The Curve, Leicester has announced its Spring 2016 season, with exciting highlights including a new production of Legally Blonde, alongside the already announced premiere of Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring pop star Pixie Lott. Other shows in the season include JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls (17-23 March); Kali Theatre’s The Dishonoured (10-12 March) and Zoonation’s Into the Hoods (14-15 March).
Legally Blonde The Musical, the award-winning West End and Broadway show, will run from 11 April to 14 May. Nikolai Foster will direct the production, which follows sorority sister Elle Woods who heads off to Harvard Law School to win back her boyfriend. Delighting fans, another hit tale will land in the form of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, starring Lott as the iconic Holly Golightly. The show will be directed by Foster and will feature an onstage band. Truman Capote’s tale is being adapted for the stage as a “play with music”, by Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s will run at Leicester Curve’s main house from 3-12 March 2016 before touring the UK. Breakfast at Tiffany’s will then culminate with a 12-week West End run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 30 June to 17 September 2016. This stint on stage will also star Pixie Lott.
Additionally for the Curve, under the new creative partnership of chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Foster, the season will include Rupert Goold’s successful King Charles III tour. Wipers, a Curve commissioned play written by Ishy Din also features in the season. Inspired by the real life story of Khuddadad Khan, the first South Asian soldier to be awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery at the First Battle of Ypres, the play examines the contribution made by South Asian soldiers in WWI. The production will be directed by Curve associate director Suba Das.