Full-scale season in Blackpool

Published: 30 August 2022
Reporter: David Upton

Tap Factory features in Grand season Credit: Philippe Frétault

A new season at Blackpool Grand Theatre has full-scale musicals including Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, Richard O’Brien’s raucous Rocky Horror Show, five-time Tony award-winning Titanic The Musical and The Buddy Holly Story making a rocking return.

When Darkness Falls premières, Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey sets sail, Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear brings brilliant deductions, while ThickSkin presents new drama How Not To Drown.

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The Rocky Horror Show - Richard O’Brien
Titanic the Musical - Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, book by Peter Stone (Danielle Tarento, Steven M Levy and Vaughan Williams in association with Mayflower Theatre, Southampton)
When Darkness Falls - James Milton & Paul Morrissey (Paul Morrissey Ltd, Christopher Wheeler and Molly Morris in association with The BARD, Jason Haigh-Ellery and Glynis Henderson Productions)