Midlands audiences will be able to see for the first time Ushers: The Front of House Musical, which follows “a working shift in the lives of the stagiest people in the theatre”, when it runs at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham.
The musical premièred in 2013 at the Hope Theatre in Islington. It then transferred to the Charing Cross Theatre before going to Edinburgh in 2015. It has music by Yiannis Koutsakos, lyrics by James Oban and Yiannis Koutsakos and book and additional lyrics by James Rottger.
Ushers is a tongue-in-cheek musical that explores the plight of the attendants who sell programmes, ice creams and show theatregoers to their seats. The ushers have their own story to share at the opening of Oops I Did It Again, a jukebox musical featuring the back catalogue of Britney Spears.
Ushers has “big, bold company numbers, Fosse-like ice cream tray choreography and a script with heart, soul and an ice-bucket full of laughs”.
It runs at the Old Joint Stock Theatre from Tuesday 12 until Sunday 17 April.