New Musical! Hangover Square by Baker & Ryall
September 19, 2024
This show is part of our Genesis Project, a new program designed to nurture and showcase emerging cabaret artists that is supported by a generous gift from Hybrid Films, Daniel Elias, and David Houts.
Be transported at 54 Below to London, 1939, for an unforgettable evening featuring the songs of Hangover Square, a new musical adapted from the novel by Patrick Hamilton, written by up-and-coming UK writing team Baker & Ryall. Hangover Square follows George Harvey Bone in his hopeless infatuation with the cool, unobtainable Netta. As he fights against loneliness, alcoholism, and the unflinching march of the world towards war, can anything put a stop to George’s spiral into darkness? Subtitled “A Tale of Darkest Earls Court,” Hangover Square peers into the murky depths of what it is to be human and at war with oneself, whilst exploring the bars, pubs, hostelries, and characters inhabiting the seedy London underworld at the very moment the world as we knew it changed forever.
With a score and lyrics by Olivier Award-nominated Richard Baker (Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mischief Movie Night) and book and lyrics by Charlie Ryall, whose “multi-layered script is the star of this show” (The Spectator for Tasting Notes), you’re sure to witness history in the making.
Music direction by Richard Baker.
Featuring:
Bartley Booz (Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Mind Mangler & The Play That Goes Wrong at New World Stages)
Shane David-Joseph (Jerusalem on the West End, “Dr Who”)
Phoebe-Loveday Raymond (Billie the Kid on the West End)
Alan Richardson (Chicago on the West End)
Charlie Ryall
Rhys Tees
Please note that all artists and acts are subject to change at any time.
