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Once Upon A Mattress

Once Upon A Mattress

Open Date: 5 Mar 20 to 29 Mar 20

Once Upon A Mattress Many moons ago, in a far-off place, begins a magical musical comedy journey into the world of Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved story of the princess and the pea. But this isn’t your usual fairy tale, and Princess Winifred isn’t your usual fairy-tale princess. The kingdom in which she seeks her prince seethes with a very adult...

The Jury

The Jury

Open Date: 4 Feb 20 to 16 Feb 20

The Jury Twelve strangers collide in a controversial case that will change them forever. The pressure is on to unanimously decide on a verdict but they are stuck in a deadlock. Putting their personal morals to the test, they find themselves lost in a labyrinth of circumstantial evidence confusing fact with fiction. Breaking almost every rule in th...

42nd Street

42nd Street

Open Date: 11 Dec 19 to 26 Jan 20

42nd Street One of show business’s most classic and beloved tales,  42nd Street tells the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes.  She arrives in New York City from Allentown, Pennsylvania, armed with her tap shoes and big dreams. When the leading lady drops out of the show, Peggy gets her big break on Broadway. ...

I Do! I Do!

I Do! I Do!

Open Date: 29 Oct 19 to 16 Nov 19

I Do! I Do! Based on the Jan de Hartog play, The Fourposter, I Do! I Do! chronicles the highs and lows of a couple’s marriage spanning over fifty years. I Do! I Do! was the first two-person musical to play on Broadway where it originally ran for 560 performances starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston prior to a successful 1996 Off-Broadway reviva...

Working

Working

Open Date: 10 Sep 19 to 22 Sep 19

Working Working is the extraordinary genre-defining musical from Grammy and Academy Award winner STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Wicked; Godspell) based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with the American workforce. Nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Score, Working features songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Stephen Schwartz and...

Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights

Open Date: 5 Aug 19 to 11 Aug 19

Boogie Nights The ultimate 70’s pop musical! Featuring disco classics such as YMCA, Disco Inferno, Car Wash and I Will Survive… it will have you singing and dancing in your seat! This show follows the turbulent relationship between unlucky in love Debs and wannabe rock star Roddy. Cheating lovers, big dreams and alcohol fuelled nights full of disc...

The Marvelous Wonderettes

The Marvelous Wonderettes

Open Date: 9 Apr 19 to 12 May 19

The Marvelous Wonderettes After two extensive Off-Broadway runs garnering outstanding critical acclaim The Marvelous Wonderettes receives its UK Premiere in this glittering new production. The show takes a cotton-candied musical trip down memory lane to the 1958 Springfield High School Prom, where we meet the Wonderettes: four girls with hopes and...

Strike Up the Band

Strike Up the Band

Open Date: 6 Mar 19 to 31 Mar 19

Strike Up the Band In 1927, Horace J. Fletcher is a typical self-made American businessman. His cheese factory dominates the market, he influences the White House, and he’s secured his business future by agreeing to marry his daughter, Joan, to his factory manager. He does have one problem. Switzerland has the audacity to protest America’s heavy n...

Bad Girls

Bad Girls

Open Date: 13 Feb 19 to 3 Mar 19

Bad Girls Bad Girls introduces us to an anarchic bunch of women on the edge and up against the odds - prostitutes, addicts, shop-lifters, murderers.  Full of big songs and characters, Bad Girls is an exhilarating mix of gritty reality, rebellious spirit, emotional honesty and irreverent humour, that touches hearts and kicks up a riot. Creatives ...

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Open Date: 12 Dec 18 to 27 Jan 19

Nice Work If You Can Get It This screwball comedy pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all set to the glorious songs of George and Ira Gershwin. Creatives Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin Book by Joe DiPietro Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse Director: John Pl...

Give My Regards To Broadway

Give My Regards To Broadway

Open Date: 17 Jul 18 to 5 Aug 18

Give My Regards To Broadway Give My Regards to Broadway is a new musical review celebrating New York’s Greatest Showtunes from 1902 – 1942. This all singing, all dancing energetic new musical revue will take you on an exciting journey down the ‘Great White Way’! Featuring some of the greatest melodies and lyrics written between 1902 and 1942, wit...

Return To The Forbidden Planet

Return To The Forbidden Planet

Open Date: 12 May 18 to 17 Jun 18

Winner of the 1990 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’ is a rockin’ rollercoaster ride into the future. Join Captain Tempest and the crew of the Intergalactic Starship Albatross as they travel deep into hyperspace. What’s waiting for them?……a mad scientist, a secret formula, a scary monster and D’illyria – a planet ...

A Night At The Oscars

A Night At The Oscars

Open Date: 7 Feb 18 to 4 Mar 18

A Night at the Oscars Every year Hollywood pats itself on the back and celebrates its best films, best performers and best songs. A Night at the Oscars tells the story of the Golden Age of Hollywood through song, dance and stories! Enjoy the fabulous music of Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Kern, Arlen, Bernstein, Mercer, Mancini, Hamlisch and more! Fo...

Top Hat

Top Hat

Open Date: 13 Dec 17 to 28 Jan 18

Top Hat An all singing, all dancing musical theatre classic packed full of Irving Berlin’s greatest hits including ‘Cheek to Cheek’, ‘Let’s Face the Music & Dance’, ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ and the title song. The show is a wonderfullyentertaining storywrapped around Irving Berlin’s magical score. Celebrating the best of 1930s, Top Hat tells the stor...

9 to 5 The Musical

9 to 5 The Musical

Open Date: 30 Aug 17 to 1 Oct 17

9 to 5 The Musical This hilarious musical comedy is based on the hit 1980 movie of the same name and centres on 3 female office workers who turn the tables on their sexist boss. The show has music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick based on the screenplay by Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins. Pushed to the boiling point, thr...

5,6,7,8 - A Steps Musical

5,6,7,8 - A Steps Musical

Open Date: 14 Aug 17 to 19 Aug 17

Out for drinks after work, four colleagues realise they have something in common: their love lives all suck. So they make a pact to sort themselves out – whether that means asking out a certain someone, cutting ties with Mr Wrong, or learning to fly solo… belting out the likes of One For Sorrow, Better Best Forgotten and Deeper Shade of Blue along ...

Paper Hearts

Paper Hearts

Open Date: 2 May 17 to 20 May 17

Paper Hearts Set in a high-street bookshop, aspiring writer Atticus Smith lives avidly through his novel’s characters until the arrival of the fastidious Lilly Sprocket. With a contemporary pop-folk score performed by a company of actor-musicians, Paper Hearts is about passion and finding your place in the world, among books. Creatives Writer: L...

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Open Date: 29 Mar 17 to 23 Apr 17

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is a jukebox musical written by Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters, based on the songs composed by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, and Philip Cody. Set during the 1960 Labour Day weekend at “Esther’s Paradise Resort Hotel” in Catskills, New York it features friends Marge and Lois from Brooklyn, looking...

That's Jewish Entertainment

That's Jewish Entertainment

Open Date: 7 Feb 17 to 11 Mar 17

That's Jewish Entertainment A Century of Jewish entertainment in one show! Why have Jews dominated the entertainment industry? How is it that so many writers, composers, performers, directors and producers are Jewish? That’s Jewish Entertainment presents a cornucopia of Jewish talent, with songs, dance and comedy spanning decade of Jewish life, ...

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Open Date: 14 Dec 16 to 29 Jan 17

Anything Goes Cole Porter’s Anything Goes is an all singing, all dancing musical theatre classic set aboard the ocean liner SS American on an east-bound trans-Atlantic voyage in 1934. The show is a wonderfully entertaining story wrapped around Cole Porter’s magical score. Featured songs include: It’s De-Lovely; Friendship; I Get A Kick Out Of You;...

The MGM Story

The MGM Story

Open Date: 31 Aug 16 to 25 Sep 16

The MGM Story THE MGM STORY traces the story of the Golden Age of Song and Dance and tells the tale of how the studio fostered the talents of stars, including Judy Garland and Gene Kelly and composers, such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin (plus many more). This brand new musical revue will take you back to those timeless classics, with songs fro...

Wallis

Wallis

Open Date: 27 May 16 to 26 Jun 16

WALLIS a certain person... Presented by OVATION Devised and Directed by John PlewsWritten by Jennifer SelwayMusic by Simon Slater Set between 1931 and 1936, Wallis is centered around the love affair that led to the biggest constitutional crisis in modern Royal history. Just how did Mrs Simpson, a divorced American, capture and keep the heart of...

Bar Mitzvah Boy

Bar Mitzvah Boy

Open Date: 3 Mar 16 to 10 Apr 16

Bar Mitzvah Boy - Jack Rosenthal adapted his award winning 1976 TV play (British Academy Best Play Award and Broadcasting Press Guild Best Play Award), for the musical stage with America's Oscar and Tony award composer Jule Styne and lyrics by Oscar and Tony award winner Don Black. Bar Mitzvah Boy is about a North London family's anxious build up ...

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde

Open Date: 16 Dec 15 to 31 Jan 16

Winner of three Olivier Awards including ‘Best Musical’, Legally Blonde The Musical is an all-singing, all-dancing romantic comedy. The show follows the story of sorority president Elle Woods as she crosses the country on a mission to find love at Harvard Law School. Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe & Nell BenjaminBook by Heather HachBased on t...

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