The full cast has been unveiled for the grand finale of the acclaimed world touring production of Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular.
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Star cast for Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular Grand Finale
The final all-star cast for the Grand Finale of the acclaimed world touring production Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular has been announced.
West End’s Les Misérables to celebrate 40th birthday with a special season
Cameron Mackintosh is marking 40 years of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables by assembling a special, star-studded company of artists who have all played a part in the multi-award-winning show’s history.
Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular – Utilita Arena, Sheffield and Touring
Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular was reviewed at the Utilita Arena, Sheffield. A worldwide arena tour is now underway, reinventing the production to bring the much-loved and enduring show to a large-scale audience. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular – more star signings and extra seats announced
More star signings have been confirmed for the highly anticipated Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular – the major new world touring production based on the record-breaking Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert was reviewed at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ On a Monday night in London, this was Pippin perfection.
More star casting for Pippin in Concert
Olivier Award winner Patricia Hodge (Money, Private Lives) is among the latest star additions to the cast of next month’s 5oth anniversary concert production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O Hirson’s Tony Award-winning Pippin.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends – Gielgud Theatre
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends continues at the Gielgud Theatre, London until 6 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a glorious evening of unalloyed brilliance at the Gielgud with a superb cast headed by Sondheim muse Bernadette Peters and fellow Broadway legend Lea Salonga feasting on the works of the greatest composer of our time in a glittering revue originally conceived as a one-off tribute by entrepreneur Cameron Mackintosh after he left us at 91 with so many rich and profound memories.
Full company confirmed for Sondheim’s Old Friends
The full cast has been unveiled for the highly anticipated West End return of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends with a strictly limited season at the Gielgud Theatre later this year.
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga to star in West End run of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
Broadway legend Bernadette Peters will be appearing in a West End run for the very first time when Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends returns to the West End to play a special limited season at the Gielgud Theatre.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Milton Keynes Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 24 September 2022 and then tours until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s hard to believe that a simple 15-minute musical composition for a school concert would become a global hit, and still be playing to devoted audiences […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Opera House, Manchester and touring the UK until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It would be easy to put the ecstatic way audiences and critics are receiving this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s most crowd-pleasing show down to our […]
Full cast confirmed for Palladium Joseph’s UK and Ireland tour
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group have confirmed full casting for the eagerly-awaited UK and Ireland tour of the crowd and critic-pleasing London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Following two successful seasons at the Palladium, the hit production’s original Joseph and Pharaoh, Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan, will return along […]
Palladium’s hit Joseph to play UK tour dates in 2022
Following two successful seasons at the London Palladium, Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic-pleasing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will head out on tour in 2022. The hit production’s original Joseph and Pharaoh, Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan, will return along with Alexandra Burke and Linzi Hateley sharing the role […]
The Tiller Girls dance into Palladium Pantoland
The world-famous Tiller Girls are the latest addition to the star-studded line-up for the return of Pantoland at The Palladium this Christmas. Known to home audiences for their regular appearances on the iconic show Sunday Night At The London Palladium in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tiller Girls were the brainchild of musical theatre director […]
Donny Osmond to join star-studded 2021 Pantoland at The Palladium cast
Donny Osmond will join panto royalty Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot and Paul Zerdin when Pantoland at The Palladium returns to the London Palladium this Christmas. Stepping into the role of the Wizard of Pantomime, Osmond will be part in the all-star cast assembled for the extra-special celebration of all-things pantomime at the world-famous […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 5 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Way, way back many decades ago, stripling composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice collaborated on a small pop cantata for a prep school in Barnes. Between 1968 and 1984 the musical […]
Full cast confirmed for Joseph’s Palladium return
The full cast has been announced for the encore season of Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic pleasing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. As previously announced, performances are due to begin on 1 July with returning Joseph and Pharaoh Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan appearing alongside […]
Linzi Hateley to return as The Narrator in Joseph at the London Palladium
Linzi Hateley will revisit her Olivier Award-nominated performance as The Narrator for special performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium this summer. Hateley will reunite with her original Joseph, Jason Donovan, who is due to return to the role of Pharaoh in the encore season of Michael Harrison and the […]
Alexandra Burke will star as The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium
Alexandra Burke will return to the West End this summer in the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical gets ready for a strictly limited season at the London Palladium, running from 1 July (gala night is 15 July) to 5 September 2021. Jac Yarrow […]
Musicals: The Greatest Show – BBC1 and BBC iPlayer
Musicals: The Greatest Show – BBC1 and BBC iPlayer (where it is available for a year). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As soon as the great Ramin Karimloo launched into a sublime ‘Music of the Night’, tears started rolling down cheeks and shivers tumbled like a waterfall down the spine. We […]
Sheridan Smith to host Palladium show as part of BBC musicals special
Sheridan Smith will return to the London Palladium to host a star-studded transatlantic celebration of the music and stars of musical theatre and film on BBC Radio 2 later this month. Musicals: The Greatest Show will be the centrepiece of Radio 2 Celebrates Musicals – three days of programming on the national radio station along […]
Olivier Awards 2020 – A video refresher of the musical nominees
It feels like forever ago that we could simply hop down to the West End and – perhaps after a spot of bank robbery to afford a ticket – bask in the brilliance of some of the most spectacular musicals London has ever seen. Presumably, all the nominees at this year’s delayed Olivier Awards deserve […]
Elaine Paige to join star-studded Pantoland at The Palladium
Elaine Paige is the latest addition to the all-star cast heading for Pantoland at The Palladium for three weeks this Christmas. The veteran leading lady who previously played Queen Rat in Dick Whittington at the iconic London venue in 2017 will revisit the villainous role as part of the festive celebration of pantomime at the […]
Star-studded Pantoland to play London Palladium
Julian Clary will head an all-star cast in an extra-special celebration of pantomime at the London Palladium this Christmas. Presented by the world’s leading pantomime specialist Qdos Entertainment and LW Theatres, Pantoland at The Palladium will play a strictly limited three-week season at the world-famous theatre. The feast for panto-starved theatregoers which will run from […]
Hit production of Joseph is rescheduled to summer 2021
Due to the current global situation and the uncertainty around the resumption of West End shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will defer its dates exactly 12 months, and Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow are both confirmed to star again in the acclaimed show next year. Performances at the London Palladium will now begin […]
& Juliet leads the Olivier Awards 2020 nominations followed by Fiddler, Dear Evan Hansen and Mary Poppins
New British musical & Juliet topped the list of Olivier Awards 2020 nominations with recognition in nine categories. Once again illustrating the range and diversity of musical theatre currently playing in the West End, the three shows to attract the most Olivier nominations are all genre favourites with Trevor Nunn’s revival of the classic Fiddler […]
WhatsOnStage Awards nominations revealed
New British musical & Juliet leads the nominations for the 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards.
Lambert Jackson announces concert version of The Secret Garden at the London Palladium
Lambert Jackson Productions has unveiled plans for a London Palladium concert version of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and a third season of intimate genre shows at The Other Palace. After starring in Lambert Jackson’s concert staging of Dr Zhivago at London’s Cadogan Hall, Ramin Karimloo (Love Never Dies, Adelphi Theatre, The Phantom […]
Donovan & Yarrow will return to the Palladium for Joseph 2020
Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will be back in action at the London Palladium next summer when Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic pleasing new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns for a second season at the world-famous venue. Donovan will once again take on the role of […]
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 […]
Second summer season for London Palladium’s Joseph
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group have confirmed a summer 2020 return for their crowd and critic-pleasing new London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Just weeks after the final performance in the sold-out debut season of the revised version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s first major musical, the […]
Shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2019 revealed
Hollywood star Matthew Broderick and home-grown newcomer Jac Yarrow are among the nominees for the Joe Allen Best West End Debut Award 2019. One of the most hotly contested categories in the shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2019, the Joe Allen Best West End Debut features 10 nominees made up of nine single artists […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 8 September 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s large scale, spectacular, energetic and impressive. In other ways, however, this eagerly anticipated revival of the first real success the youthful Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (both in the audience […]
