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Beauty and the Beast – London Palladium
Beauty and the Beast continues at the London Palladium until 17 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Stage adaptations of popular Disney movie musicals are an interesting mix. Some are visually spectacular but beyond a few hits lack a memorable score, others feature one great song after another but somehow the creative […]
Beauty and the Beast – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Beauty and the Beast continues at the Edinburgh Playhouse until 27 November 2021 before touring until November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ There is a babble and hum of excitement before the lights even dim as the packed audience delights in simply being in a theatre once again. This unique […]
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo to star in new look Beauty and the Beast on tour
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will take on the title roles in the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the production launches at the Bristol Hippodrome on 24 August 2021. Two of musical theatre’s rising stars Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) and Kojo […]
Star-packed music video accompanies Dan and Laura Curtis song which raises funds for Help For Heroes
Judi Dench, Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin are among a glittering group of stars who have joined a host of West End favourites in a very special musical video tribute to servicemen and women around the world. Aimed at raising funds for UK charity Help The Heroes, The Hero – A West End […]
Natalie Anderson signs up for Fat Friends The Musical
Former Emmerdale star Natalie Anderson is the latest addition to the cast for the UK tour of Fat Friends The Musical. The actress, whose stage roles since leaving the ITV soap have included Nessarose in the West End production of Wicked, will play Lauren the role originated on screen by her Emmerdale co-star Gaynor Faye. […]
Fat Friends The Musical – Sam Bailey and Elaine C Smith join cast
Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey and award-winning comedian and actress Elaine C Smith will join the previously announced Jodie Prenger in the major new musical re-shaping of popular ITV drama Fat Friends later this year. Bailey, the former real-life prison officer whose theatre roles include playing Mamma Morton in last year’s UK tour of […]
Les Misérables versus Phantom – the charity football decider next month
Teams representing two of the West End’s biggest shows will take to the football field for the fifth time next month in the annual Les Misérables vs The Phantom of the Opera charity football match. Raising money this year for Macmillan Cancer Support and the road safety charity Brake, the star-studded event is being billed as ‘the decider’ […]
Interview – Hayley Tamaddon starring as Roxie Hart in Chicago on tour
Having worked on television for the past few years, HAYLEY TAMADDON is back on the boards in the touring production of Chicago. With Emmerdale and Coronation Street, not to mention Dancing On Ice, behind her, the actress now takes on Roxie Hart in the supremely successful musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with former EastEnders […]
Chicago – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Chicago continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 27 February and continues touring until 29 October 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As the Broadway revival of Chicago celebrates passing the landmark of 8,000 performances, this new UK touring production gives the show a new twist by casting performers who have all experienced reality show fame in a […]
Chicago national tour – full casting revealed
Full casting has been announced for the international award-winning musical Chicago, which opens a national tour at the New Theatre Oxford on Friday 12 February 2016. Joining the previously announced John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart and Sam Bailey as Mama Morton will be Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt as Amos Hart and A.D. Richardson as Mary Sunshine. The rest of the company includes: Daniele […]
Chicago 2016 tour – Sam Bailey cast alongside John Partridge and Hayley Tamaddon
Former prison officer turned reality TV star Sam Bailey will play the most famous jailer in musical theatre, Mamma Morton, in the touring version of Chicago next year. Bailey, who won the 2013 X Factor title, will join two former soap stars John Partridge (who will play Billy Flynn) and Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart on […]
Sam Bailey in Concert – Lyric Theatre, London
Sam Bailey in Concert was presented at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For a pop supremo who claims to dislike musical theatre, Simon Cowell heads a media empire that has propelled an increasingly large number of performers towards the genre. The very first series of The X […]
Interview – Sam Bailey – a passion for musical theatre leads to dream West End concert
SAM BAILEY, the 2013 winner of X Factor, is to perform a one-off concert of musical theatre songs, Sam Bailey – Live in the West End, at London’s Lyric Theatre on 12 October, with guest stars including Collabro, Michael Xavier and Scott Alan. She talked to Ollie Wilson about the show and her love of musical theatre. How did […]
X Factor winner Sam Bailey West End concert – guests includes Michael Xavier and Scott Alan
Sam Bailey, who won ITV’s The X Factor in 2013, will take the stage in London’s West End for the first time in her career for a one-off concert at the Lyric Theatre. Bailey and a plethora of special guests will perform an evening of musical theatre on 12 October 2015. Winners of Britain’s Got Talent, Collabro; two-time Olivier Award nominee Michael Xavier; and US […]
