Triple Olivier Award-winning dance musical Top Hat is to visit Wolverhampton Grand for two weeks as part of a national tour.
The production is one of 15 newly announced shows to join the theatre’s 120th anniversary year programme.
Top Hat, which won awards for best new musical, best choreography and best costumes, tap-dances into the Grand from 21 October until 1 November.
Other new shows include award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong from 29 April until 3 May; Happy Days: The Musical from 9 until 14 June; and the Marc Bolan musical Twentieth Century Boy from 30 June until 5 July.
The Grand will be staging a summer play season for the fifth consecutive year. The productions will be Victorian melodrama Ladies in Retirement, featuring Shirley Ann Field and Coronation Street’s Oliver Mellor, from 3 until 7 June; whodunnit Design For Murder from 17 until 21 June; and Dickens’s Pickwick Papers from 8 until 12 July.
Dirty Dancing visits the Grand for three weeks, from 23 September until 11 October.
Commemorating the centenary of World War One, the Touring Consortium Theatre Company makes its second visit to the Grand in 2014 with a new staging of Pat Barker’s Booker-nominated novel Regeneration from 4 until 8 November.