Elaine C Smith and Jodie Prenger will make their debuts as the monstrous Miss Hannigan during the upcoming UK and Ireland tour of Michael Harrison and David Ian’s hit production of Annie.
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Hosts and performances revealed for 22nd WhatsOnStage Awards
West End star Jodie Prenger and Celebs Go Dating’s Tom Read Wilson will return to host the 22nd annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 27 February 2022. The duo will be joined by star presenters Chris Bush, Graziano Di Prima, Omari Douglas, James Graham, David Harewood, Frances Mayli McCann, Stephanie McKeon, […]
Tell Me On A Sunday – Leicester Curve and Touring
Tell Me On A Sunday continues at Leicester Curve until 16 October 2021 and then tours until 20 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a brilliant musical. Perfect in so many ways. A delight of an evening. How come? Unusually, just one magnificent performer electrifies the whole show. […]
Jodie Prenger to star in UK tour of Tell Me On A Sunday
Jodie Prenger will be hitting the road across the UK this summer in a revival of the acclaimed 2016 Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Tell Me On A Sunday. Presented by Jamie Wilson with Kevin McCollum and Gavin Kalin, the UK national tour will launch at the Malvern Festival Theatre […]
West End in Blackpool – Winter Gardens Blackpool
West End in Blackpool is streaming until 9 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This 30-minute docu-concert is really a homage to the Winter Gardens, Empress Ballroom and all the rest of what makes Blackpool “the entertainment capital of the north” – as Kelsey-Beth Crossley puts it in her intro. Nostalgia dominates. […]
The Band Plays On – Sheffield Theatres
The Band Plays On was filmed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and has been made available to watch online until 28 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The best shows always have a moment, incident or episode which really stick with you and change you. In The Band Plays On it’s […]
Lockdown Angels honoured at the 21st Annual WhatsOnStage Awards
During the 21st Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, live streamed from London’s Turbine Theatre, a select group were honoured as Angels, following nominations from the public. As a thank you for all their love and support during lockdown, the 21 Angels will receive a complimentary night at the theatre when live performances are able to resume. From […]
Line-up for 21st WhatsOnStage Awards revealed
Details of the star-studded line-up for this year’s special WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony have been unveiled. Reflecting current times as the industry awaits the return to live theatre following the Covid crisis, the event will feature performances from shows that were cut short in 2020 and selections from productions planned for 2021. Jodie Prenger and Tom […]
All-star line-up for Sheffield’s The Band Plays On
West End, stars Jocasta Almgill and Jodie Prenger will make their Sheffield Crucible debuts alongside a trio of returning stars for the upcoming filmed world premiere production of Sheffield Theatres’ The Band Plays On. Almgill (& Juliet, Manchester Opera House, Shaftesbury Theatre, Rent, Hope Mill Theatre) and Prenger (Oliver! Theatre Royal Drury Lane, A Taste […]
We Need A Little Christmas – Actors’ Church
We Need A Little Christmas at the Actors’ Church, Covent Garden, London, available to stream until 1 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This bumper bundle of Christmas songs old and new, plus a couple of spoken gems from Maureen Lipman and Simon Callow, does not stint on quantity or […]
Christine Allado and David Bedella are among the line-up for charity concert We Need A Little Christmas
A host of stage and screen stars are uniting for a festive filmed concert in support of Shelter and Crisis at Christmas which will be streamed online from 20 December 2020 until 1 January 2021. Filmed at The Actors Church (St Paul’s Church) in Covent Garden, We Need A Little Christmas will feature performances from: […]
New industry collective Theatre Together to present online fundraiser
Over 50 artists and industry professionals have joined forces to find ways to raise money for those in the arts facing hardship as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Theatre Together will present All The Web’s A Stage, an online fundraiser featuring live performances across a variety of entertainment genres on Shakespeare Day, 23 April. […]
Natalie Anderson signs up for Fat Friends The Musical
Former Emmerdale star Natalie Anderson is the latest addition to the cast for the UK tour of Fat Friends The Musical. The actress, whose stage roles since leaving the ITV soap have included Nessarose in the West End production of Wicked, will play Lauren the role originated on screen by her Emmerdale co-star Gaynor Faye. […]
Fat Friends The Musical – Freddie Flintoff to swap cricket field for the stage
Former England cricketer turned TV personality Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff will make his stage debut in Fat Friends The Musical for seven dates during the UK tour. Flintoff will play the role of Kevin Chadwick opposite the show’s leading lady Jodie Prenger as his fiancée Kelly, joining the opening run of the musical re-shaping of popular […]
Fat Friends The Musical – Sam Bailey and Elaine C Smith join cast
Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey and award-winning comedian and actress Elaine C Smith will join the previously announced Jodie Prenger in the major new musical re-shaping of popular ITV drama Fat Friends later this year. Bailey, the former real-life prison officer whose theatre roles include playing Mamma Morton in last year’s UK tour of […]
Dieting drama Fat Friends shapes up for musical debut
This November a major new musical re-shaping of popular ITV drama Fat Friends will make its debut in Leeds, the hometown of its creator, top TV writer Kay Mellor. Written and directed by prolific Mellor and with original music by Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Fat Friends – The Musical will star West End favourite Jodie Prenger […]
Tell Me On a Sunday – Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Touring
Tell Me On a Sunday continues at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury until 20 February, before touring until 8 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Returning to the Watermill stage following a national tour in the title role of Calamity Jane, Jodie Prenger restrains her natural effervescence to encapsulate the character of Emma as she […]
Tell Me On a Sunday with Jodie Prenger – tour dates revealed
A national tour of the Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s classic musical Tell Me On a Sunday, starring Jodie Prenger, opens on Wednesday 2 March 2016, following a season at the Watermill Theatre from Thursday 28 January to Saturday 20 February 2016. Tell Me On a Sunday charts the romantic misadventures of a young English girl in […]
Curve showcases world’s first 360° theatre recording with Calamity Jane
Leicester’s Curve, one of the UK’s most technologically advanced theatres, is harnessing the very latest technology by releasing a 360° panoramic performance of the hit musical Calamity Jane in a bid to make theatre accessible to all. Starring Jodie Prenger and featuring Tom Lister, the 360° recording of Nikolai Foster’s Calamity Jane will be available to view for […]
Jodie Prenger stars in Tell Me On a Sunday tour
A national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s musical Tell Me On a Sunday, starring Jodie Prenger, will begin on Wednesday 2 March 2016, following a season at the Watermill Theatre from Thursday 28 January to Saturday 20 February 2016. Tell Me On a Sunday charts the romantic misadventures of a young English girl in […]
Sophia Ragavelas joins touring cast of Calamity Jane
Sophia Ragavelas will be joining the touring production of Calamity Jane as Katie Brown from Tuesday 26 May. Ragavelas’ many West End credits include playing Eponine and Fantine in Les Misérables, Sophie in Mamma Mia!, Chloe in Never Forget and Marcy in The Witches of Eastwick. She most recently played Grizabella in the national tour of Cats. Sophia […]
Calamity Jane – Watermill Theatre, Newbury
Calamity Jane continues at the Watermill, Newbury until 6 September before touring to 20 June 2015. The Watermill is a renowned producing house whose shows have toured not only regionally but nationally with Sunset Boulevard in the West End and internationally with Sweeney Todd on Broadway. Despite the intimacy of the 220-seat auditorium and the confines […]
Jodie Prenger joins Spamalot for last two weeks of London run
Monty Python’s Spamalot ends its current run at the Playhouse Theatre on 12 April after two years in the West End, with actress and singer Jodie Prenger reprising her role of The Lady of The Lake for the final two weeks. Having previously played the role in 2010 during the Spamalot UK tour, Prenger is […]
John Barrowman – one day musical theatre will call again
Paul F Cockburn recently caught up with the multi-talented John Barrowman in Glasgow. Having just been recording 25 episodes of Pressure Pad, his new entertainment quiz show for the BBC, Barrowman was – technically – promoting his pantomine, Dick McWhittington (opening at the SECC Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow on 14 December), but the conversation strangely enough […]
