Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo has had a life long love affair with musical theatre. He has authored several books on publicity and marketing for amateur theatre groups. He is in the process of developing a musical based on his original story concept.

Gabriel UK Tour

News, Touring
Gabriel UK Tour

Gabriel, a play by Moira Buffini will tour the UK from 28 March 2017. This is the second time the production has been staged since the play originally premiered at the Soho Theatre in 1997. The story of Gabriel is based in 1943 Nazi-occupied Guernsey. Widow and mother Jeanne does whatever it takes to keep her adolescent daughter Estelle and daughter-in-law Lily safe on an island filled with danger and fear. Her toughest test arrives in the form of the terrifying Commander Von Pfunz, whose romantic advances may be the only way to keep her family alive. But tensions intensify when a mysterious young man is washed ashore with no memory of who he is. Fluent in German and English, is he an RAF pilot, an SS interrogator, a local boy with amnesia or a saviour sent from heaven? The stakes are high and getting it wrong means certain death. … Read more

Thriller Set To Break Another Record As More Tickets Go On Sale

News, West End
Book tickets for Thriller Live

The Thriller Live juggernaut just keeps on going with producers announcing that on 26 March 2017, Thriller Live will become the 9th Longest Running Show – musical or play – currently in The West End. As the production prepares to celebrate the show’s producers have announced a new booking period releasing tickets for the next twelve months to April 1, 2018. Thriller Live has now been seen by over 4.2 million people in 33 countries, playing over 5400 performances worldwide. Producers have also announced new UK tour dates will be announced soon following the phenomenal success of the show’s last UK tour. The show returns to China to the new state-of-the-art theatre at the Parisian Hotel Macau this April where it will play until September 2017. BOOK TICKETS FOR THRILLER LIVE

Identity Crisis Comes To Ovalhouse

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Phina Oruche in Identity Crisis at Ovalhouse

Phina Oruche’s hilariously funny one-woman show Identity Crisis transfers to London’s Ovalhouse Theatre from 8 – 14 May 2017. The play which has enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool explores identity struggles that are common to us all. The play was born out of a real-life story of the sudden death of Oruche’s 19-year-old niece in her home in 2011. This distressing time was followed by a series of racial and international incidents happening throughout the world and in her life. Identity Crisis helped her turn a mess into a message. Join audiences as they are taken through sixty images of Oruche when she worked in the world of fashion, providing an illuminating exposition of life on the catwalk. Identity Crisis focuses on nine characters all of whom are having their own identity crises; they are … Read more

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 30-21

Features
Top 100 Musicals of All Time Poll Results

There are some real classics in this brace of our Top 100 Musicals ever. It’s a real mix of musicals old and new, don’t forget to let us know your thoughts on the vote below. 30. Dreamgirls Currently playing at London’s Savoy Theatre, Dreamgirls has music by Henry Krieger and book by Tom Eyen. Originally devised with the working title of One Night Only, the show caught the eye of Michael Bennett, director and choreographer of A Chorus Line. Dreamgirls opened on Broadway on December 20, 1981 and was nominated for 13 Tony Awards including Best Musical winning six. Twenty-five years later the show has finally premiered in the West End with Glee’s Amber Riley in the lead role. Book tickets for Dreamgirls. 29. Gypsy One of the great Broadway musicals, Gypsy has music by Jules Styne, Book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Gypsy is based loosely … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Yank The Musical, Hope Mill Theatre

Features, Gallery, Regional
Yank! Hope Mill Theatre

We are pleased to bring you these great first look production images by Anthony Robling of the European premiere of war-time love story Yank! which is now previewing at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Tickets for Yank! are now on sale. The musical tells a gay love story set in the midst of World War Two. Based on the real history and events of WW2, it focuses on the life of Stu, a scared Mid-Western youngster who is called up to serve in the forces in 1943. He becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal ‘for and by the servicemen’. The musical explores what it means to be a man, and what it is to fall in love and struggle. Based on the Off-Broadway production from 2010, this new version of Yank! is being performed for the first time ever in Manchester and in Europe. The book and lyrics were … Read more

Serena Jennings To Join Cast Of All Female Posh

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Serena Jennings to join the cast of all female production of Posh at the Pleasance

Producers of the world premiere of the all-female version of Posh have announced today that Serena Jennings will replace Hannah Murray in the production due to open at London’s Pleasance Theatre from 29 March 2017. Tickets for Posh are on sale now. Darkly comic, and disgracefully entertaining, Laura Wade’s universally acclaimed “POSH”, burst to life at the Royal Court theatre in 2010 with a cast that featured future stars Kit Harrington and James Norton, before transferring to the West End. Receiving a fanfare of plaudits, “POSH” became a huge hit with critics and audience alike. Now the riotous story of Oxford student dining club, a fictionalised version of the infamous Bullingdon Club, will be reinvented for the first time by a company of all-female actors. Producers issued a statement which said: “It is with sadness that we have to announce Hannah Murray’s departure from ‘POSH’ due to personal reasons, unrelated … Read more

Son Of A Preacher Man UK Tour

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Son Of A Preacher Man Uk Tour Tickets

Son Of A Preacher Man is a new musical featuring the soulful music of pop icon Dusty Springfield will tour the UK from September 2017. Three broken hearts, one Soho hang-out, and the only man who could ever help them… Welcome to the Preacher Man, the swinging 1960s Soho joint where the kids danced the night away to the latest crazes and dared to dream of love, while the legendary owner, The Preacher Man himself, dispensed advice to cure the loneliest of hearts. Only, that was a long time ago and all that remains are the memories, the stories and the myths. Until now, that is, when three random strangers, generations apart but all in need of help with their hopeless love lives, are inexplicably drawn to the site of the original venue. The Preacher Man is long gone, but his son, with help from the wonderful Cappuccino Sisters, might … Read more