Top Hat

Top Hat comes to Upstairs at the Gatehouse

News, Off West End
Top Hat Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Ovation Productions are to present the London fringe premiere of Top Hat the musical at Upstairs at the Gatehouse from 13 December 2017 to 28 January 2018. Featuring Irving Berlin’s greatest hits this all singing, all dancing musical features Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face The Music and Dance, Puttin’ On The Ritz and Top Hat. Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale in a riotous mistaken-identity plot. Top Hat will star Strictly Come Dancing Champion Joanne Clifton as Dale Tremont with further casting to be announced. Top Hat will be directed by John Plews, choreographed by Chris Whittaker, musical supervision by Dan Glover, casting by Debbie O’Brien and Harry Blumenau and produced by Katie Plews. TOP HAT TICKETS

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 90 – 81

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Top 100 Musicals of All Time Poll Results

Welcome to our second instalment of votes 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. 90. Sweet Charity One of the first Fellini movies to be adapted as a musical, Sweet Charity brought together some of the greatest musical theatre talent of all time, starting with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. Sweet Charity was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse and starred his then wife Gwen Verdon. The show was nominated for 9 Tony Awards and is well know for showstoppers including Big Spender, If My Friends Could … Read more