Ben Elton News

David Ian and the Really Useful Group has announced the first ever UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's LOVE NEVER DIES. Following on from the sell-out North American tour, the spellbinding sequel to The Phantom of the Opera will open at Leicester Curve on Saturday 26 September 2020 where it will play until Saturday 10 October 2020. The show will then play Manchester Opera House from Wednesday 14 a?" Saturday 24 October 2020, with further venues and casting to be announced soon. On sale details below. www.loveneverdies.com/uktour

Imagine you are in a venue with hundreds of people packed around you, swaying and singing along to the music of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. You turn to your left and bob your head to the beat of a?oeI Want It Alla?? and later on, scream the lyrics to a?oeBohemian Rhapsodya?? with the woman on your right. This was just a snapshot of my experience seeing WE WILL ROCK YOU a?' a musical featuring the music of Queen and Ben Elton at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on January 11th. On it's North American tour including more than 60 cities, WE WILL ROCK YOU played in Vancouver for 2 days before continuing onto the rest of its tour stops across Canada.

With 24 of Queen's biggest hits and Ben Elton's hilarious futuristic comedy writing combined, comes a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the band's legendary live performances.

Get ready because BroadwayWorld is giving you the chance to win tickets to see the music of Queen come to life on stage in the national tour of We Will Rock You! The winner will receive two tickets and a meet-and-greet at the show's December 27th performance at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Canada. The contest will run now through December 15th, at 11:59 PM EST. Be sure to enter for your chance to win TODAY!

Television and Broadway star Ruby Lewis is bringing holiday cheer to Orange County this Monday night, December 9th at Campus JAX with OC's favorite Hey Mister! Band. This one night only event will feature Ruby's soulful vocals along with Hey Misters! harmonies which have moved and mesmerized across the country. Joined by a 7-piece vocal band, the evening is guaranteed to get you in the spirit of the season. Tickets still available at www.campusjax.com/entertainment.

Full casting for Ben Elton's stage adaption of the critically acclaimed BBC TV sitcom Upstart Crow - which opens at the Gielgud Theatre on 7 February 2020 and will see David Mitchell make his West End debut - has been announced.

Having played to over 16-million theatergoers in 19 countries, WE WILL ROCK YOU will launch its North American tour next week at Hulu Theatre in New York City!

Television and Broadway star Ruby Lewis is presenting her new one-woman show, Blue-Eyed Soul this Thursday night, November 7th at The Space.

Deze week zijn in Rome de repetities van start gegaan voor de Queen rockmusical WE WILL ROCK YOU. De cast van deze spectaculair nieuwe, volledig Engelstalige versie van WE WILL ROCK YOU, met onder andere Anastacia en Stanley Burleson, bestaat uit vijf verschillende nationaliteiten die allemaal hun sporen verdiend hebben in de internationale musicalwereld. WE WILL ROCK YOU is van 27 november 2019 tot en met 16 februari 2020 te zien in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Hengelo, Groningen, Apeldoorn, Heerlen en Breda. De première van WE WILL ROCK YOU is op vrijdag 6 december 2019 in AFAS Live in Amsterdam.

Written in 2002, the Queen and Ben Elton musical WE WILL ROCK YOU has taken the globe by storm, featuring record-breaking pop and rock hits of the 1970s and beyond. Following the success of the Oscar®-winning film “Bohemian Rhapsody,” WE WILL ROCK YOU, recently returned to North America and is currently en route to Irving's Toyota Music Factory for one night only on Tuesday, October 22nd.

Vanwege de enorme vraag naar kaarten voor de Queen rockmusical WE WILL ROCK YOU zijn er, zelfs voordat de repetities zijn begonnen, ruim 20 extra voorstellingen toegevoegd aan de Nederlandse tournee. De spectaculair nieuwe, volledig Engelstalige versie WE WILL ROCK YOU zal nu ook te zien zal zijn in Theater Orpheus in Apeldoorn, Parkstad Limburg Theaters in Heerlen en het Chassé Theater in Breda. Omdat de vraag naar kaarten alle verwachtingen overtreft zijn er ook in AFAS Live in Amsterdam, het World Forum Theater in Den Haag en Schouwburg Hengelo extra voorstellingen toegevoegd. De kaartverkoop voor alle extra voorstellingen van WE WILL ROCK YOU is vandaag van start gegaan.

WE WILL ROCK YOU, the world wide musical phenomenon by Queen and Ben Elton, will tour The Netherlands in a spectacular new, English language production, produced by TEC Entertainment and Peep Arrow Entertainment. WE WILL ROCK YOU, directed by Massimo Piparo (Jesus Christ Superstar), can be seen in seven theatres in The Netherlands.

Originally opening in London in 2002, Ben Elton's We Will Rock You - a jukebox musical based around the songs of legendary rock group Queen - has had fans on their feet across the globe as it's toured Europe, North America and Australia, and now tours the UK.

On Friday, 20th September, Rising Tides, announced that Oscar-winner and theatre star, Mark Rylance, has become its Patron.

The international sensation, WE WILL ROCK YOU, will be coming to the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell for one night only on Wednesday, November 13th at 7:30 pm. Presented locally by WAAF, the musical follows two revolutionaries, Galileo and Scaramouche, on a quest to save rock n' roll in a post- apocalyptic world where there are no musical instruments and rock n' roll has died.

The Beautiful Game presented by Manilla Street Productions showcases a brilliant cast whose stellar performances are a true highlight of the evening.

David Mitchell is to make his West End debut next year in Ben Elton's stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed BBC TV sitcom, Upstart Crow. This all-new comedy - written especially for the stage - will see Mitchell once more don the bald wig and bardish coddling pouch in his iconic characterisation of Will Shakespeare. Tickets go on sale at 12noon TODAY from UpstartCrowTheComedy.com

Annerin Theatricals announced the North American cast for the production a?oeWE WILL ROCK YOU,a?? which debuted in 2002 and will return to New York City this fall at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden from November 14 through November 17, 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

Known to audiences as Alfie Moon from EastEnders, Shane Richie recently playing Hugo/Loco Chanelle in the West End's Everybody's Talking About Jamie, and can currently be found touring the UK as Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer.

Queen leadzanger Freddie Mercury zou vandaag, 5 september 2019, zijn 73e verjaardag hebben moeten vieren en op deze bijzondere dag maakt TEC Entertainment bekend dat Stanley Burleson, naast de Amerikaanse superster Anastacia, te zien zal zijn in de rockmusical WE WILL ROCK YOU. De geheel eigen, spectaculair nieuwe versie van de internationaal succesvolle musical van Queen en Ben Elton wordt geheel in het Engels opgevoerd en geproduceerd in samenwerking met Peep Arrow Entertainment. in. De rockmusical is voor een beperkte speelperiode uitsluitend te zien in AFAS Live in Amsterdam. World Forum Theater in Den Haag, Schouwburg Hengelo en MartiniPlaza in Groningen. De première van WE WILL ROCK YOUis op vrijdag 6 December 2019 in Amsterdam.