Crush, a brand new musical comedy, will premiere at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, playing from 4 to 19 September 2015. The show will then play Theatre Royal Brighton (22-26 September) and Richmond Theatre (29 September-3 October).
Crush is written by Maureen Chadwick (creator and writer of hit TV dramas Waterloo Road, Footballers’ Wives and Bad Girls, and stage musicals The Realness, Bad Girls the Musical and Joséphine), with music and lyrics by Kath Gotts (Bad Girls the Musical and The Realness), and directed by Anna Linstrum (High Society, The Sound of Music and Spend, Spend, Spend).
The musical is set in a 1960s boarding school with a proud tradition of free expression – but when a deeply conservative new headmistress imposes sweeping reforms, replacing the school motto ‘Do what you do well’ with ‘Learn or depart’, it’s time for the Upper Sixth to follow in the footsteps of their Suffragette founder and prove that rebel spirits can’t be crushed.
And star pupil Susan Smart has to learn that she won’t find true love until she’s brave enough to stand up and be counted…
Crush is presented by Big Broad Productions, in co-production with the Belgrade Theatre Coventry.
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