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Another Wednesday, another of our favourite HAMILTON videos! A couple of #HamiltonHumpDay's ago we shared the "Hamilton Polka", put together by the inimitable Weird Al Yankovic. We knew Lin-Manuel Miranda was super-psyched by it, and now all of the casts of Hamilton have been jamming out to the tune and released a video of all the fun...
Like the plot of, well, a musical! With around a week to go before the first semi-staged run of BROKEN WINGS at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, ensemble member Nikita Johal stepped into the female lead role of Selma after Hiba Elchikhe had to drop out for personal reasons. But Nikita is a leading lady in her own right, having already starred in a recent production of SPRING AWAKENING...
2018
The Edinburgh Fringe is fast approaching and a firm staple has to be the Olivier Award-winning SHOWSTOPPER: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL which also enjoys a residency in London's West End. This talented lot improvise a whole new musical every day! Don't believe us? Give these videos a watch...
There's an exciting new musical coming to the Theatre Royal Haymarket this week and it's been co written by wonderful StageFave Nadim Naadam! A semi-staged production of BROKEN WINGS runs this August 1 - 4 and is based on the writings of Kahlil Gibran, the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi!
2018
In the lengthly process of creating a musical (one which sometimes takes decades!), there are always a few tunes that don't make the cut. It's a rare moment though, when we actually get to hear any of them! In a very special London performance, DREAMGIRLS creator Henry Krieger talks about the cut song "I'm The New Girl" and then performs it with West End Lorrell, Asmeret Ghebremichael.
Have you watched the post-show Q&A Faves founder Terri Paddock recently hosted at It Happened in Key West yet? Catch up here to find out why the American creative team wanted to bring this brand-new show to London for its world premiere, how Andrew Lloyd Webber nabbed its original title and the real story behind the plot... and the set's video projections.
We're super jealous that Broadway gets the awesome stage version of FROZEN but we don't and we definitely hope it'll be heading our way soon! Until it does though, we have to make do with the soundtrack and any video footage that comes our way. Luckily, the cast have been on TV a fair amount performing our fave songs. We Came across this performance of "For The First Time In Forever" on Good Morning America this May...
There's no denying HAMILTON has excited audiences this side of the Atlantic just as much as back home on Broadway. Our original West End Hamilton and Burr Jamael Westman and Giles Terera sat down to chat about what makes the show so special, the buzz of excitement they get from the audience and little moments they're still discovering months into the run...
2018
The Barn Theatre's production of THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE is going from strength to strength. With a host of great reviews and awesome responses from audiences, the Cirencester show really is theatre worth travelling for! The Barn team has just released a video filmed on opening night. If you're not already sold, why not follow in the footsteps of Ruthie Henshall and Verity Rushworth and get yourself to the Cotswolds!
WATCH: #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek - "Me & The Sky" from Come From Away sung by Broadway's Jenn Colella
We haven't stopped talking about COME FROM AWAY since it was announced that the show will be coming to the UK in early 2019 so it just felt right to choose a song of the week from this fab show! "Me and the Sky" tells the fantastic (and true!) tale of Beverley Bass, who led the first all-female crew in the history of commercial jet aviation. Performed here by Jenn Colella, marvel at the awesomeness of one woman, sung in the awesome voice of another...
Sure, Musicals can be tough, but making one up on the spot..? Surely that's impossible! Well no, because Pippa Evans and her buds at SHOWSTOPPER: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL do it all the time! Pippa is an improv Queen, but she also has a solo comedy career, and she stopped by the London Palladium to show us some of her more scripted work...
Is this his most ambitious one yet? James Corden returned to his native England to celebrate the classics of Andrew Lloyd Webber! And yes, he did make an appearance. Crosswalk Musical is a hilarious segment which takes famous musical theatre shows and condenses them into sections that last the time it takes to cross a road. There was an abundance of cats, a handful of fired children and a "cornucopia" of Lloyd Webber standards...
2018
Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree at the world premiere of wacky American musical It Happened in Key West at London's Charing Cross Theatre. How much love is there for this life-and-death romantic comedy? What did stars Alyssa Martyn and Wade McCollum profess? (And spot #stagey blogger Charlotte O'Growney with Perry at the interval!)
In tough times, there's nothing like a bit of music to remind you that everything is going to be ok. The Broadway community came together to record a version of "We Are The World" to call for healing and unity in the world today and with a great message, a beautiful song and some of the best voices in the business we dare you not to get choked up!
2018
A decade before they were winning Oscars for their work on THE GREATEST SHOWMAN and LA LA LAND and Tony Awards galore for the stunning DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the songwriting duo Pasek & Paul wrote a little song-cycle that went by the name EDGES. Here, Carrie Hope Fletcher performs "I've Gotta Run" from EDGES... #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek
With some new faces in the cast, an Edinburgh Fringe run scheduled this August and a full West End run at the Arts Theatre to look forward to, the ladies of SIX are back and sassier than ever! Now, they've released a new video for the final song from the show, "six", so get ready to re-write history and call it HERstory. The wives of Henry VIII are ready to bring the noise...
That image of the cast high-kicking in a line has to be one of the most iconic in Musical Theatre, right? We couldn't have a Song Of The Week list without including this Marvin Hamlisch classic. SO get your sunglasses on because the amount of gold in this video is bordering on excessive! Our StageFaves Song Of The Week is "One" from A CHORUS LINE...
Fantastic StageFaves blogger Caroline Hanks-Farmer has been very busy lately and one of the super-exciting things she's been up to was attending the official launch of THE KING AND I ahead of its West End run. She took some awesome footage from the performance that'll get you really hyped to visit the show for real...
Time for some legendary Rock & Roll live on the London stage! The cast of BAT OUT OF HELL dropped by the London Palladium last year to wow the audience with 6 minutes of non-stop Meatloaf madness! So hope on your motorbike, ride that highway and get ready to have your face melted off with this weeks #PalladiumPick...
It's been a few weeks since the 2018 Tony Awards but new videos are still catching our eye, like this one! Hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles pay homage to the hard working people on Broadway who have to survive 8 shows ever week! Even better, it's to the tune of Sia's Chandelier...