West End and Broadway actress Marisha Wallace has been added to the star-studded line-up for the Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival when it make its eagerly awaited debut in April 2023.
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Collabro to take final bow with farewell UK tour
Acclaimed musical theatre vocal group Collabro will take to the road for the final time in December. After eight triumphant years, the 2014 Britain’s Got Talent champions will say goodbye by visiting venues across the UK from 29 November until 16 December 2022. Featuring Michael Auger, Jamie Lambert, Matthew Pagan and Thomas J. Redgrave, Collabro […]
More stars join Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival line-up
West End stars John Owen-Jones, Sophie Evans and Lauren Samuels and vocal group Collabro will complete the main stage line-up at the first Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival in May. Owen-Jones (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables), Evans (Wicked, The Wizard of Oz), Samuels (Bend It Like Beckham, Grease) and Britain’s Got Talent 2014 champions […]
Collabro announces 2022 Christmas tour
Musical theatre vocal group Collabro will embark on a festive UK tour in late November next year. The 2014 Britain’s Got Talent champions’ Collabro – Christmas is Here UK tour will open at the City Hall, Sheffield on 29 November 2022 before heading for Carlisle, Plymouth, Newcastle, Manchester, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Bath. With a […]
Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals
Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals 2019 Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Confession time: I completely underestimated the Stages Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals. Despite having reported on the extensive programme of Q&As, workshops, cabarets, open mic sessions, theme nights and first-class headliners […]
‘It is going to be a week of how I want everyday life to be’ – Drew Baker on his role for Floating Festivals Stages
All aboard Explorer of the Seas for the Floating Stages Musical Theatre Festival at sea from 14 to 18 October 2019, leaving Southampton for Dublin and then returning to Southampton. On-board entertainment includes musical appearances by Alfie Boe, Sheridan Smith and Collabro plus the incorrigibly comic Joe Pasquale and popular show Avenue Q. DREW BAKER […]
Adrian Mole musical writers join the Floating Festivals Stages cruise line-up
The team behind the hit new British musical The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾: The Musical have joined the star-packed list of attractions due to climb aboard the second edition of Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival at Sea this autumn. Writers Pippa Cleary and Jake Brunger will offer passengers a glimpse behind […]
INTERVIEW: Eliza Jackson on Lambert Jackson’s show West End Women and how to win a place in the cast
When ELIZA JACKSON and Jamie Lambert met six years ago, it was a catalystic moment. “We were both a long way from home when we arrived at Associated Studios in London to do a postgrad course so we had a lot in common,” says Jackson who had trained in musical theatre at the National Institute […]
Details of Olivier Awards four-part Facebook series revealed
The Olivier Awards has announced details of the first episode in its new four-part series, Road to the Oliviers which launches today (Friday 16 March). Co-produced by the Olivier Awards and Facebook, the shows will be broadcast live on the Oliviers’ Facebook page at 1pm on 16, 23, 29 March and 6 April, the series […]
Winners revealed for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2017
With over 17,000 votes cast, the winners have been announced for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2017 in association with TodayTix. Dreamgirls, currently in its second year at the Savoy Theatre, wins Best UK Cast Recording, whilst Dear Evan Hansen, currently playing at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, and rumoured to […]
Interview – actor and singer Harry Kit Lee opens up about his latest solo show
HARRY KIT LEE is an actor and singer who has created So This Is Who I Am, an autobiographical show based on aspects of his life and the songs he has chosen to illustrate it. Michael Darvell wonders if this is a true picture of the performer… Did you start singing from an early age, […]
Musical theatre cruise – Floating Festival Stages – to be launched in 2018
A host of the West End’s biggest names are climbing aboard the UK’s first specialist musical theatre festival at sea. Launching on a round trip from Southampton on 15 October next year, the four-night Floating Festival Stages on board the Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas will feature some of musical theatre’s most popular stars. […]
Collabro releases third album – Home – read our review
Musical theatre group Collabro releases their much-anticipated third album Home today (3 March) following on from a live launch show at the London Hippodrome. The first release on the group’s own record label, Peak Productions, marks the Britain’s Got Talent winners’ debut as a quartet exactly 1,000 days after they first shot to fame on the TV […]
Rob Rokicki Back in London – The Pheasantry
Rob Rokicki Back in London at The Pheasantry, London. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The New York singer-songwriter Rob Rokicki stopped off at The Pheasantry on his way to Berlin and delighted a Sunday sell-out audience with 25 compositions that are making him one of the more exciting new writers in musical […]
Sam Bailey in Concert – Lyric Theatre, London
Sam Bailey in Concert was presented at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For a pop supremo who claims to dislike musical theatre, Simon Cowell heads a media empire that has propelled an increasingly large number of performers towards the genre. The very first series of The X […]
Interview – Sam Bailey – a passion for musical theatre leads to dream West End concert
SAM BAILEY, the 2013 winner of X Factor, is to perform a one-off concert of musical theatre songs, Sam Bailey – Live in the West End, at London’s Lyric Theatre on 12 October, with guest stars including Collabro, Michael Xavier and Scott Alan. She talked to Ollie Wilson about the show and her love of musical theatre. How did […]
X Factor winner Sam Bailey West End concert – guests includes Michael Xavier and Scott Alan
Sam Bailey, who won ITV’s The X Factor in 2013, will take the stage in London’s West End for the first time in her career for a one-off concert at the Lyric Theatre. Bailey and a plethora of special guests will perform an evening of musical theatre on 12 October 2015. Winners of Britain’s Got Talent, Collabro; two-time Olivier Award nominee Michael Xavier; and US […]
Pasek and Paul’s Edges at London Theatre Workshop is produced by Collabro’s Michael Auger
Michael Auger (one fifth of Collabro, Britain’s Got Talent winners 2014) has set up a brand new production company, Peak Productions, with the sole aim to spread the word of musical theatre and to give back to the industry which led to him, as part of Collabro, to become an international artist. Peak Productions believes in encouraging performers […]
West End Heroes – Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro lead line-up
Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro will headline the 2014 West End Heroes gala concert at the Dominion Theatre on Sunday 28 September. The chart-topping group – the fastest selling new British band of 2014 – will be perfoming a song from their debut No. 1 album Stars. They will join double Olivier Award winner and recording artist Michael Ball who is hosting as […]
