Bugsy Malone returns to the Lyric Hammersmith in summer 2016
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
THE Lyric Hammersmith’s critically acclaimed sell-out production of Sir Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone is to return to the Lyric.
With music and lyrics by Paul Williams and directed by Sean Holmes, it will play a limited 12 week season from June 24 (previews from June 11) to September 4, 2016.
Bugsy Malone re-opened the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2015 following a multi-million pound redevelopment and the creation of the Reuben Foundation Wing. It was the UK’s first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone in over a decade.
Bugsy Malone is set in Prohibition era New York with rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan at logger heads. As custard pies fly and Dan’s destructive ‘splurge guns’ wreak havoc, Bugsy Malone, a penniless ex-boxer and all round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, an aspiring singer. Will Bugsy be able to resist seductive songstress Tallulah, Fat Sam’s moll and Bugsy’s old flame, and stay out of trouble while helping Fat Sam to defend his business?
Casting for the new season has still to be announced.
Sean Holmes said: “I’m so pleased that Bugsy Malone is returning to the Lyric. I’m delighted our audience will get a further opportunity to relish Alan Parker’s inspired creation and to be transported by the talent and energy of our young cast.”
Sir Alan Parker said: “I’m delighted that the Lyric are bringing back Bugsy Malone. The 2015 production was beautifully mounted by Sean Holmes and his team and a revelation to me – by far and away the best stage production of it I’ve ever seen.”
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Image: Ensemble and James Okulaja as Fat Sam. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
Also at the Lyric Hammersmith: Tom Wells’ traditional panto Cinderella (until January 3, 2016) and Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas (until December 24, 2015).