Our Top 10 Tony Award Performances

Britishtheatre.com selects its Top 10 Tony Award performances

With the Tony Awards coming up we thought we’d nominate some of our favourite Tony Award performances from previous years. Thanks to You Tube we are able to bring you video of these great performances. Let us know your thoughts and nominate your own favourite Tony performances. In the meantime enjoy our selection. In no particular order:- Rent (1996) Newsies (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Sz7_7T50Q Grand Hotel (1990) Dreamgirls (1982) Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (1993) Hamilton Evita (1980) Sweeney Todd (1979) The Phantom Of The Opera (1988) Ragtime (1998) And just to top off these incredible performances here’s Neil Patrick Harris in what must be considered the greatest (and biggest) Tony Award opening number EVER! Find out more about the Tony Awards

Evita UK Tour 2018

Evita Tour

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical Evita will tour again from May 2018. Book now for the Evita UK Tour. Evita is the international award-winning, blockbuster musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Evita UK Tour recommences in May 2018. This tour of Evita is being produced by Bill Kenwright. Evita tells the story of Eva Peron, wife of Argentinian dictator Juan Peron. Rising from the working class, Eva achieved extraordinary wealth and power, with many seeing her as the spiritual leader of the nation. In death she achieved iconic status which remains today. Made into a film featuring Madonna and Antonio Banderas, Evita features musical numbers including Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, On This Night Of A Thousand Stars, Oh What A Circus! and Another Suitcase In Another Hall and the Academy Award-winning You Must Love Me. Eva Peron will be played by Magdalena Alberto, whilst … Read more

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 40 – 31

Top 100 Musicals of All Time Poll Results

We’re almost done with this massive project to identify the Top 100 Greatest Musicals as judged by our readers and musical theatre fans around the world. In this latest instalment Alan Menken, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander and Ebb all make repeat appearances. Don’t forget to let us know your thoughts on the results. 40. Little Shop Of Horrors Long before Alan Menken became Mr Disney, he and writer Howard Ashman wrote an Off-Broadway musical that over the years has become one of the world’s favourites. Little Shop Of Horrors was based on the 1960 low budget black comedy that starred a young Jack Nicholson. Premiering Off Off Broadway, then moving to Off Broadway, the show ran for five years before moving to London and Sydney amongst other locations. Frank Oz of The Muppets fame made a great movie adaptation of the film bowing to studio pressure … Read more

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