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We're feeling SASSY this week and damn powerful too! It's not valentines week anymore so we thought our #StageFaveSongOfTheWeek would be a stark contrast to the love ballads synonymous with romance. This week, our pick is the iconic, angry, all-female "Cell Block Tango", from the truly iconic musical CHICAGO.
2018
It's the middle of February and love is in the air! Wednesday was valentines day and thousands of lovebirds flew to theatres around the country to enjoy a musical together! There was also a lot of tweeting...like, a LOT a lot of tweeting...so we put together our top tweets from Valentines Day 2018. Some are funny, some are cool, some are...original, to say the least.
Our #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek this week was from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA so we thought we'd continue the trend! This weeks #PalladiumPicks is also from the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic, this time with Ben Forster singing "Music Of The Night".
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Polka Theatre is tempting audience’s taste buds with news of the eagerly-anticipated world premiere of the musical version of Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake.
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It'll make you a believer for sure! The UK tour of SHREK have released a trailer to get us even MORE excited about the show! Amelia Lily (in selected venues) and Steffan Harri lead the cast in the tour currently making its way around the UK...
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The UK premiere of ROTHSCHILD & SONS, with music by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, is now in its final week at London's Park Theatre. We caught up with Broadway's Glory Crampton, reprising her role from the show's New York run, and West End favourite Gary Trainor, who play mother and son in the show...
2018
It's mid-February and love is in the air! This Wednesday, it's Valentine's Day so we decided this #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek should be a love song! There are so many beautiful love songs in musical theatre that we just had to take the plunge and pick one or we'd spend all week deciding! So, this week we chose "All I Ask Of You" from West End staple THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
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Olivier Award-winning actress Rebecca Trehearn will take on the title role in Nottingham Playhouse’s revival of the Broadway musical classic SWEET CHARITY this summer. Check out this fabulous video of her transforming into Charity Valentine...
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Time for another #FirstNightTakeover! Perry O'Bree was back on the red carpet on 8 February 2018 at the opening night of ALL OR NOTHING at the Arts Theatre. There were mods, motorbikes and myriad stars who came out in force to London's West End to enjoy the show!
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Best known for his roles in TV series Arrow, Torchwood and Doctor Who, John Barrowman is set to return in April to London for three intimate concert performances with Broadway's Seth Rudetsky at Leicester Square Theatre.
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The fabulous DREAMGIRLS, currently enjoying a West End run at the Savoy Theatre, has released a brand new trailer for 2018 and it's so slick we feel like we're in a movie!
What's that!? It's Friday! FriYAY more like. And it's time for another #PalladiumPicks video! This Friday we're feeling naughty, so we thought what better way to get ourselves ready for the weekend than our favourite song from Tim Minchin's MATILDA!?
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2018 is the year of the woman and it's also the year we answer the question "are women funny?" with a resounding YES!! The ladies of NOTFLIX - The Improvised Musical are back this March for five dates at the prestigious Vaults Festival. So grab your tickets to see the funniest women in improv turn your favourite movies into a once-in-a lifetime musical...because let's be honest...EVERYTHING'S better as a musical!
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After success last year at The Vaults, MISS NIGHTINGALE returns to London next month to make its West End debut with a seven-week season at the 180-seat club-set theatre at the Hippodrome Casino. Enter the world of 1940s Blitz Glitz London with this award-winning show and several new actor-musician cast members...
2018
Time to discover who is joining Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington in the cast for the 2018 West End run of Jim Steinman’s musical BAT OUT OF HELL, opening at London’s Dominion Theatre on 2 April 2018.
This week we're using our #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek to spread ALL the Musical Theatre joy! After John McCrea won Most Promising Newcomer at the #CriticsCircleAwards last week, we've been so struck by his charm, we just HAD to choose a song from EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
SAN DOMINO, a new musical exploring Benito Mussolini's persecution of homosexuals, is coming to London's Tristan Bates Theatre. Watch our video from writer Tim Anfilogoff, who recounts the real Second World War atrocity that inspired the show. And heads up: Faves founder Terri Paddock is organising a post-show Q&A...
It's time for another #PalladiumPicks! This week, we're embracing the good side of gloom with THE ADDAMS FAMILY. The cast of StageFaves stopped by the London Palladium to perform "When You're an Addams" in front of the sold out crowd. Goth never looked so good!
Casting has been confirmed for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s Titanic The Musical. The cast will feature 11 actors returning from Titanic The Musical’s performances including Claire Machin, Niall Sheehy and Devon-Elise Johnson and a host of other #StageFaves.
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It was clear to see that musical theatre dominated the 2017 Critics Circle Awards. The ceremony was live-streamed and all of the speeches are still online. We've rounded up all of the winners related to Musical Theatre so you can see what it was like to be there in the room where it happened...