New tour dates

We are pleased to announce five new European tour dates.
Sunday, June 14^th: Stuttgart Theaterhaus
Monday, June 15^th: Zurich Maag Hall
Wednesday, June 24^th: Koln Palladium
Thursday, June 25^th: Berlin Tempodrom
Friday, June 26^th: Leipzig Parkbuhne

For Zurich, tickets are on sale from 9 am on Monday, March 30^th from Starticket (0900 325 325)
or Ticketportal (0900 101 102) or from the links below.

Tickets for Germany are on sale from today from the nationwide ticket hotline (01805 969 00 00) or from the link below.

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15 May 2026

Closer to Heaven

The first preview of the Jonathan Harvey/Pet Shop Boys musical, “Closer to Heaven” was performed on this day in 2001 at the Arts Theatre in London, with the official press night following on May 31^st. The original cast album was released several months later and is still available on streaming services.

Neil and Chris had originally started writing the musical together with Jonathan Harvey in 1996. “We wanted to write something that wasn’t Les Mis or Rent,” says Chris. “A play about contemporary life with contemporary music that was not long and boring.”

Since its first run of shows in 2001, “Closer to Heaven” has returned to London theatre stages several times, most recently at the Turbine Theatre in 2024. It also premiered in Brisbane, Australia in 2005, in Brighton, UK in 2009 and in Dallas, USA in 2010. And one of its main characters, Billie Trix, returned in 2019 with her own one-woman show, “Musik”, also written by Jonathan Harvey with some new Tennant/Lowe songs.

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