West End premiere of IDIOTS ASSEMBLE: SPITTING IMAGE THE MUSICAL announced

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Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical, written by a tour de force comedy team made up of Al Murray, Matt Forde and Sean Foley will make its West End premiere at the Phoenix Theatre from 24 May-26 August.

Critically acclaimed when it was developed at the Birmingham Rep earlier this year, the show is directed by the Rep’s Artistic Director Sean Foley, alongside a creative team spearheaded by the original Spitting Image co-creator, Roger Law.

Introduced by Master of Ceremonies Sir Ian McKellen, the musical features a stellar line-up of over 100 puppets of the great and the not so good. Tom Cruise is tasked by His Majesty The King to create the UK’s very own ‘Magnificent Seven’ of celebrity misfits - Tom Cruise, Greta Thunberg, Meghan Markle, Tyson Fury, RuPaul, Angela Rayner and Idris Elba - to save the nation from a cabal of dark forces seeking to destroy it - that’s all the usual suspects. And James Corden. They are joined by: Ant & Dec, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, Stormzy, Vladimir Putin, The Tory Party Cabinet and many many many many many more.

Al Murray said: “When Spitting Image first appeared on British TV it blew people's minds. Now it's going to do it all over again in the West End. All the elements the show was famed for: outrageous depictions of the great and the not so good, catchy songs, famous faces saying the things you've always wanted to hear them say, all reinvented for the stage. You won't know where to look!”

The production features set design by Alice Power, video design by Nina Dunn for Pixel Lux, lighting by Tim Mitchell, costumes by Lotte Collet, choreography by Lizzi Gee, incidental music composition and musical direction by Alexander S. Bermange, and incidental music arrangements and production by Jerome van den Burghe.

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