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We Will Rock You – London Coliseum
We Will Rock You continues at the London Coliseum until 27 August 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Stage acting debut for Ben Elton in We Will Rock You
Comedian Ben Elton will make his stage acting debut when his hit Queen-themed show We Will Rock You returns to the West End this summer for a strictly limited season at the London Coliseum.
London Coliseum We Will Rock You – first star casting announced
Brenda Edwards and Lee Mead will lead the cast of hit show We Will Rock You when it returns to the West End this summer for a strictly limited residency at the London Coliseum.
We Will Rock You to return to London 21 years after its debut
Queen and Ben Elton’s hit show We Will Rock You will return to West End next summer for a strictly limited residency at the London Coliseum 21 years after its London stage debut.
We Will Rock You – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
We Will Rock You continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 7 May 2022 and then tours until 5 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Fun for all the family, the hit show We Will Rock You – packed with Queen’s much-loved songs and a book by Ben Elton – plays at […]
Musical Theatre 2022 Preview – all you need to know
With Covid-related delays and cancellations still plaguing theatre productions, we know it is impossible to predict whether all the shows listed below will go ahead, but we will continue to keep the faith and support all the incredible creatives bringing us these wonderful musical theatre openings in 2022 – in the West End, on the London […]
Ben Elton to direct 20th anniversary UK tour of We Will Rock You
Ben Elton will return as director of the 20th anniversary UK tour of his hit Queen musical We Will Rock You in early 2022. The comedian and writer who has previously taken charge of various international productions of the show he created with the superstar rock band, including the original Australian production in 2004 and […]
West End stars to feature in online concert Citizens of Song
Cast members from hit shows The Lion King, Les Misérables and We Will Rock You will be among over 20 stars who feature in a musical-theatre themed online concert next month. The latest offering from Citizens of Song – Music Together From Afar, a non-profit organisation founded by singer Rebecca Winckworth, will stream live on […]
Selladoor postpones shows and extends theatre closures
Selladoor Worldwide has announced the postponement of all its 2020 touring shows, with major productions including Footloose, 9 To 5 The Musical and Bring It On now shelved until 2021. The producers behind hit productions including Fame, Avenue Q and American Idiot and the operators of regional theatres in North Devon and Cambridgeshire have also […]
We Will Rock You tour dates moved to 2021 – new venues to be added
Following the closure of all UK theatres, the 2020 UK tour dates for the new-look production of the smash hit Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You has been re-scheduled for 2021. Welcoming the producers’ decision to move the remaining dates for the tour to next year, Queen’s Brian May said: “Happy to […]
Rachel Tucker to go on first solo UK tour
Wicked star Rachel Tucker will follow up her triumphant nine-month Broadway run and her recent return to the show’s West End 10th anniversary cast by heading out on her first solo UK tour. Tucker, who has played Elphaba longer than any other actress in the multi award-winning production’s history, will take a break from the […]
Kerry Ellis and Sharon D Clarke play solo shows at Hippodrome Casino
Popular We Will Rock You leading ladies Sharon D Clarke and Kerry Ellis have been lined up to play concert dates at London’s Hippodrome Casino nightspot. Ellis, who created the role of Meat in the Queen musical, and the show’s original Killer Queen, Clarke will both bring their distinctive vocal talents to the popular cabaret […]
Brian May and Kerry Ellis cancel Candlelight Christmas concerts
Rock superstar Brian May and West End favourite Kerry Ellis have been forced to postpone their pre-Christmas concert tour due to health issues affecting the Queen guitarist. The Candlelit Christmas Concert Tour was to have been the sixth tour to feature May and Ellis, the musical theatre leading lady who created the role of Meat […]
Kerry Ellis and Brian May to launch Christmas concert tour
Rock superstar Brian May will once again team up with West End favourite Kerry Ellis for a major concert tour in the run-up to Christmas. The Candlelit Christmas Concert Tour will feature the Queen guitarist and the leading West End actress in their sixth tour together. Launching on Wednesday 7 December at Dorking Halls in Surrey, […]
Austria – a musical start to 2015
The first stages of 2015 have been quite a joy for musical theatre fans in Austria, writes Ludovico Lucchesi Palli. Aside from a real Austrian classic in Salzburg and a little bit of Sondheim in Linz, a crime musical also opened in Kottingbrunn, just outside Vienna. Im Weissen Rössl – Salzburger Landestheater Star rating: 4 stars ★ […]
Interview – Tiffany Graves having a gigglefest on tour with The Producers
Actress and singer TIFFANY GRAVES is playing Ulla in the new UK tour of The Producers (based on Mel Brooks’ beloved movie), alongside comedian Jason Manford, as timid accountant Leo Bloom, and Cory English (reprising his role as Max Bialystock). Also in a high profile cast are David Bedella, Louie Spence, Ross Noble and Phill Jupitus (the latter two share a role at […]
The Follow Spot: Duets with Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels – Proud Cabaret
The Follow Spot: Duets with Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels was performed at Proud Cabaret, London. I can only say it is a shame that the word hadn’t spread wider about this event, as it was a wonderful night of singing, laughter and great entertainment. West End On Sea Productions, normally located in Brighton, made its London […]
Lauren Samuels is making waves with the Water Babies
With her role as Ellie in the world premiere of Chris Egan, Ed Curtis and Guy Jones’ new musical Water Babies (based on Charles Kingsley’s 1863 Victorian morality tale), Lauren Samuels is returning to Curve, Leicester where she made her professional debut playing Wendy in Peter Pan the Musical. Following her success on the BBC1 talent […]
We Will Rock You to close after 12-year run
After a record-breaking 12 years at London’s Dominion Theatre, entertaining more than 6.5 million people, the Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You will close on 31 May 2014. Now the longest-running show ever at the Dominion Theatre by a margin of nine years, the musical has become one of the Top 10 longest-running musicals […]
Tonight’s the Night – interview with Ben Elton
Ben Elton’s career has spanned plays, novels, and a feature film, in addition to 30 years as a successful comic writer and performer on British television and the stand-up circuit. But Elton has always reserved a special place in his heart for musicals, having written three that feature music from such diverse talents as Andrew […]
Tonight’s the Night on tour from January 2014
Tonight’s the Night, the musical comedy inspired by the songs of Rod Stewart, is to launch a major new tour in January 2014, starring Jade Ewen (Sugababes). The show premiered in the West End in 2003 and went on to tour across across the UK. With a book by writer and comedian Ben Elton (We […]
West End Heroes – Dominion Theatre
Performed at the Dominion Theatre, London. An idea two years in the making, West End Heroes combined a variety of West End performers with singers and musicians from the Armed Forces for a unique evening in aid of the charity Help for Heroes, hosted by Brian Conley. The military services contain a number of regular musical troupes. […]
We Will Rock You Arena Tour
No fewer than 25 Queen melodies energise We Will Rock You, Ben Elton, Roger Taylor and Brian May’s 2002 hit show, a version of which is touring Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern Europe, and, more recently, Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena. Elton’s idea is terrific, but as contorted as it is ingenious. As a vehicle for the sizzling […]
