The Nightmare Before Christmas Live Show Comes To London

The Nightmare Before Christmas is coming to London this December, in two productions that will star Danny Elfman and Phoebe Bridgers. World-renowned composer Elfman starred in the original 1993 film, and will be reprising his role of Jack Skellington for the live concerts.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Live In Concert

Jack is Back! Multiple award-winning composer, songwriter and reigning Pumpkin King, Danny Elfman returns to the UK to bring back Disney’s timeless classic, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas for two very special UK shows at London OVO Arena Wembley.

This unique live cine-concert production taking place Christmas 2022 features Danny Elfman (the original singing voice of the film’s main character, Jack Skellington, and writer of all the film’s songs) performing live in sync with the full-length movie projected on the big screen, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra and very special guests including:

Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers will be singing the iconic part of Sally with the original Oogie Boogie himself Ken Page returning for this unique live cine-concert production. The show features Danny Elfman alongside original voices of the film Greg Proops and Randy Crenshaw. Angie Jaree, Baraka May, and Fletcher Sheridan will also take to stage with violinist Sandy Cameron returning for the ever-enchanting Skeleton Entr’acte.

The Nightmare Before Christmas – 1993 Film

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween — but alas, they can’t get it quite right.

Fun facts about The Nightmare Before Christmas

• The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as a Disney animator.

• As Disney was not ready for the project, Burton left the studio in 1984, and went on to produce the commercially successful films Beetlejuiceand Batman.

• Walt Disney Studios initially released the film through Touchstone Pictures because the studio believed the film would be “too dark and scary for kids”.

• Disney has reissued the film annually under their Disney Digital 3-D format since 2006, being the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3-D.

• Nightmaremarked Burton’s third film in a row to have a Christmas setting.

• Danny Elfman remembers writing Nightmares 10 songs as “one of the easiest jobs I’ve ever had.

• Nightmare has inspired video game spin-offs, including Oogie’s Revenge and The Pumpkin King.

• The film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Elfman was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and The American Film Institute nominated The Nightmare Before Christmasfor its Top 10 Animated Films list.

• At Halloween, Disneyland decorates its streets in a Nightmare Before Christmas style.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Live In Concert takes place on 9^th and 10^th December 2022 at London’s OVO Arena Wembley.

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