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Stranger Sings returns to Southwark Playhouse this Christmas

Published on

October 16, 2023

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Stranger Sings - The award-winning parody musical twist on the cult sci-fi TV series returns to Southwark Playhouse this Christmas.

Stranger Sings, the musical theatre sci-fi spoof, returns to Southwark Playhouse Borough for Christmas in a short break from its ongoing UK tour.

Its nineteen eighty… something. The people of Hawkins, Indiana are about to lose Will, lose Barb, gain Eleven — and become plagued by creatures from a hostile alternate dimension. If only the local human experimentation facility hadn’t opened a gateway between them and the Upside Down…

Updated with new cast members, fresh choreography and more Christmas lights than you can count, Stranger Sings! is a nostalgic love letter to season one of the Netflix TV series, nominated for three Off-West-End awards and one of The Stage’s Top 50 Shows of 2022. Stranger Sings! is the debut production from emerging writer Jonathan Hogue, and has seen him nominated for two prolific writing awards in the States. The show has also had sell-out runs in both New York and Melbourne. Adapted for UK audiences by The Vaults it ran at the underground Waterloo venue in 2022 and continues its tour of the UK after this festive season London run. BOOK STRANGER SINGS TICKETS Playing at Southwark Playhouse from 13 December 2023 to 7 January 2024. Cast: Alfie Doohan, Ally Kennard, Anna Amelia, Elliott Wooster, Howard Jenkins, Jessie Jae Davis, Philippa Leadbetter, Shannon Bourne, Verity Power and William Shackleton

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