap valet, Passepartout, as they race against time to circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. With his entire fortune at stake, Phileas risks life and limb to win his bet against his arch nemesis, Captain Fix, who will stop at nothing to thwart Fogg in his adventures. This Summ...

It's Only Life

It's Only Life

Open Date: 13 Jun 18 to 7 Jul 18

It's Only Life It's Only Life is a musical revue featuring the songs of John Bucchino. His songs have been recorded and performed by Judy Collins, Patti LuPone, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra MacDonald, Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel and many others. Conceived by director Daisy Prince and the award-winning songwriter, It's Only Life is a unique song cycle about lo...

H.R.Haitch

H.R.Haitch

Open Date: 9 May 18 to 2 Jun 18

HR HAITCH It’s 2011 and feisty east ender Chelsea’s future is bright. She has a new man and there’s a new progressive Prime Minister to light the days ahead. The media can stick their obsession with the identity of Prince Albert - the secret royal who’s been in hiding for 20 years. However, Bertie has something big to tell Chelsea. He’s down on on...

Twang!!

Twang!!

Open Date: 11 Apr 18 to 5 May 18

Robin Hood has lost his twang, much to the delight of the Sheriff of Nottingham. What transpires is a hilarious tale of green tights, budding romances and questionable northern accents as Robin desperately searches for his lost motivation… TWANG!!, originally written by Oliver!'s Lionel Bart with Harvey Orkin in 1965, has been updated by Julian Wo...

Carmen

Carmen

Open Date: 7 Feb 18 to 10 Mar 18

Carmen Bizet’s unforgettable tunes, re-conceived as musical theatre, stirringly bring to life the story of a dangerous, seductive Spanish heroine recklessly playing with her fate and that of her lovers at a time of civil unrest and political uncertainty. An easily accessible, invigoratingly fresh look at perhaps the most familiar, beloved and pop...

Privates on Parade

Privates on Parade

Open Date: 22 Nov 17 to 17 Dec 17

Privates on Parade Set during the Malayan Emergency of the late 1940's, we follow the exploits of a song and dance unit during their tour of South East Asia as they provide light entertainment for the British Army. Private Steve Flowers is posted to join the small show, which is conceived by and very much starring the wonderfully flamboyant Capta...

Imagine This

Imagine This

Open Date: 25 Oct 17 to 18 Nov 17

Imagine This Poland 1942. Where freedom was found through imagination. Where hope and laughter could conquer fear. Where love knew no boundaries. Imagine This follows a group of actors in the Warsaw Ghetto as they stage a play to inspire hope within their community. However, with rumours of a Final Solution in the air, their play merges with the...

Lucky Stiff

Lucky Stiff

Open Date: 27 Sep 17 to 21 Oct 17

Lucky Stiff Shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon is stuck in a rut until, one day, he discovers he is to inherit his uncle's fortune; but, there is a catch. To claim the inheritance Harry has to take his uncle's body around the French Rivera for one last adventure! Chasing him for the same fortune are a dog lover from Brooklyn, a short-sighted Mafia Bo...

Salad Days

Salad Days

Open Date: 16 Aug 17 to 9 Sep 17

Salad Days Salad Days is the delightful story of recent graduates Timothy and Jane in the midst of a sunny summer in 1954. Glum with their overbearing and pushy parents to ‘find themselves something to do’, Timothy and Jane take on a job looking after a piano in a park. Little are they prepared to deal with the magic that follows, getting them int...

The Hired Man

The Hired Man

Open Date: 19 Jul 17 to 12 Aug 17

The Hired Man Based on the novel by Melvyn Bragg, The Hired Man centres around the lives of a simple country family facing the turn of the century and the darker times that lay before them. When love, misguided affairs and war come into play, this makes for a stunning and romantic score filled with unforgettable melodies from one of Britain's most...

Blondel

Blondel

Open Date: 21 Jun 17 to 15 Jul 17

BLONDEL Blondel has lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Stephen Oliver. The book is by Tim Rice and Tom Williams, and additional music by Mathew Pritchard. When King Richard announces that he’s off on a Middle East Crusade to give Saladin a piece of his mind (and sword), the struggling court musician Blondel is forced to stay behind to write songs in...

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun

Open Date: 24 May 17 to 17 Jun 17

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Annie Get Your Gun, premiered on Broadway in 1946, tells the real life story of Wild West pioneer Annie Oakley and her romance with the sharp shooting Frank Butler. It has music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, original book by Dorothy Fields, revised by Peter Stone. It features unforgettable melodies such as Doin' What Comes Natur'...

Honk!

Honk!

Open Date: 29 Mar 17 to 22 Apr 17

Honk! This Easter, Honk! the musical returns to London in a brand-new, actor-musician egg-stravaganza, filled with puppetry, magic and illusions. And water guns! This heartwarming reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling tells the story of Ugly, a plucky little bird who gets picked on by the other farmyard animals because he’s d...

Anyone Can Whistle

Anyone Can Whistle

Open Date: 8 Feb 17 to 11 Mar 17

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE Anyone Can Whistle is political allegory in musical comedy form that tells the story of a town that's gone bankrupt because its only industry is manufacturing something that never wears out. In order to revive her town Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper and her town council fake a miracle - water flowing from a rock - to attract touris...

Soho Cinders

Soho Cinders

Open Date: 23 Nov 16 to 22 Dec 16

Soho Cinders When impoverished student Robbie becomes romantically involved with engaged Mayoral candidate James Prince, his lap-dancing step-sisters become the least of his problems! James and Robbie’s worlds collide forcing them to fight for their own fairy-tale ending in this hilarious, satirical twist on the classic Cinderella story. The pote...

Rumpy Pumpy

Rumpy Pumpy

Open Date: 14 Nov 16 to 19 Nov 16

Rumpy Pumpy When two brave ladies from the Hampshire Women's Institute, Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels, decide to campaign for the total decriminalisation of Prostitution and to improve conditions for working girls everywhere, warm and witty brothel owner Holly Spencer decides to contact them. For Holly has the‘perfect brothel’ these W.I. ladies...

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Open Date: 18 Oct 16 to 12 Nov 16

Not seen in the UK since 1992, saucy cult hit Moby Dick! The Musical is back. Originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Moby Dick! The Musical has a book by Robert Longden and music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward Kaye. The anarchic and nubile girls of St. Godley's Academy for Young Ladies are in trouble! Money for the school has run out and i...

Out There

Out There

Open Date: 21 Sep 16 to 8 Oct 16

Newman Carter, a world famous astronaut mysteriously disappears in 1969. Forty years later, a troubled young man, turns up on his doorstep with a letter which changes everything for everyone. Out There is an original tale crossing three generations; sons, fathers and grandfathers. This heart felt story with its country inspired score is created by...

Children of Eden

Children of Eden

Open Date: 10 Aug 16 to 10 Sep 16

25 years after its original West End production, Children of Eden will return to London in a new production at the Union Theatre’s brand new state-of-the-art space in Southwark.   Inspired by the Book of Genesis, Children of Eden tells the timeless story of what it means to be a parent. From the moment you bring a child into the world everything c...

The Fix

The Fix

Open Date: 13 Jul 16 to 6 Aug 16

When the most popular presidential candidate dies between his mistress’s thighs, his status-starved widow, Violet (Lucy Williamson), decides that if she can’t be the wife of the president, she’ll be his mother... Thrusting her lacklustre son Cal (Fra Fee) into the spotlight, Violet is determined to create the perfect politician at any cost in this...

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Open Date: 2 Jun 16 to 26 Jun 16

The final show to play at the original Union Theatre, this Olivier Award winning comedy tells the story of LV, a painfully shy girl who spends most of her time listening to her late father’s collection of old records and perfecting her astonishing impersonations of classic divas. But when her mother’s scheming boyfriend attempts to create the show...

Gatsby

Gatsby

Open Date: 6 Apr 16 to 30 Apr 16

GATSBY PRESENTED BY RUBY IN THE DUST Adapted from F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great GatsbyBook by Linnie ReedmanMusic and Lyrics by Joe EvansFeaturing the Benoit Veillefon Orchestra “GATSBY” has entered the vocabulary in recent times to become synonymous with glitz and glamour. But Fitzgerald, when writing “The Great Gatsby”, was trying to scratch ...

Bad Girls

Bad Girls

Open Date: 9 Mar 16 to 2 Apr 16

Bad Girls: The Musical Book by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManusMusic and lyrics by Kath GottsOriginally directed by Maggie NorrisOrchestrations by Martin Koch Bad Girls is a fresh, funny and original British musical, based on characters from the award winning and hugely popular television drama; Shell Dockley, Denny Blood, Nikki Wade and of cours...

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