Following a sold-out, record-breaking season in the summer, manga musical Death Note: The Musical will return to London’s Barbican Theatre for a limited season from 23 March to 15 May 2027.
Featuring a revised script and newly-written songs alongside the original acclaimed score, the reimagined version of the award-winning musical broke the record at the Barbican for the highest-grossing single week of a musical. It also broke the record five consecutive times for the highest-grossing single performance of a musical.
Based on the best-selling manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata and Shueisha, the award-winning musical has a score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, Bonnie & Clyde) with lyrics by Jack Murphy and a book by Ivan Menchell.
Produced in London by HoriPro and Trafalgar Theatre Productions in association with the Barbican, the new production is directed by Stephen Whitson, with design by designer Jon Bausor, choreography by nominee Fabian Aloise, orchestration and arrangements by musical supervisor Jason Howland and additional lyrics by Morgan Reilly.
The creative team also includes musical director Katy Richardson, music producer Billy Jay Stein/Strange Cranium and casting director Natalie Gallacher for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting, with US casting by Craig Burns (The Telsey Office), costume design by Sachiko Nakahara, lighting design by Jen Schriever, sound design Peter Hylenski, video design Akhila Krishnan, illusions by Paul Kieve, and wigs/hair/make-up design by Campbell Young Associates.
Death Note: The Musical premiered in 2015 in Tokyo, Japan, the setting for the original story of a high school student who discovers a notebook owned by Ryuk, the mythical God of Death and uses it to take justice into his own hands. A critically acclaimed 2022 Korean production was nominated for 10 Korea Musical Awards, winning four.
One of the world’s most successful manga titles, Death Note has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and grown into a global cultural phenomenon spanning feature animation, films, television adaptations and an acclaimed Netflix series. Death Note was previously seen in London in a series of sold-out record-breaking concerts at the London Palladium and the Lyric Theatre in 2023.
Angela Thomas
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