Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 60 – 51

Top 100 Musicals of All Time Poll Results

Welcome to our latest instalment of results from our Top 100 Greatest Musicals of all time poll. There are a few new entries and some bona fide classics in this part of the list. Congratulations to all those who are listed in our roll call of truly great musicals. Did your favourites make the Top 100? Don’t forget to let us know your thoughts in the Comments section below. 60. Parade Parade is a musical by Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) and Alfred Uhry (book). Premiering on Broadway in 1998, it won the Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score and won six Drama Desk Awards. Based on the trial in 1913 of a Jewish factory manager accused of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old employee, the project was brought to Jason Robert Brown by Harold Prince. There have been several successful productions of Parade in the UK … Read more

Top-Selling Tours April 2015

Jesus Christ Superstar on tour in the UK

Here at BritishTheatre.com we want to promote theatre all over the UK. There are so many great touring productions currently performing and about to launch at the moment we thought we’d highlight some of the top-selling tours that you seem to be loving at the moment. If you haven’t already booked your tickets don’t leave it too long. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Starring Duncan James from Blue, Priscilla is being fired up for that legendary trip into the Australian outback. Featuring songs like I Will Survive, It’s Raining Men, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Hot Stuff, this is a great night in the theatre. BOOK NOW Mary Poppins The Disney classic is back this year with all the Poppins magic you’ve come to know and love. The tour kicks off in Leicester in October this year. Tickets for Leicester, Manchester and Bristol are already on sale. BOOK NOW … Read more

Top-Selling Tours

Jesus Christ Superstar on tour in the UK

Here at BritishTheatre.com we want to promote theatre all over the UK. There are so many great touring productions currently performing and about to launch at the moment we thought we’d highlight some of the tours that you seem to be loving at the moment. If you haven’t already booked your tickets don’t leave it too long. Mary Poppins The Disney classic is back this year with all the Poppins magic you’ve come to know and love. The tour kicks off in Leicester in October this year. Tickets for Leicester, Manchester and Bristol are already on sale. BOOK NOW Jesus Christ Superstar Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless classic is currently touring the UK in a new production directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson. Don’t miss this great new tour which has received a great review from us and is getting great reviews from audience members who are … Read more

REVIEW: The Producers, Churchill Theatre Then Touring ✭✭✭✭

The Producers by Mel Brooks is currently touring the UK

Wry and rapscallion, Cory English’s Max is perennially down and out and glibly shooting the breeze simultaneously. Jason Manford carefully crafts Leo as a buffoon with a heart of marshmallow, is very funny (physically and verbally) and nails his passion for show-business precisely. Like a deranged Bratwurst Behemoth, Jupitus’ Franz is a triumph of dysfunction, hysterical devotion to a lost cause and amiable murderous delusion. Tiffany Graves is in sensational form as the 11am temptress, Ulla.

The Producers UK Tour 2015

The Producers

CLICK FOR THE PRODUCERS TOUR DATES BELOW Based on Mel Brooks’ beloved Academy Award winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards; it opens its UK tour in March 2015. Impoverished by a string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits downtrodden accountant Leo Bloom (Jason Manford) to help him pull off Broadway’s greatest scam. Together they aim to produce the worst show ever and run away to Rio with millions, but they learn that Showbusiness can always find a way to kick you in the teeth. Featuring a riotous mix of eccentric characters and the all-time classic song ‘Springtime For Hitler’, The Producers is the funniest Broadway musical of all time. Casting for the tour of The Producers includes Jason Manford, Louie Spence and Ross Noble with … Read more

Louie Spence Joins The Producers Tour

Louie Spence

Television personality, dancer and choreographer Louie Spence, will join Jason Manford in the brand new Uk tour of The Producers. Based on Mel Brooks’ beloved Academy Award winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards; it opens its UK tour in March 2015. Louie will play Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris’ flamboyant assistant, until Saturday 2 May. Louie Spence is one of the dance industry’s most unique talents. Since making his West End stage debut in Bugsy Malone aged just 13 he has starred in the original West End cast of Miss Saigon and Cats and has danced alongside Take That, Spice Girls, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder to name but a few. In 2010 SKY1’s Pineapple Dance Studio launched Louie, the Artistic Director of Edit Agency, … Read more

Jason Manford To Headline The Producers UK Tour

Jason Manford

It was announced today that award winning comedian Jason Manford will star in a brand new UK tour of Mel Brooks’ The Producers. The award-winning musical comedy will begin touring in March 2015. Jason Manford will play down-trodden accountant leo Bloom in what will be his first ever UK theatre tour. Manford’s wealth of experience spans from a critically acclaimed West End role in Sweeney Todd, alongside Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, to award-winning stand-up comedy shows across the country. He shot to stardom in 2007 as team captain on C4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, since then he has hosted prime time television shows including Sunday Night at the Palladium, BBC1’s A Question of Sport: Super Saturday and The Royal Variety Performance. Jason was the winner of ITV1’s Born to Shine and will star in BBC TV’s forthcoming drama Ordinary Lies. Jason said; “I’m so thrilled to be starring … Read more