The Last Ship | |
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Music | Sting |
Lyrics | Sting |
Book | Lorne Campbell
John Logan (Original Book) Brian Yorkey (Original Book) |
Productions | 2014 Chicago 2014 Broadway 2016 Salt Lake City 2016 UK national tour 2019 Toronto 2020 US national tour |
The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by Lorne Campbell.
Following a UK national tour and subsequent six-week run at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, it embarked on a US national tour with the official opening at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles on 22 January 2020. Inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, an earlier version of the musical with book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey played at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in 2014. The musical received two Tony Award nominations in 2015, for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.[1]