Love going to the theatre and watching Top West End Shows, but don’t want to travel, well, don’t worry because East Anglia is hosting some amazing West End Shows on Tour right on your doorstep.
West End Shows On Tour in East Anglia
Only Fools & Horses The Musical
Dates : 13th January – 18th January 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Stick a pony in your pocket – the record-breaking and critically acclaimed West End comedy musical comes to Norwich!
Mais ouis, mais ouis, the world may have changed a lot since we first bid a jovial ‘au revoir’ to the Trotters of Peckham, but good ‘ol Del Boy, Rodney and the rest of the gang haven’t changed a bit… well, apart from the odd spontaneous bursting into song here, and the occasional dancing across the market, there.
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Dates : 8th February 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest – direct from the West End and returning to Norwich Theatre Playhouse by popular demand.
A brand new musical comedy is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning show as audience suggestions are transformed on the spot into all-singing, all dancing productions with hilarious results.
These incredible performers are guaranteed to impress as they create shows packed with drama, dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies – and it’s all made up on the spot!
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Hairspray
Dates : 10th February – 15th February 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Hairspray took Broadway by storm, winning 8 Tony awards. The production went on to win 4 Olivier awards in the West End, and multiple awards worldwide.
This feel-good classic is back. Featuring some of musical theatre’s biggest hit songs, Welcome to the 60s, You Can’t Stop the Beat, Good Morning Baltimore and many more. Hairspray is the hilarious, joyous, and inspiring musical for all!
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Kinky Boots
Dates : 4th March – 8th March 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
The Broadway and West End sensation, Kinky Boots The Musical, is strutting back to Norwich Theatre Royal in a brand-new production starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe and rising star Dan Partridge.
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Ghost Stories
Dates : 15th April – 19th April 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a night-watchman.
A teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child – Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality and fast running out of explanations.
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Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Dates : 30th April – 10th May 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
The multi-award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. It has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals.
Features much-loved pop and musical theatre classics, including Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door, There’s One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go, Joseph.
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Dear Evan Hansen
Dates : 13th May – 17th May 2024
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Meet Evan: an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more than to fit in. The thing is, on his way to fitting in, he didn’t tell the whole truth.
And now must give up on a life he never dreamt he’d have. As events spiral and the truth comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everyone around him.
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Dates : 8th July – 12th July 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime as the West End smash-hit production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes to Norwich Theatre Royal on 8 – 12 July 2025.
Step through the wardrobe into the magic kingdom of Narnia where a world of wonder awaits.
Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they meet new friends, face dangerous foes and learn the lessons of courage, sacrifice, and the power of love.
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Chicago
Dates : 14th July – 19th July 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.
So begins the international multi-award-winning musical, CHICAGO.
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The Rocky Horror Show
Dates : 28th July – 2nd August 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Having been seen by over 35 million theatre goers, The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids – Brad and his fiancée Janet.
When by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a creepy mansion whilst on their way to visit their former college professor, they meet the charismatic Dr Frank’n’Furter. It is an adventure they’ll never forget, filled with fun, frolics, frocks, and frivolity.
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The Book of Mormon
Dates : 19th August – 30th August 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
This outrageous musical comedy from creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Bobby Lopez co-writer of Avenue Q and Frozen, follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent on a mission to a place that’s about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get.
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Hamilton
Dates : 16 Sep – 25 Oct 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s multi award-winning cultural phenomenon Hamilton is touring the UK and Ireland for the very first time and is coming to Norwich Theatre Royal for a 6 week season.
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War Horse
Dates : 28th October – 8th November 2025
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.
Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness.
At its heart are astonishing life-sized horses by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.
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TINA: The Tina Turner Musical
Dates : 13th January – 24th January 2026
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar.
Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules, she rewrote them, winning 12 Grammy Awards and selling more concert tickets than any other solo performer in music history.
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2:22 A Ghost Story
Dates : 26th January – 31st January 2026
Location : Norwich Theatre Royal
Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben.
Can the dead really walk again? Belief and scepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.
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