Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has announced its closing date in the West End.
The show has confirmed a final extension at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, and will now end on 11 October 2025.
The acclaimed production will have played in the West End for exactly one year and one day!
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won three Olivier Awards at this year’s awards, including Best New Musical, Outstanding Musical Contribution for Darren Clark for Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements and Mark Aspinall for Musical Direction, Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements, and Best Actor in a Musical for John Dagleish.
The show stars two-time Olivier Award winner John Dagleish as Benjamin Button, and two-time Olivier Award nominee Clare Foster as Elowen Keene. They star alongside Matthew Burns, Jonathan Charles, Oonagh Cox, Katy Ellis, Anna Fordham, Philippa Hogg, Damien James, Elliot Mackenzie, Ann Marcuson, Emily Panes, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Jack Quarton and Benedict Salter.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and has a book and lyrics by Jethro Compton and music and lyrics by Darren Clark.
The musical is directed and designed by Jethro Compton, with co-music supervision, orchestration and arrangements by Mark Aspinall and Darren Clark, choreography by Chi-San Howard, costumes and associate stage design by Anna Kelsey, sound by Luke Swaffield, lighting by Zoe Spurr, musical direction by Mark Aspinall and casting by Ginny Schiller.
The show’s creator, writer, director and designer, Jethro Compton, said in a statement: “Bringing Benjamin Button to the West End has been a dream come true. We could never have imagined such an incredible response to the show. On behalf of the entire Button family, I want to express our enormous gratitude to every audience member who has come to see us and the many that have come back again and brought friends and loved ones with them. This amazing year in the West End is just the first chapter of the show’s life, and as I hope we’ve demonstrated in our journey from a small-scale fringe show to an Olivier Award-winning West End musical, anything’s possible.”
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is playing at the Ambassadors Theatre in London until 11 October 2025.
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