£54.50 (Non JG member)
Overview
Based on the true story of the chart-topping Cornish singing sensations and their hit 2019 movie, Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical is a feel-good voyage about friendship, community and music which smashed box office records in Cornwall. When a group of Cornish fishermen came together to sing the traditional working songs they’d sung for generations, nobody, least of all the fishermen, expected the story to end on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. Time for lunch prior to performance. It’s hard to define the emotions that wash over you as the lights go down at the start of Fisherman’s Friends – The Musical. The stage is largely dark and we can just make out the outline of a small boat being buffeted by the sea in Lucy Osborne’s clever set, emphasising the fragility of these men’s lives. And then the singing – strong, harmonious a cappella – begins and one can’t help but feel a stirring as we see the men work together in perfect synchronicity and harmony, joined by the onstage band who play various, mainly traditional, instruments and who frequently join the cast in dancing and singing. And as it goes on, everything about this show is right – the feeling of community and comradeship as well as the soaringly perfect vocals whose beat somehow gets under your skin.