Three-time GRAMMY® winner KC and The Sunshine Band have announced today the London premiere of GET DOWN TONIGHT, the KC and The Sunshine Band Musical. The show will play at the Charing Cross Theatre 19 September – 15 November 2025.
Inspired by the early years of singer, songwriter, producer and musician Harry Wayne Casey (KC) and set against the backdrop of 1970s Miami, this feel-good show highlights the friendships, relationships, love and music that brought a whole generation together.
The unmistakable ‘Sunshine Sound’ that KC created — an infectious blend of Disco, Funk, R&B, and more – is on heart-thumping display throughout.
Developed in collaboration with Harry Wayne Casey with a book by J. F. Lawton (Pretty Woman: The Musical), this London premiere is packed with over 20 of the band’s hits, including ‘Give It Up’, ‘That’s The Way (I Like It)’, and ‘Get Down Tonight’. With a cast of eight (to be announced), the show is a joyful, nostalgia-filled celebration of a landmark cultural era, set around four best friends.
Newly extended to 90 minutes without interval, the show was developed with an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 under the name Who Do Ya Love?.
KC and The Sunshine Band were one of the biggest bands of the 70s and have sold over 100 million records worldwide. The band’s achievements include a Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1979 as part of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, five number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, four UK top 10 singles and in 1975, became the first act to score four #1 pop singles in one 12-month period since the Beatles in 1964. A true household name, they have been featured at every major sporting event in the world including the Super Bowl, the NBA and the Kentucky Derby, not to mention nearly every wedding, birthday and bar mitzvah party.
J. F. Lawton is a writer, director and producer of over a dozen feature films for every major Hollywood studio in every genre from romance to drama to action. His feature credits include the iconic Pretty Woman along with Under Siege, Mistress, Blankman, The Hunted, Chain Reaction, DOA: Dead or Alive and many others. He has been nominated for a BAFTA, a Writers’ Guild of America Award and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Dramatists Guild, Inc. For Broadway and the West End, Lawton co-wrote the book for Pretty Woman: The Musical. His published fiction includes Cosmic Ray’s Celestial Revival, The Last Writer, Princess of Rodeo Drive and Silver: Treasure Island Revisited.
Director and Choreographer Lisa Stevens
Musical Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements Mark Crossland
Set Designer Bretta Gerecke Lighting Designer Jai Morjaria
Sound Designer Chris Whybrow Assistant Director and Choreographer Sierra Brewerton
Casting Director Anne Vosser
Tickets to GET DOWN TONIGHT
Additional information
Booking until
19 September – 15 November 2025
Show Times
Wed, Friday, Sat & Sun at 2.30pm
Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat at 7.30pm
Running Time
90 minutes (no interval)
Theatre
Charing Cross Theatre
Age Recommendation
12+
Access Performances
TBC
