Tuesday, August 25

West End Musical Drive-In new dates and line up from Six, Aladdin and Wicked! musicals for September

West End Musical Drive-In has just announced new dates and a star-studded line up at The Drive In,Troubadour ,  Meridian Water, Harbet Road,London,N1 83Q for September 5th,12th,19th and 26th:

Joining the previously announced events including two Six star reunions will be nights dedicated to three West End shows – Aladdin, Wicked and Everybody's Talking About Jamie, with the last of them revealed a number of weeks ago.

Layton Williams will be joined on 29 August by current Jamie star Noah Thomas, with more still to be revealed.

On 5th September a variety of musical performers who have appeared in Six the Musical including  Courtney Bowman, Maddie Bulleyment, Collette Guitart, Sophie Isaacs, Vicki Manser, Shekinah McFarlane, Natalie Paris, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Courtney Stapleton, Jen Caldwell, Cassandra Lee, Zara MacIntosh, Hana Stewart, Lauren Byrne, Danielle Steers, Cherelle Jay and Lauren Drew  will be performing numbers from a variety of stage shows across the evening (NB: it  will not be a production of Six the Musical). The previously announced concert (12th September) sold out within 24 hours.

On 19 September, Aladdin's Trevor Dion Nicholas, Matthew Croke and Hiba Elchikhe will come together for an evening of performances from a range of musicals.

On 26 September, three Elphabas – Alice Fearn, Emma Hatton and Laura Pick – will unite with recent Glinda, Sophie Evans, to perform live tunes from across the canon. 

Monday, August 17

Monsoon Wedding Musical coming to London next summer for six weeks only

Award-winning film director Mira Nair is bringing a new musical adaptation of her exuberant and sumptuous film Monsoon Wedding to the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road for a limited season from 16th July-29th August 2021

The  musical tells the story of romantic entanglements during the organisation of a traditional Punjabi Hindu arranged wedding in Delhi. The  lavish, nonstop, four-day expensive celebration  has been arranged by upper-middle-class parents Lalit Verma and his wife Pimmi who for the marriage for their only daughter Aditi to Indian American Hemant Rai who is the son of a family friend who lives in New Jersey.  Aditi has only known him for a few weeks and as so often happens in Indian culture, such a wedding means that, for one of the few times in each generation, the extended family comes together from all corners of the globe, bringing  emotional baggage along with all sorts of dark secrets emerging.