Bend It Like Beckham The Musical came out top at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2015, winning The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical. The award was presented to Gurinder Chadha (director and new book), composer Howard Goodall, Paul Mayeda Berges (new book) and producer Sonia Friedman the Evening Standard’s by Henry Hitchings. Bend It Like Beckham will play its final performance […]
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Bend It Like Beckham The Musical will close on 5 March 2016
Bend It Like Beckham The Musical will play its final performance at the Phoenix Theatre on 5 March 2016, at the end of the cast’s year-long contract. Rehearsals began for the critically acclaimed production in March 2015 with a company led by Natalie Dew as Jess and Lauren Samuels as Jules. The producers are currently finalising both national and international touring […]
Bend It Like Beckham The Musical – Phoenix Theatre
Bend It Like Beckham The Musical continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Football-themed musicals aren’t exactly all that common. The only West End production that springs to mind is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Beautiful Game, which (until its recent Fringe revival at the Union Theatre) was best left […]
Bend It Like Beckham – first look at production images
First production images have been released for the new British musical Bend It Like Beckham, currently in previews with opening night on 24 June 2015. Earlier this year a further 200,000 tickets were released for sale at the Phoenix Theatre, taking bookings to 24 October 2015. Pictures by Ellie Kurttz. Natalie Dew plays football crazy Jess with Lauren Samuels as Jules, […]
New images – Bend It Like Beckham cast heads to rehearsal via Southall
Before rehearsals began, the West End cast of Bend It Like Beckham spent the day in Southall, West London, where the story of the musical is set, so here is a sneak peek at what they got up (images by Uli Weber). London previews begin for the new British musical Bend It Like Beckham on 15 May 2015 with opening night on […]
Bend It Like Beckham – Natalie Dew, Lauren Samuels and Jamie Campbell Bower lead cast
Casting has been revealed for Bend It Like Beckham which opens at the Phoenix Theatre on 24 June 2015. Natalie Dew will play football crazy Jess with Lauren Samuels as Jules, a player with the Harriers, a local women’s football team, and Jamie Campbell Bower as their coach Joe. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, with original music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Charles Hart, Bend It Like Beckham has a new […]
MTN & MMD Joint Conference 2014 takes place this week
Olivier Award-winning writer Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera) West End producer Kim Poster, and writer Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) have joined the line-up of practitioners taking part in the Musical Theatre Network/Mercury Musical Developments annual joint conference at the Almeida Theatre on 21 March. The day runs from 10am–4.30pm and includes a number of […]
