Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story at The Grand Opera House Belfast

This sensational multi award-winning West End and Broadway show first opened in 1989 and has been thrilling audiences around the world ever since. Now it returns to The Grand Opera House as part of its 2023 UK Tour, starring AJ Jenks as, the original rock’n’roller, Buddy Holly.

Forget feel good, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is FEEL GREAT! Experience the drama, passion and excitement as a multi-talented cast of actor-musicians tell Buddy Holly’s story, from his Texas rockabilly beginnings to international stardom and his legendary final performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, before his tragic death at the age of just 22.

Featuring two terrific hours of the greatest songs ever written, including That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, Johnny B. Goode, Raining In My Heart, Everyday, Shout and many many more, this show is just Peggy Sue–perb!

Book now for The World’s Most Successful Rock & Roll Musical!

“PURE UNADULTERATED FUN” – Daily Telegraph

“THE SHOW YOU WILL NEVER FORGET” – Daily Mail

“IT’S BUDDY BRILLIANT” – The Sun

Dates:

Tue 15 August 2023 – Sat 19 August 2023

Times:

Tue – Sat: 7.30pm
Thurs & Sat: 2.30pm

Ticket Prices:

£45.00 – £25.00 Prices include maximum applicable per ticket booking fee.

Special Offers:

Groups 8+: £2 off per seat (Tue – Wed only, Band I & II only)
Groups 15+: £3 off per seat (Tue – Wed only, Band I & II only)

• Since opening at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in August 1989, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story by Alan
  Janes has played 580 weeks (4,668 performances) on tour in the UK, and 728 weeks (5822 performances) in

London’s West End – for a total of 10,490 UK performances!

 Buddy ran in the West End for over 14 years – playing the Victoria Palace, Novello, and Duchess
Theatres – making it one of the longest-running shows in London theatre history!
 Extended runs and tours have included London, the UK, Broadway, USA, San Francisco, Las Vegas,
Los Angeles, Reno, Canada, Toronto, British Columbia, Australia, Sydney, New Zealand, Germany,
Hamburg, South Africa, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Ireland,

Japan, and Singapore

 In total our Buddy Hollys have sung 17 songs 266,794 times

 Since Buddy first began there have been 27 actors playing the title role of Buddy in the West End,

on tour and on Broadway

 3,326 pairs of trousers have had to be replaced – due to Buddy knee sliding across stages

throughout the world – and 414 pairs of glasses

 The Cast album has received a Gold Disc and is ‘Buddy’ close to reaching Platinum!
 Throughout the world 13 couples have met and married while working in the company and there

have been 26 Buddy babies!