Opera House Manchester
Cultures collide and West End meets Bollywood in this joyous, globe-trotting new romcom starring Jena Pandya (Mamma Mia!, Bhangra Nation) and Ashley Day (Netflix’s Dynasty, An American in Paris), and adapted from India's longest running blockbuster movie –Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known as DDLJ.
Meet Simran – a young British woman whose future is all set with an arranged marriage back in India – as she sets off around Europe for one last summer of freedom. But getting stranded with laid-back, party-loving Roger isn’t in the guidebook, and now the unlikely pair find that falling in love is just a passport to trouble. Can Roger possibly win over her strict father? Can Simran stay true to her heritage and her heart? Perhaps their different worlds aren’t really so far away...
Directed by Aditya Chopra, director of the original record-breaking film, Come Fall in Love whisks you from Paris and Rome to the stunning yellow mustard fields of Punjab, in a dizzying, colourful new journey set to the exuberant beat of 18 new English songs written especially for the stage.
Brought to you by an award-winning creative team, Come Fall in Love features book & lyrics by Olivier Award-winning Nell Benjamin (Mean Girls with Tina Fey, Legally Blonde with Laurence O'Keefe), music by legendary composers Vishal Dadlani and Sheykhar Ravjiani, choreography by Olivier, Tony and Emmy Award-winning Rob Ashford (Frozen, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), associate choreography and Indian dancing by Shruti Merchant (Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, Taj Express) and scenic design by Tony Award-winning Derek Mclane (MJ The Musical and Moulin Rouge! The Musical).
Follow your heart wherever it goes...as long as it's to the Manchester Opera House from Thursday 29 May - Saturday 21 June only.
Opera House Manchester
Originally The New Theatre, it opened on Boxing Day, 1912. It went through several iterations, being renamed once before becoming the Opera House in 1920. It's also been used for different functions; as a cinema in WW2, then a bingo hall before reopening as a theatre again in 1984. Since, it has hosted magnificent shows like Barnum and Phantom of the Opera.
Opera House Manchester
