Paddington The Musical extends into 2028 following seven Olivier Award wins

Paddington The Musical has extended its time in the West End into 2028.

The musical, which recently won 7 Olivier Awards and 9 WhatsOnStage Awards, is playing at the Savoy Theatre.

Based on A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond and the Paddington film, presented by arrangement with StudioCanal, the piece features lyrics by Tom Fletcher, a book by Jessica Swale, and is directed by Luke Sheppard. It opened to overwhelmingly positive reviews late last year, with WhatsOnStage giving the show a big five-star thumbs up.

Paddington The Musical is now booking to 13 February 2028.

The performers playing Paddington are James Hameed (Paddington off-stage performer and remote puppeteer) and Arti Shah (Paddington on-stage performer), who jointly won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Abbie Purvis, Hassan Taj, and Ali Sarebani are the alternate Paddington on-stage performers.

They’re joined by fellow Olivier Award winners, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (Millicent Clyde) and Tom Edden (Mr Curry), alongside WhatsOnStage Award winner Timi Akinyosade (Tony), Amy Booth-Steel (Lady Sloane), Tarinn Callender (Grant), Delilah Bennett-Cardy (Judy Brown), Adrian Der Gregorian (Mr Brown), Brenda Edwards (Tanya), Amy Ellen Richardson (Mrs Brown), Teddy Kempner (Mr Gruber), Bonnie Langford (Mrs Bird), and the role of Jonathan Brown is played by Joseph Bramley, Leo Collon, Stevie Hare and Jasper Rowse.

The ensemble is Esme Bacalla-Hayes, Tiago Dhondt Bamberger, David Birch, Aimée Fisher, Jacqueline Hughes, Kellianna Jay, Sam Lathwood, Natasha Leaver, Katie Lee, Sunny Lee, Vicki Lee Taylor, Jáiden Lodge, Andilé Mabhena, Rose Mary O’Reilly, Ben Redfern, Hugo Rolland and Simon Shorten.

The creative team working with Sheppard includes Matt Brind as musical supervisor, orchestrator and arranger, Ellen Kane as choreographer, Tom Pye as scenic designer, Gabriella Slade as costume designer, Neil Austin as lighting designer, Gareth Owen as sound designer, Ash J Woodward as video designer and animator, Campbell Young Associates as hair, wig and make-up designers, Majid Adin for illustration and additional animation, Laura Bangay as musical director, and Natalie Gallacher for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting as casting director.

Nick Hockaday serves as young persons’ casting director, Javier Marzan as physical comedy consultant, with Tobago and D-Lime providing additional music consultancy.

The team responsible for the bear includes Tahra Zafar (Paddington bear designer), Audrey Brisson (Bear physicality associate director), Phill Woodfine (remote puppetry coach), and Annabelle Davis (Paddington bear casting director).

A cast album was released digitally last week.

The musical is presented by Sonia Friedman Productions, Studiocanal and Eliza Lumley Productions on behalf of Universal Music UK.