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SHOWS

IRISH ANNIES

Irish Annie’s is a celebration of Irish culture, from the music to the comedy, featuring the well-known live 6-piece band The Shenanigans.

 Meet landlady Annie and her regular madcap customers for a fun night out of comedy, music and mayhem, featuring original tracks written for the show by Asa Murphy, along with your all-time favourite Irish tunes including Galway Shawl, Tell Me Ma, Dirty Old Town, Whiskey In The Jar, Danny Boy and many more.  The evening promises to have the audience laughing, singing, and dancing the night away.

Irish Annie's is back on a UK tour in May & June 2025 with a new version and new cast members, we will start announcing dates each day so keep posted. We are very excited to be playing some new large venues on the tour too.

The 2025 tour stars Ricky Tomlinson, Asa Murphy, Samantha Alton, Richard Barry, Lynne Fitzgerald and Leslie Longley with live band Shenanigans. Co-directed by Emma Vaudrey and Asa Murphy

BUDDY HOLLY LIVES

Buddy Holly Lives – The Music Never Died is written by and stars Asa Murphy, it celebrates 70 years of legendary music from the genius boy from Lubbock, Texas, featuring visual and audio moments in the short but legendary career of Buddy Holly.
 
Dance the night away and enjoy all the hits, performed by Asa Murphy as Buddy and backed by the live Buddy Rock n Roll Band, including Oh Boy, Rave On, That’ll Be The Day, True Love Ways, Peggy Sue, Raining In My Heart and many more.


COUNTRY DREAMING

From the writer of the hit comedy musical Irish Annie's Asa Murphy comes Country Dreaming Staring Siobhan Maher Kennedy the incredible lead singer of the River City People.

Country Dreaming follows the fortunes of Lou and her close group of friends Jay, Stan and Auntie Joan as they learn the real meaning of happiness and success.

Will budding singer Lou swap stacking the supermarket shelves to fulfilling her dream in travelling to Nashville and perform at the Bluebird Café or is this just a country dream?

This brand-new feelgood storyline has original country music by the creator of Irish Annie’s, the show takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions along with fantastic music, a wonderful cast and a live country band, we guarantee you will be laughing, dancing and living the country dream.

MACK THE KNIFE

The Story of Bobby Darin explores the life and music of the late great singer-songwriter who was one of the biggest and brightest stars of the 1950’s and 60’s. Talented writer, singer and musician Asa Murphy will bring Bobby Darin thrillingly to life on stage with the help of The Copacabana Swing Band, revisiting all those classic hits including Beyond the Sea, Clementine, Splish Splash, Up The Lazy River, Dream Lover, Queen of the Hop and of course the legendary Mack The Knife

NEW GENERATIONS

After premiering at LTF in 2022, New Generations is a heart - warming musical play by Asa Murphy that follows the journey of a mother and daughter share when the news of a new baby is announced. They both have exciting expectations about how the news arrival will affect everyone’s lives, but expectations don’t always match and see eye to eye. Both mother and daughter learn valuable lessons about compromise and forgiveness but most of all the importance of family and love. Starring Pauline Donovan, Clare Alexandra Campbell and Nathan Murphy. Featuring beautiful songs throughout performed live by Asa Murphy on acoustic guitar.


CHILDRENS SHOWS

THE MONKEY WITH NO BUM

The Monkey With No Bum. A popular children’s book which teaches youngsters to love themselves just the way they are, has been turned into a live musical for the stage. And Asa Murphy‘s charming tale The Monkey With No Bum the musical has entertained young audiences and their families at venues across the Liverpool City Region the show which features catchy original songs enjoyed sold out success when it was premiered at Liverpool Theatre Festival’s, Little Theatre Festival. Charlie is a fun loving monkey but he has one big problem. He hates his tiny flat bum things taken out and unexpected turn on his birthday when Charlie‘s parents help him find the bum of his dreams but he soon learns having a bigger better bum may not be as important as he thinks. The live stage show includes numbers like The Laughter Song, Perfect In Every Way and The Bum Bum Song.



BOING MEOW

Boing Meow The Musical this musical adaptation of new children’s book Boing Meow comes from Asa Murphy the Writer of The Monkey with No Bum Book and the Stage Production which recently premiered at LTF. Stanley is a cat and this is his story searching for the perfect place to sleep. There is nothing in this world that Auntie May loves more than her ginger cat. Stanley but like all cats Stanley loves to go wandering around the local neighbourhood looking for the best and most comfortable place to have is afternoon nap.



RICKY’S ROYAL VARIETY SHOW

Ricky‘s Royal Variety Show
Ricky Tomlinson and Asa Murphy productions are proud to bring the ever popular variety show to theatres in the north North West.
The show features some of the best cabaret entertainers in Merseyside come and enjoy some of the best music and comedy on iconic stages hosted by the true entertainment. Legend Ricky Tomlinson we guarantee you will have a right Royle afternoon.



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