One of the greatest musicals of all time arrived in the Grand Opera House this week (5-9 Aug 2025). This Regent’s Park Open Theatre Production is the winner of 3 Olivier Awards including Best Musical Revival. It’s a classic musical of community, of love and life.
It’s the story of Tevye, a Jewish milkman, and his family and wider community. Tevye is proud of local traditions and his religion, but his daughters are challenging his traditions and beliefs in an ever changing world.
This week at the Grand Opera House, you should expect to be in awe of the story, the acting, the staging. This is a show of epic scale, not only with the 90 minute first act, but the floating mezzanine field of barley on the Opera House stage. Behind all the staging is a simple story about family and tradition. Watching his daughters choose their own paths and not accepting arranged marriages, Tevye is forced to question his own arranged marriage and everything he knows. He asks his wife, probably for the first time, did she love him, in a really beautiful and touching scene.
It’s musical theatre the way it used to be, but with a massive injection of additional creativity. The dream scene is just mesmerising. The mezzanine is spectacular. The storyline is very current and probably as relevant today as it’s ever been.
Hopefully you get the opportunity to see this beautiful poignant mesmerising masterpiece.
