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Best new musicals, London 2020

By Lucy Brooks on 12/12/2019

There are far more London musicals to see than The Lion King and Les Mis. Go beyond the West End mainstays with our selection of the best new musicals and revivals gracing the stage in 2020 and beyond

Emerald Fennell writes a new Cinderella

Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre

Fairytales will be reinvented this summer and a drastically different version of Cinderella comes to the West End.

It's based on an original idea by Emerald Fennell, the Emmy-nominated writer behind Killing Eve season two and upcoming film A Promising Young Woman. Musical Theatre maestro Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita) is is writing a new score. And lyrics are from David Zippel, who was part of the Oscar-nominated song-writing team in Disney's Hercules and Mulan, and also conquered Broadway with City of Angels and The Woman in White.


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WHEN
01 Sep 2020 – 01 Sep 2021, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
The Gillian Lynne Theatre
166 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5PW
Hello Dolly

Hello Dolly! Adelphi Theatre

Multi Olivier and BAFTA Award winning star Imelda Staunton follows in the footsteps of Barbara Steisand to play Dolly Levi, the meddlesome socialite at the heart of 1964 musical, Hello Dolly!.

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WHEN
11 Aug 2020 – 06 Mar 2021, 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM
WHERE
Adelphi Theatre
Strand, London, WC2R 0NS
L-R, Rebecca Trehearn (Donna, Oolie) and Rosalie Craig (Gabby, Bobbi) in the original Donmar Warehouse Production of City of Angels. Photo - Johan Persson

City of Angels, Garrick Theatre

After dazzling audiences and selling out and winning an Olivier Award when it opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014, Josie Rourke's production of City of Angels finally comes to the West End. The original creative team, including choreographer Stephen Mear and designer Robert Jones will return.

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WHEN
05 Mar 2020 – 05 Sep 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
Garrick Theatre
2 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0HH
&-Juliet - Miriam-Teak Lee (Juliet)

& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre

Pop song-writer supreme Max Martin presents a new jukebox musical that gives Juliet an alternative ending and a feminist life after Romeo. Prepare yourself for pop hits including 'Baby One More Time', 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)', 'Love Me Like You Do' and 'Can’t Feel My Face'.

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WHEN
02 Nov 2019 – 28 Mar 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
Shaftesbury Theatre
210 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8DP
Be More Chill, The Other Palace Theatre

Be More Chill, The Other Palace Theatre

New musical Be More Chill broke records for the most ticket sales in a single week when it opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. Now it brings sci fi teen drama and cult popular songs to London.

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WHEN
12 Feb 2020 – 03 May 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
The Other Palace Theatre
12 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5JA
Pretty Woman Musical: London transfer

Pretty Woman: the Musical, Piccadilly Theatre

Rags-to-riches romance comes to London as the musical theatre adaptation of 1990 rom-com Pretty Woman transfers to the West End after impressing on Broadway.

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WHEN
14 Feb 2020 – 02 Jan 2021, Performances at 7:30PM with some additional 2:30PM matinees
WHERE
Piccadilly Theatre
16 Denman Street, London, W1D 7DY
Moulin Rouge: London

Moulin Rouge! The Musical, London

Rumour has it the stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge is transferring to London after impressing on Broadway. Based on Baz Lurhmann's Oscar-winning film, Moulin Rouge! The Musical transports audiences to bohemian romance of Montmartre with a medley of pop's greatest hits.

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WHERE
Piccadilly Theatre
16 Denman Street, London, W1D 7DY
Audrey Brisson as Amélie Poulain

Amélie The Musical, The Other Palace

Who is not charmed by the whimsical Amélie? The award-winning French film comes to the London stage this Christmas.

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WHEN
29 Nov 2019 – 02 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
The Other Palace Theatre
12 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5JA
From Broadway to London: Dear Evan Hansen, photo by Matthew Murphy

Dear Evan Hansen, Noel Coward Theatre

Teenage dreams are about to come true as a smash hit Broadway musical about adolescence transfers to London. Dear Evan Hansen is the heartfelt story of a misfit who accidentally becomes a social media sensation.


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WHEN
29 Oct 2019 – 31 Jan 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
Noel Coward Theatre
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4AU
Still from film of Mary Poppins: West End show returns to Prince Edward Theatre

Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre London

Get ready for a flurry of kites, jolly holidays and spoons full of sugar as everyone's favourite nanny flies back onto the London stage. Fifteen years after its impressive premiere, Disney's stage show Mary Poppins returns to its original home, the West End's Prince Edward Theatre

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WHEN
01 Aug 2019 – 01 Aug 2020, From summer 2019, dates to be confirmed
WHERE
Prince Edward Theatre
Old Compton Street, London, W1D 4HS
Olly Dobson in Back to the Future the Musical

Back to the Future musical

Great Scott! After a seven year development process, the stage adaption of Back to the Future has a confirmed premiere. The new musical based on beloved 1985 movie will open at Manchester Opera House in February 2020, before transferring to the West End (the theatre is still to be confirmed).

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WHEN
Spring 2020
WHERE
Tbc
Carousel, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Carousel, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Travel back in time and across the Atlantic for a story of love and loss on the Maine coast. Rogers and Hammerstein's 1945 hit musical carousel comes to life at the Open Air Theatre in a new revival by artistic director Timothy Sheader and Olivier-winning choreography Drew McOnie. Get ready for dance moves Bustin' All Over the aisles.

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WHEN
31 Jul 2020 – 19 Sep 2020, 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Inner Cir, Westminster, London, NW1 4NU
101 Dalmatians comes to the Open Air Theatre

101 Dalmatians, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

We can already spot the hit of summer 2020... 101 Dalmatians will come to life in Regent's Park in a new musical at the Open Air Theatre. Dodie Smith's beloved 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians tells the story of puppies poached by the villainous Cruella de Vil. It is adapted for the stage by Zinnie Harris (book) and Douglas Hodge (music and lyrics).

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WHEN
16 May 2020 – 21 Jun 2020, 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM
WHERE
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Inner Cir, Westminster, London, NW1 4NU
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