{"id":395681,"date":"2025-09-03T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:38:11","slug":"wayne-brady-and-lulu-set-for-london-concert-of-to-sir-with-love-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395681\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Brady And Lulu Set For London Concert Of ‘To Sir, With Love’ Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFive-time Emmy winner Wayne Brady<\/a> and Scottish pop singer Lulu<\/a> will perform two concert stagings of To Sir, With Love \u2013 A New Musical at London\u2019s West End<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth concerts, at Gillian Lynne Theatre, are set for Monday, November 24. Lulu, of course, starred in the 1967 film version alongside Sidney Poitier and scored a hit with the title song.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new musical adaptation, last performed by Brady at an invitation-only Los Angeles concert (today\u2019s announcement describes the upcoming concerts as reimagined), features music and lyrics by John Farrar and Kara DioGuardi, with direction by Sheldon Epps. Both the musical and the film are based on the memoir of Guyanese-born British-American teacher and author E.R. Braithwaite.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the new score, the concerts will include Lulu\u2019s signature \u201cTo Sir, with Love,\u201d written by Mark London and Don Black. <\/p>\n

\n\tBrady will be making his West End debut with the concerts. He\u2019s currently starring on Broadway as Harold Ziegler in Moulin Rouge!, with other Broadway credits including The Wiz, Chicago and Kinky Boots. His television credits include Whose Line is it Anyway? How I Met Your Mother, Dancing With the Stars and The Masked Singer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe synopsis: Rick Braithwaite is more than just a Cambridge-educated engineer and a former RAF fighter pilot; he\u2019s a man battling societal prejudices at every turn. Refusing to bow to adversity, he engages his students not as troublesome youths but as emerging adults who must soon navigate a world where they\u2019ll stand or fall on their own merits. Through a balance of grit and grace, he aims to prepare them for more than just exams; he prepares them for life. The story explores race, class, resilience, and the power of respect.<\/p>\n

\n\tLythgoe Productions and Darren Bell produces, with Alex Day, Willette and Manny Klausner, Jonathan and Jennifer Yaek and Rebecca Bahling-Lythgoe. To Sir, With Love has been developed through the Ogunquit Playhouse New Works Program.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo post-London plans are currently underway for the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-time Emmy winner Wayne Brady and Scottish pop singer Lulu will perform two concert stagings of To Sir,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,25609,136756,16,15,136757,27923],"class_list":{"0":"post-395681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-lulu","13":"tag-to-sir-with-love","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wayne-brady","17":"tag-west-end"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115142767746389574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395681","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=395681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}