Hairspray continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 7 September 2024. The tour continues until 19 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ In the end the Milton Keynes audience couldn’t stop their dancing feet – which bodes well for the rest of the tour.
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Musical theatre debut for singer Michelle Ndegwa in Hairspray on tour
Soul and gospel singer Michelle Ndegwa will make her professional acting debut as Motormouth Maybelle in the upcoming UK and Ireland tour of Hairspray.
London return for musical theatre-themed RE:arrangement
Award-winning musical director Nick Barstow will bring his hit concert series RE:Arrangement back to London later this month at Udderbelly’s London Wonderground for one night only. After debuting at Crazy Coqs in London and entertaining audiences aboard the Stages Floating Festival musical cruise in 2019, musical director, composer and arranger Barstow will bring his musical […]
Fundraising Best of the West End concert at Royal Albert Hall announced
A host of the West End’s brightest stars will take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for a special concert in aid of Acting For Others on 21 July 2021. Presented by Alpha as part of the iconic venue’s 150th anniversary season, the third concert in the popular The Best of the West […]
Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East Theatre
Starting Here, Starting Now continues at the Waterloo East Theatre until 18 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire are together best known as collaborators on revue show Closer Than Ever, but their history dates to their days as Yale students together. After leaving university, they […]
Queen’s Brian May joins quartet of West End leading ladies for charity single
Rock superstar Brian May has joined forces with four of the West End’s most distinctive female voices to produce a special fundraising single to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Available for digital download from Friday (23 October 2020), the new version of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s 1962 classic ‘I’m A Woman’ features long-time May […]
Hairspray – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Hairspray was reviewed at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; the tour then continues until 3 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Off to a head start (if you’ll forgive the pun) in the Donald Gordon Theatre at Wales Millennium Centre, this brand new touring production of Hairspray ticks most of […]
Chicago – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Chicago continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 16 July and then tours until 26 November 2016. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ goes the saying and it’s one that applies to this slick and sophisticated reinterpretation of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s Chicago […]
