Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was reviewed at Curve Leicester. The tour continues until 10 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Joseph continues to entertain with a winning combination of a likeable score and (techni)colourful spectacle.
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Final curtain for Broadway’s Bad Cinderella
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella will take her final bow on Broadway on 4 June 2023 barely four months after the show’s New York debut.
Dianne Pilkington to lead cast of Saving Grace
Dianne Pilkington will take on the title role in the stage musical version of cult British film Saving Grace when it plays an intimate first run at London’s Riverside Studios later this year.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical re-titled as Bad Cinderella for Broadway debut
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is heading for Broadway in early 2023 with a new name, new songs and a new leading lady. In a statement posted on his Twitter feed, the multi-award-winning composer said: “I am thrilled and delighted that we are bringing @badcinderella on Broadway to the Imperial Theatre. We have been working hard […]
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 […]
KT Tunstall provides the music for stage adaptation of film comedy Saving Grace
Multi-award-winning Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall has used her lockdown time to write the music for a stage musical version of cult British film Saving Grace. In an interview with the BBC, Tunstall revealed that the enforced time away from live performing had pushed her into “flexing her musical muscles” in a new way with the […]
School of Rock – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
School of Rock continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 15 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 13 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Andrew Lloyd Webber still doesn’t seem like the obvious person to have brought Richard Linklater’s boisterous 2003 family movie about the power of rock‘n’roll […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber ‘devastated’ by decision to halt performances of Cinderella until February
Andrew Lloyd Webber has expressed his ‘devastation’ after it was announced that the curtain will remain down on his latest hit Cinderella until 9 February 2022. In a statement posted on his Twitter feed, the multi-award-winning composer said: “I am absolutely devastated that Cinderella has to temporarily close. My life has been devoted to musical […]
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 […]
Cinderella – Gillian Lynne Theatre
Cinderella continues at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Variants of the Cinderella story exist wherever folk tales have thrived. These days, we tend to regard the version collected by Charles Perrault as “the” version of the story – pumpkin, fairy godmother, glass slippers and all – […]
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 […]
World premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is set for 25 August 2021
After a period of enforced closure, the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella will be on 25 August 2021. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, written by Academy Award winning Emerald Fennell (Best Original Screenplay Oscar in April 2021) and with lyrics from David Zippel, the brand new musical will resume performances at the Gillian […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s anger as Covid rules stop Cinderella’s West End opening night
Andrew Lloyd Webber has hit out at the Government’s isolation rules after he was forced to make the “heart-breaking decision not to open my Cinderella” after a single cast member tested positive for Covid. In a statement announcing the cancellation of performances at the Gillian Lynne Theatre including the planned fundraising Freedom Day and Gala […]
What do we really know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s misfit Cinderella?
Emily Shepherd writes: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is set to break stereotypes of the traditional Cinderella narrative that we’re all familiar with. Set to have its gala opening this week at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre, the cast and creatives have given little away about the new interpretation of the classic fairy tale, keeping fans on […]
Classes to start for UK and Ireland tour of School of Rock – The Musical in September 2021
Auditions are in full swing for the eagerly awaited first major UK and Ireland tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier Award-winning School of Rock – The Musical with classes due to begin at Hull New Theatre in September. Originally due to launch at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham in February, the kids will be back in […]
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 […]
Rebecca Trehearn, Georgina Castle, Laura Baldwin & Gloria Onitiri join the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
The full cast has been announced for the forthcoming world premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, with Rebecca Trehearn as The Queen, Georgina Castle and Laura Baldwin as Cinderella’s stepsisters Marie and Adele and Gloria Onitiri as The Godmother. They join Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella, Ivano Turco as Prince Sebastian and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt […]
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 […]
Rehearsals begin for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella following Government’s roadmap announcements
Just a week after Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed rehearsals have begun for the delayed world premiere of his eagerly-anticipated show Cinderella. Releasing footage of his leading lady Carrie Hope Fletcher and members of the production team inside the newly-refurbished London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre […]
Urdang Academy graduate Ivano Turco is cast in Cinderella: The Musical as second album track is released
Recent graduate Ivano Turco is the latest cast member announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella: The Musical. Cast as Prince Charming’s younger brother Sebastian, Turco takes the lead on ‘Only You, Lonely You’, the second track to be released from the upcoming Polydor Records cast album. A graduate of the Urdang Academy, Turco was […]
Pre-premiere album release for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella – first single out now
Theatre-lovers will get their first taste of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella: The Musical with the release of a full album featuring cast members and guest artists in early 2021. In a move that replicates the composer’s concept album launch of Jesus Christ Superstar 50 years ago, the music of Cinderella will debut in advance […]
World premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella will now open in April 2021
Producers The Really Useful Group announced today that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella will now have its world premiere at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre on 7 April 2021, with previews from 19 March. Andrew Lloyd Webber said: “Whilst I continue to impress on the government that theatres can reopen safely based on the London Palladium model, […]
Online auditions will be held for children to be cast in the School of Rock forthcoming tour
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning West End show, School of Rock – The Musical, opens its first UK tour at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on 13 February 2021 and is launching an online search for talented young musicians. With mini-rockers across the country currently being taught at the school of ‘mom and dad’, the team would […]
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt to play the Stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
While Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella will arrive in the West End later than planned, the composer and his team’s preparation for the eagerly-anticipated world premiere continues with the casting of Cinderella’s wicked stepmother. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (The View Upstairs, Soho Theatre, Murder Ballad, Arts Theatre) will play the villainous role alongside Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Carrie Hope […]
Cinderella to arrive late due to ‘current global circumstances’
Andrew Lloyd Webber has delayed the world premiere of his eagerly-anticipated Cinderella in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Carrie Hope Fletcher is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
Carrie Hope Fletcher will step into the title role in the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella at the newly-refurbished London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre later this year. Based on an original idea by Killing Eve screenwriter and actress Emerald Fennell (currently playing Camilla Parker Bowles in the high-profile Netflix series The Crown), the […]
Les Misérables – Sondheim Theatre
Les Misérables continues at the Sondheim Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In 2020, Les Misérables is as much a cornerstone of West End musical theatre as a chorus line, a love duet, or an overpriced interval drink. Even your joyless work colleague who can’t stand musicals knows the basics. […]
Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella to follow School of Rock into the Gillian Lynne Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella will debut at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre this year following the departure of the venue’s current show School of Rock. Based on an original idea by Killing Eve screenwriter and actress Emerald Fennell (currently playing Camilla Parker Bowles in the high-profile Netflix series The Crown), the new version of the […]
Jason Donovan’s back for London Palladium’s new Joseph
Jason Donovan will take on the role of the Pharaoh when he returns to the London Palladium for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer. The star who famously gave a career-changing performance as Joseph at the Palladium in the 1990s, will take to the stage opposite the new, […]
Full cast for record-breaking Les Misérables tour
Rehearsals have begun for the November launch of the eagerly-anticipated new UK and Ireland tour of Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables. Returning to the road in this country for the first time in over a decade, the production is already set to break records ahead of its opening season at […]
Chess – London Coliseum
Chess continues at the London Coliseum until 2 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Can we drop the use of “semi-staged” when talking about Grade-Linnit’s annual summer musical revivals at the London Coliseum now? That the production team continues to use the term in association with their shows seems more […]
Writers join Chess stars for first rehearsals
Rehearsals have begun for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Chess which is due to begin a strictly limited five-week season at the London Coliseum on 26 April. Two of the show’s creators, Benny Andersson and Tim Rice, joined director Laurence Connor and members of the cast in the rehearsal room as they prepared for the […]
Broadway production of Les Misérables to tour UK and Ireland
Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables will return later this year nearly a decade after the show’s last UK tour sold out within days. Opening at Curve Leicester for a season from 3-24 November, the recent Broadway production will arrive on this side of the Atlantic following a successful tour […]
Chess at the London Coliseum – starry line-up led by Michael Ball and Alexandra Burke
The first West End production of Chess since 1986 is to star Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson. The production will open at the London Coliseum on 26 April 2018 (press night on 1 May 2018) for a strictly limited five-week season. This is the fourth production in collaboration with English […]
Chess receives West End revival at London Coliseum in 2018
Chess, the epic musical love story set amidst the tensions of a world championship chess match, will play at the London Coliseum for a strictly limited five-week run from Thursday 26 April 2018, with a press night on Tuesday 1 May. Tickets go on public sale on Friday 3 November from 10am. This will be the first West […]
Miss Saigon – Birmingham Hippodrome and Touring
Miss Saigon continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until 23 September and then tours the UK until March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After the whirlwind of the 25th anniversary and Broadway transfer, Miss Saigon – our favourite Madam Butterfly-inspired grand operetta is back – and touring the UK. Right now it’s […]
Miss Saigon begins UK tour in July 2017
The acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon– a recent hit in the West End – will embark on a major UK tour, opening at Curve Leicester on 3 July 2017. Cameron Mackintosh said: “It’s hard to believe that it has been over 25 years since Miss Saigon first opened, but if anything, the tragic love story of […]
Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock – The Musical premieres on Broadway
School of Rock – The Musical will have its world premiere on Broadway, with previews beginning on 2 November 2015 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening set for 6 December. Based on the hit 2003 film of the same title, School of Rock will feature music from the movie, as well as new music written by […]
Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London (booking until 25 April, 2015). The familiar heart-thudding beats of a helicopter herald the dramatic opening of a new production of Miss Saigon that is every bit as powerful and thrilling as the original show was 25 years ago. The Prince Edward Theatre, now beautifully refurbished, […]
Miss Saigon set for the Prince Edward
Cameron Mackintosh has finally revealed that the Boublil and Schonberg musical Miss Saigon will return to the West End in May 2014 to the Prince Edward Theatre. He said: “I find it hard to believe that it is already 25 years since I first premiered Miss Saigon in London at Drury Lane Theatre before it went on to phenomenal success around the world. “Ten […]
