Disney’s Frozen is set to transfer to the West End, running at the newly-renovated Theatre Royal Drury Lane until September 2024.
Frozen was first released in cinemas in 2013, going on to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, with a worldwide box-office gross of over $2 billion. With performances from Idina Menzel as Elsa, Kristen Bell as Anna, Jonathan Groff as Kristoff and Josh Gad as Olaf, the film won 37 awards, notably winning two Academy Awards for best animated feature and best original song for “Let It Go”.
Set in the fictional kingdom of Arendelle, audiences first meet sisters Elsa and Anna before Elsa’s coronation day. With an ability to make anything she touches turn to ice and freeze, Elsa is fearful of her own magic powers. Later running away from the kingdom, Anna sets off to find Elsa in her newly-built castle, meeting Kristoff and his reindeer Sven, as well as Olaf, a lovable snowman.
The musical will feature original songs made famous in the film, including “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?”, “The First Time in Forever” and the show-stopping “Let it Go”. Written by husband and wife duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the pair have also written the music and lyrics for the stage adaptation, which boasts new songs including “Hygge” and “Colder By the Minute”.
Directed by Michael Grandage, Frozen will run in London as the first production to open at the newly-renovated Theatre Royal Drury Lane, currently closed for renovation works. Frozen will open in the West End in August 2021.
A pre-Broadway tryout ran at the Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado, before the show opened on Broadway at the St James Theatre in March 2018. The original cast of Frozen starred Caissie Levy as Elsa, Patti Murin as Anna and Jelani Alladin as Kristoff. The musical was nominated for three Tony Awards, including best musical, best book and best original score.
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Frozen reviews
“Frozen is a whole lot of Disney, a little Lloyd-Webber, a little John Williams, a ton of spectacle, and a boat load of that magic elixir, l-o-v-e.”
Tulis McCall, New York Theatre Guide
“With its music, its dance, its flurry of likable leads, and snowball after snowball of son and lumière, some of it newfangled, some of it stretching back to 19th-century melodrama, it offers most of the pleasures that we count on Broadway musicals to provide.”
Alexis Soloski, The Guardian
“It is also very beautiful to look at. Certainly it does not attempt to lighten a story that’s fundamentally dark. Ms. Katz’s moody lighting, all amber and gold and sepia on Mr. Oram’s Scandinavian storybook castle, suggests Rembrandt.”
Jesse Green, The New York Times
“Emerging from the dancing lights of the aurora borealis (as fashioned by lighting designer Natasha Katz) projected on the scrim (by video designer Finn Ross), Christopher Oram’s sets are highly stylized and very theatrical, if not transporting.”
Marilyn Stasio, Variety
