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Movie review: Frozen: The Musical – Disney+

Frozen: The Musical is streaming on Disney+. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It will be a real treat for fans of the animated original and Theatre Royal stage door devotees alike.

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Emily Lane and Djavan van de Fliert are the new Anna & Kristoff in West End’s Frozen as run extended

Disney Theatrical Productions has announced another extension to the crowd-pleasing West End debut run of Frozen in response to high public demand. The spectacular production which has been playing to packed houses at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane since last August, will continue to bring Elsa’s frozen world to London audiences until at […]

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Frozen and Back to the Future the Musical win big at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2022

At a ceremony at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, the winners of the 22nd annual WhatsOnStage Awards were announced – the only major theatre awards decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves.  The big winner of the night was Frozen with seven awards from its 13 nominations, receiving […]

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Frozen’s West End run extended until the autumn

Disney Theatrical Productions has announced an extension to the West End debut run of Tony-nominated musical Frozen in response to high public demand. The spectacular production which has been playing to packed houses at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane since last summer, will continue to bring Elsa’s frozen world to London audiences up […]

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Bookings open for West End’s Frozen as new images and photoshoot video are released

Public booking is now open for the eagerly-anticipated West End debut of Tony-nominated musical Frozen. Now due to begin preview performances from 27 August 2021 at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane with an official opening night on 8 September, the Disney Theatrical Productions show is now taking bookings until 3 April 2022. West […]

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West End production of Frozen to officially open in September 2021

The eagerly-anticipated West End debut of Tony-nominated musical Frozen will preview from 27 August 2021, with a press night on 8 September at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Joining Samantha Barks (Elsa) and Stephanie McKeon (Anna) are Obioma Ugoala (Kristoff), Craig Gallivan (Olaf), Oliver Ormson (Hans), Richard Frame (Weselton), and alternating the role of […]

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Frozen’s London opening temporarily on ice until lockdown lifts

Fans will have to wait a little longer for the eagerly-anticipated West End debut of Tony-nominated musical Frozen following a decision to delay the large-scale production for a second time in the wake of the current national lockdown. Originally due to skate into the refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the autumn of 2020, the […]

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West End Frozen cast and new dates confirmed

Full casting and new dates have been announced for Disney Theatrical Productions’ eagerly-anticipated West End production of Tony-nominated musical Frozen. Originally due to skate into the refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the autumn, the production will now open in London on 14 April 2021 with preview performances from 2 April. The initial booking period […]

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Stephanie McKeon will play Anna opposite Samantha Barks as Elsa in the West End production of Frozen

Today, on National Siblings Day, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced that Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon will play Elsa and Anna in Frozen when it reopens the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane later this year. The production opens on 11 November 2020, with previews from 30 October; and has extended booking until 30 May […]

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Frozen – St James Theatre, New York

Frozen continues at the St James Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Say what you will about the Disney people, often berated for merchandising rapacity or theme-park mentality, they know how to put on a show. And the corporation’s magic dust – or whatever you call that stuff that Tinker Bell scatters […]

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Broadway Musical Theatre Preview 2018 – from Frozen to Summer

With heroines including a queen who can freeze you, a guttersnipe who can charm you, and a diva who’ll make you want to dance, a half-dozen new musical productions are slated for the last half of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, writes Ron Cohen. The openings include the usual crowding up in April, as new shows […]

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