The award-winning stage show of Bugsy Malone will be coming to Manchester Opera House in November. The production will be part of the show taking to the road and touring the UK.
It’s being produced by Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Birmingham Rep and Kenny Wax, and will be at the Opera House from November 8 to 12, with tickets going on sale from March 10 at 10am.
The show was revived in its current form 2015, and features all of the movie’s iconic musical numbers, among them My Name is Tallulah, You Give A Little Love and Fat Sam’s Grand Slam, all penned by multi-Grammy and Oscar winner Paul Williams.
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The production will be directed by Sean Holmes and choreographed by Olivier Award-winning Drew McOnie.
Following the tale of the Oscar-winning Alan Parker movie from 1976, the musical finds down-on-his-luck hustler Bugsy Malone in faux-prohibition era New York getting caught in the crossfire of a feud between big time gangster Dandy Dan and Fat Sam, the owner of the neighbourhood speakeasy.
And of course instead of the classic tommy guns carried during prohibition times, all the miniature gangsters carried custard pie hurling ‘splurge guns’.
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The movie made household names of its child stars - notably Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, who played Bugsy and Tallulah - and won three Oscars, including Best Screenplay for Alan Parker.
The show originally moved from the screen to the stage in 1983, featuring a young Catherine Zeta-Jones as Tallulah in the West End.
It was revived by the Lyric in Hammersmith in 2015 and 2016.
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