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Film

Furiosa

The prequel to Miller’s phenomenal, gut-wrenching 2015 thrill ride Mad Max: Fury

Road explores a young Furiosa’s life (Anya Taylor-Joy takes on the role from Charlize
Theron) before she becomes the vicious, shaved-head imperator of dictator Immortan
Joe’s resource-hoarding army. The plot is shrouded in secrecy, but with the wild
imagination of Miller at the wheel, it’s certainly one of the most anticipated films of
2024. CN

24 May

Classical

LA Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel

Barbican, London

Everyone wants a piece of Gustavo Dudamel – the curly-haired Venezuelan conducting
wunderkind who has grown up into the dynamic force on the podium of the LA

Philharmonic, and who is moving on to the New York Philharmonic’s top job in 2026.
But it’s his West Coast orchestra he brings to London this summer for two hot-ticket
performances. First up is Dvorak’s New World Symphony (natch) along with Gabriela
Ortiz’s colourful new Violin Concerto, premiered by rising star Maria Duenas. But
don’t miss the performance of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio – a collaboration with Tony
Award-winning Deaf West Theatre that nods to the composer’s own deafness,
embodying the work’s themes of courage and freedom. AC

2 – 3 June (barbican.org, 020 7870 2500)

Theatre

Mean Girls

Savoy Theatre, London

Look out, the Plastics are coming to town! The all-conquering 2004 Lindsay Lohan film
about ferocious high school cliques has become a stage musical, much praised upon
its 2017 premiere in the States. The book is by Tina Fey, the film’s screenwriter, and
director Casey Nicholaw previously triumphed with The Book of Mormon. In a
wonderfully meta move, a film version of this musical treatment is also imminent. FM

From 5 June (meangirlsmusical.com)