An intimate, strongly woven musical has began its journey to stardom!
Anywhere You Go is a new contemporary musical about love, friendship and learning how to move on. The story follows Flo as she is split between her most recent breakup with Caleb and her best friend Hope’s choice to leave London to return home. The production ran as part of Camden Fringe 2026. Lizzie Jones is credited for the lyrics, music and the book of the musical. Her vision is strong and having the one creative voice has allowed the production to have a real sense of identity. Moreover, the collaboration between Jones and director/musical director Em Strang was effective in portraying this story.
Unfortunately, we were unable to make this production though we were eager to find out more, especially after interviewing the creative Lizzie Jones. When we were given the opportunity to watch the recording from August, I knew I couldn’t miss this opportunity! Due to this, this review is primarily focusing on reviewing the video itself, the songs and the storyline. If you would like to support new theatre, make sure to follow Anywhere You Go on Instagram. The cast for this production include Lizzie Jones as Flo, Isabel Hinchcliffe as Hope and Lewis Stevenson as Caleb: as well as Rumi Edozine on the piano and Em Strang on the guitar.
The production follows a non-linear storyline as the characters mix from being in the past to the present. Opening the musical is ‘Tomorrow (Opening)’ which captures the ideas of the production well and highlights Jones’ vocals specifically well. Following this, ‘Beautiful Room’ allows Flo and Caleb to have a duet which helped set the emotionally weight of the Flo struggling to move on well. Stevenson and Jones also sound brilliant together. I especially enjoy how this is followed directly by Flo and Hope’s relationship which is the most important within the narrative of the production. Both Hinchcliffe and Jones are able to change their acting effectively depending on the present/past, allowing us to understand the backstory they have. Flo beliefs around ‘home’ centralise the story, compiling with both characters singing ‘Tightrope‘: another fantastic duet. I wonder if it would be interesting if the start of the song was set in the ‘past’ and then transitions during the song to the present: it may add another aspect to the song.
We then flashback to Flo and Caleb’s relationship in which they sing ‘Nothing is Everything’, later utilised to explore Hope’s feelings of belonging: a great group number to express the current feelings of the characters. This exploration continues in ‘Sleepless‘ where Flo explores her spark and relationship with Caleb which is already starting to show rupture. Jones’ vocals are elegant and allow the song to soar. After this, more development between Flo and Hope continues and you start to sense an underlying issue in their relationship. In the past, Flo sings ‘Song to your heart’ contradicting ‘Everything is Nothing’: working well as the audiences feel the show start to head towards the end.
In the present, Hope explains to Flo how their apartment never felt like home and how she wants to feel loved. This results in her singing ‘Home’: the best song in the production. Hinchcliffe’s performance is phenomenal and her vocals are clear, strong and brilliant to listen too. After this passionate number, the reprise of ‘Sleepless‘ works well in this new context to explore Flo’s feelings: supported by Jones’ brilliant vocal performance. This conglomerates with Flo and Caleb’s conversation in ‘Anywhere You Go’ which works well to give the characters clarity. Stevenson and Jones’ vocals work very well together. The show then ends with Flo and Hope exploring their feelings in ‘Will We Ever Find Home?’, acting as a great finale number. I wonder if the show could be extent to include more roles or a long narrative. However, in it’s current version, the show already holds so much promise.
Anywhere this show goes, we will surely follow!
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