Matthew Harvey – Whatever Happens Next. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ British musical theatre composer and performer Matthew Harvey has released his debut album – a compact eight-song repertoire entitled Whatever Happens Next. Having amassed performance credits in West End stalwarts such as Les Misérables and Jesus Christ Superstar, Harvey branched out […]
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Cast and extra date for Kinky Boots Drury Lane concert
The organisers of the upcoming concert version of feel-good musical Kinky Boots at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane have added an extra date, with the production now due to play two performances on 8 and 9 August 2022. As previously announced the first production of the multi-award-winning show in the West End in three years […]
LMTO to present summer concert versions of Chess, Kinky Boots and Treason
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra will present star-studded concert versions of Chess, Kinky Boots and new British musical Treason at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London this summer. Currently starring in Frozen at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Samantha Barks will take to the same stage on 1 August 2022 in another guise, as […]
A Christmas Carol – The Musical Staged Concert – Dominion Theatre
A Christmas Carol – The Musical Staged Concert at the Dominion Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nobody set out to be an Ebenezer Scrooge this year, but some are being forced into it by circumstance. We are pinching every penny in anticipation of the economic fallout of the pandemic […]
Further casting for A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
First pictures have been released of Brian Conley and co-stars in rehearsals for the eagerly-anticipated new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre this festive season. With performances due to begin on 7 December, the rehearsal shots feature Conley, Matt Jay-Willis, Jacqueline Jossa, Lucie Jones, […]
Jacqueline Jossa, Matt Jay-Willis, Lucie Jones, Cedric Neal and Sandra Marvin join Brian Conley in A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
Busted star Matt Jay-Willis will play Bob Cratchit opposite Brian Conley’s Ebenezer Scrooge in the new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre. The singer who previously appeared in the West End in Wicked and Little Shop of Horrors will play Scrooge’s downtrodden employee alongside […]
Brian Conley to star as Scrooge at the Dominion
Brian Conley will take centre stage as Ebenezer Scrooge at the Dominion Theatre this Christmas in a new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. The comedian turned musical theatre favourite will take on the iconic role in a special production featuring a cast of over 50 and the […]
Lucie Jones to release debut album featuring solo concert performance
A recording of Waitress star Lucie Jones’ well-received first West End solo concert in February this year will feature on a special deluxe edition of her debut album. Due for release on 25 September 2020, Lucie Jones – Live At The Adelphi will be available as a standard CD or as a special two-CD package […]
Song from Martin Smith’s King to be released
The team behind the critically-acclaimed 2018 Hackney Empire staging of Martin Smith’s KING will release the single ‘We Need You Now’ next Friday (26 June 2020). One of four songs recorded in 2019 taken from the musical which charts the extraordinary life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, the song is performed by […]
Cast for Zorro London concert
Zubin Varia and Robert Tripolino will complete the cast of the UK concert premiere of Zorro at London’s Cadogan Hall on 23 February. Recently seen in Ghost Quartet at the Boulevard Theatre, Olivier Award nominee Varla (Fun Home, Young Vic) will play Don Alejandro alongside Afonso (High Fidelity, Turbine Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican) as […]
Louise Dearman to go solo at Cadogan Hall
West End leading lady Louise Dearman will play her biggest solo concert to date at London’s Cadogan Hall in May. Presented by Club 11 London, the star who is famous for being the only actress to have played Elphaba and Glinda in the West End production of Wicked will take to the stage at the […]
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella In Concert – Cadogan Hall
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella In Concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It was Julie Andrews’ agent who was the first to think of Rodgers and Hammerstein adapting the tale of Cinderella as a musical for his client, Andrews having already played that part in a pantomime at the London […]
First casting news for concert version of Zorro
Ricardo Afonso will take the title in the UK concert premiere of Zorro The Musical at London’s Cadogan Hall early next year. The actor whose credits include We Will Rock You and Jesus Christ Superstar will star as Zorro/Diego opposite Broadway’s Lesli Margherita (Matilda, Dames At Sea) who will reprise her Olivier Award-winning performance as […]
A Christmas Carol The Musical – Lyceum Theatre
A Christmas Carol The Musical at the Lyceum Theatre, London. There are also performances at 4pm and 7.30pm on 17 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ An uplifting and enjoyable evening, this event was supporting ground-breaking global research into life-limiting blood conditions at King’s College London and its hospital partners. Made all the […]
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – full cast confirmed
Full casting has been revealed for this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking of Charles Dickens’ […]
Griff Rhys Jones to star as Scrooge in LMTO’s A Christmas Carol
Griff Rhys Jones will star as Ebenezer Scrooge in this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking […]
Girlfriends in Concert – Bishopsgate Institute
Girlfriends in Concert continues at the Bishopsgate Institute, London until 3 November 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With a five star cast led by Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels this performance is unmissable. If you by some chance you can’t get along, then it’s being recorded live for release on […]
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
David Thaxton and Savannah Stevenson star in LMTO’s Camelot
Olivier Award winner David Thaxton and Follies star Savannah Stevenson will head the cast of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert version of Camelot at the London Palladium next month. Thaxton, who won an Olivier Award in 2011 for his performance in the Donmar Warehouse’s Passion and has played multiple roles in the Les Misérables […]
Cedric Neal to take on title role in LMTO and Hackney Empire production of musical King
Cedric Neal will take to the stage as Martin Luther King Jr in the first performance of Martin Smith’s King in 30 years at the Hackney Empire next month. Co-produced by the Hackney Empire and the London Musical Theatre Orchestra which returns to the venue following its successful presentation of Jerry Herman’s Mack & Mabel, […]
A Christmas Carol – Lyceum Theatre
A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre, London (the show will also be performed on 18 December). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ At the front of the stage are lined up the cream of musical theatre and enough talent to fill several theatres. At the back is a 16-strong chorus, many […]
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – Michael Xavier, Gemma Sutton and Hugh Maynard join cast
London Musical Theatre Orchestra has announced further casting for its 2017 concert production of A Christmas Carol which returns to the Lyceum Theatre in London with two performances on 11 and 18 December. Multi award-winning stage and screen actor Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith, My Family, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) returns to the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. […]
Mack & Mabel – Hackney Empire
Mack & Mabel was performed by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra at the Hackney Empire in a one-off concert production. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Of all his musicals, composer/lyricist Jerry Herman counts Mack & Mabel as his favourite… and if he’d been lucky enough to be at the Hackney Empire […]
LMTO’s Mack and Mabel – David Bedella, Natasha J Barnes and Tiffany Graves cast
David Bedella [pictured], Natasha J Barnes and Tiffany Graves will take to the stage in London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s presentation of Jerry Herman’s Mack and Mabel at the Hackney Empire on 23 September. Following on from the LMTO’s sell-out return to Cadogan Hall in July with Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler’s Candide, the orchestra will […]
Candide – Cadogan Hall
Candide was performed by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra and Chorus at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonard Bernstein’s bonkers operetta inspired by Voltaire’s Candide received the one-night-only LMTO treatment at Cadogan Hall and it proved to be a glittering affair, reaffirming the London Musical Theatre Orchestra as […]
LMTO 2017 season – Mack & Mabel and A Christmas Carol complete line-up
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is celebrating its second birthday by announcing details of the last two concerts in its already successful 2017 season. Following on from the LMTO’s return to Cadogan Hall on 21 July with Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler’s Candide, there will be a performance of Jerry Herman’s Mack & Mabel at […]
Honeymoon in Vegas – Jason Robert Brown to conduct LMTO concert debut
Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will be the guest conductor when London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s plays a concert staging of his musical Honeymoon in Vegas next month. A patron of the LMTO, Brown will be the 30-strong orchestra’s first guest conductor when Honeymoon in Vegas receives its UK premiere at the London Palladium on 12 […]
State Fair – London Musical Theatre Orchestra – Cadogan Hall
State Fair at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A pre-concert announcement often signals something unfortunate but not in this instance! Conductor Freddie Tapner of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (making its debut) told us that what we were about to hear was a concert version of the much-loved film State […]
