The UK’s first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone in over a decade will be the first production at the Lyric Hammersmith when it reopens in the Spring.
Based on the film of the same name created by Sir Alan Parker, Bugsy Malone is set in Prohibition era New York and has a young cast.
The venue's artistic director, Sean Holmes, will direct. He said, “Bugsy Malone feels like the perfect show with which to open the new Lyric. A work of leftfield genius with young people at its heart, it feels like the quintessential Lyric show: celebratory, inclusive and surprising.”
The Lyric Hammersmith is currently undergoing a redevelopment which enlarges the existing building, provides new facilities, including a dance studio, a TV studio, recording studios, a screening cinema and a digital play space, and improves the building’s environmental sustainability.
Bugsy Malone was written by Alan Parker and has words and music by Paul Williams.
During the redevelopment, the venue continues to create and host professional productions and projects for audiences and young people, including Dick Whittington and his Cat, Raymond Briggs’s Father Christmas, Frantic Assembly’s Othello, Lyric Children’s Season 2014 – 2015 and a return of the Lyric’s Secret Theatre.