{"id":889862,"date":"2026-10-21T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889862\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:28:08","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-secret-cinema-show-casts-jack-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889862\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Secret Cinema Show Casts Jack Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOlivier winner George Maguire will play Captain Jack Sparrow in \u201cDisney\u2019s Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a>: The Immersive Adventure,\u201d the London stage production from Secret Cinema<\/a> and TodayTix. <\/p>\n

\n\tPhil Daniels, known for \u201cQuadrophenia,\u201d \u201cEastEnders\u201d and Blur\u2019s \u201cParklife,\u201d will play Captain Barbossa. Lily Blunsom is Elizabeth Swann, Harrison Wilde is Will Turner and Gleanne Purcell-Brown is Anamaria. The rest of the cast will be named later. Matt Costain, also an Olivier winner, directs. <\/p>\n

\n\tPreviews begin Feb. 16, and the show opens on March 10 at Secret Cinema\u2019s new riverside venue on the Greenwich Peninsula. The production is the first at the site<\/a>, which the company plans to keep as its home. Strong demand has led the producers to add six weeks to the run.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo earlier stage version of the franchise has been fully immersive, and the show marks a change of approach for Secret Cinema. Live storytelling leads the show. Instead of screening the whole of \u201cPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,\u201d the production uses selected clips from the film alongside large set pieces. Over two hours, audiences can roam the sets, meet characters and take part in the story, with stunts and a live band.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creative team includes two-time Emmy winner Jason Sherwood as production designer. His credits include live broadcasts of the Oscars and \u201cRent Live.\u201d Kait Kerrigan, who wrote the book for Broadway\u2019s \u201cThe Great Gatsby,\u201d is the theatrical adaptor. Olivier winner Alan Williams handles music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations. Stuart Burt is casting director, Susan Kulkarni designs costumes, Helen Keane of Campbell Young Associates designs wigs, hair and makeup, and Alex Payne is fight director.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve taken everything Secret Cinema does best and pushed it further than ever before, creating a new kind of theatrical experience where the story doesn\u2019t just happen in front of you \u2013 it happens all around you,\u201d said Merritt Baer, Secret Cinema\u2019s artistic director<\/a> and producer and president and co-founder of TodayTix Group. \u201cThis is exactly the kind of show we\u2019ve been building towards and opening it in our new home at Greenwich Peninsula makes it even more exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaguire won his Olivier for playing Dave Davies in the musical \u201cSunny Afternoon.\u201d His screen credits include \u201cEastEnders,\u201d \u201cPrime Suspect\u201d and \u201cBorgia.\u201d Daniels\u2019 other film work includes \u201cChicken Run\u201d and \u201cScum,\u201d and he appears with Olivia Colman in \u201cWicker,\u201d due out in 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production is licensed through Disney Theatrical Group. Angelo Desimini, the group\u2019s senior VP of licensed partnerships and brand management, said Disney was excited by the chance to bring the franchise\u2019s spirit to life through theatrical talent and immersive storytelling. \u201cSecret Cinema has assembled a remarkable team to create an experience that is both artistically ambitious and wonderfully entertaining,\u201d Desimini said. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance for audiences to experience the world of Tortuga in an entirely new way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTodayTix bought Secret Cinema<\/a> in 2022. Baer took charge of the company in 2024, and since then it has staged \u201cGrease: The Immersive Movie Musical,\u201d its most popular production in 19 years. Its more than 70 shows also include \u201cStranger Things,\u201d \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy: The Live Experience\u201d and \u201cStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivier winner George Maguire will play Captain Jack Sparrow in \u201cDisney\u2019s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Immersive Adventure,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,66268,373099],"class_list":["post-889862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-pirates-of-the-caribbean","tag-secret-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}