Africa Tour 2025
In August 2025 the ‘Calling Us Home’ Team begins a groundbreaking adventure…
The critically acclaimed grand-scale production of CALLING US HOME - THE MUSICAL is set to embark on a groundbreaking multi-country tour across the African continent, marking several significant firsts for the region.
‘Calling Us Home’ was previously staged in 2023 in Cape Town, drawing critical and audience acclaim. The success of the production is particularly meaningful, as it is in fact a new, grand-scale musical opera - built entirely in Africa!
2025 sees the acclaimed original musical ‘Calling Us Home’ tour to multiple countries across the African continent…
Award-winning American director Peter Flynn (“Chess”, “Funny Girl”, “Smart Blonde”, TheatreworksUSA), and writer and composer Alice Gillham (Shy Music, “Clarence Square”) have begun work on adapting the grand-scale musical for the unique challenges and opportunities of touring a cast, a crew and a world-class stage set across the African continent.
Shy Music has partnered with legendary sound designer Mark Malherbe (“Sarafina!”, “West Side Story”, “Orpheus In Africa”) and his Africa-wide company Prosound to embark on this groundbreaking adventure.
Shy Music presents
‘CALLING US HOME’
AFRICA TOUR 2025
Our story begins in Africa...
… where the beating sun bakes the earth and fever trees shimmer in the distance.
At night, the endless sky stretches across a world with stars so bright that they fill your eyes with tears and threaten to break your heart.
Far in the north a civil war is brewing. Fear is spreading and hundreds of people must flee their homeland. Nelson, a young prince of his tribe, decides against his mother’s wishes to join the army to defend his country, while his younger sister Grace must discontinue her medical studies. She must leave her home to find safety on the other side of the world. Together with hundreds of refugees, they say their heartbroken goodbyes, not knowing whether they will ever see each other again.
Countries, cities and dates to be announced soon
Tickets go on sale early 2025!
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built entirely in Africa!
‘Calling Us Home’ is a story rooted in Africa - our heartland, our homeland
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