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Open auditions for Disney’s London production of The Lion King
Disney’s award-winning The Lion King is holding open auditions across the UK in a quest for talented singers and dancers to join the West End company in the future.
Frozen follows record-breaking Christmas with another extended booking period
Following a record-breaking Christmas season with box office records broken across November and December, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced another extension to the crowd-pleasing West End debut run of Frozen in response to high public demand.
UK premiere for Winnie The Pooh The Musical in 2023
Disney’s Winnie The Pooh The Musical will receive its UK premiere in the spring of 2023. Presented by Rockefeller Productions in partnership with ROYO and in association with Disney Theatrical Productions, the family-friendly musical will make its UK debut at an as yet unnamed theatre. Developed and presented by renowned family entertainment creator Jonathan Rockefeller […]
Disney’s Newsies to have UK premiere at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in November 2022
Producer Runaway Entertainment has confirmed that Disney’s Newsies, the award-winning Broadway musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and book by Harvey Fierstein, will have its UK premiere at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, directed and choreographed by Matt Cole. The strictly limited season will run from 28 November 2022. Based on […]
Frozen’s West End run extended until the autumn
Disney Theatrical Productions has announced an extension to the West End debut run of Tony-nominated musical Frozen in response to high public demand. The spectacular production which has been playing to packed houses at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane since last summer, will continue to bring Elsa’s frozen world to London audiences up […]
Covent Garden to host third Disney Pop-Up Experience
Disney fans will once again get the chance to get closer than ever before to their favourite shows when the film studios’ theatrical arm opens its Summer Pop-Up Experience in the heart of London’s Covent Garden later this month. Located in the historic Carriage Hall on Floral Street, the third Disney on Stage Summer Pop-Up […]
New cast members join The Lion King London company ahead of summer reopening
The West End production of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome 14 new members to its cast of over 50 actors, singers and dancers when the doors at its London home, the Lyceum Theatre, reopen this summer. Due to reopen from 29 July, the multi-award-winning production which celebrated two decades in the West End in […]
Disney’s The Lion King is set for a West End return in July 2021
Disney’s The Lion King will reopen in the West End on 29 July 2021, returning to the Lyceum Theatre, its London home for more than two decades, where the production has been seen by over 16 million people. Since the premiere of Julie Taymor’s internationally celebrated stage adaptation on Broadway in 1997, The Lion King […]
Beauty And The Beast’s Leicester Curve premiere run cancelled and Dublin dates delayed
The Leicester Curve debut of the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has been shelved due to the ongoing Coronavirus restrictions. Originally planned to open in Leicester in late May before heading for Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in July, the UK and Ireland […]
West End Frozen cast and new dates confirmed
Full casting and new dates have been announced for Disney Theatrical Productions’ eagerly-anticipated West End production of Tony-nominated musical Frozen. Originally due to skate into the refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the autumn, the production will now open in London on 14 April 2021 with preview performances from 2 April. The initial booking period […]
Stephanie McKeon will play Anna opposite Samantha Barks as Elsa in the West End production of Frozen
Today, on National Siblings Day, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced that Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon will play Elsa and Anna in Frozen when it reopens the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane later this year. The production opens on 11 November 2020, with previews from 30 October; and has extended booking until 30 May […]
Disney releases free musical theatre resources
Disney Theatrical Productions is the latest major organisation to offer free resources to families trying to find ways to keep children occupied during the current lockdown. Downloadable creative activities are now available for some of Disney’s most popular stage musicals including The Lion King and Frozen with more to be made available in due course. […]
Disney to host second summer pop-up in London
Disney fans will get the chance to get closer than ever before to their favourite shows when the film studios’ theatrical arm opens its second Summer Pop-Up in the heart of London’s Covent Garden later this month. Located at 21 Long Acre, this year’s Disney in the West End Summer Pop-Up will feature the eagerly-anticipated […]
The Lion King – new cast members join pack
Eleven new cast members have joined the award-winning West End production of Disney’s The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre. Now in its 18th year in the capital, the show’s new principal line-up includes Janique Charles, the Trinidad and Tobago-born actress who moved to London to join the UK touring cast of the show in 2013. […]
Exclusive first look at new Aladdin Matthew Croke
Disney Theatrical Productions has released an exclusive first look at Matthew Croke in the title role in Aladdin ahead of his first performance on 5 June 2017 at the Prince Edward Theatre. A behind-the-scenes video of Croke’s very first Aladdin transformation and photo shoot is also available now. The new musical based on the Academy […]
Newsies – The Broadway Musical – UK cinema screening review
Newsies – The Broadway Musical was screened in the UK on 19 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As far as live-action musicals go, Disney’s 1992 film Newsies was a commercial failure. The film, which was released in the UK as The News Boys, applied the song and dance treatment to a unique period […]
Broadway’s Newsies – cinema screenings on Sunday
UK audiences will get their first glimpse of the Tony Award-winning musical Newsies when it makes its cinema debut on Sunday (19 February). The one day only screenings in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand follow on from similar events in the US on 16 February and precedes screenings in various other countries on 22 […]
The Lion King – autism-friendly performance set for June 2017
A dedicated autism-friendly performance of the award-winning West End production of Disney’s The Lion King will be held on Sunday 4 June 2017. Following on from the success of previous ‘relaxed performances’, the production will be re-shaped to make the smash hit show more accessible for those affected by autism. Working closely with the National […]
The Lion King – rugby player turned stage actor Nicholas Afoa joins London cast
Former international rugby player turned stage star Nicholas Afoa will join the award-winning West End production of Disney’s The Lion King later this month. The New Zealander whose promising playing career with the All Blacks was cut short by injury, began his new career as a theatre performer when he beat 400 other hopefuls to […]
Disney’s Aladdin has West End premiere in June 2016
Disney has revealed that the Tony Award-winning new musical Aladdin will hold its West End premiere on Thursday 9 June 2016 at the Prince Edward Theatre, with previews from Friday 27 May. Broadway cast member Trevor Dion Nicholas will make his London stage debut as Genie. “In 1992, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Tim Rice’s reimagining of the Aladdin […]
The Lion King – second autism-friendly performance
Following the success of The Lion King’s first dedicated autism-friendly performance in April last year, Disney’s The Lion King is set to present a second such performance on Sunday 4 May 2014 at 1:30pm. Working closely with the National Autistic Society, the UK’s leading charity for people with autism and their families, and following a successful […]
