Four one-night spectacles and one Olivier Award-winning week coming to Blackpool Grand
“There are some experiences that simply cannot be replicated through a screen.”
Four one-night spectacles and one Olivier Award-winning week bring magnificent music, breaktaking ballet, gothic obsession, operatic passion and riotous romance to Blackpool.
Between September and May, Blackpool Grand Theatre will bring five extraordinary live experiences to its historic stage. Four will be in the town for one night only. The fifth arrives for one glorious, award-winning week.
Together, they travel from Blackpool’s own symphony orchestra and one of the world’s best-loved ballets to Oscar Wilde reinvented as a new musical, the devastating passion of Italian opera and an Olivier Award-winning Austen adaptation unlike anything polite society has seen before.
The series begins on Sunday September 20 when Blackpool Symphony Orchestra presents Last Night of the Proms.
With Union flags at the ready, this is not an evening for sitting silently on the side lines. Light classical favourites and much-loved show tunes build towards the great Last Night traditions of Rule, Britannia!, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory as Blackpool’s own orchestra fills Frank Matcham’s magnificent auditorium with live music.
It is stirring, celebratory and proudly communal – the kind of night when orchestra and audience become part of the same performance, and joining in feels almost inevitable.
Just two weeks later, on Sunday 4 October, Imperial Classical Ballet brings The Nutcracker to life for one enchanting performance accompanied by a large live orchestra.
Christmas may still be approaching, but for one night The Grand will become a place where toys awaken, snow begins to dance and almost anything feels possible.
The remaining shows will see the atmosphere darken with The Picture of Dorian Gray - A New Musical on November 14.
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Faithful to Oscar Wilde’s original 1890 novel, this new sung-through musical enters the seductive and increasingly dangerous world of Dorian Gray: a wealthy and beautiful young man whose wish for eternal youth is mysteriously granted.
On Wednesday 24 February 2027, Ukrainian National Opera presents Puccini’s Tosca, performed by the acclaimed Dnipro Opera from Ukraine with a live orchestra.
The season reaches its gloriously unruly finale when the Olivier and Evening Standard Theatre Award-winning Pride & Prejudice returns to Blackpool from Monday April 26 to Saturday May 1 2027.
Andrew Howard, Head of Audiences, Marketing and Sales at Blackpool Grand Theatre, said: “There are some experiences that simply cannot be replicated through a screen. You need to feel an live orchestra filling our auditorium, hear a great operatic voice without anything between you and the performer, watch dancers appear to defy gravity and share the laughter when a brilliant company completely takes hold of a room.
To book tickets visit Blackpool Grand Theatre or call 01253 290190