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The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – Liverpool Empire
North West

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – Liverpool Empire

The worldwide phenomena Percy Jackson (Joe Tracz) has hit the stage with a loud and rapturous bang. Enter monsters, a heroic adventure, catchy songs and a ferocious cast and you can easily see why this adaptation of the books, films and TV series shouldn't be anything but following in the success of its predecessors of Percy Jackson. Produced and directed by Bill Kenwright, Paul Taylor-Mills and Lizzie Gee) Packed with catchy, upbeat songs which will have you toe tapping along and singing as you leave, the musical score (Rob Rokicki, Will Joy and Jeremy Wootton) and vocals for this production are beautifully orchestrated. The set design (Ryan Dawson Laight) is simple, but a very detailed, effective and dynamic staging. Minimal pieces of movable platforms are utilised to adapt the sta...
The Lightening Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – The Other Palace
London

The Lightening Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – The Other Palace

This musical began as a 60 minute Off-Broadway production in 2014. It returned to the New York stage in an expanded two-hour version in 2017. It tells the story of the first book in a series of six books written by fantasy novelist Rick Riordan. Joe Tracz and composer and lyricist Rob Rokicki have “chosen to hone into the first book in the series The Lightening Thief “written with a modern-day twist. Centred around a New York teenager ‘Percy Jackson’ played by Morgan Gregory who discovers he is the half-blood son of the Greek god Poseidon. He gets caught up in an unexpected adventure where he starts a journey of self-discovery, and he soon begins to realise that the people around him are not quite who they seem.   Knowing the back catalogue of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians se...