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Your Lie in April Stage Musical Will Have 12-Week Run in London's West End

The Japanese stage musical version of Naoshi Arakawa's Your Lie in April (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) manga will have a 12-week run at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End, from June 28 to September 21. Every seat at the first five preview will be priced at £25, and tickets are now available here.

A concert version of the musical previously ran at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for two performances on April 8 and 9.

The musical was slated to begin its Japanese run in July 2020, but was delayed due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. It ran at Tokyo's Nissay Theatre in Tokyo in May 2022, before touring throughout Japan in June and July that year.

Frank Wildhorn, an American composer known for songs sung by Whitney Houston ("Where Do Broken Hearts Go?") and Natalie Cole, scored the musical. Wildhorn also previously scored Death Note the Musical, and is a Broadway veteran of such hit musicals as Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Tracy Miller Schell and Carly Robyn Green co-wrote the lyrics with Wildhorn. Composer Jason Howland (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jekyll & Hyde) was in charge of the arrangement and orchestration for the musical. Ikko Ueda directed the musical, while Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Mary and The Witch's Flower) wrote the book.

Arakawa's original manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei begins to rediscover his love for piano when Kaori invites him to be her accompanist for a competition.

The manga debuted in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in 2011, and ended in February 2015. The series won the Best Shōnen Manga category in Kodansha's 37th Annual Manga Awards in 2013. Kodansha Comics released the manga in North America, and released the 11th and final volume in December 2018.

A television anime series of Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014, animated by A-1 Pictures. The manga also received a live-action film, which opened in Japan in September 2016. An earlier non-musical stage play debuted in 2017.