Saturday Night Fever Tour 2014/15

Saturday Night Fever musical

CLICK FOR SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER TOUR DATES BELOW Saturday Night Fever is currently touring the UK and they’ve just released this great trailer to promote the tour. This new production is being directed by Ryan McBryde and choreographed by Andrew Wright in  a co-production between Theatre Royal Bath Productions and The Robert Stigwood Organisation. Based on the international hit film of the same name, the cast will feature actor/musicians and will feature music from the Bee Gees including Jive Talking, Night Fever and You Should Be Dancing. Tour Schedule 2014 Liverpool Empire December 2 – 6 Eastbourne Congress December 8 – 13 Theatre Royal Glasgow December 16 – 3 January 2015 Mayflower Southampton January 6 – 10 Hall For Cornwall January 13 – 17 Swan, High Wycombe January 20 – 24 New Victoria, Woking January 27 – 31 Festival Theatre, Malvern February 3 – 7 Festival Theatre Edinburgh February 10 … Read more

Once Trailer Featuring Ronan Keating Released

Jill Wintervitz and Ronan Keating in Once at the Phoenix Theatre

The multi award winning musical Once has released their very first trailer featuring new Guy – Ronan Keating. In Once an Irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their song writing sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. Ronan Keating will be performing in Once at the Phoenix Theatre until the show closes in London on 21st March 2015. Book tickets now for Once

Bat Boy Cast Announced

Rob Compton to star as Bat Boy at Southwark Playhouse

Casting has been announced for Bat Boy: The Musical, which will sink its fangs into the London stage in a brand new production in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 9 January to Saturday 31 January 2015. Rob Compton will take on the title role of Bat Boy, alongside Georgina Hagen as Shelley Parker, Russell Wilcox as Sheriff, Nolan Frederick as Bud, Simon Bailey as Reverend Hightower, Andy Rees as Rick, Pepper Harrison as Ruthie and Lindsay Scigliano as Maggie. They join the previously announced Lauren Ward as Meredith Parker and Matthew White as Dr Parker. A strange bat-child is discovered in a dank cave in deepest, darkest West Virginia. For the small community of Hope Falls, the discovery threatens to shake its moral core and the residents turn to the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, in the hope that he will know what to do with the strange creature. … Read more

Into The Woods – Cinderella Featurette

Into The Woods movie trailer released

It really is a day for going Into The Woods as our friends at Broadwayworld.com have unveiled another great feature on the new movie musical this time featuring Anna Kendrick as Cinderella. We hope that you enjoy this great clip and look forward to bringing you more moments in the woods.

The History Boys UK Tour 2015 – Casting Announced

Alan Benett's The History Boys to tour in 2015

CLICK FOR THE HISTORY BOYS TOUR DATES BELOW Casting has been announced today for the 2015 tour of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. The cast will include Steven Roberts (Hollyoaks) as Posner, Kedar Williams-Stirling (Wolfblood) as Dakin, Richard Hope (Democracy) as Hector, Christopher Ettridge (Twelve Angry Men) as the Headmaster, Mark Field as Irwin, Susan Twist as Mrs Lintott, Sid Sagar as Akthar, Matthew Durkan as Crowther, Patrick McNamee as Lockwood, David Young as Rudge, Alex Hope as Scripps, Joshua Mayes Cooper as Timms, Chris Barritt as TV Director and Melody Brown as Fiona. Winner of over 30 major awards including the Tony Award and Olivier Awards for Best Play, The History Boys was nominated as the nations favourite play in a recent national survey. The History Boys is set in the 1980’s. It’s the story of a group of bright, funny and unruly six-formers in pursuit of sex, sport … Read more

Beautiful Thing Tour Cast Announced

Vanessa Babiyre, Thomas Law, Sam Jakson, Charlie Brooks and Gerard McCarthy in Bautiful Thing. Photo: Anton Belmonte

STOP PRESS: The UK Tour of Beautiful Thing will close after it plays Northampton and Leicester. For further information please see our news post. Full casting has been announced for Nikolai Foster’s celebrated anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which will return to the UK in 2015 with an 18 week UK tour, opening in Canterbury in March, then visiting Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Northampton, Leicester, High Wycombe, Cardiff and Brighton, with a West End run to be announced. Beautiful Thing is a glorious urban love story between two young men set on an inner city housing estate. It tells the story of teenager Jamie’s relationship with classmate and neighbour, Ste. Together the two boys find comedy, warmth and the music of Mama Cass through their loud-mouthed next door neighbour Leah. Jonathan Harvey combines comedy with drama in his critically acclaimed award winning play. Beautiful Thing truly captures what it … Read more

Railway Children Cast Includes Jeremy Swift and Caroline Harker

Jeremy Swift in The Railway Children

Jeremy Swift will play Mr Perks and Caroline Harker will be recreating the role of Mother in the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Kenny’s stage adaptation of E. Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children when it returns to London on 16 December 2014 in its new home, the King’s Cross Theatre. The Railway Children tells the story of Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis, three children whose lives change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken away. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire with their mother, where they befriend the local railway porter, Perks, and embark on a magical journey of discovery, friendship and adventure. But the mystery remains – where is Father, and is he ever coming back? Jeremy Swift can currently be seen starring as Maggie Smith’s butler, Spratt, in Downton Abbey, and he will return to the small screen in January in the new series of … Read more

Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman And Ben Forster Unite For New Musical Album

Kerry Ellis, ben Forster and Louise Dearman in new Christmas Musical

Three of the UK ’s most popular and internationally successful musical theatre stars have joined forces to record a critically acclaimed new British musical. Kerry Ellis, Ben Forster and Louise Dearman appear on the new recording of Alexander S. Bermange’s three-person musical The Route To Happiness, which was embraced by critics and audiences alike during its run at London ’s Landor Theatre last year. This album of the complete show includes new and reconceived material that BBC comic songwriter Bermange has created for the musical since its premiere production, and is produced by Mike Dixon, one of the UK ’s foremost Musical Supervisors. The Route To Happiness charts the individual and interweaving experiences of three present-day Londoners in pursuit of their respective dreams: finding love, making money, and becoming famous. A musical with humour and heart, listeners will be amused, moved, and possibly even made to question their own desires … Read more