Crush Hour: A Musical

Name: Crush Hour: A Musical
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SKU: PD_3ZFS_000001UK
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Crush Hour: A Musical

By: Freya Slipper, Doug Crossley, Spring Day, Leila Navabi

Narrated by: Ellie Goulding, Douglas Booth, Rory Kinnear, Layton William, Omari Douglas, Keziah Joseph, Aneurin Barnard

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Crush Hour: A Musical follows the stories of unknowingly connected strangers in London as they navigate love during rush hour. Various chance encounters on tubes, taxis, trains and bikes result in hilarious outcomes in this festive musical drama

Grammy-nominated and two-time Brit award-winning singer Ellie Goulding plays Ash, who every day takes the same morning train as her dream man, Rob (Douglas Booth). Lola (West End star Samantha Barks) finds herself on the night Tube desperately trying to place the man in front of her (Aneurin Barnard) but she knows the cardinal rule of not speaking to people on the Tube. A hapless Jay (Layton Williams) is lost somewhere between Kings Cross and Bloomsbury, and finds himself taking an Uber with a tipsy Jonny (Omari Douglas) who does little to calm his nerves. And Martin (Rory Kinnear) and Debbie (Julia Davies), try to gather an audience to watch their vow renewal ceremony on Christmas Eve in Kings Cross station. Soon, it becomes clear that the characters are all entwined in one way or another, just in time for Christmas Day.

The Crush Hour original soundtrack with the full cast ensemble also includes Nick Collier, aka Ella Vaday (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones), Keill Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts) and Ben Bailey-Smith (The Split).

Crush Hour was created and written by Freya Slipper, directed by Chris Foggin (Fisherman’s Friends, Traces), composed by Chris Read with an original score performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The series features episodes written by Doug Crossley, Spring Day and Leila Navabi. Crush Hour was produced by Marc Robinson, Mark Hopkins and Claire Rhodes, and developed in association with Twenty Thirteen Films.

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Crush Hour

Ash, Fran and Rob arrive at Kings Cross Station

Can romance emerge from an embarrassing moment?

Jay and Jonny were strangers before they shared a taxi

Crush Hour
Ash, Fran and Rob arrive at Kings Cross Station

Can romance emerge from an embarrassing moment?

Jay and Jonny were strangers before they shared a taxi

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Ep 1: The Train

Nov 17 2022

ASH AND ROB: THE TRAIN

Ash’s dream guy gets on her train every day and she’s obsessed. Everyone in her office knows about ‘Train Guy’. So, when her work bestie, Fran, sees someone referencing the ‘girl with the green coat’ in the newspaper’s ‘Crush Hour’ feature, she’s pretty sure that Train Guy feels the same about Ash. But there’s a lot of ‘train guys’ and a lot of girls in green coats in London.

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31 mins

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Ep 2: The Taxi

Nov 17 2022

JONNY AND JAY: THE TAXI

Jay’s lost somewhere between Kings Cross and Bloomsbury trying to get to a University Interview after his train was delayed. He calls an Uber, worried he’ll be late, (being late just doesn’t happen to Jay). However, when it turns up, with a tipsy Jonny inside, he realises the journey isn’t going to do much to calm his nerves.

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27 mins

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Ep 3: The Tube

Nov 17 2022

LOLA AND JOEL: THE TUBE

Lola’s been made redundant and only six people came to her leaving do. There was a lot of booze. Now she’s on the night tube, feeling queasy and trying to place the face of a man in her carriage – where does she know him from? Joel has been working late again and the only thing he’s thinking about is sleep. Until a woman on his carriage is sick everywhere – where does he know her from? In this hazy, nighttime episode, we hear the inner monologues of two people who know that talking to anyone on the tube is a cardinal sin, but tonight they are going to have to break the rules.

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27 mins

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Ash | Faversham | User interface designer | Live in faversham but work in London. I'm quite organised when it comes to work. I think Christmas songs are only for December. Known to mix up green and khaki. I guess you could say I'm a bit of a romantic...

Rob | London | Researcher | I'm kinda a shy guy, newly single, so not looking for anything serious right now. je parle Francais and j'adore Baileys and cats.

Jay | Leicester | Astrologist - Astronomer | From Leicester. Visiting London and need some help around the big city! I love staring at the stars. More of a physical maps than a sat nav kind of guy, but trying to be more of a comet... Bit of a mummy's boy.

Jonny | Faversham | Advertising | Scorpio... Love me a spressy tini!!! I'm nothing if not predictable.

Lola | Hounslow | Looking for a new opportunity | A foodie that's currently changing career paths. I have enough embarrassing stories to last 100 years. Take me for a drink and I might tell you.

Joel | Turnpike Lane | Lawyer | Something you wouldn't believe about me, I used to play the flute. I try not to think, I just do.

Ben | Scottish Londoner | Bus driver | Perfumer | I'm your friendly local trainee bus driver. I see all the sights from my driving seat, so I know loads of places we could meet (and I might sweep you off your feet!).

Emma | Crouch End by way of the US | Publishing intern | Big dreams and world domination! When someone tells me it's impossible, I just want to do it more.

Fran | North London | Media executive | Work hard play hard is my mantra. Looking for someone to sweep me off my feet (and straight into a cocktail bar ideally).

Pilar | Searching for a place to call home in London | Doctor | I'm a vegetarian doctor from Spain. I'm new to London and really open to trying new things but I can't promise I'll be very good at them.

Martin | Crouch End | Managing at a marketing & media company | The niece set me up on this app so forgive me as I'm still learning how to reply to the texts. I would say I am willing to take risks in the name of love (otherwise I quite like routine haha). looking forward to hearnign from you, Martin.

Debbie | Crouch End | Physiotherapist | A master chef who likes her creature comforts.

Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding is a multi-platinum-selling, BRIT Award winning and GRAMMY nominated, British singer songwriter, amassing record sales of 18 million albums, 140 million singles and 23 billion streams worldwide. Ellie is a long-standing activist and philanthropist who uses her platform to engage young people with global issues.

Douglas Booth

Douglas Booth's career spans across film, TV, theatre and radio. He starred in the BBC's adaptation of Great Expectations, as well as playing Boy George in Worried About the Boy.

Layton Williams

Layton's career spans across TV and film, but is best known for his successful West-end career, appearing in sell-out shows such as Billy Elliot, Rent, Hairspray and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.

Omari Douglas

BAFTA-nominated actor Omari can be seen in his breakthrough role in Russell T Davies’ acclaimed series It’s a Sin. As well as this, Omari features in And Mrs and I Hate Suzie Too.

Samantha Barks

Samantha stars as Elsa in the hit West End production of Disney’s Frozen. Samantha garnered rave reviews and acclaim for her performance as the iconic 'Eponine' in Universal’s Les Misérables.

Aneurin Barnard

Aneurin is an award winning actor, best known on stage for his Olivier winning performance in Spring Awakening and on screen for his roles in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, BBC series Time and Peaky Blinders.

Christy O’Donnell

Christy O’Donnell is a singer and actor best known for Find Me In Paris and Moon Dogs. In 2021 Amazon Music added Christy to their prestigious list of artists to watch.

Lizzie Annis

Lizzie recently made her stage debut opposite Amy Adams in The Glass Menagerie in the West End. Later in the year Lizzie will be seen as a leading series regular role in The Witcher: Blood Origin for Netflix.

Keziah Joseph

Keziah is an award-winning actress working extensively in theatre, including Olivier nominated Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Offie-winning Language of Kindness, and in radio and animation: The Archers, Dr Who, Octonauts.

Alicia Corrales

Alicia Corrales (They/She) is a Queer, Hispanic / Scottish performer from Glasgow. Alicia made her professional debut in Six the Musical, and has since gone on to continue on the UK tour and West End.

Rory Kinnear

Rory is an English actor and playwright who has worked with many companies, amongst them the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films.

Julia Davis

BAFTA winner Julia acts, writes and directs; working in tv shows like Gavin and Stacey, Nighty Night, *Sally4ever *and films like Four Lions and Phantom Thread

Paul Kaye

Paul has a fantastically wide range of dramatic and comedic accents and loves nothing more than going ‘off the leash’ when improvisation is called for. He also sings like an angel, and acts like one too...

Kiell Smith-Bynoe

Kiell is an actor and writer best known for leading roles in hit BBC sitcom Ghosts, BAFTA-Award winning Stath Lets Flats and his own comedy special Red Flag on Channel 4.

Ben Bailey Smith

Ben's career began under the alias of Doc Brown, before diversifying into mainstream TV and film acting, screen writing and children's picture books and novels.

Ella Vaday

Nick Collier, also known as Ella Vaday, is an English drag queen, actor and dancer - best known for being a finalist on the third series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

Meet the writers of Crush Hour

Freya Slipper

Freya Slipper won the main award at the Funny Women Awards with her double act Thankless Child, and her solo live show Linda went to the Edinburgh fringe and then transferred to London for a run at the Soho Theatre. She is currently developing ideas for audio, and has a television idea in development with Big Talk, with her writing partner Shivani Thussu.

Doug Crossley

Doug is a writer and performer who grew up on the mean streets of Stoke on Trent. He develops work for TV, Theatre and Audio. Credits include his debut solo theatre show Give Me One Moment In Time (Pleasance Futures/Oxford Playhouse), Between The Riot and The Rainbow (Arcola Theatre), Life Support (York Theatre Royal/Theatre503) and 12 Miles from Nowhere (Action Transport Theatre). He honed his writing skills in invited writer’s groups at the Royal Court, Soho, Bush, and Arcola Theatres, having started to write whilst training as an actor at the BRIT School and Guildford School of Acting. He was a finalist for the Mercury Weinberger playwriting prize; Writer-on-attachment with Oxford Playhouse; and won a place on the BAFTA Rocliffe Forum List for his original sitcom, Fairies. He can also be found performing improv comedy on a house team at The Free Association in London. In addition to this Doug has worked in advertising, creating ads for household brands and developing content for leading charities and causes.

Leila Navabi

Leila is a 23 year old writer and comedian from South Wales. Described as 'the actual future of comedy' ( LMAOnaise), in 2021 she co-wrote and starred in the BBC iPlayer series Vandullz. It was met with acclaim, dubbed 'an engaging character-driven comedy' ( Chortle). Since being invited into BBC Writersroom in 2017, she has written on shows including Never Mind The Buzzcocks (Sky), Yesterday Today and The Day Before (Comedy Central), United Kingdoms (BBC Radio 4), BAMESHOW (BBC Radio 4) and Tourist Trap (BBC One Wales). Recently named a 'breakthrough writer' by BBC comedy, she is currently writing on Jack Whitehall's Bad Education and Spencer Jones' new ITV comedy series Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, with her original BBC Radio 4 drama I've Been So Touched out soon.

Spring Day

Spring (as seen on Live at the Apollo) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Spring’s uniquely acerbic and sassy style of comedy is always a crowd pleaser, or shocker... A fluent Japanese speaker and a mild cerebral palsy haver, Spring began her career headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store while based in Japan. She has written, produced, directed and performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also written for and appeared in BBC Three sitcom Jerk.

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it's an amazing story with musical scenes, it sheeds the light on millions of commuters distracted by their screens, and if you simply stop and look up you might even find love :)