New musical comedy Pop Off, Michelangelo! is extending its London run by three weeks in the West End.
The show is transferring to Underbelly Boulevard in London for a limited season following last year’s successful Edinburgh Fringe season.
Pop Off, Michelangelo! will now play from 17 May to 13 July 2025 in London.
Dylan MarcAurele’s camp, comedy musical is directed by Joe McNeice, and proved a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received a Popcorn Award Special Mention.
The show stars Max Eade as Michelangelo, Aidan MacColl as Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Marouli as the Pope (pictured), with Kurran Dhand as Salai, Aoife Haakenson as Mother, Sev Keoshgerian as Italian Chef, and Laura Sillett as Savonarola.
Understudies are Natalia Brown and Conn McGirr (Dance Captain).
MarcAurele and McNeice reunite to take you on a wild ride through Renaissance Italy, with this high-camp musical comedy telling the (somewhat edited) history of two of Italy’s greatest artists, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, as they both race to create the most legendary religious masterpieces.
Joining McNeice in the creative team are Choreographer and intimacy director Sundeep Saini; Musical supervisor & orchestrations by Aron Sood; Costume Designer Emily Bestow; Lighting Designer Adam King; Video Designer PJ McEvoy; Sound Designer Ed Lewis; Casting Director Sarah-Jane Price; Assistant Choreographer Conn McGirr; Dramaturg Rose Oser; Production Manager James Anderton; Set designed in collaboration between Joe McNeice, Emily Bestow, and PJ McEvoy; and General Management is by Paul Virides Productions. The Producer is Blair Russell Productions.
Pop Off, Michelangelo! is playing at Underbelly Boulevard from 17 May to 13 July 2025.
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Kurran Dhand plays Salai. His theatre credits include Aladdin (Royal Hippodrome Theatre) and Rishi Sunak’s Doing a Musical (Waterloo East Theatre). Dhand graduated from Brighton Academy in 2023.
Max Eade reprises his role as Michelangelo, which was his stage debut. Eade graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2024.
Aoife Haakenson plays Mother. Her theatre credits include Six (UK and international tour) and The Crucible (National Theatre); and for television, Downforce.
Sev Keoshgerian plays Italian Chef. His theatre credits include I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical (UK tour), The Rocky Horror Show (European tour), Little Women the Musical (Park Theatre), Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre), The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) (Above the Stag) and Jack and the Beanstalk (Corn Exchange Newbury).
Aidan MacColl reprises his role as Leonardo. His other theatre credits include The Little Mermaid (UK tour), Jack and the Beanstalk and Beauty and The Beast (Eastwood Park Theatre).
Michael Marouli plays Pope. Marouli is an international drag performer, actor, host, stand-up comedian and show producer. He finished as runner-up in season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and has since toured the world as both a solo artist and with his drag group Angels of the North. He has also starred in BobThe Drag Queen: This is Wild! World Tour (Adelphi Theatre), and guest starred in Paramount Plus’s The Road Trip.
Laura Sillett plays Savonarola. Her theatre credits include Barnum, Sweet Charity, Assassins (The Watermill Theatre), Ordinary People (The Farnham Maltings), Sunday in the Park with George (Mill Studio, Guildford), Hair, Dreamboats & Miniskirts (UK tour), A Night at the Oscars (Upstairs at The Gatehouse), The Selfish Giant (Vaudeville Theatre and Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Footloose (UK and international tour), The Railway Children (Electric Theatre, Guildford), Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Dick Whittington, Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood and Jack & The Beanstalk (Gatehouse Theatre); and for film, Matilda.
Pop Off, Michelangelo!
Underbelly Boulevard, London
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📷 Main photo: Pop Off, Michelangelo! – Max Eade, Aidan MacColl, Michael Marouli (Photos via PR)
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