Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

The ultimate feel-good party MAMMA MIA! returns to Hull New Theatre in 2022!

Set on a Greek island paradise, a story of love, friendship and identity is cleverly told through the timeless songs of ABBA.

Sophie’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings her mother face to face with three men from her distant romantic past on the eve of a wedding they’ll never forget.

This irresistibly funny show has been thrilling audiences all around the world and now the party continues at Hull New Theatre, so there’s never been a better time to see this unforgettable musical. Whatever age you are, you can’t help but have the time of your life at MAMMA MIA!

Chicago Blues Brothers: A Night At The Movies

This is a rescheduled show. Original tickets remin valid.

The award-winning spectacular is Europe’s biggest and best-loved production of the Blues Brothers. The show is a high-octane, adrenaline-pumping musical mash-up that presents the best material from the original Blues Brothers movies and is jam-packed full of songs by legends such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Cab Calloway – plus many other blues, soul, Motown and funk classics and a few surprises thrown in along the way. Capturing the sound, energy and persona that propelled the film to a cult status that still thrills audiences worldwide today.

Back with a brand new production for 2017 with an all new elaborate stage set the Chicago Blues Brothers are taking you back to 1980 to finish the concert at the Palace ballroom hotel. This show is a powerhouse two-hour song-fest with over 40 hits performed live on stage in the concert that never finished.

The Chicago Blues Brothers is a joyous hoot, a musical riot, a juiced-up jamboree of the coolest, funkiest soul, blues and Motown hits performed with style, class and showmanship by a troupe of some of the finest entertainers working in modern musical theatre.

Infectious, dazzling, riotous, exuberant and spirited, the legacy of Jake and Elwood has been jump-started for a new generation with an energy that’s impossible to resist. The Chicago Blues Brothers are on a mission once again – in a high-octane, on-stage party you can’t afford to miss.

Rock of Ages

RESCHEDULED SHOW INFORMATION: Original tickets are valid for the new dates.

HERE WE GO AGAIN….!

THE SMASH HIT MUSICAL IS BACK IN THE UK.

ROCK OF AGES is an LA love story lavished with over 25 classic rock anthems. Lose yourself in a city and a time where the dreams are as big as the hair, and yes, they can come true!

This hilarious musical comedy will have you singing and laughing along with its epic songs, including ‘Don’t Stop Believin’, ‘We Built This City’, ‘The Final Countdown’, ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’, ‘Here I Go Again’, ‘Can’t Fight this Feeling’ and ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’, played loud and proud by an awesome live band.

Now a global smash with hit seasons on Broadway, London’s West End and Las Vegas and a star studded Hollywood movie version, we promise you the biggest party in town!

The Greatest Showman

Parkway Cinema Beverley and Wykeland brings you The Greatest Showman Film (PG) in the amazing open-air amphitheatre at Stage@TheDock

The smash hit musical was inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum, starring Hugh Jackman.

Barnum was a visionary who rose from nothing to create the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a spectacle and celebration of his larger-than-life imagination that captivated audiences around the globe.

ANTON & ERIN: SHOWTIME

This show is rescheduled from 9th March 2021 – tickets remain valid

Join the nation’s favourite ballroom couple on their brand new tour.

SHOWTIME is a glittering celebration that pays tribute to some of the world’s greatest icons of entertainment as Anton & Erin present world-class dance inspired by classic performers including, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Liza Minelli, Elton John and more.

With stunning costumes, fabulous live vocals, a high-energy West End dance ensemble and a sensational 23-piece orchestra.

Get ready for Anton & Erin … It’s SHOWTIME!

The War of the Worlds

This show is rescheduled from April 13th, 2021. Original tickets remain valid.

Jeff Wayne’s multi-award-winning masterpiece, touring the major arenas of the UK and abroad since 2006, has had to postpone its previously announced 2021 UK and European Tour until March 2022.

Based on HG Wells’ dark Victorian tale, it remains a firm favourite to millions around the world, exciting audiences of all ages.

The arena shows will be well worth the wait.

In 2006 TWOTW was already considered a cutting edge production with six trucks filled to the brim. But in 2022, marking a momentous 16 years of live touring, the production will be up to 12, and with it, a host of ingredients and special effects that will challenge and excite the senses.

A stellar cast will also be announced very soon.

RETURNING:

• Jeff Wayne conducting the Black Smoke Band and symphonic ULLAdubULLA strings.

• Liam Neeson in 3D holography as George Herbert, The Journalist.

• The iconic 3-tonne, 35-foot tall Martian Fighting Machine firing real flame Heat Rays at the audience.

• Leaf drops over the audience.

• Mixed live in Surround Sound.

• The incineration of a Cast member in full view of the audience.

UPDATED FOR 2022:

• Giant arched bridge running from the lip of the stage out over the audience to the front-of-house desk.

• Three panoramic screens with 2 hours of cutting edge CGI and other content.

• Lighting and pyrotechnics

• Ground-breaking levitation effect.

NEW FOR 2022:

• Otherworldly special effects.

• The deadly black dust

plus ‘The War of The Worlds’ author, HG Wells – appearing in sight and sound.

VAMPIRES ROCK

* RESCHEDULED DATE. ORIGINAL TICKETS REMAIN VALID *

Starring Steve Steinman and an incredible cast of singers, dancers and musicians, this show will have you rocking in the aisles.

A tongue-in-cheek and laugh out loud storyline combined with an incredible stage set, lighting and sound, and a show like no other.

Featuring over 30 of the greatest classic rock anthems of all time, including Queen, AC/DC, Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, Bon Jovi, Journey, Guns N’ Roses and many more

Photo: Jeremy Daniel (Instagram @JeremyDanielPhoto)

Waitress the Musical

Rescheduled from February 2021. Tickets remain valid.

Meet Jenna, a waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of some happiness in her life. When a hot new doctor arrives in town, life gets complicated. With the support of her workmates Becky and Dawn, Jenna overcomes the challenges she faces and finds that laughter, love and friendship can provide the perfect recipe for happiness.

Brought to life by a ground-breaking, female-led creative team, this ‘warm, witty, wise and hilarious’ (EXPRESS) hit features ‘one of the best scores in years’ (THE STAGE) by the Grammy award-winning Sara Bareilles (Love Song, Brave) a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) and direction by Tony® Award-winner Diane Paulus (Pippin, Finding Neverland).

Receiving standing ovations night after night in London’s West End and on Broadway, Waitress is ‘the real deal’ (INDEPENDENT) musical comedy ‘made from the finest ingredients’ (TIME OUT).

Book now and get your tickets to this ‘joyously life-affirming celebration of love and friendship’ (EXPRESS).

WAITRESS deals with some adult content and themes so discretion is advised for parents bringing children under age 13.

Chicago The Musical

A very rare, restricted licence has been granted to Beverley Musical Theatre to perform ‘Chicago The Musical’.
This means it is only available to a limited audience and therefore tickets are in great demand.
The venue will be turned into a den of iniquity, where prohibition is ignored, the ‘gin is cold, the piano’s hot’ and Roxie and Velma vie for the attention of the press and to save their necks.
Manipulation, vice, crime, lies and deceit all wrapped up in fabulous songs and drama performed by a 7 piece professional band, excellent principals and an ensemble of 30 talented singers and dancers.
At just £12 a ticket from 8th to 13th June 2020 at Beverley Memorial Hall

Visit www.beverleymusicaltheatre.co.uk/ticket-sales for online tickets or in person from Beverley Music and Dance, 14 Norwood, Beverley, HU17 9EZ

It would be a crime not to!

SUNNY AFTERNOON

We are sorry to announce that Sunny Afternoon has been postponed until further notice.

Following a phenomenal two years in the West End and a sensational hit tour across the UK and Ireland in 2016, the multi Olivier Award winning “Dazzling” (Guardian) musical Sunny Afternoon comes to Hull.

With ‘“Triumphant. Show Stopping, Magic.”(Mail on Sunday), this “Kick-Ass. Indisputably Terrific” (The Times) musical tells the story of The Kinks who exploded onto the 60’s music scene with a raw, energetic new sound that rocked a nation. Set against the back-drop of a Britain caught mid-swing between the conservative 50’s and riotous 60’s, Sunny Afternoon charts the euphoric highs and agonising lows of one of Britain’s most iconic bands, and their irresistible music that influenced an entire generation.

With Music and Lyrics by Ray Davies, Book by Joe Penhall and Direction by Edward Hall, experience the faultless musicianship and brilliant songs played live and loud on stage including You Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, All Day and All of the Night, Lola, Sunny Afternoon and many more, as the cast of Sunny Afternoon come together in this “Exhilarating” (Financial Times), moving, must-see depiction of one of the greatest rock bands of all tim

SIX THE MUSICAL

This is rescheduled show. Original tickets remain valid.

Nominated for five Olivier Awards including Best New Musical, the sell-out international smash hit SIX is the phenomenon everyone is losing their head over!

From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII finally take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing 500 years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st-century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.

It’s time they told their story.

Think you know the rhyme, think again….

Divorced. Beheaded. LIVE!

Strictly Ballroom The Musical

*RESCHEDULED FROM OCTOBER 2020. ORIGINAL TICKETS REMAIN VALID*

Based on the award-winning worldwide film phenomenon, the production will waltz onto the stage in 2023

The cast of more than 20 world-class performers will be under the direction of dancer, choreographer, theatre director and one of Britain’s favourite TV judges, Craig Revel Horwood.

Strictly Ballroom the Musical follows the arrogant, rebellious young ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings. When his radical and daring dance style sees him fall out of favour with the Australian Federation, he must dance with beginner, Fran.

Together they find the courage to defy tradition and discover medal-winning moves.

The production includes over 30 classic chart-topping hits performed live on stage including Time After Time, Let’s Dance, I’m So Excited, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Sway (Quien Sera), Mambo No. 5, Dancing With Myself, Sugar Sugar, It’s the End of the World as We Know It, Teardrops and Love is in the Air.

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

Long before she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.

Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit song-writing team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.

Along the way, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation, with countless classics such as (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Take Good Care of My Baby, You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, It Might as Well Rain Until September, Up on the Roof, and The Locomotion.

The King and I

Hailed as ‘THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF 2018’ the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I is embarking on a World Tour direct from its record breaking sold out season at The London Palladium.

The King And I is the greatest musical from the golden age of musicals – adored by the public and critics alike – with one of the finest scores ever written including; Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance, and featuring a company of over 50 world-class performers and a full-scale orchestra.

A celebration of the lavish heritage of the very best in romantic musical theatre from an unparalleled multi-award-winning creative team, hailed as one of the best working in theatre today, directed by Tony Award winner Bart Sher (South Pacific & My Fair Lady – Broadway). This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness this glorious production, as you have never seen it before.

CATS

Park Street Performing Arts Centre are proud to be showing CATS the musical. Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the “Jellicle choice,” deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

Disabled access, suitable for everyone.

Image credited to Shaun French

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Following the sell-out success of Oliver! last year, One Off Productions return to Hull Truck with another family favourite, The Sound of Music.

With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse and suggested by The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp, this show is bound to sell very quickly.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with R and H Theatricals Europe.