Loopy For You, which acquired vital acclaim throughout the board when it opened in Chichester, will play a strictly restricted 6-month season on the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London, with performances starting on Saturday 24 June 2023 (till 24 January 2024).
He’s a fish out of water and she or he’s an actual catch.
Theatre-mad Bobby Youngster is torn between his show-business goals and operating the household financial institution. He reluctantly heads west to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a theatre’s mortgage, solely to fall for the theatre proprietor’s daughter, Polly. Determined to show his good religion, Bobby decides to placed on a present – full with dancers from the glamorous Zangler Follies in New York Metropolis – to avoid wasting the theatre, renew the city and hopefully win Polly’s love.
With a riotously entertaining guide by Ken Ludwig and overflowing with wonderful Gershwin melodies (together with Somebody to Watch Over Me, I Received Rhythm and They Can’t Take That Away from Me), this manufacturing is a festivity ‘blessed with ingenious, glowing choreography from Susan Stroman, which sends you out on a excessive from the enjoyment of music and dance’ Monetary Instances. The unique manufacturing of Loopy For You received a number of Tony and Olivier Awards, together with Greatest Musical.
Directed and choreographed by multi-Tony and Olivier award winner Susan Stroman, with guide by Olivier Award profitable Ken Ludwig, this spectacular manufacturing transfers from a sell-out season on the Chichester Competition Theatre. Starring Charlie Stemp, the Olivier-nominated star of Half a Sixpence and Mary Poppins as Bobby, Carly Anderson, star of Depraved as Polly, and Drama Desk Award winner Tom Edden as Bela Zangler.
