Get ready for Monday 3 February 2025!

That’ll Be The Day Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story goes on sale at Blackpool Grand Theatre in a special commemoration of the spec-tacular rock and roll star.

You’ll have just 365 days to book before this record-breaking musical will Rave On back into Blackpool on Tuesday 3 February 2026!

Shout out for tickets for BUDDY – THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY this February!

The most successful rock ‘n’ roll musical of all time is coming back to Blackpool Grand Theatre from Tuesday 3 February to Saturday 7 February 2026 and will open on the anniversary of The Day The Music Died…

To commemorate this legendary date in music history, Blackpool Grand is opening the sale for tickets for this smash-hit musical sensation on Monday 3 February 2025 with a chance to book Everyday for a whole year until Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story comes back to the Grand stage in 2026.

Loved by critics and audiences alike, Buddy tells the enduring story of the musical icon’s meteoric rise from his Southern rockabilly beginnings to international stardom. In just 18 short months, the bespectacled boy from Lubbock, Texas, revolutionised the face of contemporary music and would influence everyone from The Beatles to Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones. His legendary final performance took place at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, the night before his tragic and untimely death on 3 February 1959, at the age of just 22. This then famously became known as ‘the Day the Music Died’ as American singer/songwriter Don McLean called it in his song American Pie.

This magnificent multi award-winning West End show features two terrific hours of the greatest songs ever written, with over 20 of Buddy Holly’s biggest hits – including the timeless classics That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Everyday and Rave On. Add to that, the Big Bopper’s Chantilly Lace, Ritchie Valens’ La Bamba, and rip-roaring versions of Shout, Johnny B. Goode and many, many more performed by a multi-talented cast of actor-musicians and this show is just Peggy Sue-perb!

Writer/Executive Producer Alan Janes says: “It really is incredible, over 35 years since we first opened, the show is back still spreading joy to every corner of the country. This is testament to a wonderful, extremely talented cast and some of the finest Rock & Roll tunes ever written by the one and only Buddy Holly.”

Buddy has inspired a generation of multi-million ticket selling jukebox musicals yet remains a true original and musical phenomenon. Seen by over 22 million theatregoers since it first

opened in London’s West End in 1989, this ‘gem of a musical’ continues to have audiences dancing in the aisles across the globe!

Five Fabulous Facts About Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story:

• Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story ran in the West End for over 14 years – playing the Victoria Palace, Strand/Novello, and Duchess Theatres – making it one of the longest-running shows in London theatre history! Buddy also became the first West End production to tour the UK while still playing in the West End in 1991, setting a record of 243 weeks of continuous touring, or four years 35 weeks on the road!

• Since Buddy opened there have been 27 actors playing the title role of Buddy in the West End, on tour and on Broadway and the Buddy Hollys have sung 20 songs 271,666 times!

• 3,338 pairs of trousers have been used and replaced – due to Buddy knee sliding across stages throughout the world – and 434 pairs of glasses!

• Since 2006 the role of Buddy has been shared by two actors each doing four performances a week – so you won’t see an understudy in the lead role!

• Throughout the world 14 couples have met and married while working in the company and there have been 28 Buddy babies!

Don’t be Crying, Waiting Hoping for tickets for this multi-award winning musical phenomenon!

Jive to The Grand and book your seats now from this Monday 3 February!

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is at Blackpool Grand Theatre from Tuesday 3 February to Saturday 7 February 2026 with evening and matinee performances.

Tickets from £15 will go on sale from Monday 3 February 2025 with group/schools rates available and concessions for 1894 Club members and Friends of The Grand. Please call the Grand Theatre Box Office on 01253 290190 or visit www.BlackpoolGrand.co.uk for full listings, bookings and further information.