Spend Spend Spend continues at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester until 11 Jan 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A feisty, energetic and beautifully crafted production under the direction of Josh Seymour.
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Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera – Leicester Square Theatre and Touring
Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera continues at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 21 May 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Cast for Tony Blair musical’s London run and tour
Jack Whittle will take on the title role in the London season and UK tour of Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s hit musical comedy TONY! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera). Whittle (The Play That Goes Wrong, Duchess Theatre) will play Tony Blair alongside original cast members Howard Samuels (The Sound of Music, UK tour) as Peter […]
West End season and tour for Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)
Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s critically acclaimed Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will follow its sold-out world premiere run at London’s Park Theatre with a season in the West End ahead of a UK tour.
Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] – Park Theatre
Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] continues at the Park Theatre, London until 9 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Everyone with an interest in UK politics has an opinion about ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Whether positive or negative, that opinion might put one off attending a show called […]
Cast unveiled for Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)
Comedian and singer Charlie Baker will play Tony Blair alongside West End star Gary Trainor as Gordon Brown when Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) receives its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre this summer. Baker, whose comedy credits include appearing on hit TV shows including Harry Hill’s Teatime, The […]
World premiere for satirical show Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)
Comedy star Harry Hill and composer Steve Brown’s Tony (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will receive its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre this summer. Featuring a book by Hill and music and lyrics by Brown, the show which takes a comic look at the controversial former PM and his journey from student wannabe rock […]
Cast for new 1950s-inspired musical Punchy!
Casting has been announced for new 1950s-set musical Punchy! which is due to make its debut in London early next month. Robert Hook (Peaky Blinders, The Milkman’s on His Way, The Old Courtroom, Brighton) will take on the role of George ‘Punchy’ Armstrong with Punchy’s Ego played by Jaymes Sygrove (Blithe Spirit, Little Women tour) […]
Little Women and Tony Blair musicals lined up for new season at London’s Park Theatre
The London premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women and a work-in-progress presentation of Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony!(The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will feature in the autumn to spring season at London’s Park Theatre. Presented by the team behind last year’s successful transfer season of RAGS The Musical, Aria Entertainment, Hope Mill […]
Spend Spend Spend – Union Theatre
Spend Spend Spend continues at the Union Theatre, London until 18 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ After presenting Whistle Down the Wind and Loserville, the Union Theatre conclude its season of British musicals with Steve Brown and Justin Greene’s Spend Spend Spend (music by Brown and book and lyrics by Brown and Greene). Based on the book […]
Union Theatre presents Spend, Spend, Spend in British musical theatre season
As the third show in its season of celebrating British musical theatre (the previous ones being Whistle Down the Wind and Loserville), the Union Theatre presents Spend, Spend, Spend, running at the venue from 25 March to 18 April 2015 (press night is 28 March). With music by Steve Brown and book and lyrics by […]
Musical Theatre Review campaign backs cast album for I Can’t Sing!
“Steve Brown’s original score for I Can’t Sing! features a selection of excellent and thankfully diverse musical numbers that both inform the narrative and entertain – a simple task that has been woefully lacking in the West End for a while now. “Original musicals are few and far between and Brown’s score has so much […]
Spend Spend Spend – London School of Musical Theatre
Spend Spend Spend, performed by students from the London School of Musical Theatre at the Bridewell Theatre, London, continues until 3 May. Spend Spend Spend ran for nearly ten months in the West End in 1999-2000, the true life story of how Yorkshire lass Viv Nicholson blew the biggest ever football pools cheque of £152,319 in […]
I Can’t Sing! – the X Factor musical – to close, but why?
The demise of X Factor parody I Can’t Sing! – the third original West End musical to announce its closure in less than two months – is being blamed by critics on a combination of marketing, preparation and changing audience tastes. Co-producers Stage Entertainment UK and Simon Cowell’s Syco Productions (Cowell is believed to have […]
I Can’t Sing! – London Palladium
I Can’t Sing! continues at the London Palladium. Unless you have been living in a bubble for the last ten years then you can’t fail to have noticed the strangle-hold that Simon Cowell has over the entertainment industry. Depending on how you rate him, he has either killed or cured Saturday night television with the reinvention […]
I Can’t Sing – the X Factor musical – a sneak peek
Any opening of a West End musical is a much-anticipated event, but the buzz around Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s new X Factor musical I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium has reached a new level, not least because of reported technical problems during previews. However, while the audience attending an evening performance on 17 […]
