The multi-award-winning Jersey Boys will return for a 20th anniversary tour across the UK and Ireland next year.
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Music Review: Water for Elephants – Original Broadway Cast Recording
Water for Elephants – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Sh-K-Boom Records and Big Top Music). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
The Cher Show – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
The Cher Show continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 13 August 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The much-anticipated jukebox musical about Cher’s life struts onto the stage at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. Written by Tony Award-winning Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), directed […]
Jersey Boys – Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Touring
Jersey Boys continues at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley until 11 June 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following the true life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, this jukebox musical weaves the group’s most known and loved songs around the narrative of their rise […]
New dates for Jersey Boys tour
The producers of multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys have announced new dates for the hit show’s current UK and Ireland tour. With casting for the second leg of the tour to be announced soon, the new dates will include return visits to venues including Edinburgh Playhouse, the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton and the Wales Millennium Centre […]
New extended booking period announced for West End’s Jersey Boys
The newest West End run for multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been extended with tickets now on sale for performances up to 2 October 2022. Starring Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi and Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito, the critically-acclaimed production took up residence […]
Cast for third Jersey Boys UK and Ireland tour
Michael Pickering and Lewis Griffiths will return to the roles of Frankie Valli and Nick Massi when multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys hits the road for its third UK and Ireland tour next month. Pickering and Griffiths will be joined by Blair Gibson as Bob Gaudio and Dalton Wood as Tommy DeVito. Luke Suri will play […]
Jersey Boys – Trafalgar Theatre
Jersey Boys continues at the Trafalgar Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Oh what a night! Yet another outing for that old warhorse Jersey Boys, the unstoppable jukebox musical that launches the new-look 630-seat Trafalgar Theatre, back to its Art Deco beauty, and is due to kick off a year-long UK tour […]
Full cast for The Addams Family UK and Ireland tour
Full casting has been confirmed for the new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy which is due to open in Woking next month. Scott Paige (Nativity! UK tour, Eugenius! The Other Palace) will take on the role of Uncle Fester and Ahmed Hamad (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy […]
Young cast announced for West End production of Jersey Boys
A new, young, dynamic cast has been announced for the return of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. It will be led by Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito and Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi. The musical will open at the new […]
Jersey Boys to hit the road again from November
Multi award-winning musical Jersey Boys will be back on the road for its third UK and Ireland tour from November. Launching at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 25 November 2020 and currently booking through to 12 November 2022, the tour will visit Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Stoke, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Sunderland, Glasgow, Hull, Llandudno, Inverness, Southampton, […]
Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse head creative team for The Cher Show’s UK and Ireland debut
Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse are joining forces to help bring hit Broadway jukebox musical The Cher Show to the UK and Ireland next year with a major production launching at Leicester Curve. The Strictly alumni will head the creative team with Phillips taking charge as director and Mabuse stepping up as choreographer of the […]
Jersey Boys to work their way back into the West End in July 2021
Multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to the West End to take up residence at the newly refurbished and reinstated Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall from 28 July 2021. Plans for the much-loved show which tells the true rags to riches story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to be the first production to play […]
Jersey Boys will be back to reopen Whitehall’s Trafalgar Theatre
Multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to the West End to take up residence at the new refurbished and reinstated Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall from April next year. The much-loved show which tells the true rags to riches story of New Jersey’s Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will be the first production to play […]
Stage version of TV show Smash in development
Superstar filmmaker Steven Spielberg will follow his eagerly-anticipated big screen re-working of West Side Story by making his debut as a lead producer on a Broadway musical with the stage version of hit TV show Smash. Spielberg is part of the high-powered team of producers (with Neil Meron and Robert Greenblatt) who developed the original […]
The Addams Family musical to tour again in 2020
Morticia and Gomez will be taking their creepy and kooky brood on the road again in 2020 in a new touring production of The Addams Family musical. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Music & Lyrics Limited, the 2020 UK and Ireland tour will be directed by Matthew White (The Producers, Mr Stink […]
The Cher Show – Neil Simon Theatre, New York
The Cher Show continues at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With an abundance of jaw-dropping costumes, loads of powerful pop-cum-Broadway belting and a pulsating, smartly integrated – even though it’s jukebox – score, The Cher Show makes for a terrifically entertaining epic bio-musical – and a meaningful […]
This Ain’t No Disco – Linda Gross Theatre, New York
This Ain’t No Disco continues at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater until 12 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Studio 54 lives again in all its infamy in This Ain’t No Disco, a tremendously ambitious but finally dispiriting Off-Broadway musical, or, as it defines itself, “rock opera”. The creative team […]
Jersey Boys UK tour – more dates for 2018
A number of extra venues have been added to the second UK and Ireland tour of the hit show Jersey Boys which is due to begin at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre on 16 December. The newly announced 2018 dates are Theatre Royal Plymouth (17-28 April), Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (9-19 May), Bradford Alhambra Theatre (22 […]
The Addams Family musical to tour the UK and Ireland in 2017
The creepy and kooky The Addams Family musical will debut in the UK next year when a major new touring production opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. Directed by Matthew White (The Producers UK tour) the UK and Irish premiere of the show, which has a book by the creators of the multi-award winning Jersey Boys (Marshall […]
ArtsEd London – The Addams Family
The Addams Family is performed by ArtsEd third years at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, London until 7 February. Star rating: 3 stars *** There’s a saying in racing, “You can’t go without the horse”, which means that however wonderful a jockey you are, if the beast you’re riding is a selling-plater you aren’t going to […]
