Daddy Long Legs

St. James Theatre Productions in association with Rubicon Theatre Company

By John Caird, Based on the Classic novel by Jean Webster

This new musical romance from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning co-director of Les Misérables has been lauded for its sheer beauty and depth of feeling, not to mention the magnificent musical score. A crowd-pleaser for audiences from eight to eighty, Daddy Long Legs is touring the USA where it has received standing ovations at every performance.

Set in the early 1900s in New England, Daddy Long Legs is the vivid account of a young orphan as she blossoms into a beautiful, intelligent and vivacious woman. An anonymous benefactor gives Jerusha Abbott an opportunity to attend college, requiring that she write to him monthly, even though he will not respond. Her letters to him paint a moving portrait of her former life in the orphanage, and the development of her mind and spirit. The lush set and costumes are by Olivier Award-winner David Farley. Daddy Long Legs won more awards than any other musical at last year’s Ovation Awards in Los Angeles.

Broadway performer Megan McGinnis comes to London to recreate her award-winning performance in the role of Jerusha Abbott, alongside Robert Adelman Hancock.