Cast announced for Fat Boy Slim & David Byrne's Here Lies Love Musical to open at National in September

Updated 25th July: Natalie Mendoza, who played 'Arachne' in Broadway's Spider Man- Turn Off the Dark is to play 'Imelda Marcos' in Here Lies Love  at the National's Dorfman Theatre.

Mark Bautista is set to play Imelda's husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, with Dean John-Wilson as Ninoy Aquino, one of the men leading the opposition to President Marcos’ government.  Also in the cast are Gia Macuja Atchison, Lauren Chia, Christopher Chung, Julius Ebreo, Jim Ferrer, Li-Tong Hsu, Kok-Hwa Lie, Frances Mayli McCann, Aaron Jan Mercado, Martin Sarreal, Julie Yammanee and Sunny Yeo


The show has been created by David Byrne of Talking Heads and  Fatboy Slim.  It previews from September 30th with an official opening night on October 13th.

The acclaimed New York production ( it has just returned to the Public Theatre for a second run) will again be directed by Alex Timbers.

The title of the concept album and musical is taken from a comment made by Imelda Marcos during a visit to her husband Ferdinand Marcos's embalmed body when she said that  she would like the phrase "Here Lies Love" to be inscribed on her tombstone.

Byrne has incorporated speeches made by Marcos and his wife into the lyrics of his songs with the action set in a disco that constantly changes shape, dancers moving around raised adjustable platforms with the audience standing and moved around as the set is transformed.  The set is surrounded by two dozen TV screens filled with footage and facts on politics in the Philippines.

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Evita starring Marti Pellow going into Dominion in September

The tour of Evita starring Marti Pellow as Che , Madalena Alberto as Evita snd Andrew C Wadsworth as Peron finishes its UK tour at Aylesbury on 19th July before heading off to Belgium until 10th August.

The producer Bill Kenwright has been talking about taking it into the West End for some time and he has now settled on the Dominion Theatre for a limited run previewing from September 16th, opening on September 22nd and running until 1st November.

It will be followed by White Christmas starring Tom Chambers and Aled Jones which again runs for a limited period from 8th November until 3rd January 2015

The production will be directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson and will be the first to open at the newly refurbished Dominion Theatre since We Will Rock You closed.

Complete casting details to follow.

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Cats going into Palladium in December

Cats the musical has been on an extensive tour of the UK and Europe which is due to end at Birmingham Hippodrome on 27th September.

Then it's heading back to the West End for a limited 12 week run at the London Palladium previewing in early December following Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance which runs until 25th October and after the Royal Variety Show has been recorded in November.

Ticket prices are good with the highest cost for an adult under £60 and children are half price.

Lord  Lloyd Webber said that the original team from the hit 1981 production will be working on Cats with Trevor Nunn directing, John Napier designing and Gillian Lynne choreographing. He said:  "We wanted to do Cats again ourselves, then the Palladium came up and Trevor fell in love with it. We’re taking the Cats show that’s touring and working on it afresh".

He is rewriting a couple of the songs with Rum Tum Tugger becoming street cat offering a great modern dance opportunity and he never liked  Growltiger’s Last Stand.  He decided to go for the Palladium when he heard Nunn had a six week slot to work on the show, which David Ian will produce with Really Useful Theatres.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday 7th July when casting and further details will be announced.

Kinks' Musical Sunny Afternoon Confirmed for Harold Pinter Theatre in October

It has just been announced that the Sunny Afternoon musical telling the story of the rise of The Kinks is to transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in October following a sell-out month-long run at the Hampstead Theatre.

Sunny Afternoon recreates the early life of north Londoner Ray Davies and the band he founded with his brother Dave using  Davies’ original songs including Waterloo Sunset, Lola and You Really Got Me..

The producer Sonia Friedman said they would have transferred it earlier but wanted a smaller intimate theatre and none was available.

The principal cast members will star in the West End run including John Dalgleish as Davies and George Maguire as Dave. It will preview from October 4th and open on 28th October with tickets going on general sale on Monday.

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John Barrowman Your Raise Me Up Concert Tour

John Barrowman has just announced his first tour in four years. You Raise Me Up coincides with his album of the same name and in May 2015 with tickets going on sale from 10:00 am this Friday 27th June.

This marks a return to his musical theatre roots as for the past few years he has been concentrating more on television (particularly the Torchwood spin off playing Captain Jack from Dr Who), game shows, variety and presenting work.

The tour will visit: Cliffs Pavilion Southend 16th May: Royal Concert Hall Nottingham 17th May : Philharmonic Hall Liverpool 19th May: City Hall, Sheffield  20th May: The Bridgewater Hall Manchester 22nd May: Bournemouth International Centre 23rd May: London Palladium 24th May: Regent Theatre Ipswich 26th May: Barbican Centre York 27th May: Opera House, Blackpool 29th May: Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 30th May: Brighton Dome 31st May: Edinburgh Playhouse 2nd June: SECC Glasgow 4th June: Symphony Hall Birmingham 6th June and the Sage,Gateshead on 8th June

Niall Sheehy, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Michael Vinsen and Emma Hatton in Edges at Delfont Room

Edges is the first concert performance on 1st August at 22:00 of New Bard Productions Ltd.  They will take place monthly from August to November in the Prince of Wales Theatre's cabaret space The Delfont Room.

Edges stars Niall Sheehy, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Michael Vinsen and Emma Hatton.

It  is a contemporary musical that confronts the trials and tribulations that young adults in their twenties may encounter. The comical and movingsongs cover universal issues such as love, commitment and the search for identity.

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Tickets for Hadley Fraser, Scarlett Strallen and Alex Bourne in Lerner & Lowe Tribute

Ken Bruce presents a special Friday Night is Music Night: One Brief Shining Moment celebrating the music of  Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

Performers will include Scarlett Strallen (Candide, A Chorus Line) Hadley Fraser (City of Angels, The Pajama Game) and Alex Bourne (Kiss Me Kate, We Will Rock You) accompanied by the  BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Larry Blank.

You can get tickets for the show which is being recorded live at the Mermaid Theatre on Friday 11th July.


Lerner & Loewe wrote five of the most outstanding musicals of all time My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Gigi, Paint Your Wagon and Camelot.

The concert will feature musical theatre songs including 'I Could Have Dance All Night', 'How To Handle A Woman', 'Almost Like Being in Love', 'Gigi', 'Wandrin Star' and 'Camelot'.

Meryl Streep to star in Master Class Maria Callas Film

Meryl Streep is to star as opera legend Maria Callas in a film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Master Class.  Director Mike Nichols will helm the project which will begin filming in January.

Nichols and Streep have worked together in the past on projects including Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge,and Angels in America.

Set at the Juilliard School in 1971 Master Class follows renowned opera diva Maria Callas as she teaches her admiring students while simultaneously recalling moments from her own career.  

Master Class debuted on Broadway in 1995 starring Zoe Caldwell in the leading role. A Broadway revival was mounted in 2011 with Tyne Daly in the leading role and Sierra Boggess as Sharon.

Tamsin Greig to star in musical version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Tamsin Greig will make her musical theatre debut starting in the West End premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's musical adaptation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Playhouse Theatre.  Previews start on 20th December and the show opens on 12th January. The 20 week limited engagement will conclude on 9th May 2015

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is adapted from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-nominated 1988 black comedy drama film of the same name which starred Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura.

Tony Award winner Barlett Sher will direct, who was at the helm of the original Broadway production four years ago. Since then the musical has been reworked with creators Jeffrey Lance and David Yazbek to scale down the band, rewrite characters and songs, tone down sets and costumes, and simplify and restructure the book. The musical was workshopped in London with Grieg, Sher and Oscar winner Almodovar there as an observer.  

The story revolves around a professional movie dubber who discovers unsavoury secrets about her married lover after he abruptly abandons her and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son who know nothing, while her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path keeps crossing in a very complicated and confusing manner.

The Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown starred Sherie Rene Scott, Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Benanti. It played the Belasco Theatre from  October 2010 to January 2011 and was nominated for 3 Tony Awards in 2011 - Best Original Score, and Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (for both LuPone and Benanti). 

Tamsin Greig is the star of TV series including Episodes and Green Wing and was most recently seen in the West End in Jumpy, which transferred from the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. Her other stage credits include The Little Dog Laughed.

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Simon Bailey and Laura Pitt-Pulford to star in Sondheim's Marry Me A Little

The Sondheim revue Marry Me A Little is playing at the  St James Studio, near Victoria  from 29th July (opening night 31st July) for a limited run to 10th August.

Casting is announced today: Simon Bailey will star as Man and Laura Pitt-Pulford will star as Woman.

Simon Bailey was most recently seen as Liam in I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium. Prior to this he toured the UK as Raoul in Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of The Phantom of the Opera. West End credits include Lieutenant Torrasso/Count Ludovic in Passion at the Donmar Warehouse, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre, Enjolras in Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre and Britney in We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre. Simon is also a founder member of 'Theatreland's First Supergroup' Teatro.

Laura Pitt-Pulford was most recently seen as The Falconer in the Tori Amos musical The Light Princess at the National Theatre. Other recent credits include A Man of No Importance at Salisbury Playhouse, Piaf at Leicester Curve Theatre, Hello Dolly at Leicester Curve Theatre, Mack & Mabel at Southwark Playhouse and Parade at Southwark Playhouse.

Marry Me A Little is a selection of songs by Stephen Sondheim which tell a cbittersweet tale of love, loneliness and survival as a modern singleton. Two single strangers, left alone in their studio apartments on a Saturday night, pass their time with sweetly secret, unshared fantasies, never knowing that they’re just a floor away from each other and the end of their lonely dreams.

Told entirely through songs written early in Sondheim’s career or previously intended for his Broadway musicals including 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum', 'Company', 'Follies' and 'A Little Night Music', this is a musical revue offering a look at "the songs that got away”.'

Marry Me A Little first premiered Off-Off Broadway in 1980 and was last performed in London in 1997 at the Bridewell Theatre.

This production is being presented by Aria Entertainment in association with Guy James and Knockhardy Productions. It is  conceived and developed by Craig Lucas and Norman René, and  directed by Hannah Chissick,with musical direction by David Randall.

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Cast for tour of Calamity Jane the Musical starring Jodie Prenger

The tour of Calamity Jame the musical starring Jodie Prenger starts rehearsals this morning.

It opens at the Watermill in Newbury on 17th July and the full cast has just been announced: joining Jodie in the title role will be Tom Lister (Water Babies, Carl King in Emmerdale) will play love interest Wild Bill Hickok,  Alex Hammond (Taboo, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) is Danny and Pheobe Street (The Light Princess, Les Miserables) is Katie Brown.

The rest of the cast includes Anthony Dunn/Henry Miller, Sioned Saunders/Susan, Rob Delaney/Francis Fryer, Christina Tedders/Adelaide Adams, Paul Kissaun/Rattlesnake, Jon Bonner/Doc, Martin McCarthy/Joe, Matthew James Hinchliffe/Buck and Jamie Noar as Hank.

Cinema Tickets for Billy Elliott the Musical

On Sunday 28th September Billy Elliot the Musical is being  is broadcast live from the Victoria Palace in the West End to cinemas across the UK and around the world.

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Alexander Bermange with special guests Aimie Atkinson, Helena Blackman, Sarah Earnshaw and Rebecca Trehearn at Crazy Coqs

Musical theatre composer/lyricist  and BBC comic songwriter Alexander S Bermange will be performing at The Crazy Coqs on Monday 28th July at 8:00 pm

Alexander has received recognition for his many stage musicals (including The Route To Happiness, which has just been recorded by Kerry Ellis, Ben Forster and Louise Dearman and is due for release later this year) and is known to millions as the resident comic songwriter and performer on Radio 4’s Broadcasting House and the World Service’s Weekend.

Following his critically acclaimed performances of his comic songs at the St James Studio, Alexander is to make his debut at the Crazy Coqs, premiering brand new material in addition to presenting some of his best-loved comedic musical creations about second-rate singers, perverted pensioners, tube-travelling trainspotters, and popular personalities from Prince Harry to David Beckham.

He will be joined on stage by four leading ladies of musical theatre: Aimie Atkinson (Carnaby Street, Dirty Dancing, winner of the BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre), Helena Blackman (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, TMA Award nominee for South Pacific, Off West End Award nominee for Noel & Gertie), Sarah Earnshaw (Spamalot, Scrooge, Jekyll And Hyde, Wicked) and Rebecca Trehearn (Ghost, Love Story, Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You).

Tickets are available on 020 7734 4888 or at www.crazycoqs.com

Cast for The Confession Room Concert starring Jon Robyns and Rebecca Trehearn

The Confession Room returns to London this summer in a special  concert at the St James' Theatre in Victoria at 19:00 on Sunday 13th July.

The production will star Jon Robyns (Les Miserables, Avenue Q, Spamalot) and Rebecca Trehearn (Ghost The Musical, Love Story, We Will Rock You).  They will be joined Matthew Rowland (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Taboo), Stephanie Clift (Mamma Mia!), Joshua Lovell (Singing In The Rain, Soho Cinders), Rebecca Jayne-Davies (Jersey Boys, Water Babies) with Devon-Elise Johnson, Steven Bush, John Sandberg, Ben Fenner and Natalie Bush.

The Confession Room is an ‘outrageously funny’ original British musical about a group of people who come together to spill their most embarrassing secrets and stories. These confessions range from a guy who admits to having a ‘slightly different’ ex-girlfriend, to a girl who is tired of being treated like a ‘ditsy blonde’. Adding to the plot a mysterious newcomer and a counsellor who has numerous issues of her own,

This concert production will be directed by Paul Foster with musical direction by Tim Evans.

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Full Cast Announced for Memphis the Musical

The official launch of Memphis the Musical took place at Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho this morning.

Starring Beverley Knight and Killian Donnelly as Felicia Farrell and Huey Calhoon, the show starts previews at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 9th October and opens on 23rd October.

Further casting just announced includes
Rolan Bell (Delray), Tyrone Huntley (Gator), Claire Machin (Gladys), Jason Pennycooke (Bobby) and Mark Roper (Mr Simmons).

The cast also includes Keisha Atwell, Arielle Campbell, Mark Carroll, Joseph Davenport, Momar Diagne, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Kimmy Edwards, Hillary Elk, Laura Ellis, Charlotte Gorton, Benjamin Harrold, Waylon Jacobs, Rachel John, Dean Maynard, Devon McKenzie-Smith, Tim Newman, Simon Ray-Harvey, Jon Robyns, Ashley Rumble, Kyle Seeley, Helen Siveter, Dawnita Smith and Alex Thomas.

Sabrina Aloueche and Kieran Brown in The American Dream Concert

Gig Caritas are presenting The American Dream – A Celebration of American Music and Musicals in memory of Stephen Sutton and in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust West Midlands at  Dudley Concert Hall, St James’s Road, Dudley, DY1 1HP on Saturday 12th July at 7:30pm

Stephen Sutton had been working on this concert until he died on 14th May after raising over £4m for Teenage  Cancer Trust. 

West End stars Kieran Brown (Les Miserables, Wicked, Love Never Dies) Sabrina Aloueche (Les Miserables, We Will Rock You), Katie Bernstein (Rent 20th Anniversary Tour, Urinetown) and CiCi Howells (Threepenny Opera, Birmingham REP) will be performing accompanied by a 20 piece orchestra  conducted by Keith Horsfall with In Sound Company and members from Brierley Hill Musical Theatre Company joining forces to create a 70 strong community choir.

Ticket Prices: £12 (£10)  Call Dudley Box office on 0870 3207000 or visit www.dudley.gov.uk/entertainment

Tour of Matthew Bourne's The Car Man

Matthew Bourne's New Adventures have announced the revival of  The Car Man  for a limited 16 week UK tour which opens  at The Churchill Theatre Bromley on 14th April 2015 with a four week summer season at Sadler's Wells from 14th July to 9th August 2015.

Loosely based on Bizet's Carmen the show features Schedrin's powerful Carmen Suite and new
arrangements of the score by New Adventures Associate Artist, Terry Davies.

Premiering  in 2000 and winning the Evening Standard Award for Musical Event of the Year and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Choreography The Car Man was last revised in 2007.

The familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy garage-diner in 1960's America where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge.

New Adventures have several touring production at the moment with Matthew Bourne's Swan Lane, Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies and Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands due to start in November.

The Car Man  is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, with music by Terry Davies & Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite (after Bizet's Carmen); designs by Lez Brotherston; lighting by Chris Davey and sound by Paul Groothius. The project is supported by Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts funding programme.

Laura Michelle Kelly in musical Peter Pan Musical Finding Neverland

The full cast for the musical Finding Neverland has now been announced with Jeremy Jordan (Smash) playing J M Barrie and Laura Michelle Kelly (Mary Poppins) as Sylvia Llewellyn leading the cast.

It will open at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge Massachusetts and run from July 23rd-September 28th. It will be directed by Diane Paulus featuring a score by Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy and book by James Graham.

The production is a completed revamped version of the musical which was presented at the Curve Theatre in Leicester starring Julian Ovenden and Rosalie Craig which received mixed reviews and an expected West End transfer was postponed.

Inspired by the film of the same title starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet the musical explores the friendship between faltering playwright J M Barrie and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (a widowed mother of four boys) and how that relationship inspired him to write his  Peter Pan stories.

The principal cast will also include Roger Bart/Charles Frohman, Carolee Carmello/Madame du Maurier, Jeanna de Waal/Mary Barrie, Aidan Gemme/Peter, Alex Dreier/Michael, Sawyer Nunes/George and Hayden Signoretti as Jack.

They will be joined by Courtney Balan, Dana Costello, Rory Donovan, Gaelen Gilliland, Thayne Jasperson, Josh Lamon, Melanie Moore, Mary Page Nance, Stuart Neal, Emma Pfaeffle, Jonathan Ritter, Tyley Ross, Julius Rubio, J.C. Schuster, Paul Slade Smith, and Ron Todorowski.

Cast for The Scottsboro Boys

The West End transfer of the Young Vic production of  Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys will open at the Garrick theatre  on 20 Oct (previews from 4th October)

Initial casting has just been announced with Broadway star Brandon Victor Dixon making his West End debut as Haywood Patterson (the role he created in the original US production). Dixon is currently starring as Motown founder Berry Gordy in Motown: The Musical on Broadway and also starred in the Broadway production of  The Color Purple as Harpo.

He will be joined by American actors Olivier Award nominee Colman Domingo (Mr Bones), Forrest McClendon (Mr Tambo) and James T Lane (Ozie Powell) with British actors including Game of Thrones star Julian Glover (The Interlocutor), Dawn Hope, Dex Lee, Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton, Richard Pitt, Emile Ruddock and Carl Spencer.

The production originally opened on Broadway in 2010 where it was nominated for 12 Tony Awards. The musical uses the paramaters of a minstrel show to tell the story in a very original way.

Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman the original London production was nominated for 6 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical and won the Critics' Circle Best Musical 2013 following its run at the Young Vic Theatre.

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Ray Quinn & Claire Sweeney starring in Aladdin at Liverpool

Ray Quinn recently won Dancing on Ice Champion of Champions and is currently doing a series of intimate concerts before he heads of the the US to do some recording.

But he will be in the UK this Christmas playing Aladdin at the Liverpool Empire from 12th December-4th January next year,

The pantomime will feature a Liverpudlian cast including Claire Sweeney (who is due to have a baby soon) as Genie of the Ring,  Radio City's Leanne Campbell as Princess Jasmine and Pete Price as the Emperor.

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Ronan Keating taking over lead in Once the Musical

Ronan Keating is to make his West End debut playing the lead in the musical Once at the Phoenix Theatre. The rumours about this have been around for a while and have to say I am excited about this being confirmed as I think vocally he is perfect for the part. It's just the 8 shows a week which will be a bit of a shock to his system!

Keating will be performing the role of Dublin-based street musician Guy who falls for a Czech pianist for a limited season from November 17th through to March 21st.

The Boyzone lead joked that he received a phone call from Barbara Broccoli, who produces the James Bond films and Once, ‘on her 007 number’ saying ‘I’ve been offered quite a few theatre roles in the past, but when the call came from her on her 007 phone, I had to take it seriously.’

The show has a very beautiful and moving score so it's no surprise that he has seen Once several times and on each occasion he and girlfriend Storm Uechtritz ended up crying. 

Listen to Ronan singing Falling Slowly from Once with Kimberley Walsh.

Ronan Keating has a busy time before he starts rehearsals for Once with a new Boyzone Tour starting soon, his film Goddess due for UK release on 27th June and then he is due to return to Australia where he is on the judging panel for American Idol.

Leads announced for new tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Bill Kenwright Limited has just announced that Lloyd Daniels (2009 X Factor finalist) will star as Joseph with Danielle Hope  (The Wizard of Oz, Les Miserables) as Narrator and Matthew Lapinskas (Anthony Moon in EastEnders, Dancing on Ice)  as Pharoah on new tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which starts on 21st July.

Line Up for West End Live

West End Live is the largest free outdoor event is the largest of its kind in the world, with the The lineup now announced for the tenth anniversary which takes place in Trafalgar Square over the weekend of 21st and 22nd  June 2014.

Regulars returning this year including: Billy Elliot, The Bodyguard, The Lion King, ZooNation's Groove On Down The Road, Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, Let It Be, Mamma Mia!, Matilda The Musical, Once, The Phantom Of The Opera, Stomp, Thriller Live and Wicked!

The Commitments launch the event on Saturday with a number of West End Live "first timers" including Miss Saigon, 20th Century Boy, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Forbidden Broadway, Porgy And Bess and The Pajama Game.

Making their West End Live debut will be English National Opera and The Royal Opera House Chorus led by Plácido Domingo who will conclude Saturday's programme performing a selection of opera classics.

As part of the 10th birthday celebrations on Sunday there will be a special cabaret: "10 from 10", featuring ten iconic songs from some of the event's favourite shows performed by some of Theatreland's best loved names.

For the first time this year there will be a free Theatre Emporium  in a 1920s Spiegeltent where the public can "peek behind the scenes and discover all the elements that bring a theatrical production to the stage."


The full running order with details of the hosts will be available soon.