{"id":641822,"date":"2026-06-16T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641822\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:22:08","slug":"what-an-adventure-broadway-will-be-paddington-musical-packs-suitcase-for-new-york-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641822\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What an adventure Broadway will be!\u2019 Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York | Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marmalade bagels at the ready: London\u2019s Paddington Bear musical is to open on Broadway next spring. The phenomenally successful show, which won seven prizes<\/a> at the Olivier awards, will begin performances on 30 March at the Al Hirschfeld theatre in New York, currently home to Moulin Rouge! The Musical.<\/p>\n

Luke Sheppard, the director of Paddington: The Musical<\/a>, said that the well-mannered ursine hero \u201capproaches life with curiosity, kindness and an unwavering sense of adventure \u2013 and what an adventure Broadway will be\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long way from 32 Windsor Gardens, where the clumsy but lovable bear from Peru is taken in by the Brown family and (eventually) wins over the whole neighbourhood. The show, based on Michael Bond\u2019s 1958 book A Bear Called Paddington and the 2014 film adaptation, opened in London at the end of last year to many five-star reviews, including in the Guardian<\/a>. The production received nine WhatsOnStage awards<\/a> and won the Critics\u2019 Circle award<\/a> for best new musical.<\/p>\n

Paddington: The Musical has a book by Jessica Swale and music and lyrics by McFly\u2019s Tom Fletcher. \u201cThe response from West End audiences of all ages has been unlike anything I\u2019ve ever experienced,\u201d said Fletcher. \u201cIt\u2019s a great privilege to welcome New York audiences into Paddington\u2019s world of curiosity.\u201d Producers Sonia Friedman<\/a> and Eliza Lumley said: \u201cAs the home of so many of the world\u2019s great musicals, there is no more exciting place to produce new work than New York, and we cannot wait to share Paddington\u2019s world with Broadway audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casting for the Broadway<\/a> run has not yet been announced. In London, the bear is played by a duo: James Hameed provides the voice and is the remote puppeteer, while Arti Shah performs wearing the furry costume. Together they won the Olivier award for best actor in a musical, while Tom Edden (as the local busybody Mr Curry) and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (as the dastardly Millicent Clyde) also won Oliviers for their performances.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the New York<\/a> run will start at $69 and are now on sale. The majority of London performances for the musical in June and July are sold out on the official website. It is booking at the Savoy theatre until February 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marmalade bagels at the ready: London\u2019s Paddington Bear musical is to open on Broadway next spring. The phenomenally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}