Standing At The Sky’s Edge - Crucible/NT/Gillian Lynne

and right there, out of the window, is Park Hill itself, in all its brutalist beauty.

Snap TallPaul

I agree, I've travelled from Kent to Sheffield for the last four Christmas musicals at the Crucible, also I enjoyed SATSE so much last year I don't want to wait until 2021 for a revisit. I'll be at an early matinee.

Can then hold out for some possible discounting later in the run at the Olivier to see it there.

The performance schedule for the Crucible Theatre (world-famous  ) is now available online:

Evening performances at 7.15pm (You'll be able to catch the earlier, 'only' 51 minute train, BurlyBeaR!)
Matinee performances at 2.15pm

Press night looks like 4 December, with a 7pm start time

The first mid-week matinee is on Thursday 10 December
The first Saturday matinee is on 12 December

Dementia friendly performance on Thursday 17 December at 2.15pm

Matinees on 22, 23 & 24 December, then 29 & 30 December

No matinee on 31 December this year, so I shall have to find something else to keep myself out of trouble 

Returning to Sheffield end of 2022, and due to be staged at the National 2023

Saturday 10 December 2022 to Saturday 21 January 2023 for the Crucible leg.

"And we end our anniversary year with the triumphant return of Standing at the Sky's Edge, the epic play with music by Chris Bush and Richard Hawley."

Better late than never!!!

I take it this will be the Xmas musical replacing the ubiquitous revival?

I had cause to drive (be driven in an Uber actually) past Park Hill on t’ big roundabout and was delighted to see Granelli’s ice cream and sweet shop still in existence nestling in the foothills of Park Hill in its incongruous position just off said roundabout.

“Old fashioned spice at an old fashioned price”

I immediately thought of our very own  TallPaul of course and wondered if he had ever reached over the Granelli’s counter for a Traffic Light Lolly, a Sherbert Fountain, a quarter of Yorkshire Mixture or whatever spice he was partial to. He’s much older than me so I might not recognise his fave, obvs 🙂

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/standing-at-the-skys-edge

9th Feb to 25th March

This is on my list!

As far as I know there isn't a cast album. The album you have found on Apple Music is the Richard Hawley album with the same name as the show. The show is all Richard Hawley's music but taken from his various albums. If you're not familiar with it, a better indication of the type of music would be from the "Richard Hawley Essentials" playlist on Apple Music but obviously that will have him singing rather than the cast and isn't a playlist of all the songs in the show. I'd say "Indie Rock" is not a very precise description of his music, it's more Singer-Songwriter, more melodic than you might expect from the "Rock" term, more ballads than you might expect.