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Stomp to close record breaking London run on 7 January 2018

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Stomp closes in London on 8 January 2018

After a fifteen year run in London’s West End, Stomp will end it’s run on 7 January 2018. The Olivier Award-winning show is currently playing at the Ambassadors Theatre where it has enjoyed a record-breaking ten year run. The creators of Stomp, Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell added today that this will not be the end of Stomp in London:- “We want to emphasise that we don’t consider this the end of Stomp here; we actually feel it’s going to be good for the show to take a break, reconfigure, reinvent and return at some point in the future in a different London venue, where we can present the show in a way that is more in keeping with its original ethos.” Stomp was first performed in 1991 in Edinburgh.  The show played Sadler’s Wells Theatre in January 1994 and won the Olivier Award for Best Choreography, before opening in New … Read more

FIRST LOOK: The Bridge Theatre, London’s Newest Theatre

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Bridge Theatre opening

This past weekend Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr welcomed the first ever audience to The Bridge Theatre. London’s newest theatre is situated on the river by Tower Bridge and City Hall. The Bridge Theatre is the flagship theatre of the London Theatre Company and is the first major theatre to be added to London’s commercial theatre stock in eighty years. On Saturday night of the Bridge and Young Bridge members were invited to try out the new theatre for the first time. They saw the theatre’s first production Young Marx. The audience of over nine hundred people also got to experience the theatres bar and cafe facilities. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE BRIDGE THEATRE

Ball and Boe attempt world record to celebrate new album

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Michael Ball Alfie Ball Together Again

Two of the nation’s favourite voices, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are setting themselves the ultimate challenge… to break a world record in celebration of their new album ‘Together Again’, out on October 27th. As thousands of fans across the UK queue to get their hands on a copy, Ball and Boe will race across five cities to sign as many albums as they can in 24 hours! The race against the clock will begin in Alfie’s hometown of Blackpool before they hit hmv stores in Sheffield, Manchester and Nottingham. The pair will race across the finish line by flying into the capital in a ‘Ball and Boe’ helicopter, where they will complete their last signing in hmv’s flagship store on Oxford Street. Their first album ‘Together’ was the biggest selling album released in 2016 and reached the coveted Christmas Number One spot that year. The album has reached double-platinum … Read more