Go on a safari with West End/Broadway stars Alfie Boe and Lea Salonga
West End and Broadway stars Alfie Boe and Lea Salonga will come together in South Africa for the first time in a brand-new series of destination experiences. Created by Spotlight Retreats, this marks their inaugural international event, combining luxury travel with world-class musical theatre.
The first in the series, Spotlight: South Africa, will take place from 7th–11th August 2027 at the award-winning Kapama Private Game Reserve, located in South Africa’s Greater Kruger region. Over five days, guests will experience musical theatre in an entirely new way, combining private safari adventures and luxury hospitality with specially curated performances.
The groups for each Spotlight event are kept small and intimate, creating a connection that could never be recreated in a traditional theatre setting.
By day, guests will head into Kapama’s Big Five territory for safari game drives in search of lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and buffalo. By night, the focus turns to music, with exclusive performances and ‘in-conversation’ style talks from Alfie Boe and Lea Salonga unfolding against the backdrop of the African wilderness.
Alfie Boe is internationally known for his iconic performances as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. Lea Salonga is a Tony and Olivier Award winner, best known for her star-making role as Kim in Miss Saigon, and beloved by generations as the singing voice of Disney’s Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan.
Adam Howard, music director of Spotlight, said:
“Spotlight: South Africa isn’t a concert with a safari attached. We wanted to create something that simply couldn’t exist in a traditional theatre—five days where the music, the stories, and the landscape are woven together, and where our guests become part of the experience. You might spend the morning watching elephants move across the reserve, the afternoon hearing Lea or Alfie share stories from an extraordinary career, and the evening listening to some of the greatest songs in musical theatre beneath the African sky. There will only ever be one group of people who experience these five days. That’s what makes Spotlight so special.”
The Kapama River Lodge will serve as home to the Spotlight group for the duration of the experience. Performances and conversations with Boe and Salonga will be woven into the rhythm of safari life, alongside private safari drives, guided bush walks, sundowners in the reserve, and candlelit dinners beneath the stars. Guests will also have personal time to relax, reflect, and absorb the natural world.
More information can be found on https://www.spotlightretreats.com/
