The Eve of The War

After thrilling around the globe in live arena tours, Jeff Wayne's iconic musical adaptation of H.G Wells' War Of The World finally crash lands into the West End for the first time ever, invading the Dominion Theatre from February 8th, 2016, with an all-star cast led by a suitably sci-fi 3D hologram of Liam Neeson as The Narrator, with Jimmy Nail as Parson Nathaniel, Daniel Bedingfield as The Artilleryman, Michael Praed George Herbert and David Essex as The Voice of Humanity!

Super shocking and scientifically scintillating, the War Of The Worlds has been hugely popular since its serialisation in 1897 thanks to Wells' terrifically realistic style, documenting a martian invasion of London. No stranger to controversy, this heavily adapted tale was once claimed to have caused mass hysteria when Orson Welles took it to the airwaves in Halloween 1938.

In 1978, Jeff Wayne, an American composer made the story his own in his bombastic musical re-telling, fusing the narration of the honey-voiced Richard Burton with bouncy progressive rock to create a new iteration of the story that has since become synonymous with the original, and been seen live by millions worldwide.

Now, in a new production, Jeff busts out his baton for a London audience, adding new songs to Doreen Wayne's sprawling script, alongside a swathe of special effects including video, projections and of course, the three-legged Martian Fighting Machine!

At midnight on the twelfth of August... The story of the War Of The Worlds

At the end of the 19th century, scientists observe an eruption of green gasses coming from Mars, flaring out across space for ten days until finally a 'falling star' is seen crashing to earth. However, this is no plain old meteor but an extraterrestrial pod, containing something 'intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous' and altogether not very friendly.

And so begins the first martian invasion of earth, which from its epicentre of Surrey, spreads these strange creatures all over the country, obliterating everything in their path. The narrator takes us on his journey with him as he traverses an abandoned London in search of his girlfriend and meets fellow survivors, waiting and hoping for some solution to quell their new alien overlords...