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14 Jun
2018

On June 10 2018 the 72nd Tony Awards kicked off with a song from co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles. It started sweet, but hilariously took a turn for the silly as they dedicated the opening to Tony nominees past and present...who never actually won an award! Watch the full, hilarious opening here...

On 9 June, the 2018 Tony Awards took place and in an undeniably epic turn of events, THE BANDS VISIT blew all competition away winning 10 Tony Awards! Yep - TEN!!! To celebrate such a significant victory for the only show in its category of Best Musical (which of course, it won) not to have been based on a popular movie or TV show, we decided our song of the week would be "Answer Me", sung live on TODAY...

07 Jun
2018

The time has nearly come for the 2018 Tony Awards and everyone here at StageFaves is just SO EXCITED!!! We can barely contain ourselves, but in order to help us make it to the weekend and the official ceremony, we decided to put together clips from all of the 2018 Best Musical nominees. Who would you like to win..?

06 Jun
2018

It's #HamiltonHumpDay! And this week we decided to choose one of our favourite ever #HamilDrop videos! Arianna Afsar, Shoba Narayan, Lexi Lawson, Rachelle Ann Go and Julia Harriman joined together to record the beautiful, spine-tingling "First Burn". Watch the video, here and rejoice in just how awesome HAMILTON truly is...

30 May
2018

It's #HamiltonHumpDay and this one is a beauty! Josh Castile is an actor best known for the recent Broadway production of SPRING AWAKENING with a cast of deaf actors. He's currently playing Quasimodo in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME in America and recently stopped by the ASL Cabaret to perform arguably the best song from HAMILTON - Satisfied...

29 May
2018

It's been a big year for TV and film adaptations on Broadway. Joining MEAN GIRLD leading the way at the 2018 Tony Awards with TWELVE nominations is SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. Watch the cast performing "Hero Is My Middle Name" from the show, live on TODAY...

23 May
2018

It is without a doubt one of the biggest shows ever written. HAMILTON feels like it's been around for decades but that's not actually the case. It all started in 2009, when writer Lin-Manuel Miranda took a risk and performed a version of what is now the opening of the show at the White House Poetry Jam. This #HamiltonHumpDay, take a look at the moment the worldwide phenomenon was born...

22 May
2018

Idina Menzel made it one of the most iconic Disney songs ever. Demi Lovato made it rock out. Now it's Caissie Levy's turn to immortalise the tune for Broadway. Disney have now released the official music video for the Broadway version of Let It Go from FROZEN...

17 May
2018

It's a big year for film adaptations on Broadway. With FROZEN wowing audiences already it's time for MEAN GIRLS to take centre stage. Tina Fey has adapted her hit film for the stage and the buzz is REAL! She stopped by The Tonight Show to chat to Jimmy Fallon and introduce a performance of "I'd Rather Be Me" sung by Barrett Wilbert who plays Janis in the show...

10 May
2018

We don't know when it'll come to the UK (it's only just opened on Broadway!) but we already know that the new FROZEN stage musical is a success! With new songs joining old favourites from the film, the cast recording is, for now, the only chance us UK folk will get to experience the blockbuster show, so we thought we'd share a behind the scenes look at what went down in the studio as the fantastic cast and creative team immortalised the tracks forever...

08 May
2018

James Corden's "Crosswalk Musical" segment continues with THE SOUND OF MUSIC! This hilarious segment takes famous musical theatre shows and condenses them into sections that last the time it takes to cross a road. This time though, with the addition of Oscar-winner Allison Janney, James may have met his match! How will they solve the problem of who will play Maria? Find out now...

02 May
2018

It's Wednesday and that means it's #HamiltonHumpDay! This week, we thought we'd learn a bit more about the man behind the musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Super-fans might know some of these facts already, but we bet there are a few new tidbits for even the most hardcore HAMILTON lover...

02 Apr
2018

It's a total phenomenon, earned Lin-manuel Miranda a Pulitzer Prize and will no doubt go on to run for years on both sides of the Atlantic. Our #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek this week is "Alexander Hamilton" - the opening number from HAMILTON, performed live at the Grammy's in 2016...

28 Mar
2018

On Saturday 24 May 2018, students in America were joined by thousands of fellow citizens for the "March For Our Lives" rally in Washington DC. The protest, to end gun violence, has been supported by many famous names including performers in theatre. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt came together during the rally to perform their duet "found tonight" live from Washington to support the students...

21 Mar
2018

A transatlantic partnership has been formed between Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Tony Award-winning producer Jim Kierstead who will work together to bring new and groundbreaking musical theatre productions to London and New York. The first of these productions will be new musical UNEXPECTED JOY which will head to the Southwark Playhouse after an Off-Broadway run...

15 Mar
2018

We're really jealous that Broadway gets its FROZEN fix this year but we're LOVING the new songs being released by the team. This latest song is no exception. Caissie Levy, who plays Elsa in the stage version has a terrific voice and we really feel like in this newly released track "Dangerous To Dream" we're seeing a real insight into the character.

07 Mar
2018

If 2018 is the year of the woman then it seems fitting that this year, Broadway welcomes FROZEN to the great white way. There are a bunch of new songs to add to the fan favourites and the team behind FROZEN have released a video of Caissie Levy performing one of those new tracks, "Monster", with a full live band - and some really awesome neon stick things...

28 Feb
2018

There's nothing like one of these videos to make us feel old, but they're so much fun we watch them anyway! The premise of this video is that a series of college kids from the USA are shown a clip of a famous movie musical and have to try and guess what musical it is. Get ready to be taken on a journey from the 1950s to present day, and challenge yourself along the way!

22 Feb
2018

There are so many reasons live theatre is a joy but the main one is the immediacy. It's all happening, right there, in front of you, so close you can almost touch it. Most of the time, that makes for flawless, emotionally electric entertainment but sometimes, just sometimes, that entertainment comes in the form of totally unintended, slapstick comedy fun! Today we bring you a selection of the funniest Musical Theatre fails. ...

21 Feb
2018

He's a big movie star, but Cuba Gooding Jr is set to make his London stage (and Musical Theatre) debut next month in the triumphant West End return of CHICAGO at the Phoenix Theatre. He stopped by the Graham Norton Show to hang out on the famous sofa, chat about his character Billy Flynn and even gave a short rendition of one of the songs...