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BritishTheatre.com Playlist – February 2017

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Welcome to the February 2017 BritishTheatre.com playlist. We thought it would be fun to share with you some of the tracks we are listening to at BritishTheatre.com HQ as well as tracks from some of the shows in the West End and on Broadway at the moment. This month we’ve included a tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber who has become the first composer since Rodgers and Hammerstein to have four musicals running concurrently on Broadway. There’s a track from the new cast album for Dear Evan Hansen which we love, tastes of Young Frankenstein, Bat Out Of Hell, An American In Paris, 42nd Street, and from Idina (does she need a surname) Menzel. There’s also a track from Newsies due for cinema release this month. There’s a lot to enjoy, so keep making suggestions and we’ll try to include your favourites in upcoming playlists. LISTEN TO THE BRITISHTHEATRE.COM FEBRUARY 2017 … Read more

Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein Comes To Garrick Theatre

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Mel Brooks' new musical comedy Young Frankenstein will come to London's Garrick Theatre in Autumn 2017

Following the success of Mel Brooks’ smash hit musical The Producers comes Young Frankenstein – a new musical comedy based on Brooks’ smash hit movie of the same name which will open at London’s Garrick Theatre on 28 September 2017. Young Frankenstein tickets are now on sale. Young Frankenstein, the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic, see’s Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherit a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his deranged genius grandfather, Victor Von Frankenstein. He now faces a dilemma – does he continue to run from his family’s tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather’s mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga? The London run of Young Frankenstein will be preceded by a season at the Theatre Royal Newcastle from Saturday 26 August … Read more

46 Beacon Transfers To Trafalgar Studios 2

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46 Beacon playwright Bill Rosenfield

Following a critically acclaimed season in 2015 at The Hope Theatre, Bill Rosenfield’s coming of age and coming out play 46 Beacon is to transfer to London’s Trafalgar Studios 2 in April 2017 for a limited season. Set in 1970’s Boston, Alan and Robert spend a balmy July evening hoping for a connection – emotional or physical. The address is 46 Beacon, a theatrical hotel, whilst Robert and Alan are at different stages of their lives, they each have something the other yearns for! Bill Rosenfield said, “I couldn’t be happier that a semi-autobiographical account of a special night in my life is opening in the West End. Ultimately the play came out of my need to express just how far and fast Gay politics had progressed, in a touching but, I hope, also humorous way, and I am really excited to bring it to a wider London audience”. Written … Read more

Audra McDonald Reschedules Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill

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Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emersons Bar and Grill

Following the postponement of Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill last year due to the joyous news of Audra McDonald’s Pregnancy, an announcement has been made that the show will transfer to the West End this Summer, opening at Wyndham’s Theatre on 17 June 2017. Audra McDonald, the Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer, will be making her West End debut portraying jazz legend Billie Holiday in a performance that won her a record-breaking sixth Tony Award. Audra is the first and only person to receive awards in all four acting categories. Written by Lanie Robertson and directed by Lonny Price, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill recounts Holiday’s life story through the songs that made her famous, including “God Bless the Child,” “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Strange Fruit” and “Taint Nobody’s Biz-ness.” Read our review of the Broadway production. 1959, in a small, intimate bar … Read more

SHOW OF THE MONTH – Mamma Mia! – Save Up To 30%

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Mamma Mia Save Up To 30% February Show Of The Month

The world-wide blockbuster musical that is Mamma Mia! continues in London at the Novello Theatre and during February we have made Mamma Mia! our show of the month. You can save 30% on Band A Tickets for Monday to Thursday performances between 1 February and 30th March 2017 if you book by 28 February 2017 *(Excludes 13- 19 February 2017) You can save 18% on Band B Tickets for Monday to Thursday performances between 1 February and 30 march 2017 if you book by 28 February 2017 (Excludes 13 – 19 February 2017). Featuring the classic songs from super group ABBA, Mamma Mia! is a story of love, friendship and identity, that is sure to entertain the whole family. BOOK NOW FOR SHOW OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY 2017 – MAMMA MIA!

Idina Menzel UK Tour

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Broadway’s first lady Idina Menzel returns to the UK for a series of concerts around the UK in June 2017. The artist sometimes known as Adele Nazeem, originated the role of Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked, workshopped and originated the role of Maureen in Rent, and originated the role of Elizabeth in If/Then on Broadway. She had a recurring role in HT series Glee and was the voice of Queen Elsa and sang the Oscar and Grammy award-winning song Let It Go in the Disney film Frozen. This summer Idina will perform concerts in London (15 June), Bristol (14 June), Portsmouth (16 June), Manchester (18 June), Birmingham (19 June), Glasgow (20 June), and Cork (25 June). BOOK TICKETS TO IDINA MENZEL UK TOUR