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Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – The Other Palace
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World continues at The Other Palace, London until 8 September 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Reminding audiences of the importance of representation and having positive role models to look up to from a young age.
London summer season for Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – the pop-powered musical which celebrates some of history’s most inspirational women – will play The Other Palace this summer.
Original cast members to feature in new tour of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Christina Modestou, Renée Lamb and Jade Kennedy will reprise their performances in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World when the pop-powered musical which celebrates some of history’s most inspirational women follows its critically-acclaimed autumn 2021 debut by embarking on a UK tour in late March. Modestou (Carousel, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Winter’s […]
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton and Touring
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World continues at the MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton until 20 November 2021, and then on UK tour until 16 January 2022, with further tour dates for 2022 to be announced. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World presents colourful portraits of […]
Christina Modestou and Renée Lamb among the cast for Fantastically Great Women
Two of Six’s original Queens will feature among the UK touring cast of new female-celebratory musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World this autumn. Christina Modestou (Carousel, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; The Winter’s Tale, National Theatre; Six, Arts Theatre) and Renée Lamb (Ain’t Misbehavin’, Southwark Playhouse/Mercury Colchester; Little Shop of Horrors, Regent’s Park […]
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2020 – a virtual concert streamed online via YouTube. While the annual Sondheim Student Performer of the Year contest fell victim to Covid-19, the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize which has run alongside it since 2008 was happily saved with the bonus of top musical theatre […]
All-star line-up for Stiles and Drewe Prize online concert
A host of West End stars have been enlisted to perform the shortlist of 15 compositions in the running for the 2020 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize in a virtual concert to be streamed online next Sunday (5 July 2020). With musical direction by Steve Ridley, the songs will be performed by: Allyson […]
Billionaire Boy The Musical – NST City, Southampton and Touring
Billionaire Boy The Musical continues at NST City, Southampton until 6 January 2019 and then on tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ David Walliams’ children’s stories are familiar to many of us. Recently dominating the BBC’s family Christmas programming with highly popular screen adaptations, Walliams’ third book for children, Billionaire Boy, has […]
Son of Rambow – work-in-progress workshop – The Other Palace
Son of Rambow was presented in a work-in-progress workshop at The Other Palace, London. When the St James Theatre was purchased by Andrew Lloyd Webber and rebranded as The Other Palace, it was also touted as a venue for the development of new British musicals. And to be honest, some of its headlining musicals haven’t […]
Tickets on sale for Son of Rambow at The Other Palace
Tickets have gone on sale for Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ workshop production of Son of Rambow The Musical which will play London’s Other Palace later this year. Produced in association with The Other Palace and based on the cult family film, the musical Son of Rambow features original 1980s style music by the songwriting team of […]
Nuffield Southampton hosts world premiere of musical Billionaire Boy
A musical version of David Walliams’ best-selling Billionaire Boy looks set to be one of the highlights of Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ 2018 season. Announced as part of a season that includes inaugural programming for NST’s newly-built city centre theatre NST City, Billionaire Boy features music and lyrics by chart-topping song writer Miranda Cooper. Directed by […]
