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Olivier Award winners – Best Entertainment and Family Show 2016

Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest – direct from the West End and now heading to The Lowry!

With fourteen years as an Edinburgh Fringe must-see phenomenon, a BBC Radio 4 series, a critically acclaimed West End run and an Olivier Award to their name, The Showstoppers have delighted audiences across the globe with their ingenious blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity.

A brand new musical comedy is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning show as audience suggestions are transformed on the spot into all-singing, all dancing productions with hilarious results. These incredible performers are guaranteed to impress as they create shows packed with drama, dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies – and it's all made up on the spot!

So whether you fancy Hamilton in a hospital or Sondheim in the Sahara, you suggest it and The Showstoppers will sing it!

★★★★★ ‘So polished, it defies belief.’ Daily Telegraph

★★★★★ ‘If this is what improv can do, you wonder why anyone bothers writing anything down.’ The Times

★★★★★ ‘Achingly funny… Worth seeing again and again.’ Time Out (Critic's Choice)

www.showstopperthemusical.com

Running time – 90 mins plus interval Age guidance 12+

For the first time ever, all of Dolly Parton’s biggest hits can be experienced together in a rollicking and joyous new musical, fully authorised by Dolly herself!

Packed with the iconic songs Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, Here You Come Again and more, this lively and touching new musical tells the story of a diehard fan whose imagined version of international icon Dolly Parton gets him through trying times. With her wit, humour and charm, Dolly teaches him a whole lot about life, love and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps…even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones! This is one musical that is sure to make you smile.

After several successful runs across the United States, Here You Come Again was originally written by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy and songwriter Bruce Vilanch with Gabriel Barre (who also directs) and writer and actor Tricia Paoluccio, and has now been adapted by acclaimed British playwright Jonathan Harvey (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Coronation Street.)

The classic Dickens story comes to life with true broadway spectacle in this Musical version brought to you by Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty And The Beast The Little Mermaid and Newsies and Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once On This Island), and breathes fantastic new life into the classic tale of A Christmas Carol.

Scrooge believes that personal wealth is far more valuable than the happiness and comfort of others. With an infuriated "Bah! Humbug!”, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve which lead’s Scrooge on a journey through the Past, Present and Future.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
The Musical
Music by Lyrics by Book by
ALAN MENKEN LYNN AHRENS MIKE OCKRENT & LYNN AHRENS
Based on the story by Charles Dickens
Original choreography by Susan Stroman
Originally directed by Mike Ockrent
Originally presented by Radio City Entertainment at the Theater at Madison Square Garden
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International