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Priority Booking for 2025 London West End Theatre Run of Totoro Begins Monday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Priority Booking can be accessed here on the play's new website, https://totoroshow.com.
Booking for the general public will begin from Friday May 3.
Performances are confirmed for a 34-week run from March 8 2025 to November 2 2025, although a report on the Deadline website referred to this as an "initial period."
There will be performances from Tuesday to Saturday at 7p.m. In addition, there will be Monday performances (7 p.m.) on March 10, 17, 24 and 31. There will also be matinee performances at 2 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, starting from March 22; and also matinee performances on Sundays from April 13.
The performances from March 8 to March 11 will be Reduced Price Previews.
For every performance, there will be twelve £10 tickets (limited to one per customer), available to people aged 14 to 25 and to full-time students. The offer can be accessed here at the RSC website.
The stage play's RSC executive producer Griselda Yorke said in the Deadline report that the play "will definitely have a life beyond the West End."
My Neighbor Totoro had a 15-week run from its premiere on October 8, 2022 to January 21, 2023. It was presented by the RSC and Hayao Miyazaki's longtime composer Joe Hisaishi, who created the music for the original film and serves as the play's executive producer. Tom Morton-Smith (Oppenheimer) adapted the story, and Phelim McDermott (Akhnaten) directed the production. The play was made in collaboration with the English theatre company Improbable and Japan's Nippon TV.
The play had its second run at the Barbican Centre from November 21 through March 23, 2024. Yorke reported that over 290,000 attendees eventually saw the production at the Barbican.
The play won six awards at the Olivier Awards in April 2023, and was nominated for three more. The play had the most number of nominations and wins, with nine nominations and six wins. The play also won five awards at the theatrical WhatsOnStage Awards in February 2023.
The RSC describes the production on its website:
"This enchanting coming-of-age story explores the magical fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination, as it follows one extraordinary summer in the lives of sisters Satsuki and Mei.
The original anime film My Neighbor Totoro is the story of two young sisters, Mei and Satsuki, who move to the countryside and encounter Totoro, wonderful creatures which only children can see.
