The Horror! The Horror!
Music & Lyrics by Jeffrey Mayhew

Original Cast Recording

The final curtain hangs like a guillotine over Alfred Brownlow's variety troupe. Creditors are at the door, the death of music hall is just round the corner and a terrible revelation is waiting in the wings. But there's always time for one last show...

"A home grown Little Shop of Horrors" ***** Exeunt
"Oozes wicked glee" The Times
"A rambunctious mixture of Victorian variety theatre and eerie magical malady" Time Out

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The final curtain hangs like a guillotine over Alfred Brownlow’s variety troupe. Creditors are at the door, the death of music hall is just round the corner and a terrible revelation is waiting in the wings. But there’s always time for one last show…

The team behind 2012′s sell-out smash The Horror! The Horror! present an all new evening of music hall merriment and ghoulish glee.

Creeping into Wilton’s Music Hall for two nights before setting up shop at The Bedlam Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe, The Horror! The Horror! The Final Curtain is a musical slice of the macabre by acclaimed horror and suspense company Theatre of the Damned.

Age recommendation: 12+

“A home grown Little Shop of Horrors” ***** Exeunt

“Oozes wicked glee” The Times

“A rambunctious mixture of Victorian variety theatre and eerie magical malady” Time Out

(Praise for The Horror! The Horror!)

Original score by Jeffrey Mayhew
Book by Tom Richards and Stewart Pringle
Produced by George Warren
Designed by Alice Saville

2014 Tour Dates

25th & 26th July 2014 (7.30pm) - Wilton’s Music Hall, London
4th-24th August 2014 (7.45pm) - Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh

2014 Show Reviews from The Edinburgh Festival

It’s the marvellously melodious music that make this unique show what it is. After all, what’s a music hall without music? Jeffrey Mayhew’s full score of music-hall numbers is toe-tappingly catchy, capturing a cascade of gems for the golden age and evoking a glorious throwback to simpler times.  A Younger Theatre

A particular highlight was Harold Close (played by Jeffrey Mayhew, who also penned the tunes for the show). His foray into the world of an ancient Egyptian legend injected a refreshing dose of dry British wit into an otherwise whimsical show.  Edfringe

There's all the fun you'd expect from an old-fashioned music hall show: corny jokes, dance, a puppet act, a psychic and a whole lot of singing. In that regard, the performance is wonderful, and the onstage malarkey would be a credit to any real life music hall of the period. British Theatre Guide  4*

an inventive, evocative and very funny salute to and loving parody of end-of-the-pier music hall. The Stage  4*

And there is indeed a wide variety of acts to enjoy, from a 1900’s answer to Psychic Sally to a genuinely delightful, innocently saucy song in which two young women harmonise about their “brand new pennies”.  Best of all, perhaps, is a gently macabre tale told by puppets, which develops into an absolutely captivating moment of old-fashioned entertainment.  Fringe Guru 4*

4*  The Public Reviews

4*  Musical Talk 

Photographer: Anna Soderblom