BUDDY IS BACK and on BROADWAY!!!!
PREVIEWS BEGIN NOVEMBER 9, 2024
OPENING NIGHT NOVEMBER 17, 2024 *** AT THE MARQUIS THEATRE
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT ELFONBROADWAY.COM
| “★★★★! A SLICKLY IRRESISTIBLE and FIZZILY ENJOYABLE confection of a show. This fantasia whirls you up in a Technicolor dream of Christmas.” – Time Out | “★★★★! THIS SHOW SLEIGHS! A smashing night out.” – What’s On Stage | “★★★★! ROUSING and FESTIVE FUN – this show is a real cracker!” – Daily Mail | ”ELF HAS THE MAGIC that sends you out of the theatre SMILING AND SINGING. Truly the Christmas Cake of Musicals!” – The Times of London |
(New York, NY – September 10, 2024) Temple Live Entertainment and Crossroads Live North America have announced a limited holiday engagement of Elf The Musical, beginning this November on Broadway at The Marquis Theatre. Following two hugely successful, record-breaking seasons in London’s West End in 2022 and 2023, this production of Elf The Musical will be new to Broadway and will mark the musical’s return for the first time in over a decade. The musical will star Tony Award nominee Grey Henson (Mean Girls, Shucked) as Buddy the Elf. Broadway previews begin Saturday, November 9, 2024, with an official Opening Night of Sunday, November 17, 2024, for the limited engagement through Saturday, January 4, 2025. Tickets are available now, at www.elfonbroadway.com.
Elf The Musical features a book by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone, Smash, Boop! The Musical), with songs by Tony nominees Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (The Prom, The Wedding Singer). The musical returns to Broadway in an acclaimed production directed by Philip Wm. McKinley (Boy From Oz, Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark), first staged at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. It became the venue’s fastest-selling show in nearly a century and became a firm holiday favorite for London audiences, breaking its own Box Office records during last year’s run. The production features Choreography by Olivier and Drama Desk nominee Liam Steel (Company), Set and Costume Design by multi-Olivier Award winner Tim Goodchild (Strangers on a Train, We Will Rock You, numerous productions at Royal Shakespeare Company), Lighting Design by Patrick Woodroffe (Bat Out of Hell, Mamma Mia! The Party), Sound Design by Tony Award winner Gareth Owen (MJ the Musical, Hell’s Kitchen) and Video Design by Ian William Galloway (The Audience, The Light Princess), with music supervision by Olivier Award winner Alan Williams (Sunset Boulevard). Casting is by Rachel Hoffman / The Telsey Office.
Elf The Musical is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of Buddy, a young orphan child whose life is changed forever when he mistakenly crawls into Santa’s sack of toys one Christmas Eve. Raised by elves in the North Pole, Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities make him realize he doesn’t quite fit in. When he discovers he is human, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, and in turn, helps the Big Apple rediscover the true meaning of Christmas. Hailed by Time Out as “a slickly irresistible and fizzily enjoyable confection of a show” that will “whirl you up in a technicolor dream of Christmas,” this modern-day holiday classic returns home to New York in an acclaimed West End production that “has the magic to send you out of the theatre smiling and singing” (The Times of London).