Nottingham Playhouse announces BE MY BABY: THE MUSICAL as part of new season
Nottingham Playhouse has announced its spring/summer 2027 programme, including the world premiere of Amanda Whittington’s Be My Baby: The Musical.
Be My Baby: The Musical, based on Whittington’s acclaimed play of the same name, and directed by Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director Adam Penford, features a hit list of popular 1960s songs, such as ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’, ‘Alfie’, ‘The Locomotion’ and ‘I Only Want to Be With You’. The production explores the forced adoption scandal, following four young women, with their whole lives ahead of them, who are sent to a mother and baby home to give birth in secret. The impact of what happened in the ‘60s is still felt today, and this compelling story remains heartbreakingly current.
Artistic Director at Nottingham Playhouse, Adam Penford, said: “After producing work by three local playwrights this year, I am thrilled to be welcoming two more homegrown talents in our next season. Amanda Whittington’s play, Be My Baby, has become a modern classic over the last 25 years. It has always had the cultural explosion of the 1960s at its heart and was crying out to become a musical. It’s such a potent and life-affirming story and sadly, still so relevant, with the narrative of the government policy of forced adoption regularly in the news.”
Be My Baby: The Musical playwright Amanda Whittington said: “I’m thrilled to share the news of Be My Baby: The Musical. I’ve been developing the show with Adam Penford for some years now, reimagining the play I wrote at the beginning of my career about the injustice of forced adoption.
“To create a musical with my home theatre of Nottingham Playhouse is a 'full circle’ moment yet also, a new and exciting journey. The iconic Sixties songs which inspired Be My Baby are now at the heart of the story, their lyrics giving powerful voice to those who were silenced for so long."