Falling for Jesus is a mortal sin, but damn it feels good!
In 1990s Peru, a brutal military coup ushers in a decade of dictatorship under the rule of Alberto Fujimori. In the home of General José and his devoted wife María, altar boy Jesús prepares diligently for his first communion. But as the biggest day of his adolescent life approaches, the hot man on the cross makes him feel something…unholy.
Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour, and Latin heat. If Bo Burnham, Bad Bunny, and Bertolt Brecht had a baby, this would be it.
JEEZUS! is the smash hit debut from award-winning migrant-led company Alpaqa. Bulging with new songs, the show comes to Salford after taking the Edinburgh Fringe by storm – this time hotter, sweatier, and even more unhinged.
Winner of the 2025 Untapped Award and The Stage Fringe Five
Each performance includes a special 15 minute preview of a brand new musical:
Tuesday 27 October: Dead Famous by Ella Langley and Stephen Hyde
Dead Famous is a biting new dark comedy musical by Stephen Hyde & Ella Langley set in the modern-day pop industry, where the “cut-throat” realities of the business are terrifyingly literal… Following the meteoric rise of exploited songwriter Evie, the show is told through a diegetic pop score of chart-ready bangers, as it takes a captivating look at the monsters the industry creates, and the fans who keep them shining.
Wednesday 28 October: Allardici's - The Big Sam Musical by Small Talk Productions
Allardici’s is a surreal comedy musical about football, nostalgia and what happens when you defy expectations.
Set in a the fictional Allardici's, a Costa Blanca lounge bar owned by Sam Allardyce, Big Sam now holds court with his regulars. Sick of the prying media and disparaging labels from football, Sam is finally away enjoying some peace. Until a group of Bolton fans arrive, keen to help him reclaim the narrative.
Thursday 29 October: Where the Asteroid Hit (And all that came before)- conceived by Finn Anderson & Neil Bettles. Music & Lyrics by Finn Anderson. Book by Stewart Melton
A kaleidoscopic new musical adventure.
For four and a half billion years, an asteroid has hurtled through space at twenty-two miles a second. Unchanging. Unnoticed. Alone.
As it travels the cosmos, it becomes captivated by a young planet called Earth. Drawn by its restless energy, dazzling transformations and extraordinary capacity for life, the Asteroid watches from afar as continents collide, glaciers advance, flowers bloom, creatures evolve and entire worlds rise and fall. But as the Asteroid's fascination deepens, it begins to discover its own place in Earth's history.
Epic in scale and intimate in spirit, Where The Asteroid Hit (and all that came before) is a joyful, moving and visually inventive musical about deep time, transformation and our shared place within Earth's story.
Friday 30 October: Flyology: A defiant new musical by Tamiko Dooley & Cathy Farmer
What happens when a tech bro tries to reboot civilisation and accidentally uploads three dead women with serious unfinished business? FLYOLOGY asks: do you comply, delete or riot?
FLYOLOGY is a defiant new musical from Tamiko Dooley & Cathy Farmer.
Tamiko Dooley (she/her) & Cathy Farmer (she/her) were nominated for 4 Fringe Theatre Awards 26/7 for their musical FLYOLOGY, including book, music and lyrics, during its 4 night run at the Union Theatre in May. FLYOLOGY won the One Act Festival “Best Musical” award 2026. Their second musical, Decorum, has been performed at The Other Palace and at the Union Theatre, following development during a creative residency at the Lowry.
Tamiko won the BBC Radio 3 carol competition 2021 (which had nearly 1000 entrants) and featured on Channel 4’s “The Piano” (Series 3, Episode 2) where Mika and Jon Batiste described her piano as “beautiful, precise and balanced”. She is a member of ATG Surrey MT Development Programme, MMD Creative Lab III, and was one of 4 composers selected for the new musical creative residency at Birmingham Hippodrome in June 2026.
