14/09/2025
Shake it up Baby! opens at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre this month from 26 September to 11 October.
Andrew Schofield joined by talented young cast in show which explores The Beatles Hamburg Years. The young stars of a new musical about The Beatles’ Hamburg years had a fab time when they paid a visit to the Liverpool Beatles Museum.
Shake It Up Baby! receives its world premiere at the Epstein Theatre later this month.
Ahead of that, cast members took time out from rehearsals to pay a special visit to the Liverpool Beatles Museum in Mathew Street which boasts one of the largest Beatles collections in the world, with a wealth of memorabilia and artefacts from the band’s early year – including Pete Best’s drumkit and a guitar played by a teenage George Harrison in Hamburg.
And along with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Beatles’ world, the quartet of suited and booted young actors also turned heads outside in a Mathew Street thronged with visiting Fab Four fans. Playwright Ian Salmon’s Shake It Up Baby! runs at the Hanover Street theatre from 26 September to 11 October.
Liverpool favourite Andrew Schofield appears as the band’s first manager Allan Williams in the fast-paced show which is packed with great rock ‘n’ roll tunes played live on stage.
He is joined by a talented cast of young actor-musicians including Michael Hawkins as John Lennon, Guy Freeman as Paul McCartney, James Jackson as George Harrison and Nick Sheedy who will appear as both Pete Best and Ringo Starr.
The line-up is completed by Kieran Andrew, Andrew Copperthwaite, Grace Galloway, Connor Simkins and Jess Smith.
It’s the story of The Beatles’ two years in Hamburg, told with the classics of American rock ‘n’ roll they played across the Indra, Kaiserkeller and the Star Club, as well as here at home at the Cavern and Litherland Town Hall.
Shake It Up Baby! will give you a new view on the start of a story you only think you know.
Shake it up Baby! is directed by Stephen Fletcher, with Olivier Award-nominated George Francis as arranger and musical director and Olivier Award-nominated Carrie-Anne Ingrouille as dance consultant. Scott Millaney is lead producer.
