What's On | Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story

Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story artwork showing a performer dressed as Buddy Holly animatedly playing the guitar. In the background are other musicians.

Photo of the smiley cast of Buddy Holly wearing jeans and shirts and playing music on a drum kit, doble bass, bass guitar, and electric guitar. The bespectacled electric guitar player is singing into a microphone. In the background, an upright piano is pushed against a textured, colourful backdrop.

Photo by Hamish Gill f8creates

Photo of a bespectacled performer wearing a striped grey suit and playing the electric guitar. He is surrounded by three other performers, wearing spangly navy costumes and smiling into vintage microphones.

Photo by Hamish Gill f8creates

Photo of three performers sat side-by-side on a black leather sofa, all wearing matching sunglasses and vintage checked blue suits, with their legs crossed and their hands resting on their knees.

Photo by Hamish Gill f8creates

Two performers stand back to back, singing into vintage microphones. One is wearing a leopard-print fur suit jacket, and the other is wearing high-waisted navy suit trousers under a frilly shirt and a tailcoat. In the background, a bass guitarist and drummer in black bow ties accompany the singers.

Photo by Hamish Gill f8creates

Alan Janes Limited presents

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story

Show Information

‘Pure unadulterated fun’
Daily Telegraph

‘The show you’ll never forget’
Daily Mail

Seen by over 22 million people worldwide.

This sensational multi-award-winning West End show first opened in 1989 and has been thrilling audiences around the world ever since. Now it triumphantly visits Exeter Northcott as part of its 2025/26 UK Tour.

Forget feel good, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is FEEL GREAT! Experience the drama, passion and excitement as a multi-talented cast of actor-musicians tell Buddy Holly’s story, from his Texas rockabilly beginnings to international stardom and his legendary final performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, before his tragic death at the age of just 22.

Featuring two terrific hours of the greatest songs ever written, including That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, Johnny B. Goode, Raining In My Heart, Everyday, Shout and many many more, this show is just Peggy Sue-perb!

Book now for the most successful Rock & Roll Musical of all time!

‘It’s Buddy brilliant!’
The Sun

Please note, the production photos are of the 2023 cast of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.

Northcott Theatre

Musical Theatre, Theatre

Running time: 140 minutes, no interval

Members Discount, Group Discount (10+), U26 Ticket Offer