⭐ THE BOOK THIEF – WEST END CONCERT PRODUCTION ANNOUNCED – STARRING MELANIE LA BARRIE ⭐
A West End concert production of the musical stage adaptation of THE BOOK THIEF has been announced.
DEM Productions are delighted to announce, that the musical stage adaptation of THE BOOK THIEF, based on best-selling novel by Markus Zusak, will have a special concert performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre this October, starring Melanie La Barrie as Death.
Melanie La Barrie is best known for originating the role of Hermes in the West End premiere of Hadestown, for which she won the 2025 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical.
Further casting to be announced at a later date.
Red. White. Black. These are the colours by which Death remembers. And the colours of a girl who dared to write her story in the ruins.
THE BOOK THIEF is told by Death – they are haunted by humans, cataloguing the colour of the sky at the precise moment they carry each soul away. Tonight’s story belongs to Liesel Meminger, twelve years old and unafraid to take what matters: the red of a book found in the snow, the black of a novel rescued from a bonfire, the white of empty pages she will fill with her own defiant words. Down in a cellar painted in shadows, she reads to Max, a Jewish fist-fighter hidden by her foster family, and together they imagine a world lit by language. Above, Hans plays the accordion with fingers stained by tobacco and time, Rosa hurls curses wrapped in warmth, and Rudy runs beside Liesel, chasing a kiss that history won’t allow.
The musical had its world premiere at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton in 2022, with subsequent productions at Coventry Belgrade Theatre & Leicester Curve in 2023, with original direction by Lotte Wakeham.
THE BOOK THIEF is based on Markus Zusak’s 16 million-copy global best-seller, has a book by award-winning best-selling author Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, with music & lyrics by Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel.
THE BOOK THIEF concert performance will be directed and choreographed by Tom Jackson Greaves, after original direction by Lotte Wakeham, with libretto by Jodi Picoult & Timothy Allen McDonald, music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel & Kate Anderson, orchestrations & musical supervision by Matthew Malone, set & costume design by Good Teeth, lighting design by Nic Farman, sound design by Sound Quiet Time, casting by Abby Galvin and musical direction by Natalie Pound.
Produced by Deus Ex Machina Productions, Writers’ Cage and Andrew Paradis in association with Bethany Cooper Productions.
THE BOOK THIEF will play the Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday 19th October 2025 – 5pm, with tickets on sale now.
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Tickets & more info – https://www.demproductions.co.uk/the-book-thief
