{"id":366532,"date":"2025-08-23T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366532\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:03:10","slug":"mel-giedroyc-to-star-in-starter-for-ten-musical-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366532\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Giedroyc to star in Starter for Ten musical in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Based on David Nicholls&#8217; novel and the HBO\/Playtone film, the production launches at the Bristol Old Vic on Wednesday, September 10.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Starter for Ten tells the story of Brian Jackson, who leaves Southend in 1985 to start university life in Bristol, aiming to compete on the TV quiz show University Challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The musical, which reflects the lively student scene of the 80s, features an original soundtrack and was previously nominated for Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show returns to Bristol Old Vic after a record-breaking run in 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With a running time of approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including an interval, performances will run until October 11, with tickets starting at \u00a315.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The production is a collaboration between Antic Productions, Bristol Old Vic, Longshot Films, and Playtone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For more information, visit the Bristol Old Vic website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on David Nicholls&#8217; novel and the HBO\/Playtone film, the production launches at the Bristol Old Vic on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076569971998785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}