Stick a pony in your pocket – The Trotters are again and coming to a city close to you! The smash hit present Only Fools and Horses The Musical – direct from a record-breaking sold-out four-year run in London’s West End – that includes Del Boy, Rodney, Grandad, Cassandra, Raquel, Boycie, Marlene, Trigger, Denzil, Mickey Pearce, Mike the Barman, the Driscoll Brothers and all of the gang, is hitting the highway in 2024 and 2025 for a serious tour of the UK and Dublin.
Based on John Sullivan’s legendary record-breaking tv present, this critically acclaimed home-grown musical spectacular – which performed over 1,000 performances at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket – options cherished materials from Britain’s greatest cherished TV collection. With a script and authentic rating written by John’s son, Jim Sullivan and comedy large Paul Whitehouse, put together to get reacquainted with Britain’s most endearing rogues and expertise the basic comedy dropped at life on stage by means of an ingenious script and 20 hilarious songs.
Directed by the originating West End director Caroline Jay Ranger, the tour kicks off in Bromley in September 2024 and arrives in Glasgow from 28th October as a part of a tour together with 30 cities and cities up and down the nation, earlier than culminating in Dublin on the finish of June 2025.
Paul Whitehouse stated: “Following four amazing years in the West End, I’m thrilled we are announcing today that Only Fools and Horses The Musical is going on tour. I’ve long been asked by many fans when this might happen, so I’m delighted to confirm that the show will be coming to a theatre near you from September next year. All of the characters we know and love from the Only Fools television series will be live on stage, as we take Peckham on the road! Bonnet de douche!”
Fans and critics alike praised Only Fools and Horses The Musical of their droves throughout its triumphant West End run: The Sun awarded 5 stars, hailing it “One Del of a show!”; the Daily Mirror stated it was “a treat for Trotter fans” of their five-star overview. The Sunday Times bestowed 4 stars and remarked that “Only Fools is a blast from our wide-boy past. A hearty stage adaptation of the 1980s BBC television comedy”. Evening Standard additionally awarded 4 stars, complimenting the “unashamedly British night out. A jubilant lovely jubbly!”. While the Daily Mail urged its readers to “raise a glass of ‘Tittinger’ to Del Boy and Rodney as Only Fools and Horses storms the West End!”
Join us as we make a journey again in time, the place it’s all kicking off in Peckham. While the yuppie invasion of London is in full swing, love is within the air as Del Boy units out on the rocky highway to seek out his soul mate, Rodney and Cassandra put together to say ‘I do’, and even Trigger is gearing up for a date (with an individual!). Meanwhile, Boycie and Marlene give parenthood one closing shot and Grandad takes inventory of his life and decides the time has lastly arrived to get his piles sorted.
With musical contributions from the enduring Chas & Dave, the beloved theme tune as you’ve by no means heard it earlier than, and an array of brand-new songs filled with character and cockney attraction, you’re assured to have a proper ol’ knees-up! Only Fools and Horses The Musical is a feel-good household celebration of conventional working-class London life in 1989 and the aspirations all of us share. So don’t delay, get on the blower, and get a ticket for a very snug night time out – solely a 42 carat PLONKER would miss it!
Glasgow Theatre Royal
28th October – 2nd November 2024
