The Stephen Sondheim Society has announced the 12 finalists in the running for the 16th annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY).
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Fra Fee and Amy Lennox will lead the West End Cabaret cast change
Fra Fee and Amy Lennox will take on the starring roles in the critically-acclaimed new London production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre) from 21 March until 25 June 2022. Fee (The Ferryman, Royal Court/Gielgud Theatre, London/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, Candide, Menier Chocolate Factory) will take on the role of […]
Cast for workshopped new musical Daisy revealed
Jason Manford and Rachel Tucker will feature in the cast of a workshop production of new Irish musical Daisy next month. Manford (Curtains, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Tucker (Come From Away, The Last Ship) will appear with the show’s creator, singer/songwriter and actress Caroline Kay (taking on the title role), with Jessica Cervi (The […]
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding reunite for outdoor staging of A Little Night Music
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding will star in a special outdoor version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s evocative A Little Night Music in London. The pair who previously appeared together in the National Theatre’s hit production of Follies will reunite for the socially distanced concert performance in Holland Park on 15 August 2020. They […]
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2020 – a virtual concert streamed online via YouTube. While the annual Sondheim Student Performer of the Year contest fell victim to Covid-19, the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize which has run alongside it since 2008 was happily saved with the bonus of top musical theatre […]
All-star line-up for Stiles and Drewe Prize online concert
A host of West End stars have been enlisted to perform the shortlist of 15 compositions in the running for the 2020 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize in a virtual concert to be streamed online next Sunday (5 July 2020). With musical direction by Steve Ridley, the songs will be performed by: Allyson […]
Masterclass for Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year candidates
The team behind the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY) has organised a special masterclass and Q&A to help fill the void left by the shelving of this year’s contest due to the Covid-19 crisis. The 70 students who had been due to travel to London for the selection process to find […]
Star-studded online concert Kings Of Broadway 2020 will celebrate the work of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim
Kings Of Broadway 2020, an online concert celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim (the latter two whose lyrics will also be celebrated), will premiere at 7pm on Sunday 31 May 2020 via the ‘Quick Fantastic’ channel on YouTube. The evening will feature a cross section of […]
The Barricade Boys and star guests unite for NHS-inspired performance of ‘Bring Him Home’
The Barricade Boys have joined forces with a number of fellow Les Misérables stars to perform a special version of ‘Bring Him Home’ in a tribute to NHS staff on the frontline during the coronavirus crisis. With an introduction by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, the virtual performance features the popular musical theatre-themed group alongside […]
Christine Allado, Fra Fee and Wendi Peters head up cast of The Clockmaker’s Daughter concert performance
Wendi Peters will join several of the West End stars who featured on the recent studio recording of The Clockmaker’s Daughter for a concert performance of Webborn and Finn’s magical musical next month. Former Coronation Street regular turned stage star Peters (Wonderland, Follies in Concert) will appear alongside Christine Allado, Fra Fee, Lauren James Ray […]
On the Town – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
On the Town at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There was a buzz in the air at the Royal Albert Hall because the audience attending a John Wilson concert know what’s in store and they were not disappointed. It was a celebratory […]
Stars line up to record The Clockmaker’s Daughter studio album
Five leading West End stars will lend their voices to a new studio recording of Webborn and Finn’s The Clockmaker’s Daughter. Currently starring as Peggy Schuyler in Hamilton, Christine Allado (In The Heights) will record the role of Constance alongside Ramin Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies) as Abraham, Fra Fee […]
New British musical The Rhythm Method showcases at the Landor Theatre
A new British musical that tackles the subjects of sex, relationships and contraception will play seven showcase performances at The Landor from Monday 14 to Friday 18 May 2018. With a cast that includes award-winning actor Fra Fee (The Ferryman) as a ground-breaking scientist, The Rhythm Method will offer a unique mixture of performance, expert input […]
Stagedoor to present new podcast series featuring West End performers
Musical theatre stars feature heavily among the leading West End performers featured in a series of conversations that make up Ad Lib, a new theatre podcast launched by popular London theatre app Stagedoor. Hosted by director Kirk Jameson, the conversations with some of London’s most exciting performers will be released in seven episodes available every […]
Sondheim: Smiles of a Summer Night – Cadogan Hall
Sondheim: Smiles of a Summer Night at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Two hours of nothing but Sondheim with an orchestra of 33, eight gifted soloists, 11 backing singers and 24 examples of his finest work – no wonder there were plenty of Smiles of a Summer […]
The Wind in the Willows – Theatre Royal Plymouth
The Wind in the Willows continues at the Theatre Royal Plymouth until 22 October. The production will then open at The Lowry in Salford and Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, prior to opening in London’s West End. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On 8 October 1908, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows was first published. Now, 108 […]
Two songs from The Wind in the Willows musical released
Two songs from the highly-anticipated major new musical theatre adaptation of The Wind in the Willows have today been released. With music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, the tracks feature Rufus Hound as the lovable menace Mr Toad in ‘The Amazing Mr Toad’ and the full cast performing the opening song ‘Spring’. Premiering at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 8 October 2016, the production […]
Wind in the Willows – first look at rehearsal images
Rehearsals have begun for the highly-anticipated major new musical theatre adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, created by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Premiering at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 8 October 2016, the production will then open at The Lowry in Salford and Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, prior to opening in London’s West End. The production stars Rufus […]
The Fix – Union Theatre
The Fix continues at the Union Theatre, London until 6 August. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ When a US senator dies in the middle of having sex with a prostitute, his widow wastes no time in attempting to re-secure her family’s place in political history. Hiring her brother-in-law to coach her […]
New Union Theatre patrons Ruthie Henshall and Stephen Mear back The Fix
New Union Theatre patrons, West End leading lady Ruthie Henshall and award-winning choreographer Stephen Mear, joined the cast and crew of Atomicus Entertainment’s production of The Fix to promote the first show to play the state-of-the-art theatre space. Commenting on her decision to take on the role of patron at the new Union, Henshall said: “The success of […]
The Wind in the Willows – Rufus Hound and Fra Fee among cast
Casting has been revealed for the major new musical theatre adaptation of The Wind in the Willows head of its world premiere at Theatre Royal in Plymouth from 8 October 2016, followed by dates at The Lowry in Salford and the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, prior to opening in London’s West End. Comedian, actor and presenter Rufus […]
Putting it Together – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Putting it Together continues at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 19 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s not just that Blunt Fringe Productions is doing what no one else in Northern Ireland is doing, it’s that they do it so well. Musical theatre has long been ill served by professional […]
The Last Five Years – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The Last Five Years continues at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast until4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Irish premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s touching two-hander The Last Five Years finds Belfast’s Blunt Fringe Productions measurably growing in confidence in a compact but altogether captivating production by director Stephen Whitson. Founded in late 2013, […]
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens – Criterion Theatre
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at the Criterion Theatre, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Started in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt memorialises the lives lost to HIV with a series of personalised panels that, as they have become stitched together, form the largest – and yet most intimate – piece of public art […]
Amy Lennox replaces Laura Tebbutt in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Amy Lennox will play Cathy opposite Fra Fee as Jamie in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, replacing the previously-announced Laura Tebbutt who is no longer available for the run. Lennox will then go straight into rehearsals for the UK premiere of Kinky […]
Fra Free and Laura Tebbutt star in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Fra Fee and Laura Tebbutt are set to star in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, playing the roles the two performers have dreamt of since they met at the Royal Academy of Music back in 2009. Fra Fee read music […]
A Little Night Music – Palace Theatre
A Little Night Music 40th anniversary concert at the Palace Theatre, London. Star rating: 4 stars **** This semi-staged one-off concert version of A Little Night Music, perhaps the richest of all Stephen Sondheim’s scores in a most attractive and amusing storyline, was always likely to please and it certainly didn’t disappoint. Given that producer Alex Parker had assembled musical theatre’s creme de […]
Curtain Up! – Royal Academy of Music 20th Anniversary Concert
Curtain Up! Royal Academy of Music’s 20th Anniversary Concert at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. From the music hall delights of Harry Lauder’s ‘Stop Your Tickling Jock’ to The Lion King, Les Mis and Sondheim, right through to Jason Robert Brown, Luther Vandross and Freddie Mercury… the Royal Academy of Music’s 20th anniversary bash ran the whole gamut […]
An Afternoon with the Sondheim Society – Alex Parker & Friends
An Afternoon with the Sondheim Society and… Alex Parker & Friends at the Leicester Square Theatre, London. For a young man of 23, multi-talented Alex Parker has packed plenty into his burgeoning career. But you ain’t heard nothing yet. This fiercely ambitious musical director-pianist-composer’s credits already include a concert version of A Little Night Music, […]
Candide – Menier Chocolate Factory
Candide continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, until 22 February 2014. Menier Chocolate Factory’s last musical Merrily We Roll Along was a huge hit, even transferring for a successful run in the West End and being made into a movie, but it is hard to be as enthusiastic about the theatre’s revival of Candide. […]
Menier Chocolate Factory presents Candide
Fra Fee, Cassidy Janson, Ben Lewis, Scarlett Strallen and David Thaxton have been cast in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Christmas musical Candide with music by Leonard Bernstein, book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Richard Wilbur and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Park and Bernstein. From Westphalia to […]
