The Wizard of Oz continues at Blackpool Opera House until 30 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was good news and bad news for Dorothy Gale and her motley friends as they prepared to traverse the legendary long and winding cobbled Yellow Brick Road in search of Emerald City’s enigmatic Wizard. Just […]
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Soap favourite Kelvin Fletcher to join Blackpool’s Wizard of Oz
Emmerdale’s Kelvin Fletcher will make his musical theatre debut as the Tin Man in the Blackpool Opera House’s eagerly-anticipated Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz. The actor who played the ITV soap’s Andy Sugden for 20 years will ‘follow the yellow brick road’ alongside the previously announced 2017 X Factor finalist Holly Tandy who […]
Former X Factor star Holly Tandy to play Dorothy in Blackpool’s festive Wizard of Oz
The X Factor 2017 finalist Holly Tandy will make her stage debut in the Blackpool Opera House ‘s Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz. Tandy who was the youngest contestant in last year’s edition of the TV talent show will step into Dorothy’s ruby slippers alongside local radio star Radio Wave’s Scott Gallagher as the Cowardly […]
Shrek the Musical – Blackpool Opera House & Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 27 May 2018 as part of a national tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Time was when a major musical of this scale would have filled the Opera House stage (if not the spacious auditorium itself) for the best part of a summer season […]
The Wizard of Oz to play Blackpool in Christmas 2018
Blackpool Opera House will follow up its Christmas in Neverland by taking festive audiences over the rainbow to Oz in 2018. With Peter Pan featuring female Captain Hook Jennifer Ellison having just said farewell to audiences, tickets are already on sale for the seaside venue’s next festive musical The Wizard of Oz which will run […]
Spamalot to begin UK tour in Blackpool
The Knights of the Round Table will be galloping into towns across the UK this autumn when a major new production of Spamalot hits the road following its critically acclaimed run at Colchester’s Mercury Theatre. Presented by Selladoor Productions and the Mercury Theatre, the latest version of the award-winning musical will open at Blackpool Opera […]
Shrek The Musical is heading for Blackpool in 2018
The hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical will take over the Blackpool Opera House next May as part of its second major tour. Nigel Harman will once again take charge of the touring production of the show when the musical tale of Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey and co hits the road […]
Sell a Door Peter Pan plays Blackpool Opera House in December
Peter Pan will fly once again this Christmas when the award-winning Sell a Door family bring its version of the classic tale of Neverland to the Blackpool Opera House. Peter Pan A Musical Adventure will play the iconic Blackpool venue from Saturday 16 December 2017 until Sunday 7 January 2018. Announcing details of the Opera House’s festive […]
Shout! The Mod Musical – Blackpool Opera House
Shout! The Mod Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 3 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Are retro musicals becoming like late-night taxis? You know, you wait a while for one to come along and then two arrive at the same time. So halfway through the run of All Or Nothing – […]
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage – Blackpool and Touring
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage continues at Blackpool Opera House until 30 August and then tours until 3 June 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Threatened protests by Musicians’ Union members to disrupt the opening night of the latest tour of this stage version of the 1987 box office […]
Great Expectations at Blackpool Opera House – casting news
The Bill hard-man Chris Ellison will take on the pivotal role of the convict Magwitch in the Blackpool Opera House’s Christmas musical production of the classic Great Expectations. The television favourite will join former soap and pop star Adam Rickitt who will play the central character of Pip alongside musical theatre regulars Maureen Nolan as […]
Footloose – The Musical UK tour heads to Blackpool
Footloose – The Musical is heading to Blackpool Opera House from 19 to 24 September as part of its major new UK tour. Based on the 1984 screen sensation starring Kevin Bacon, Footloose – The Musical tells the story of city boy Ren, who has to move to a rural backwater in America where dancing is banned. All hell breaks out as Ren […]
A Christmas Carol – The Musical – Blackpool Opera House
A Christmas Carol – The Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 3 January 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Can two into one really go? Traditionally Blackpool Grand Theatre has monopolised the festive fare but this year the Opera House has raised the ante with a show of its own. As long as former […]
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – The Musical – Blackpool Opera House and Touring
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – The Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 31 October and then tours until 13 February 2016. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The good news is that at the rate retro jukebox musicals are whipping through the decades it might not be too long […]
Top West End shows head to Blackpool in 2016
Blackpool’s Winter Gardens has announced three major musical productions for the Opera House’s 2016 season. The hugely successful Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will arrive in February, followed by Blood Brothers in April, and a brand new touring production of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage in August. Commenting on the news, […]
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – full cast led by David Hasselhoff confirmed
The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of brand new musical Last Night a DJ Saved My Life starring the legendary David Hasselhoff. The Hoff, as he is known to millions of fans across the world, will lead the cast when the Ibiza-themed romp opens for the first time at Blackpool Opera […]
Cats – Blackpool Opera House
Cats continues at Blackpool Opera House until 5 September (no shows 4–9 August). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s become known locally as ‘the Mamma Mia! effect’. When the feelgood hit musical set up shop last summer at Blackpool Opera House it was as if the wheel – or at least the showbusiness […]
Tommy Steele in The Glenn Miller Story heads to Blackpool
Blackpool Opera House has added another show to its 2015 season with the announcement that Tommy Steele is to take to the stage to narrate The Glenn Miller Story. The show runs at the Opera House from 5–10 October. In this brand new production, Steele will tell the extraordinary story of the world’s most famous big […]
Cats set for summer in Blackpool
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking 2015 Olivier Award nominated musical Cats is to return to Blackpool direct from its successful season at the London Palladium. The show will run at the Blackpool Opera House for a strictly limited eight-week run from 9 July and the Blackpool performances will be the only place theatregoers can see Cats north of London […]
Jesus Christ Superstar – Blackpool Opera House and Touring
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at Blackpool Opera House until 14 March and then tours until 25 July 2015. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ As groundbreaking rock operas go few have broken more ground, so to speak, than Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s second staged collaboration. After Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and before […]
David Hasselhoff leads world premiere of new musical in Blackpool
Blackpool Opera House is to present the world premiere of the brand new musical Last Night a DJ Saved My Life starring David Hasselhoff. The Hoff, as he is known to his fans, will lead the cast in the world premiere when it opens in Blackpool this October. From the creators of Dreamboats and Petticoats and Boogie Nights comes […]
Mamma Mia! Blackpool sales top £3.3million
Mamma Mia! has been declared a smash hit for Blackpool with ticket sales totalling more than £3.3million. The international tour of the musical ended a 12-week summer season at the Opera House last night and today it can be revealed that more than 100,000 people visited Blackpool to see the show. Blackpool Council cabinet member for tourism […]
Mamma Mia! Blackpool season breaks box office records
Hit musical Mamma Mia! has broken box office history in Blackpool with more than £2 million in ticket sales in just six weeks. The figure makes the show Blackpool’s highest-ever grossing show. It is more than ten years since Blackpool hosted a full summer season but with the Mamma Mia! international tour in the town for a 12-week run, theatre bosses […]
