Chichester Theatre Trip
August 19, 2025
Coach pick up, time to spend in Chichester, evening performance and return coach.
There may be trouble ahead, But while there’s moonlight, and music, And love, and romance… Let’s face the music and dance.
We’re invited to the musical equivalent of a finest vintage champagne. Effervescent, elegant and exhilarating, Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs, the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns…
Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s West End premiere won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out. Acclaimed American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, whose Tony and Olivier Award-winning production of Anything Goes recently wowed audiences and critics, including many of us, at the Barbican in London, and on television, comes to Chichester to stage this brand-new production.
With a few hours of free time before the show starts, we have the opportunity to enjoy the pedestrianised shopping streets of Chichester, its Cathedral or just sit down and relax with a drink and a bite to eat. It always makes for a very enjoyable trip.
For over ten years now our annual summer visit to Chichester has sold out. On the last five occasions we have taken two coaches! Whilst, with it being Top Hat, I imagine we will take two coaches, there is no guarantee and so to be sure of your place, do book early to avoid missing out.
Offer Price £75.00
per person to include return coach and front stalls theatre ticket
Pick-up 1.30pm / 1.40pm / 1.55pm / 2.20pm
Location: Dorking Halls / North Holmwood / Capel / Horsham, Park & Ride