JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Embarks on World Tour

Roald Dahl's classic James and the Giant Peach, adapted by David Wood, will tour the UK, Middle East and Asia this summer, opening at the Greenwich Theatre in London in April prior to a worldwide tour.

The plot centers on an English orphan boy called James Henry Trotter who enters a gigantic, magical peach and has a wild, surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically-altered garden bugs he meets along the way.

In 1996, a British-American fantasy film was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi and directed by Henry Selick. Starring Paul Terry as James, the film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Co-stars Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, and David Thewlis voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences. The film's composer, Randy Newman, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.