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During Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Sting and Shaggy took the stage to perform a medley of “All This Time” and “The Last Ship” from the musical. Check it out here.<\/p>\n
Sting is starring in a newly revised version of\u00a0his musical\u00a0The Last Ship, which will play the Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances, June 9\u201314, 2026. This reimagined production features a new book by\u00a0Barney Norris<\/a>\u00a0and new and revised songs by Sting, expanding on the show\u2019s acclaimed, Tony Award\u2013nominated score.<\/p>\n Sting plays Jackie White, the shipyard foreman at the story\u2019s center, with reggae icon and longtime collaborator\u00a0Shaggy\u00a0co-starring as the Ferryman. Presented by\u00a0Karl Sydow<\/a>\u00a0and directed by\u00a0Leo Warner<\/a>, this strictly limited engagement follows an international series of multi-night runs in Amsterdam, Paris, and Brisbane. Take a look at photos from the recent Amsterdam run here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend,\u00a0The Last Ship\u00a0tells the story of a community of shipbuilders in the northeast of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard\u2014the heart of their existence.<\/p>\n Jackie White is\u00a0the shipyard\u2019s foreman, whose health is failing just as his leadership is needed most. In this personal show, the artist immerses the audience in a hometown he was desperate to escape, a world where love, loss, and hope intertwine.<\/p>\n The creative team for this new production features set and video design by\u00a059 Studio (Jenny Melville<\/a>, Matt Taylor<\/a>, and Ben Pearcy<\/a>), choreography by\u00a0Rebecca Howell<\/a>, costume design by\u00a0Loren Elstein<\/a>, lighting design by\u00a0Adam Bassett<\/a>, and sound design by\u00a0Tom Gibbons<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sting\u2019s songs\u2014such as \u201cIsland of Souls,\u201d \u201cAll This Time,\u201d and \u201cWhen We Dance\u201d\u2014are woven into the performance in a fully staged production featuring a company of 48 artists, musicians, and choristers.<\/p>\n About Sting<\/p>\n In Sting\u2019s distinguished career, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has received 17 GRAMMY Awards and sold 100 million albums worldwide from his combined work as one of the most distinctive solo artists in the world and former front man\/bassist of The Police.<\/p>\n A composer, singer-songwriter, actor, author and activist, Sting also has received a Golden Globe, four Oscar nominations, a Tony nomination, Billboard Magazine\u2019s Century Award and Kennedy Center Honors. He is currently starring in his musical,\u00a0The Last Ship,<\/a>\u00a0for a limited international tour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Sting and Shaggy took the stage to perform a medley of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-328027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}