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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Hairspray – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Hairspray continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 4 December and then tours until 2 April 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Hairspray bounces onto the stage of Milton Keynes Theatre, finalising a fantastic run of touring shows for the theatre before panto season closes the year. The high-energy, feel-good musical […]
John Thomson to join Hairspray at Blackpool Winter Gardens this Christmas
TV and comedy star John Thomson (Cold Feet, The Fast Show) will join the UK tour of Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad this Christmas for three weeks at Blackpool Winter Gardens (13 December 2021 to 2 January 2022). In his first ever musical theatre stage role, Thomson will be joining musician, actress and television presenter Brenda […]
Hairspray – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Hairspray continues at the Waterside Theatre, Ayelsbury until 11 September 2021 and then tours until 2 April 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s the first show at Aylesbury Waterside since before the pandemic hit and heartbreakingly forced many of our theatres to shut. With the doors now fully open, what […]
Casting for Hairspray 2021/2022 UK and Ireland tour
Alex Bourne, Brenda Edwards and Norman Pace will be hitting the high notes in Hairspray when the UK and Ireland tour relaunches at Plymouth Theatre Royal on 24 June 2021. Bourne (Annie, Mamma Mia!) will step into the distinctive high hair and high heels of Edna Turnblad opposite comedy star Pace (Chicago, The Rocky Horror […]
London School of Musical Theatre – A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Sondheim is notoriously tricky, farce is notoriously tricky. So put them together and the resultant musical in the wrong hands can be an accident waiting to happen. At […]
