Two graduates reconnect each year as their lives diverge and intertwine.
Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel, the musical follows Emma and Dexter, who meet on the night of their university graduation. Their story unfolds over the course of many years, revisiting the same date annually as their lives take different paths. Through changing careers, relationships and circumstances, they remain connected by a bond that evolves with time.
The production stars Jamie Muscato (The Great Gatsby) and Sharon Rose (Sylvia) as Dexter and Emma. Adapting Nicholls’ internationally acclaimed novel for the stage, the musical traces the pair’s relationship through key moments of adulthood, exploring how individual choices and chance encounters shape the course of a lifetime.
The production brings the novel’s distinctive structure to the musical stage. Spanning years of friendship, ambition, disappointment and reconciliation, the story follows two people whose lives continue to intersect long after a single day changes them both.
