Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was reviewed at the Peacock Theatre, London where it runs until 23 March 2024. The tour continues until 20 July 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Initial casting and London dates for Jamie tour
The critically acclaimed and crowd-pleasing British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will welcome a new Jamie and a new Loco Chanelle when the show hits the road for its second UK tour from September.
The Doncastrian Chalk Circle – Cast Theatre, Doncaster
The Doncastrian Chalk Circle, a CAST production in partnership with the National Theatre’s ‘Public Acts’ initiative at Cast Theatre, Doncaster. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ With a gargantuan cast of more than a 100 performers, The Doncastrian Chalk Circle – a new musical adaptation from Chris Bush of Bertolt Brecht’s seminal […]
John Partridge and Natasha J Barnes join The Witches Of Eastwick concert cast
John Partridge and Natasha J Barnes have stepped into the cast of The Witches Of Eastwick In Concert after the previously announced Giles Terera and Danielle Steers became unavailable. Partridge (Cabaret, UK tour, A Chorus Line, London Palladium) will play the devilish central character of Darryl Van Horne with Barnes (Funny Girl, Menier Chocolate Factory/Savoy Theatre, […]
Cats – The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel
Cats – The Shows Must Go On YouTube Channel. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The seven-week trawl through the Andrew Lloyd Webber back catalogue on the noble lord’s free The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel came to an end at the weekend with his big 1981 hit which ran for 21 […]
Cats is this week’s Shows Must Go On offering
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. Starring Elaine Paige as Grizabella and John Mills as Gus, the 1998 Universal Studios film was recorded at London’s Adelphi Theatre. Directed by David Mallet, the film also features Ken Page as Old Deuteronomy, […]
Cabaret – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Cabaret was reviewed at New Wimbledon Theatre, London, then tours until 25 April 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret, set in the anything-goes, promiscuous last days of the Weimar Republic just as Hitler was starting to change Germany and the world, is a musical I […]
John Partridge will star as the Emcee in UK tour of Cabaret
Stage and screen favourite John Partridge will star as the Emcee when Rufus Norris’ multi-award-winning Cabaret hits the road again this summer. The former EastEnder whose vast array of West End credits include A Chorus Line, Chicago and Cats, will be holding court from 28 August 2019 when the extensive tour launches at Bromley’s Churchill […]
West End Eurovision – Shaftesbury Theatre
West End Eurovision at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia!, Hamilton, Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street, Dreamgirls, The Phantom of the Opera and Aladdin. All musicals with a healthy dose of camp. Take a bunch of cast members, add some over the top creativity and some Eurovision songs, and you get […]
La Cage Aux Folles – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
La Cage Aux Folles continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 18 March and then tours until 26 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The first-ever UK tour of Jerry Herman’s insanely entertaining 1983 Broadway hit – it picked up six Tonys and ran for four and a half years – is a […]
La Cage Aux Folles tour – full casting
John Partridge, Adrian Zmed and Marti Webb will star in the much-loved musical La Cage Aux Folles when it embarks on its first ever nationwide tour, opening at the New Oxford Theatre on 5 January. John Partridge will play ‘Albin’ who moonlights as star drag act Zaza at the infamous La Cage aux Folles nightclub. Partridge’s extensive theatre credits include the West […]
La Cage Aux Folles – Marti Webb joins cast of touring production
Actress Marti Webb will join John Partridge and Adrian Zmed when the much-loved musical La Cage Aux Folles embarks on its first ever nationwide tour, opening at the New Oxford Theatre on 5 January. One of the West End’s most revered leading ladies’, TV star and recording artist Marti Webb will play Jacqueline, friend to Albin and Georges, and owner of the […]
La Cage Aux Folles – first nationwide tour stars John Partridge and Adrian Zmed
Much-loved musical La Cage Aux Folles embarks on its first ever nationwide tour with John Partridge as ‘Albin’ and Adrian Zmed as ‘Georges’, opening at the New Oxford Theatre on 5 January. John Partridge will play ‘Albin’ who moonlights as star drag act Zaza at the infamous La Cage aux Folles nightclub. Partridge’s extensive theatre credits include the West End productions of A Chorus Line at […]
Chicago tour – Mica Paris to play Mama Morton
Platinum-selling singer Mica Paris will star as Mama Morton when the current tour of Chicago plays Sunderland Empire from 28 November to 3 December and Birmingham Alexandra Theatre for the Christmas season, from 12 December to 31 December. Also starring in Chicago are John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart, Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt as Amos Hart and A.D. Richardson as Mary Sunshine. Other cast include Daniele Arbisi, Nicola Coates, […]
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 […]
Jessie Wallace cast as Mama Morton in Chicago tour
British soap star Jessie Wallace will play the role of Mama Morton in the touring production of Chicago when the show plays Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (15-20 August), Belfast Grand Opera House (5-10 September), Liverpool Empire (12-17 September), Glasgow King’s Theatre (19-24 September), Aberdeen His Majesty’s Theatre (26 September-1 October), Bromley Churchill Theatre (10-15 October), […]
Interview – Hayley Tamaddon starring as Roxie Hart in Chicago on tour
Having worked on television for the past few years, HAYLEY TAMADDON is back on the boards in the touring production of Chicago. With Emmerdale and Coronation Street, not to mention Dancing On Ice, behind her, the actress now takes on Roxie Hart in the supremely successful musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with former EastEnders […]
Chicago – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Chicago continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 27 February and continues touring until 29 October 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As the Broadway revival of Chicago celebrates passing the landmark of 8,000 performances, this new UK touring production gives the show a new twist by casting performers who have all experienced reality show fame in a […]
Chicago national tour – full casting revealed
Full casting has been announced for the international award-winning musical Chicago, which opens a national tour at the New Theatre Oxford on Friday 12 February 2016. Joining the previously announced John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart and Sam Bailey as Mama Morton will be Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt as Amos Hart and A.D. Richardson as Mary Sunshine. The rest of the company includes: Daniele […]
Chicago 2016 tour – Sam Bailey cast alongside John Partridge and Hayley Tamaddon
Former prison officer turned reality TV star Sam Bailey will play the most famous jailer in musical theatre, Mamma Morton, in the touring version of Chicago next year. Bailey, who won the 2013 X Factor title, will join two former soap stars John Partridge (who will play Billy Flynn) and Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart on […]
