The Only Party In Town
The Queen and Ben Elton stage extravaganza We Will Rock You has blown New Zealand’s minds since it opened just over a
week ago.
Producers of the multi-million show at Auckland’s The Civic, The Edge theatre have extended the season to December 2 but
warn: there is no further extension possible.
14,000 new seats have gone on sale with Ticketek but once they’re gone, sadly, there will be no more as the cast
prepares to move on to Seoul in Korea.
"We've had wonderful crowds," says promoter James Cundall of Lunchbox Theatrical Productions. "People standing,
cheering, waving, singing. This season is electrifying but we really must go come December 2 so I urge those thinking
about going to get their tickets before it's too late."
"We Will Rock You has raised the bar for musical theatre! A rage of ecstatic proportions that lifts you out of your
emotional glum and propells you to galactic entertainment heights. The cast is superb and dynamic and ebullient from
curtain rise to curtain fall.
Make it your mission to get there!" Heemi Hill, Easy Mix FM
WE WILL ROCK YOU stars our own princess of pop Annie Crummer as the KILLER QUEEN and Rock Star INXS finalist Miguel
Ayesa, who is reprising his West End triumph as GALILEO. Annie is no stranger to this role, having played it in
Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Japan.
WE WILL ROCK YOU is not a Queen tribute but a “rock theatre” experience featuring 24 of Queen’s greatest hits, including
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions,” “Another One Bites The Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”
WE WILL ROCK YOU is a futurist adventure set in a time when live music is banned on earth, but the kids are in
rebellion, fighting against the all powerful Globalsoft Corporation which controls their lives and feeds them a diet of
synthesized pop. A hero is needed who can help them rediscover themselves – and live music. Could the arrival of ‘The
Dreamer,’ the young Galileo Figaro, be that man? And can he help them break their chains...?
WE WILL ROCK YOU delivers a show that reflects the scale and spectacle that marked Queen’s live performances and earned
the band its pinnacle position in rock history. It’s big. The show has nine semi trailors of equipment including state
of the art video. And it has a creative team who work closely with Queen’s BRIAN MAY and ROGER TAYLOR. (Annie Crummer
recorded Another One Bites the Dust in London under the direction of Brian and Roger).
“Annie is one hell of a singer! A voice in a million.’ says WE WILL ROCK YOU writer/director Ben Elton, who, with
Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, cast Annie in the role of Killer Queen.
WE WILL ROCK YOU continues to play to sold-out houses at London’s Dominion Theatre where it has been running since May
2002, and in 2006 became the longest-running musical ever to play at the Dominion, one of the West End’s largest
theatres. It recently opened to record advances in Toronto. In addition to an ongoing Spanish-language touring
production in Spain, WE WILL ROCK YOU also continues to break box office records in Germany, where it is the number one
grossing musical of all time. Globally, more than 6 million people have now seen the show.
‘This is a new breed of musical,’ says James Cundall, co-producer with David Atkins. ‘A unique collaboration between the
legends of rock and one of the U.K.’s most phenomenally successful writers, Ben Elton. It’s just celebrated its fifth
year in London’s biggest theatre, and every night –as it has since its beginning – WE WILL ROCK YOU is getting
five-minute standing ovations.’
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