Sing Street: A New Musical will make its UK premiere next summer at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
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.
Enda Walsh, Writer, 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.”
Gary Clark, Music & Lyrics, added: “As my first musical collaboration with film-maker John
Carney, and with a story that very much echoes the forming of my own rough and unready
school band in the early nineteen-eighties, Sing Street holds a very special place in my
heart.
We had so much fun creating the original songs for the movie and rekindled that spirit for the
additions that we’ve written especially for this production, and I am absolutely thrilled to see
Sing Street the musical hit the stage of The Lyric Hammersmith and to be working with such
a brilliant and talented team.”
