Blog / New Year Honours
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2017
How do you feel about the state of things? How will you feel about The State of Things?! A new British musical comes to the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre for its world premiere in September.
We say Cheers to that! Yes, Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is coming over here. He'll make his London debut amongst a company of fab #StageFaves - including Jamie Muscato and Matt Seadon-Young - in the London premiere of Andrew Lippa's Broadway musical BIG FISH. An awful big catch for The Other Palace in its first year, wouldn't you say?
Who's got one of the largest companies in London theatre this summer? That'll be Aria Entertainment's From Page to Stage festival of new musicals with 56 #StageFaves - and they haven't even announced casting yet for the three-week event's headline premiere of Burt Bacharach & Steven Sater's SOME LOVERS!
2017
Theatre Royal Stratford East has long been a champion of musical theatre and the team there are now embarking on their Musical Theatre Workshop 2017 which has just begun its two-week development period with six new musicals. They've spent months picking a top-class bunch of creatives and we're certain they'll come up with something magic...
2017
SALAD DAYS is the musical which inspired Cameron Mackintosh to become a theatre producer. This classic 1954 British musical receives a rare London outing next month at the Union Theatre. And we've got cast details here...
Let the fun begin! FUN HOME is coming to the UK with its five Tony Awards in tow. It'll premiere at the Young Vic next summer, helmed by its original American director Sam Gold but with a new UK cast. Which of your #StageFaves would you cast? Watch this video from the Broadway production for inspiration!
2017
Hang on to your hats (cowboy) and/or crowns? If you loved last year's Hotel for Criminals, you won't want to miss the latest UK premiere from legendary American theatremaker Richard Foreman, at his most politically charged, taking aim at Trump in King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, running this August at London Theatre Workshop...
2017
This Christmas, why not take your friends and family to the Vaudeville Theatre for some magical fun for all the family? WILDE CREATURES opens this December before heading off on tour and it's sure to enchant audiences as much as Oscar Wilde's fairy tales enchanted their original readers...
2017
It's been all over the news for over a year and now it's coming, in song-form to the London stage! BREXODUS! THE MUSICAL (formerly known as Brexit, the musical) is coming to The Other Palace for a limited few performances this July. Get ready to trigger those articles guys, we're in for a bumpy ride...
The brilliant new one-man musical SUPERHERO has its opening night on 30 June at Southwark Playhouse and we can't wait to see it. In celebration of this wonderful show, we've got videos of the trailer and two awesome songs, including "Don't Look Down" (which won the Stiles and Drewe award) sung by the fabulous Michael Rouse. So pop on your Bat Man capes and fly on down to Southwark...
2017
Yup - it's true. Your eyes are not deceiving you. THE MARRIAGE OF KIM K- THE KIM KARDASHIAN MUSICAL is a real thing, it's an opera, and it's coming to the Arcola Theatre this july! It's a new take on Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO combining pop, electronic and classical music and it sounds like one of the most intrigueing shows that'll be hitting the London stage this summer...
2017
We won't be growing any long noses in the #StageFaves office because it's totally true - PINOCCHIO is coming to the National Theatre this winter as part of the newly announced season (which includes the #StageFaves-filled FOLLIES). With the writing brains behind the RSC's MATILDA and with songs and score from the original Walt Disney film, it's certainly going to be a treat for all the family...
2017
Emma Rice may be leaving her position as Artistic Director of The Globe next year, but she's still bringing a whole host of exciting new shows to the theatre in the time she has left! They have just announced the 2017 winter season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, entitled "The Winter Selection". Opening the season will be ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, a new musical directed by Emma Rice (who also wrote the book), with lyrics by Christopher Dimond and music by Michael Kooman, presented by special arrangement with Radio Mouse Entertainment. Read all the info below...
With the news of HALF A SIXPENCE sadly closing its doors this September, our friends at the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society look at what productions they'd like to see take its place at the Noel Coward Theatre…
2017
London West End Calling! A new feel-good musical is set to open in the capital’s West End in 2018 featuring some of punk’s biggest hits by The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Damned and more. The show is funded by the world’s biggest record label, Universal Music and will be the first time punk hits have become a West End musical...with opera singers! This unique and original show will be cast via open auditions and is sure to be a mosh-worthy success!
As their real-life counterparts gear up towards the snap election, a cast of highly electable #StageFaves are preparing to play the Parliamentarians in the Donmar Warehouse's premiere of Tom Deering and Hadley Fraser's new documentary musical with the impossibly long full title: The Public Administration and Constitution Affairs Committee Take Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company. And we can't wait to see Sandra Marvin's choice of Camila Batmanghelidjh-style colourful kaftan...
2017
What do Bob Dylan and ABBA have in common? Well...they've both got 'jukebox' musicals! Bob Dylan's 1963 song "Girl from the North Country", from his second studio album, provided inspiration for this world premiere new musical (or is it a play with music?) opening at the Old Vic Theatre this July. We've got two fab songs for you from GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (wonder how they came up with the title?!), sung by the cast, to whet your whistle. It certainly doesn't sound like MAMMA MIA!
Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre and its producing partner, Katy Lipson at Aria Entertainment, is on a roll. After news in February of the upcoming London season of its 50th anniversary production of HAIR, it's now announced another transfer: its UK premiere of war-time gay love story YANK! comes to Charing Cross this summer....
2017
#StageFave Gerard McCarthy stars as Dave the Cat in the upcoming one-man show, Cat (The Play!!!) at the West End's Ambassadors Theatre for two nights only next week. Cat (The Play!!!) is an affectionate tribute to musical theatre, tracking the career of a jobbing hoofer allegedly sacked on the opening night of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. What other musicals might Dave have starred in? Check out all these fabulously funny poster mock-ups of other musicals we think you'll recognise...
2017
We're super excited for this sneak peek extract of THE BRAILLE LEGACY that has just been released! If this song is anything to go by, we are in for an emotional ride! The world premiere of this exciting new show runs until 24 June at the Charing Cross Theate. Here, #StageFave star Jérôme Pradon sings "Liberte Egalite and Fraternite" from this fab new show.