James and the Giant Peach
Playing October 24-November 9, 2025
Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre
Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach is now a musical for the whole family to enjoy! Featuring a wickedly tuneful score by the Tony Award-nominated team of Pasek and Paul (Dogfight and A Christmas Story the Musical) and a curiously quirky book by Timothy Allen McDonald (Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley), critics rave: James and the Giant Peach is a "masterpeach!"
When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach... and launches a journey of enormous proportions. Suddenly, James finds himself in the center of the gigantic peach, among human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities, but after it falls from the tree and rolls into the ocean, the group faces hunger, sharks and plenty of disagreements. Thanks to James' quick wit and creative thinking, the residents learn to live and work together as a family. The dangerous voyage is a success, but the adventure takes a whole new twist once they land on the Empire State Building.
Credits
Orchestrations by August Eriksmoen
Incidental music by David Weinstein
Originally Produced at Seattle Children's Theater under the direction of Linda Hartzell
Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Words and Music by BENJ PASEK & JUSTIN PAUL
Book by TIMOTHY ALLEN MCDONALD
Based on the book
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Directed by Chris Lam
Musical Direction by Peter Abando
Choreography by Nicole Rose Bond
Audience
Family-friendly
DURATION
2 acts with intermission
CTORA Productions acknowledges that we live, work and play on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples – sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.