The three-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical will have played in the West End for exactly one year and one day when it plays its final performance this Autumn.
The cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Photo by Marc Brenner
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button takes audiences on an electrifying journey through the timeless tale of a love that defies all odds. Brought to life by an extraordinary collective of actor-musicians, it's a beautiful and truly unordinary musical that reminds us to make every second count.
The production made its premiere at the Southwark Playhouse back in 2023, where it obtained a sold-out run and an award for Best Musical Production at the Off West End Awards. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button transferred to the West End a year later in 2024, where it continued to receive critical and award acclaim. Earlier this year, the musical won three Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, Outstanding Musical Contribution for Darren Clark for Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements and Mark Aspinall for Musical Direction, Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements, and Best Actor in a Musical for John Dagleish.
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 West End cast for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars two-time Olivier Award winner John Dagleish as Benjamin Button 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.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will play its final performance at the Ambassadors Theatre on 11 October 2025.
