Birmingham Hippodrome and New Adventures are delighted to announce that the world premiere tour of Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes will make an unprecedented return to the venue in July 2017 as part of an extended UK Tour.

Due to popular demand, The Red Shoes will return to Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday 19 July – Saturday 22 July 2017, it was announced today.

The production sold out at The Lowry in November 2016 and has already sold out at Birmingham Hippodrome before its first visit in February 2017. Full tour schedule below. www.new-adventures.net

The World Premiere tour of The Red Shoes opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in November and is now five weeks into a sold out eight week Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells, where it opened to rave reviews. The performances at Sadler’s Wells are the fastest selling in New Adventures history.

A beloved fairy-tale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has seduced audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion.

Matthew Bourne’s magical new adaptation of the legendary Powell and Pressburger film reunites him with his regular collaborators and New Adventures Associate Artists and the team that brought you the world wide hit, Sleeping Beauty; Lez Brotherston (set and costumes), Paule Constable (lighting) and Paul Groothuis (sound).

This World Premiere is set to a new score arranged by New Adventures Associate Artist, Terry Davies using the mesmerizing music of golden-age Hollywood composer, Bernard Herrmann (most famous for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Martin Scorsese), whose work ranges from the witty and playfully robust to the achingly romantic and bittersweet.

An intoxicating drama where life imitates art with fateful consequences; The Red Shoes will dazzle your senses and break your heart.

The Red Shoes is supported using public funds by Arts Council England.

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For media enquiries, please contact Kate Evans (Communications Executive) on Tel: 0121 689 3065, Email: kateevans@birminghamhippodrome.com