Star of the hit US TV series Mad Men, Bryan Batt is set to take London by storm this Summer as J Edgar Hoover in the world premiere of the sizzling new comedy musical, HERE COMES J. EDGAR! A COMEDY MUSICAL, which opens at King’s Head Theatre in July.

Batt makes his London stage debut in the role of the long-serving FBI boss in the eagerly-awaited stage-show, written by US comedy aristocracy, Harry Shearer (The Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap) and Tom Leopold (Seinfeld and Cheers), with a musical score written by the legendary musician, composer, arranger, and conductor Peter Matz (Barbra Streisand and Carol Burnett)

This raucous, no-holds-barred musical tells the public and private story of J. Edgar Hoover who, as director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972,  secured his position as the most powerful man in America by gathering information on the private lives of others. Yet, behind all the machismo, was his concealed sexuality, his secret partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. This was a man who stopped at nothing to use the secrets of others to build and exert his control … yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets … hidden … in plain sight.

This weird and twisted tale is told in the style of a 1950s musical romantic comedy. What emerges is a sharp and irrepressible comic musical about the love of power and the power of love … and what a simple black dress and a single strand of pearls can do for a guy!

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