Zog and his crew are flying back to the stage in 2024.
Based on the bestselling sequel by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Zog and the Flying Doctors will once again tour the UK in 2024, opening at Oxford Playhouse on 17 July before flying into London to play at Cadogan Hall from 01 to 31 August 2024.
Zog, a super keen student turned air-ambulance, still lands with a bang-crash-thump. Together with his Flying Doctor crew, Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout, they tend to a sunburnt mermaid, a unicorn with one too many horns and a lion with the flu. However, Pearl’s uncle, the King, has other ideas about whether princesses should be doctors, and she’s soon locked up in the castle back in a crown and a silly frilly dress.
With a bit of help from some friends and half a pound of cheese, can Pearl make her uncle better and prove princesses can be doctors, too?
The cast consists of Ethan Jay Scott (Frankie’s Guys, UK Tour) as the titular character ’Zog’, with Emily Attridge-Cox (Camelot: In Concert, The London Palladium) as ‘Pearl’ and Edward Conroy (Dick Whittington, The Attic Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon) as ‘Gadabout’ & ‘Doctor’.
James Stirling (Alice In Wonderland, UK Tour) will play ‘King’ and ‘Unicorn’ with Darcy Manning (The Wizard Of Oz, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) playing ‘Mermaid’ and ‘Lion’. The cast is completed by Swing and Resident Director Mikey Wooster (The Wind In The Willows, UK Tour) and Swing and Dance Captain Samantha Richards (Footloose, UK & International Tour).
Jennifer Sutherland from Freckle Productions said, “We are so delighted to be rounding off our 2024 tour with a return visit to Cadogan Hall for the summer holidays. It’s a wonderful venue, and we’re thrilled that this will be our first ever major London season with this production.”
Zog and the Flying Doctors is one of the best-loved creations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the UK’s number-one picture book pair behind many modern classics, including The Gruffalo, which has been published in 75 languages. Together, their books have sold over 75 million copies.
First published in 2016, Zog and the Flying Doctors is the smash-hit sequel to Zog, which has sold over 1.5 million copies. On Christmas Day 2020, Magic Light Pictures premiered an animated film of Zog and the Flying Doctors on BBC One featuring an all-star cast including Sir Lenny Henry and Rob Brydon.
Zog and the Flying Doctors is brought to the stage by Freckle Productions in association with Rose Theatre Kingston. Freckle Productions are pioneers in imaginative storytelling for children and is the team behind smash-hit stage hits, including Stick Man and Zog.
Zog and the Flying Doctors is co-directed by Katie Beard and Bobby Delaney, featuring music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe with choreography by Katie Beard and associate choreographer Heather Scott-Martin.
The set and costume designs are by Lucy Bradridge, with several costumes undergoing re-imagining for 2024 by Deborah Mingham. Puppetry director Edie Edmundson, costume supervisor Louise Smith and lighting designer Ric Mountjoy work alongside musical director Bobby Delaney and musical supervisor and orchestrator Paul Herbert to bring the story to life.
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