Effervescent, elegant, and exhilarating, Top Hat the Musical is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes.
Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs, the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns…
Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s West End premiere won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out.
Acclaimed American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, whose Tony and Olivier Award-winning production of Anything Goes recently wowed audiences and critics in London and on television, comes to the UK to stage this brand-new production.
Leading the company of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat in London will be Broadway’s Phillip Attmore, winner of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer and a Playbill Breakout Performance Award, as Jerry Travers alongside Amara Okereke as Dale Tremont. Joining them, Clive Carter, three-time Olivier Award nominee for Moulin Rouge, Come From Away and Into The Woods, as Horace. Sally Ann Triplett, whose many West End roles include Anything Goes at the National Theatre, Cabaret and Oklahoma! plays Madge.
The show will play the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London for a strictly limited festive season from 12th December 2025 to 17th January 2026.
Booking information
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