Producer Michael Harrison has announced that Disney’s Academy Award-winning movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks will make its world premiere as a new stage musical. Performances begin at Newcastle Theatre Royal from 14-21 August 2021, before a UK tour which includes a five-week Christmas season at Leeds Grand Theatre (8 December 2021 to 9 January 2022).
With the original songs by the legendary Sherman Brothers (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), including ‘Portobello Road’, ‘The Age of Not Believing’, ‘The Beautiful Briny’ and new music and lyrics by Neil Bartram and book by Brian Hill, Bedknobs and Broomsticks will be brought to life by award-winning theatre-makers Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison.
When the three orphaned Rawlins children are reluctantly evacuated from wartime London to live with the mysterious Eglantine Price, they have no idea what adventures lie ahead. Upon discovering Eglantine to be a trainee witch, they join forces to search for a secret spell that will defeat the enemy once and for all. Armed with an enchanted bedknob, a bewitched broomstick and a magical flying bed, they encounter surprising new friendships on their journey from Portobello Road to the depths of the beautiful briny sea.
Also in the creative team are Jamie Harrison (set and illusion design), Gabriella Slade (costume design), Simon Hale (orchestrator), Tom Murray (musical supervisor), Neil Bettles (choreographer/movement director), Gareth Fry (sound design), Simon Wilkinson (lighting design) and Gary Beestone (production manager). Casting for the production will be announced at a later date.
from News, Reviews and Features – My Theatre Mates https://ift.tt/3gFGUvS
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