You could fill a book with retro hit movies featuring cars, that’ve gone on to become West End stage plays.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Back to the Future. And now, fresh from learning that Glengarry Glen Ross is to be respun with an all-woman cast at the Old Vic, its across-the-road sister theatre, the Young Vic announces, that Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri’s Oscar and Golden-Globe-winning road movie about two women on the run in a 1966 Thunderbird convertible — will be, well, converted, into a stage show.
Starring Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker as the inseparable friends who throw off the shackles of male-dominated life for the weekend — only to have it pursue them with a vengeance across state lines — the brand-new musical adaptation is scored by Neko Case, and directed by Trip Cullman. “The politics of the original film feel more relevant than ever,” say the musical’s creators.
Presumably they’ve got a workaround for writing off a Ford Thunderbird every night of the run.
Thelma & Louise, Young Vic, 3 September-24 October 2026.
