Little Dancer

‘RAVISHING’(The Washington Post)‘SCINTILLATING’(Variety)‘A BREATHTAKING NEW MUSICAL’(Manhattan Digest)You may not know her name. But you know her. Marie van Goethem has stood in the same fourth position for over a century: arms behind her back, chin lifted, gaze fixed beyond the frame. She was fourteen. She was poor. She was extraordinary. And she refused to be forgotten. Little Dancer is the story of a girl with impossible dreams and the man who immortalised her, Edgar Degas. Two people bound together by art, ambition and the ache of wanting to matter. Set against the dazzling, dangerous world of Belle Époque Paris, where beauty and brutality existed side by side, it asks the question we all carry: Do we shape our destiny, or does it shape us? From the creative minds of Tony and Olivier Award-winnersLynn AhrensandStephenFlaherty(Anastasia, Ragtime, Once on This Island) and directed and choreographed by five-time Tony and Olivier Award-winnerSusan Stroman(The Producers, Crazy for You, Oklahoma!, Smash), comes this sweeping, emotionally charged new musical.Starring Emmy Award-winner and Olivier Award-nomineeTiler Peck(principal dancer withNew York City Ballet and star of Prime Video’s Étoile), alongside Olivier Award-nomineesJulian Ovenden(High Society, Downton Abbey, South Pacific), Laura Pitt-Pulford(Into theWoods, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) andJosefina Gabrielle(High Society, Chicago, Les Misérables), Little Danceris for anyone who has ever beenoverlooked and refused to accept it, for anyone who has ever dared to dream bigger thanthe world told them they could. Lush. Evocative. Achingly human. Experience Little Dancer live at Theatre Royal Haymarket for six weeks only from February 2027, prior to a world tour.