Local Hero continues at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre until 19 November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s a seamless quality about Mark Knopfler’s new musical. Most of the music is, for the most part, grafted in rather than bolted on.
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Cast for Chichester Festival Theatre’s Local Hero
Tony Award-winning American actor Gabriel Ebert will make his UK stage debut in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Local Hero this autumn. The winner of the 2013 Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony for his performance as Mr Wormwood in Matilda The Musical, the veteran Broadway and Off-Broadway star will take on the […]
Three musicals feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2022 season – Susan Stroman makes her debut at the venue
Chichester Festival Theatre’s 60th anniversary season will feature three musicals: Susan Stroman makes her Chichester debut directing and choreographing the Gershwins’ musical comedy Crazy For You, Charlie Stemp returns to Chichester to lead the cast. Local Hero, book by David Greig and music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler, based on the Bill Forsyth film, directed […]
Local Hero’s Old Vic summer run postponed – Festive fourth season for A Christmas Carol planned
This summer’s Old Vic run of the world premiere production of the musical version of 1980s film Local Hero has been postponed due to the ongoing national emergency. With rehearsals due to begin soon in preparation for the show’s planned London debut in June, The Old Vic’s artistic director Matthew Warchus made the announcement of […]
Musical version of movie Local Hero has world premiere at Edinburgh Lyceum in 2019, followed by Old Vic run
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and London’s The Old Vic will present the world premiere of Local Hero, a stage adaptation of the 1983 film, co-written by David Greig and Bill Forsyth, with music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler, and directed by John Crowley. Local Hero will open at The Lyceum on 23 March 2019 […]
