⭐ LITTLE DANCER – A NEW MUSICAL – WEST END PREMIERE ANNOUNCED ⭐
The West End premiere of new musical LITTLE DANCER has been announced.
The musical, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Anastasia, Once On This Island), will receive its original West End production premiere at Theatre Royal Haymarket, from February 2027.
Inspired by the real-life story behind Edgar Degas’ iconic sculpture, LITTLE DANCER opened to rave reviews and sold-out runs in the US, in both Washington D.C and Seattle, as well as a sold-out run concert performance at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2025.
Directed and choreographed by Broadway legend, two-time Olivier and five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman, the production will star Emmy Award winning, Olivier nominated New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Tiler Peck* in rare London performances.
Peck is joined by Olivier Award nominees Julian Ovenden as Edgar Degas, Laura Pitt-Pulford as Adult Marie and Josefina Gabrielle as Martine.
*Tiler Peck is currently scheduled to appear in all performances through to Saturday 20th March 2027, with further casting to be announced.
You may not know her name. But you know her. Marie van Goethem has stood in the same fourth position for over a century: arms behind her back, chin lifted, gaze fixed beyond the frame. She was fourteen. She was poor. She was extraordinary. And she refused to be forgotten.
LITTLE DANCER is the story of a girl with impossible dreams and the man who immortalised her, Edgar Degas. Two people bound together by art, ambition and the ache of wanting to matter. Set against the dazzling, dangerous world of Belle Époque Paris, where beauty and brutality existed side by side, it asks the question we all carry: Do we shape our destiny, or does it shape us?
Featuring set design by Beowulf Boritt, lighting design by Ken Billington, costume design by William Ivey Long, sound design by Kai Harada, orchestrations by Doug Besterman and Larry Hochman, music supervision & dance arrangements by Sam Davis and casting by Jill Green Casting CDG.
LITTLE DANCER has a book & lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, with music by Stephen Flaherty.
LITTLE DANCER will play Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, running from 15th February – 27th March 2027, with tickets on sale now.
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