Dirty Dancing

Now showing at the Aldwych Theatre.

“THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE BY ELEANOR BERGSTEIN!”

‘That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy got shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn’t wait to join the Peace Corps and I thought I’d never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman’s.

Experience the excitement and romance of the blockbuster film – live on stage. Featuring the hit songs from the best selling movie soundtrack of all time including; Time Of My Life, Hungry Eyes, Hey Baby and Do You Love Me?

'First dance. First love. You’ll have ‘the time of your life!’

“Audiences just LOVE this show. The music is so great you cannot keep still in your seats. The dancing is amazing and it’s a great love story. Everyone leaves the theatre up lifted. It’s the ultimate feel-good musical.”

Eleanor Bergstein – Writer and Creator of the movie and stage show

Porgy and Bess

Now showing at the Savoy Theatre.

"The livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high."

The Gershwins’ musical masterpiece Porgy and Bess is one the towering achievements of Twentieth Century musical theatre. A bittersweet love story set in the Deep South, the work features arguably one of the greatest, most beautiful and moving musical scores ever written for the stage, including such classics as Summertime, I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So and I Loves You, Porgy.

Since its first performance on Broadway in 1935, Porgy and Bess has gone on to achieve unparalleled fame with landmark productions across the globe.

London writes a new chapter in the history of the show with the premiere of a brand new £3million musical production, specially adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn.

Extensively reworked and re-orchestrated as a two hour twenty minute musical, to draw more deeply on the story’s Southern roots and injected with renewed verve and pace, this fresh interpretation will also bring to the Savoy Theatre one of the biggest companies in the West End – including a cast of forty and a twenty-piece orchestra.

Spamalot

Now showing at the Palace Theatre.

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, SPAMALOT is the new musical directed by Oscar Winning Mike Nichols, with a book by the third tallest Python, Eric Idle, and an almost but not entirely new score by Eric Idle (no relation) and John du Prez.

Retelling the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and featuring a number of gratuitously scantily clad showgirls, not to mention the cows, killer rabbits and French people, Monty Python’s SPAMALOT has been hailed as:

“A no-holds-barred smash”
The New Yorker

“Funnier than the Black Death”
Brother Maynard, Friars Weekly incorporating Nuns Illustrated

“Pies iesu domine donna eis requiem”
Thelonius Monk

“Triffic!”
Michael Palin (no relation)

“A Grand Slamalot”
New York Post

“King Arthur is rolling over in his grave – ad laughing till his armour rattles”
USA Today

The Lord of the Rings

Showing from May 2007 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

The Lord of the Rings, the first major stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic trilogy, will receive its British and European Premiere when it opens in London. The Lord of the Rings will open in the West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in May 2007 , following previews from 9 May.

This follows the 70th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien starting to write the trilogy and the 50th anniversary of the publication of the complete trilogy, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King".

An international creative team has combined all three books into one unmissable theatrical event that will transform the Theatre Royal into Middle-Earth. With a thrilling score, a spectacular design, and an ensemble of over 70 actors, singers and musicians, The Lord of the Rings is the most ambitious theatrical production ever staged.

The Sound of Music

Now showing at the London Palladium.

Your Sporting Challenge is delighted to present the world’s best-loved musical, The Sound of Music, with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s dazzling new production returning to the West End at the London Palladium.

Based on the uplifting true story of the Von Trapp family, The Sound of Music was the last collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, becoming one of the most successful Oscar-winning film musicals of all time.

The score for The Sound of Music touches the hearts of all ages and brims over with some of the most memorable songs ever performed on the musical stage including My Favourite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Edelweiss, Climb Ev’ry Mountain, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, The Lonely Goatherd and of course the glorious title song The Sound of Music.

“Connie Fisher triumphs as Maria - Viewers of Britain, you chose well”
Daily Mail, Thursday 16 November

“She is sublime”
The Sunday Times, Sunday 19 November

“A show that restores one’s faith in human nature. I left with a spring in my step and a smile on my face. Suddenly the world seemed a brighter place”
The Daily Telegraph, Thursday 16 November

“Hanson is excellent as Captain Von Trapp”
The Independent, Thursday 16 November