The musical will continue to run until the Autumn in the West End.
It has been announced that the three time Olivier Award winning musical will play its final performances at the Ambassadors Theatre on the 11th October 2025.
Talking about the news, the show’s creator writer, director and designer, Jethro Compton said, “Bringing Benjamin Button to the West End has been a dream come true. We could never have imagined such an incredible response to the show. On behalf of the entire Button family, I want to express our enormous gratitude to every audience member who has come to see us and the many that have come back again and brought friends and loved ones with them. This amazing year in the West End is just the first chapter of the show’s life, and as I hope we’ve demonstrated in our journey from a small-scale fringe show to an Olivier Award-winning West End musical, anything’s possible.”
The musical stars two-time Olivier Award winner John Dagleish as Benjamin Button (winning an Olivier for his performance in this production) and two-time Olivier Award nominee, most recently for this role, Clare Foster as Elowen Keene. They star alongside Matthew Burns, Jonathan Charles, Oonagh Cox, Katy Ellis, Anna Fordham, Philippa Hogg, Damien James, Elliot Mackenzie, Ann Marcuson, Emily Panes, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Jack Quarton and Benedict Salter.
This production first took to the stage in 2019, followed by a sold-out Southwark Playhouserun in 2023 – winning Best Musical Theatre Production at the 2024 Off West End Awards. It was subsequently nominated for two WhatsOnStage Awards – Best New Musical and Best Musical Direction/Supervision.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on the short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned. It features a Book & Lyrics by Jethro Compton and Music & Lyrics by Darren Clark. It is directed by Jethro Compton who also designs the stage, with co-music supervision, orchestration and arrangements by Mark Aspinall and Darren Clark, choreography by Chi-San Howard, costumes and associate stage design by Anna Kelsey, sound by Luke Swaffield, lighting by Zoe Spurr, musical direction by Mark Aspinall and casting by Ginny Schiller.
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