Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns for the 10th Anniversary Tour featuring a brand new song from Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae.
Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, two sold-out UK & Ireland Tours and an award-winning film, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns for the 10th Anniversary Tour.
About the Show
Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Jamie doesn’t quite fit in.
Jamie is terrified about the future.
Jamie is going to be a sensation.
Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
Sixteen: the edge of possibility.
Time to make your dreams come true.
The Creative Team
Music by Dan Gillespie Sells
Book and Lyrics by Tom MacRae
From an idea by Jonathan Butterell
Directed by Jonathan Butterell
Tour directed by Matt Ryan
Design by Anna Fleischle
Choreography by Kate Prince
Lighting design by Lucy Carter
Sound design by Paul Groothuis
Musical Supervision by Theo Jamieson
Casting by Will Burton
Director Jonathan Butterell saw the Firecracker documentary film ‘Jamie: Drag Queen at 16’ the true story of Jamie Campbell and his mother, Margaret. This inspired him to create this musical which is a dramatised portrayal of a period in Jamie’s life but is not a faithful account. Certain events and characters have been fictionalised.
The History of the Show
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2017 and transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End later that same year and ran until September 2021.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie commenced its first UK Tour in February 2020 starting at the Sheffield Crucible where the show had originally played 3 years previously, however, the tour was cut short due to COVID-19. The UK Tour re-commenced in September 2021 playing until May 2022 and a second UK Tour commenced in 2023 at the Lowry, Salford Quays, touring until April 2024.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was screened live from the Apollo Theatre into over 500 cinemas across the UK, Ireland and select European territories on Thursday 5 July 2018, it was screened in cinemas across the US, Canada and Australia in November 2018 and again in the UK on 29 January 2019. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie won the Event Cinema Campaign of the Year at the Screen Awards 2018.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was into a major film by New Regency, Film4 and Sheffield based production company Warp Films starring Max Harwood, Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Shobna Gulati, Ralph Ineson, Adeel Akhtar, Samuel Bottomley, with Sharon Horgan and Richard E. Grant. The stage production’s director, Jonathan Butterell, made his feature-film debut as director. The film is available globally on Amazon Prime.
The Tour Dates
Leeds Grand Theatre
Friday 15 – Saturday 23 January 2027
Storyhouse Theatre, Chester
Tuesday 26 January – Saturday 2 February 2027
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 February 2027
Sunderland Empire
Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 February 2027
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 February 2027
Wolverhampton Grand
Monday 22 – Saturday 27 February 2027
Wycombe Swan
Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 March 2027
Sheffield Lyceum
Monday 8 – Saturday 13 March 2027
Manchester Palace Theatre
Monday 15 – Saturday 20 March 2027
New Wimbledon Theatre
Monday 23 – Saturday 27 March 2027
Liverpool Empire
Tuesday 30 March – Saturday 3 April 2027
King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Tuesday 27 April – Saturday 1 May 2027
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 May 2027
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Tuesday 11 – Saturday 15 May 2027
The Alexandra, Birmingham
Monday 17 – Saturday 22 May 2027
Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
Tuesday 25 – Saturday 29 May 2027
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 June 2027
Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 June 2027
New Theatre, Oxford
Tuesday 22 – Saturday 26 June 2027
New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Monday 28 June – Saturday 3 July 2027
Further dates to be announced.
