Hairspray

Hairspray

You can’t stop OUR beat – HAIRSPRAY is BACK ON TOUR – so run and tell that!

The musical phenomenon Hairspray returns!

After breaking box office records and delighting audiences in the West End, Broadway and on the big screen since 1988, this smash hit musical-comedy is heading back out on tour around the UK and Ireland.

Welcome to the 60s, where everyone’s grooving to a brand-new sound! Enter Tracy Turnblad, with big hair, big heart, and big dreams to dance her way onto national TV. On her journey to become accepted, Tracy befriends Link Larkin the teen idol, Seaweed, Little Innez and Motormouth Maybelle who stand with her to fight intolerance, bigotry and racism as they strive to bring unity to the city of Baltimore. Can the new girl in town help win equality and Link Larkin’s heart?

This fun-filled, feel-good show is bursting with show-stopping numbers, dazzling costumes, and dizzying dance-routines that you can’t help but shimmy too!

Featuring some of musical theatre’s biggest and best hit songs, including Welcome To The 60s, You Can’t Stop The Beat, Good Morning Baltimore and so many more, Hairspray is the hilarious, joyous, and uplifting musical for all!

Thank You For The Music

Calling all Dancing Queens, this is your night to say, Thank you for the Music!

This international smash-hit tribute show brings all ABBA’s number one hits to the stage in a production like no other. The hugely popular show, now in its 20th year, with a brand-new show combines the unmistakable harmonies, colourful costumes, and dazzling performances by our all-star cast.

Join us for the party of the year, you can dance, you can jive, and have the time of your life as we bring you all the hits, including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Super Trouper, Mamma Mia, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, The Winner Takes It All and many many more!

Thank you for the Music! For without a song or a dance what are we! Touring the nation. Tickets on sale now!

Beyond The Baricade

Beyond the Barricade, the UK’s longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2024. Join the cast for two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, featuring the songs that have made audiences return over and over again for 25 years.

Enjoy numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, The Lion King, Blood Brothers, Miss Saigon, Hamilton and many others, climaxing with a spectacular finale from, of course, Les Misérables!

The concert features David Fawcett (Valjean) Andy Reiss (Enjolras & Resident Director for the National Tour of Les Miserables) Katie Leeming (Eponine) and Poppy Tierney (Cosette), together with a live band who capture the feel of the original orchestrations of the chosen musicals.

To this day every musical note is still played and sung live – very rare indeed. Beyond the Barricade gives musical theatre songs a bold concert format treatment – but with the conviction and intention to deliver the material as if the audience are watching the original performance.

Grease

The world’s best-loved musical is back! Grittier and more glamorous than ever before.

After a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy, are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can they survive the trials and tribulations of teenage life and find true love once more?

With its phenomenal score, bursting with hits including Summer Nights, Greased Lightnin’, Hopelessly Devoted to You and You’re the One That I Want, this thrilling new version is brought to life by a fresh young cast who bring energy, vitality and passion to this ultimate musical classic.

Age guidance 7+

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

In a brand-new production of this much-loved family favourite, directed by Thom Southerland (Titanic, Parade), choreographed by Karen Bruce (BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, The Bodyguard) and designed by Morgan Large (Newsies, Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat) this ravishing award-winning musical is bursting with unforgettable songs by the Sherman Brothers including Toot Sweets, Hushabye Mountain, Truly Scrumptious and of course the Academy Award-nominated title song, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Based on Ian Fleming’s timeless story for children and later made into the famous 1968 film, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we meet absent-minded inventor Caractacus Potts who restores a broken-down old racing car with the help of his children Jemima and Jeremy. Soon the family discover the car has magical powers, and along with the delectable Truly Scrumptious, they end up on a hilarious fantastical adventure to far off lands. Their heart-warming journey makes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a fun-filled hit for all the family.

Don’t let it take off without you!

The Circus of Horrors

Hot on the heels of The Circus of Horrors Phantasmagoria the ‘Haunted Fairground’ comes a sensational new show: Dr Haze’s Cabaret of Curiosities.

This fang-tastic new show is set to blow your mind with an amazing set, stellar lights, special effects & of course, beautifully bizarre circus acts, a sinister story and the darkest of magic all performed to an original rock score.

If Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil you would be half way there.

Whether a Rock fan or theatregoer The Circus of Horrors has something for everyone.

Candlelight Hull: A Tribute to Queen

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Hull.

Get your tickets now to discover the music of Queen at Hull Minster under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Broadway to Hollywood: The Cole Porter Songbook

BBC Proms regular, vocalist Matt Ford, presents an evening of music and song from one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated composers – Cole Porter – whose music reigned supreme in the Broadway Musicals and Hollywood films of the early 20th Century.

Join Matt Ford, alongside a trio of world-class musicians – including pianist Matt Regan – for an intimate musical journey as they perform a selection of Cole Porter’s finest work, including the likes of: ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’, ‘Night & Day’, ‘Too Darn Hot’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ … and many more.

Time of Our Lives

‘The Time of Our Lives’ – The Soundtrack of a Generation!

Hop in the DeLorean and travel back in time to an unforgettable era of timeless and classic movies! Were you a ‘Goonie’? Did you wish the story would never end? Or did you feel the need for speed? Awaken that nostalgia and dance the night away to all the beloved hits from the 80’s classics! Featuring ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’, ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’, ‘Footloose’ ‘Danger Zone’, ‘Johnny B. Goode’, ‘Hungry Eyes’ and many more! Performed by an incredible 7-piece band and featuring superb vocalists, this is the ultimate celebration of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time!

You can even come dressed as your favourite movie character and strap in for a blast back to the past!

Don’t put baby in a corner! Join this much-loved cast as we have ‘The Time of our Lives!’

Oh What A Night!

OH WHAT A NIGHT! takes you back in time on a musical journey through the incredible career of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

Valli’s unmistakable voice dominated the airwaves for more than two decades with classics such as Sherry, Let’s Hang On, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, My Eyes Adored You, December 63 (Oh What A Night), Bye Bye Baby, Who Loves You and many, many more. Selling over 100 million records worldwide, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons secured their place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

OH WHAT A NIGHT! combines infectious personalities, amazing vocals, slick harmonies and even slicker dance moves to deliver a show full of energy and nostalgia which always leaves audiences wanting more. Don’t miss the ultimate celebration of one of the world’s greatest Rock & Roll bands

Chicago (Silent Film)

Seventy-five years before Bob Fosse’s Broadway musical, the true story of jazz-loving murderess Roxie Hart was brought to the screen by Cecil B. DeMille.

After murdering her lover, Roxie Hart teams up with an unscrupulous lawyer, Billy Flynn, and fellow murderess Velma Kelly, to milk her trial for publicity and become famous. A cracking satire on fame and the media, Cecil B. DeMille’s film is as sensational as the real-life scandal on which it’s based.

Chicago is accompanied by a four-piece band playing a specially created 1920s-style musical score.

Pop Music

Three decades of floor fillers.
Two 40-something singletons.
One wedding disco.

Join G and Kayla for an evening to remember as they dance the night away at a mutual friends’ wedding. Cue the free bar and a heady line up of smash hits, dance anthems, love songs and Brit Pop.

As they relive the highs and lows of their teenage years and share stories of the challenges of adulthood, they soon find they have more in common than just their taste in banging tunes.

I Should Be So Lucky

The Official Stock Aitken Waterman Musical is here!

The Wedding Is Off, but the Honeymoon is On!

It’s here. All the hit-factory songs you love – finally on stage in an all-new musical.

Head from the aisle to the isles in the official Stock Aitken Waterman musical featuring the soundtrack of a generation with music from pop royalty including Kylie Minogue ‘I Should Be So Lucky’, Rick Astley ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, Jason Donovan ‘Especially For You’, Bananarama ‘Love In The First Degree’ and so many more, all woven into this original story.

Hilarious and heart-warming – I Should Be So Lucky is about family, friends, love and great times. Soaring anthems, classic pop tracks and dazzling dance sequences come together featuring no less than 10 Number 1 singles and more than 30 songs from the Hit Factory whose music defined an era.

The creative team is led by stage and screen legend Debbie Isitt (director and writer of the hit Nativity! franchise) and Jason Gilkison (creative director for Strictly Come Dancing and Eurovision 2023) and the music genius of Stock Aitken Waterman.

Ella and Nathan, a young couple, hopelessly in love, and about to take the biggest step of their lives – marriage. Until it all goes wrong. Will they be together forever, or will he make her cry and say goodbye?

The Wizard Of Oz

Direct from The London Palladium, the sensational new production of one of the world’s most beloved musicals comes to Hull New Theatre.

Featuring the iconic original score from the Oscar-winning MGM film including ‘Over The Rainbow’, ‘Follow The Yellow Brick Road’ and ‘We’re Off To See The Wizard’ with additional songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, this spectacular production of The Wizard Of Oz will be a truly magical experience for all the family.

Join Dorothy, Toto, and friends on an unforgettable adventure down the yellow brick road to the merry old land of Oz.

There’s no place like Hull!

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

Best New Musical – WhatsOnStage Awards, London

Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, sold-out UK & Ireland Tour and Amazon studios award-winning film, the smash-hit and critically acclaimed musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns to Hull New Theatre.

Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation.

Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. This ‘Funny, outrageous, touching’ (Daily Telegraph), musical sensation is to be experienced by all the family and not to be missed!

An Officer and a Gentleman

Prepare to be swept off your feet with An Officer and a Gentleman The Musical, based on the award-winning 80s movie. This timeless story of love, courage, and redemption will make your heart soar and leave you breathless, longing for more.

Be part of the emotional journey of Zack Mayo, a fearless young officer candidate, and the captivating Paula Pokrifki, whose fiery spirit matches his own. Their encounters ignite a spark that transcends boundaries, awakening a passionate love that defies all odds.

With every note, every step, and every heartfelt ballad, immerse yourself in this romantic masterpiece. Set to a smash-hit soundtrack featuring the songs of Madonna, Bon Jovi, Cyndi Lauper, Blondie, and many more, the power of music will carry you through the highs and lows of their extraordinary love story, including the award-winning ‘(Love Lift Us) Up Where We Belong’.

An Officer and a Gentleman The Musical invites you into a world where dreams and destinies intertwine. Don’t miss your chance to experience this captivating romance brought to life on stage.