Posted: 9/2/26 at 7:01am
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has added performances at the Newman ahead of its North American premiere, which tells you something about how the West End reputation traveled. Details and dates here:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/&source=gmail&ust=1788430171716000&sa=E
For anyone who has not followed this one: it is Jethro Compton and Darren Clark's folk-musical version of the Fitzgerald story, and the London production was built on actor-musicians -- the whole company plays. That staging conceit is either going to be the thing everyone raves about or the thing that reads as twee to a New York crowd. I genuinely cannot predict it.
An extension before opening usually means one of two things: real advance demand, or a producer building runway for a commercial transfer. Which do we think this is?
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