The UK premiere and national tour of Happy Days – A New Musical, starring Heidi Range of the Sugababes as ‘Pinky Tuscadero’, opens at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley in January 2014, before beginning a national tour. Directed and choreographed by Olivier Award nominee Andrew Wright, Happy Days – A New Musical is written by Garry Marshall, the creator […]
Gregg Edelman – Crazy Coqs
Gregg Edelman’s Broadway State of Mind at the Crazy Coqs, London. After one big Broadway star in Patti LuPone last week, now London embraces another in Gregg Edelman, four-time Tony Award nominee – “or, as my brother puts it, four-time Tony Award loser!” and star of 15 Broadway shows, starting with Evita in 1979 right […]
Will Young and Cabaret on tour
Singer/songwriter Will Young will reprise his role as the Emcee in Rufus Norris’ acclaimed production of Cabaret. Following a successful West End run, the UK tour of the musical will open at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre on 28th August. Ever since winning the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002, Young has been one of the UK’s […]
From Page to Stage 2014 – Landor
Following the success of this year’s inaugural season of new musical theatre, Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Robert McWhir of the Landor Theatre have announced that applications are now open for the second From Page To Stage season from 11th February-8th March 2014 at the Landor in south London. From Page To Stage is a season of new musical theatre dedicated to the showcasing of work in development to an audience, […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Drury Lane
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Booking until 31st May, 2014. On many different levels much is expected of Sam Mendes’ production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. On one level, Roald Dahl’s story of the mysterious confectioner and his quest for a successor is a much loved piece of British culture, not […]
West End Heroes – Dominion Theatre
Performed at the Dominion Theatre, London. An idea two years in the making, West End Heroes combined a variety of West End performers with singers and musicians from the Armed Forces for a unique evening in aid of the charity Help for Heroes, hosted by Brian Conley. The military services contain a number of regular musical troupes. […]
London’s A Chorus Line closes in August
Producers have today announced that the revival of A Chorus Line at the London Palladium will close on Saturday, 31st August. Plans are currently being finalised for a European tour which will give audiences in Germany, Holland, France and beyond the chance to see the London production, prior to a UK tour beginning in autumn […]
Seth Rudetsky – Deconstructing Broadway
Performed at the Leicester Square Theatre, London. “I am obsessed with the small moments,” Seth Rudetsky admits during his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway. And how: his show is all about the small moments in various Broadway and other musical theatre shows. The moments that turn a great performance into one that is, as Rudetsky puts it, “Ah-MAH-zing”– or turn […]
Sondheim Society – Rachael Louise Miller
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents… Rachael Louise Miller, Leicester Square Theatre, London. It’s very hard not to warm to Rachael Louise Miller, the actress/singer who launched the Sondheim Society series of early-evening cabaret in the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge to rapturous applause and an almost-full house. She’s tiny, very pretty, has a typical Lancashire lass […]
Miss Saigon set for the Prince Edward
Cameron Mackintosh has finally revealed that the Boublil and Schonberg musical Miss Saigon will return to the West End in May 2014 to the Prince Edward Theatre. He said: “I find it hard to believe that it is already 25 years since I first premiered Miss Saigon in London at Drury Lane Theatre before it went on to phenomenal success around the world. “Ten […]
A Little Night Music – Yvonne Arnaud
Performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. For a single night the one and only Desiree Armfeldt graced the stage of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre by courtesy of musical director Alex Parker, a man with a passion for staging concerts and musicals with large orchestras at the core of the entertainment. He is also able to conjure […]
My Fair Lady – Kilworth House Theatre
Playing at the Kilworth House Theatre, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire until 14th July. Mitch Sebastian’s memorable staging of My Fair Lady is as well-chiselled as the astutely and beautifully designed environment of the Kilworth House Theatre in which the musical is performed, from the fine vocals of the cast to Cornelius Clarke’s black-smeared dustman, Alfred Doolittle, an old hack out of Ealing […]
