Wilma’s top YouTube video picks this week
My original plan was to do a monthly blog of my favourite you tube videos I’ve been watching recently but I’ve seen so many good ones in the last week that I just have to share them with you now! Julie Andrews I’ve just discovered this grainy video of Dame Julie […]
Feel-good musicals to raise your spirits this January
Back to work after the Christmas break? Got a touch of the new year blues? Take a look at some of my top feel-good musicals to help raise your spirits this January. Why not treat yourself and book one today? Mamma Mia Take a trip to the sunny greek island of Mamma Mia this […]
Curve Leicester launch Dementia friendly performances with OLIVER! on 13 January 2016
Curve Leicester have today announced their inaugural Dementia Friendly performance with Oliver! on 13th January 2016. The idea behind the Dementia Friendly performance is to tailor the theatre experience to meet the needs of people living with Dementia, their family, friends and carers so that they the can all come along and enjoy the performance in a […]
SANDRA DICKINSON is LUCILLE BALL in the UK premiere of I LOVED LUCY!
I Loved Lucy is a personal portrait of an iconic comedic entertainer whose public face is all too well known. But what was Lucille Ball really like and how did she choose to live her life…at the end of her life? Out of the spotlight. Based on his best selling memoir, Lee Tannen’s funny, bitter-sweet […]
Full Cast Announced for MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
As rehearsals begin for the West End production of Motown the Musical, full casting is announced led by Cedric Neal as Berry Gordy, Lucy St. Louis as Diana Ross, Charl Brown as Smokey Robinson and Sifiso Mazibuko as Marvin Gaye. Buy tickets to see Motown the Musical here They are joined by Keisha Amponsa Banson […]
Production photos released of Sheila Hancock & Jenna Russell in the European premiere of Grey Gardens
Production photos released of Sheila Hancock & Jenna Russell in the European premiere of Grey Gardens at Southwark Playhouse which opens this Thursday, 7 January 2016. The eagerly awaited European première of the Broadway musical Grey Gardens, is based on an iconic 1975 documentary, telling the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy […]
Wilma Awards host Tim McArthur to star in Brecht’s CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Lazarus Theatre Company are proud to announce that Tim McArthur makes his Lazarus debut playing the role of Azdak the Judge. “I am delighted to be appearing in The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Ricky Dukes and Lazarus Theatre Company having been a fan of their work for many years. It’s such a honour and a […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber searches the UK for kids to join the cast of SCHOOL OF ROCK
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical School of Rock, with book by Julian Fellowes, based on the 2003 Jack Black movie, has broken the house record at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, grossing more than US$1.5 million dollars, in a standing room only sell out during Christmas week. This smashes the previous record of US$1.36 million held […]
Cast announced for the UK tour of The MouseTrap
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap will continue its record-breaking, and first ever, UK tour into 2016. The beloved murder mystery will begin the 2016 leg of its tour at Nottingham Theatre Royal, where it originally opened in 1952, on 19 January before visiting more than 25 further venues across the UK. The cast for the 2016 […]
Ashleigh Grey, Steven Webb, Andy Coxon, Liam Doyle and Tori Allen-Martin launch new musical MUTED
Interval Productions have hit gold with the cast of their new musical ‘Muted’. They have lined up Ashleigh Grey, Steven Webb, Andy Coxon, Liam Doyle and Tori Allen-Martin to record this new British rock show and launch the album with a concert on the 4th February 2016. Cast Ashleigh Gray has just finished starring […]