Crazy For You to open on the Gillian Lynne Theatre – There Ought To Be Clowns

Crazy For You, which acquired important 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 . Tickets at the moment are on sale at www.CrazyForYouMusical.com

He’s a fish out of water and she or he’s an actual catch.

Theatre-mad Bobby Child is torn between his show-business desires and working 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. Desperate to show his good religion, Bobby decides to placed on a present – full with dancers from the glamorous Zangler Follies in New York City – 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 ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, ‘I Got Rhythm’ and ‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me)’, this manufacturing is a festivity ‘blessed with ingenious, sparkling choreography from Susan Stroman, which sends you out on a high from the joy of music and dance’ Financial Times. The authentic manufacturing of Crazy For You received a number of Tony and Olivier Awards, together with Best 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 Festival Theatre. Starring Charlie Stemp, the Olivier-nominated star of Half a Sixpence and Mary Poppins as Bobby, Carly Anderson, star of Wicked as Polly, and Drama Desk Award winner Tom Edden as Bela Zangler.

Producers Joey Parnes, Sally Horchow and Michael Harrison stated:

“Susan Stroman’s exuberant production of Crazy For You was the most infectiously joyful show of the year. Charlie and Carly’s performances brought both great romance and spectacle to its heart, and Tom Edden was absolutely hilarious! We are so thrilled that London audiences will now be able to experience this dazzling musical in the superb setting of the Gillian Lynne Theatre.”