On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the premiere of Get Up, Stand Up!, the new musical based on the life and music of reggae legend Bob Marley. It’s running at the West End’s Lyric Theatre.
‘This jukebox show earns its place in the West End’: GET UP! STAND UP!
Get Up! Stand Up! follows the standard tropes of the bio-musical, folding scenes from his life and work around some of Bob Marley’s most famous songs
‘Arinzé Kene is all Bob, wonderfully in the spirit & musically perfect’: GET UP, STAND UP! – West End ★★★★
Everything Bob Marley sings lifts the heart. This musical is a huge affirmation of that heart and humanity, and it’ll be hard to stop me buying another ticket.
NEWS: Full cast is announced for Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical at London’s Lyric Theatre
The full cast for Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, joining Arinzé Kene in the title role, has been announced. The world premiere musical begins performances at London’s Lyric Theatre on 1 October 2021 with an opening night on 20 October.
NEWS: Arinzé Kene will star in new West End musical Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story, a new musical featuring Bob Marley’s iconic hits played live on stage, will begin previews at the newly refurbished Lyric Theatre on 6 February 2021 starring Arinzé Kene.
NEWS: Mitchell Brunings & Alexia Khadime star in Bob Marley musical One Love
Full casting has been announced for One Love: The Bob Marley Musical which premieres at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in a limited run from 10 March to 8 April 2017.
NEWS: Bob Marley musical One Love premieres in Birmingham in March
The premiere of One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, a new musical focusing on a defining period of global legend Bob Marley’s life and career in the 1970s, will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in March 2017. It has a limited season from 10 March to 8 April 2017.
OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR – National Theatre
Sheer joy and excitement as Lee (‘Billy Elliot’) Hall adapts book about six convent girls, with miraculous results.