Breakfast At Tiffany's Tickets

With just over two weeks to go before the West End run of Breakfast at Tiffany’s ends and Georgia May Foote replaces Pixie Lott as Holly Golightly to complete the last two months of the UK & Ireland Tour, the production has already sold over 200,000 tickets, with Pixie Lott selling 119,550 tickets over her 19 weeks’ performances, which represents a sell through of 80% of capacity.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is currently playing a limited twelve-week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, in London. I had high expectations of the show, but I came away feeling underwhelmed. Whilst Pixie Lott, who stars as Holly Golightly, is superb and acts as well as she sings, the overall show drags. There are some really nice songs in the production (Moon River and People Will Say We're In Love being my two favourites) which help to pick up the pace at times, but there needs to be more of this. It seems to me that the show half-heartedly commits to being modern, and artistic, but has missed the mark by a fraction, and this creates quite a clash with the more classic tone of the play: it is almost stylistic, almost down-to-earth, almost modern, and almost quaint.

Pixie Lott steps into the iconic role of Holly Golightly, made famous by Audrey Hepburn, in a play adaptation of Truman Capote’s well-loved novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. The pop princess captures Holly’s surface level charm and shallowness; she swans around the stage with a playful elegance but ultimately fails to win the hearts of the audience with any of the complex emotional depth that the role requires. The production is aesthetically beautiful, the setting is 1940’s New York rather than the 60’s style of the film, and the costume design is stunning but the glitz and glamour doesn’t compensate for the real lack of depth to the central character.

The full cast has been announced for the 2016 UK and Ireland Tour and the West End limited season of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, adapted by Richard Greenberg and directed by Nikolai Foster.

Verity Rushworth will play the role of Holly Golightly on the UK Tour of Breakfast at Tiffany’s from 2 May to 11 June 2016, appearing at His Majesty’s Aberdeen, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Bath, Glasgow Theatre Royal, King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Wycombe Swan. She will be sharing the role with Pixie Lott, whose dates have been previously announced.