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.
Les Misérables 40th anniversary special gala event planned
The world’s longest-running musical, Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a star-studded charity gala performance on 8 October.
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.
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.
Sister Act – Curve Leicester and Touring
Sister Act continues at Curve Leicester until 29 October 2022, then tours until 27 January 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Five Questions With: Jeremy Secomb
JEREMY SECOMB is playing the villainous Curtis Jackson in the UK and Ireland tour of Sister Act The Musical, following the show’s hit run at London’s Eventim Apollo. He appears alongside Sandra Marvin as Deloris Van Cartier, Lesley Joseph as Mother Superior, Clive Rowe as Eddie Souther and Lizzie Bea as Sister Mary Robert. Jeremy’s […]
Sister Act The Musical – Eventim Apollo
Sister Act The Musical continues at the Eventim Apollo, London until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When it comes to current musicals, there’s surely nun better than Sister Act. Re-born, re-cast and re-scheduled due to Covid last year, this newest resurrection is truly heaven sent. Presented by Jamie […]
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the music of Stephen Sondheim
The timeless music of the late great Stephen Sondheim will be celebrated in a special concert performance at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on 14 January 2021. Part of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s current season of concerts, Sondheim: Broadway Baby will feature guest vocalists Louise Dearman (Wicked, Guys and Dolls), Nadim Naaman (The Phantom of […]
Mazz Murray to reprise the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall
Mazz Murray will reprise her performance as fading movie star Norma Desmond for a one night only special concert performance of Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall in December. Presented by The Alpha Family, in association with Quick Fantastic, the performance will reunite Murray (We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia!) with Ramin Karimloo (Les […]
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, […]
West End stars and Beirut musicians unite for fundraising video
Over 40 artists have united to record a music video of ‘All I Longed To See’ from musical Broken Wings to raise funds for the Red Cross’ Beirut Emergency Appeal set up in the wake of the devastation caused by the explosion on 4 August 2020. The video features West End stars and former cast […]
Reputation – The Other Palace
Reputation continues at The Other Palace, London until 14 November 2019. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ The explosion of film-making in Hollywood in the late 1930s, as the Great Depression receded and talking pictures became people’ primary sources of entertainment, has proved a fertile setting for storytelling over the years. In Alick […]
Casting for new musical Reputation at The Other Palace
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of new musical Reputation at The Other Palace Studio in November. Written by Alick Glass and set in the 1930s, the musical that celebrates the sounds and musical rhythms of the era will star Jeremy Secomb (Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, West End), Maddy Banks (The Band, West […]
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’ […]
Evita UK and Italy tour to begin in March 2018
Bill Kenwright’s successful touring version of the hit West End production of Evita will launch the 2018 leg of its tour – taking in dates in the UK and Italy – at Torquay’s Princess Theatre next month. Following on from acclaimed runs in Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates, the production, which features Madalena Alberto […]
Les Misérables new cast includes Rachelle Ann Go, Phil Daniels and Jeremy Secomb
New casting has been revealed for Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre. Joining the cast from 15 June 2015 are: Phil Daniels as Thénardier, Jeremy Secomb as Javert, Rachelle Ann Go as Fantine; Katy Secombe as Madame Thénardier and Zoë Doano as Cosette. Peter Lockyer will continue to star as Jean Valjean, Rob Houchen as Marius and Carrie Hope Fletcher as Eponine. Bradley Jaden, who is currently in the ensemble, will play Enjolras. From 15 […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue
Sweeney Todd continues at Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue, London until 30 May. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s cramped, it’s hot and it’s airless, but this new production of Sweeney Todd might just be the best version you’ll ever experience. And ‘experience’ is definitely the word, as this teeny-tiny Todd has its actors […]
Tooting Arts Club Sweeney Todd staged in pop-up pie shop on Shaftesbury Avenue
By special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, Tooting Arts Club’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment. The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett’s infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop, Tooting
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street continues at Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop in Tooting, London, until 29 November. What a remarkable evening – Stephen’s Sondheim’s masterpiece Sweeney Todd in a pie shop in Tooting. Something to tell the grandchildren, a one-off never to be forgotten. Totally brilliant too. Not only a brilliant piece of PR by the Tooting […]
