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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".
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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Last year, Lucie Jones flew the flag for Theatreland and the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. Fellow #StageFave Liam Tamne is down to the final six to represent us in Lisbon this May with his song "Astronaut". TV audiences decide on Wednesday night (7 February 2018) whether or not he has lift-off. Louisa May talked to him about his extraordinary trajectory so far...
2018
This Saturday 13th January was #NationalSwingDay and a perfect opportunity to pay tribute to those multi-talented actors, singers and dancers who keep all our favourite #StageFaves shows…well…swinging! They step into multiple roles at a moments notice and we love them! We rounded up 10 top tweets dedicated to all those fantastic swings out there!
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Welcome to 2018! What’s the best way to start the New Year? By checking out our sparkling top 20 #StageFave New Year tweets of course! Here's to another #stagey year of fantastic theatre!
It was Musicals week on Strictly Come Dancing and glorious gaggle of dynamic duos treated us to a host of brilliant dances to classic Showtunes! From CATS to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, we were swept away by the marvellous moves, and we even spotted some familiar faces from the West End...
Celinde Schoenmaker is a West End name and superstar StageFave with a CV chock-full of West End credits but this year she's spending Christmas at the Menier Chocolate Factory alongside Marcus Brigstocke in BARNUM. Our friends at the Musical Theatre Review chatted to Celinde about rehearsals, the showbiz story and fitting such a big show into a smaller theatre...
2017
It's going to be a night to remember! Laura Martins and Paul Tabone head to Live at Zedel for one night this month in a diva-off fit for the Kings and Queens of stage! The PHANTOM OF THE OPERA stars will be facing off this Sunday 15 October, showing off their vocal chops in the process...
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It’s not all bagpipes and Brigadoon! West-End superstars Shona White and Kieran Brown are pairing up for one night only this November in celebration of all things scottish. The seasoned StageFaves will be celebrating St Andrews Day in style with a host of leading West End performers in London at the Arts Theatre. Oh, and there's going to be a quiz...
2017
Here at StageFaves we LOVE to geek out about our favourite musicals and if there's one thing we know from office rants (our editor is constantly listing the reasons WICKED is one of the the greatest shows ever...) and heated musical theatre-themed debates it's that everyone has their own opinions on what shows are the best, the most underrated, or just plain unlistenable! We've compiled our #TopFive videos...of Top 5 lists!
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Back from Broadway! Ramin Karimloo announces a one-night only performance at the Royal Festival Hall
The Phantom is back! 24601 returns! Our love for him...never dies! Ramin Karimloo is heading back to the London stage January 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall. "Back from Broadway" will run for one night only as part of the Southbank Centre's Autumn/winter season and we're sure tickets will be going fast, so grab them before it's too late!
2017
It’s less than a month until HAMILTON rehearsals start and we can’t contain our excitement! Even better, there are so many other great #StageFaves shows to catch over the next few months as well. Take a sneak peek at what’s coming up with our top ten rehearsal tweets…
Don't be too sad to wave goodbye to Ben Forster - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has a new Ben on the way, and he's not exactly new to the role of the masked man. Ben Lewis was acclaimed in the Australian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber sequel Love Never Dies. Which other #StageFaves join him in the West End from 4 September?
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The summer holiday season got us thinking about all the performers stepping out onstage each night. When do they get time off? Where do they go on holiday? What’s on their summer playlist? Thus our #SummerMusicalMoment series was born and to kick it off we’ve rounded up some holiday Tweets from your #StageFaves so you can find out what they're doing with their precious downtime...
He already brought us GREASE but now it's time for a West End staple. As part of his "Crosswalk Musicals" segment, James Corden takes a classic show and condenses it into sections that last the time it takes to cross an American road. His second foray into this hilarious Musical style is the Andrew Lloyd Webber fave PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Get ready to laugh, cry and gasp...in 30 second segments...
2017
The whole of the West End was celebrating Pride this weekend and came up with some very creative rainbow images! We rounded up 10 of our favourite #StageFave show tweets!
They've already got a host of live venues in the capital, but restaurant chain Pizza Express have announced they'll be opening another new live entertainment venue at its newly designed restaurant in London’s High Holborn at the end of August. There are already some big names on the line-up and judgting by those first announcements it's going to be a flagship venue for the pizza chain...
2017
Forget Glastonbury, this weekend the only place to be was WEST END LIVE with amazing performances from all of our favourite shows! We’re rounded up 20 of our favourite tweets from performers and shows that capture some of the magic! You can find our full social media coverage, features and more on our dedicated WEST END LIVE page.
2017
Who'd our vlogger Perry O'Bree catch up with at West End Live? Watch all his backstage video interviews from both days with West End stars including Ben Forster, Jade Ewen, Danny Mac, Cassidy Janson, Marisha Wallace, Kerry Ellis, Rachel Tucker, Tyrone Huntley, John Partridge (in drag!), Lucie Jones, Jason Manford and many others from Aladdin, An American in Paris, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, Five Guys Named Moe, On the Town, The Lion King, Everybody Loves Jamie, Half a Sixpence and The Wind in the Willows - to name a few!
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Illustrator Andy Robinson's 'inky mission' is to see as many shows as possible and try to capture them within an ink drawing - which he does with extraordinary flair, each creation a real work of art in itself. Over this weekend's #WestEndLive, he set himself an even more gargantuan task - capture ALL of the shows in one drawing before the end of the two-day event. See how he got on...