HOLD YOUR HORSES! PHAR LAP RACES AGAIN IN 2027
Hayes Theatre Co is thrilled to announce the award-winning sold-out hit of 2025, Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical, will return in 2027. This new Australian musical with the biggest heart returns to Sydney in an expanded, unbridled production playing at Carriageworks, before a national tour including a season at Melbourne Theatre Company, Merrigong Theatre Company, Geelong Arts Centre, The Art House Wyong, and many more.
A gangly Kiwi racehorse. A trainer down on his luck. A nation ready to believe in a long-shot. Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical is the rags-to-riches story that galloped into history, reimagined with heart, wit and a toe-tapping electro-swing score. The road isn’t easy – there are gambling scandals, double-crosses, an attempted shooting and a career-threatening addiction to sugar. It’s high stakes, high drama and highly historically accurate.
Phar Lap boasts an irresistible electro-swing score by Steven Kramer, with inspirations from Duke Ellington to Daft Punk. Brassy, lively and retro – these songs will take you from the race course to the rave hall.
It was an unprecedented sold-out hit at Hayes in 2025, and now Phar Lap gallops back to Sydney, again starring New Zealand born but Australian claimed triple threat Joel Granger (Guys and Dolls, The Book of Mormon) as the titular hero.
Winner of three 2025 Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Production of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Sheridan Harbridge) and Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Musical (Joel Granger), Phar Lap swaps horse shoes for tap shoes celebrating Australia’s big-hearted equine hero.
★★★★★ “Phar Lap is everything you’d expect from the Hayes – irreverent, funny, slightly chaotic – but the elegant story-telling, lovable characters and electric performances take it to the next level.” – Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★★ “Dazzlingly clever.” – Stage Noise
★★★★☆ “Likely to gallop into Australian musical theatre history … an odds-on favourite to sell out as soon as it leaves the starting gates.” – Limelight
★★★★☆ “Steven Kramer delivers a remarkable trifecta: great music, sharp lyrics, and an outrageously bonkers book to match.” – Cultural Binge
“Phar Lap is a really special show – it’s funny, it’s clever, it’s undeniably unique – and truly deserving of the praise it’s received as a new Australian classic. Audiences at our Hayes season were genuinely bowled over by this energetic, irreverent telling of a story that’s so deeply ingrained in our collective culture – so it’s very exciting that many more people will now have the chance to see it.” – Richard Carroll and Victoria Falconer, Artistic Directors, Hayes Theatre Co.
Pop the champagne, harness up and get ready for a wild ride. Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical is the show that will stop the nation in 2027!
PHAR LAP: THE ELECTRO-SWING MUSICAL
Book, Music and Lyrics by Steven Kramer
Director: Sheridan Harbridge
Musical Supervisor: David Gardos
Musical Director: David Youings
Choreographer: Ellen Simpson
Set Designer: Hailley Hunt
Costume Designer: Mason Browne
Lighting Designer: Trent Suidgeest
Sound Designer: Liam Roche
Arranger and Orchestrator: Jack Earle
Orchestrator and Track Producer: Steve Toulmin
Starring Joel Granger
SEASON DETAILS
Venue: Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
Season: 8 July – 8 August 2027
Times: Tues 6.30pm, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Wed & Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm
Price: From $94 Adult, $84 Concession/Group, $79 Under 35
Bookings: www.hayestheatre.com.au | (02) 8065 7337
TICKETS ON SALE NOW FROM https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/phar-lap-2027-carriageworks/
