UK premiere of SING STREET announced as part of Lyric Hammersmith’s 130th Anniversary season
The UK premiere of Sing Street, a new musical based on the 2016 movie of the same name by John Carney, will play at the Lyric Hammersmith from 8 July– 23 August 2025, as part of the venue’s 130th Anniversary season.
With a book by Tony Award winner Enda Walsh and music and lyrics by Gary Clark and Carney, this heartfelt, joyous coming-of-age story will be directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman, with choreography by Sonya Tayeh and design by Bob Crowley.
“You might be school kids and livin’ in dead-end Dublin – but you’re doin’ it! You’re making music!”
It’s Dublin, 1982, and sixteen year old Conor can’t catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won’t leave the house and he’s not fitting in at his new Catholic school.
Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who’s too cool for school and on the lookout for a modelling job. In an effort to impress, Conor hires her to star in a music video for his band. Only problem is he doesn’t have a band. Yet.
With a score that embraces the new wave sounds of the 80s, Sing Street is an ode to the thrill of young love and a celebration of the power of music to lift us up.
Writer Enda Walsh said: “I’m absolutely thrilled that we’re premiering this production in the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre next summer. I loved the movie of Sing Street having lived through the early 1980’s in Dublin and having a similar obsession with electronic music as the teenage protagonists in this story. The Catholic Church still held a lot of influence in society - and the Ireland of that period felt depressed and futureless - a place to emigrate from. It felt like you were living in a sepia drenched atmosphere. Music was a refuge and then an expression for those who could play and a way to articulate frustrations and loves and dreams. Sing Street has all of that.”
