It has been announced that Dogfight will receive its European premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in August.
Produced by Danielle Tarentom (Titanic), Dogfight will open on Wednesday 13th August (previews from 8th August) and run until Saturday 13th September 2014.
Based on the 1991 movie of the same name starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor, Dogfight ran off-Broadway in 2012, winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena starred in the production. Casting for the London run is yet to be announced.
November 21, 1963. On the night before their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of debauchery. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, the unassuming and idealistic waitress he enlists to win a cruel bet, she rewrites the rules of the game and opens his eyes to what really matters in life.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Music & Lyrics) have been a composing team since meeting in college. In 2007 they were the youngest ever recipients of the Jonathan Larson Award - named after the late Rent composer - that honours achievement by composers, lyricists and librettists.
Pasek and Paul (as they are affectionately known) made their Broadway debut last year with A Christmas Story, which received three Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score, and six Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Music. Their other stage musicals include Edges and James and the Giant Peach. They composed several original songs for the second season of the Broadway TV drama, Smash.
Matt Ryan (Director) began his career as an associate to Trevor Nunn and John Caird on Cameron Mackintosh’s original production of Les Misérables. He then staged productions of the show in Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong and on tour in the UK. He was associate director of Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and directed the show’s Australian première in Sydney as well as the original British touring production.
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