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According to Deadline, Marvel announced a new original preschool animated series for Disney Junior, titled Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends, during Disney's D23 Expo. Set to debut in 2021, the series will be the first full-length Marvel series for Disney Junior.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a London workshop recently took place for Andrew Lloyd Webber's modern musical remake of Cinderella, which welcomed some of Broadway's most notable producers and theatre owners. Now the composer has revealed in an recent interview with Good Morning Britain that the musical will open on Broadway next year.

The Southwark Playhouse has made a name for itself in featuring new musicals and inventive revivals. It's a venue that provides a platform for productions that are lesser-known, but have the potential to go further and I suspect with Fiver, they have an uncontested hit on their hands.

British musical FIVER gets its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse from Wednesday 3 July to Saturday 20 July.

Final casting is today announced for the new British musical FIVER, which gets its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse from Wednesday 3 July to Saturday 20 July.

Disney XD has ordered a third season of the Emmy Award-nominated animated series 'Marvel's Spider-Man' for a spring 2020 premiere. The web-slinging series follows Peter Parker, who is learning to navigate life as the teenage superhero Spider-Man. In the third season, titled 'Marvel's Spider-Man: Maximum Venom,' Spider-Man is pushed to his breaking point when Venom summons an earth-shattering threat from its home planet. The announcement was made today by Marc Buhaj, senior vice president, Programming and general manager, Disney XD.

Casting has been revealed for the recent London workshop of Andrew Lloyd Webber's modern musical remake of Cinderella.

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Raven-Symoné plays the fierce Asgardian warrior, Valkyrie, on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout. Hear what she has to say about taking on this role in the video below!

'Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout!' will feature distinct animation styles in a multipart story arc kicking off SUNDAY, MAY 5 (9:30–10:30 p.m. EDT/PDT), with two back-to-back episodes on Disney XD and DisneyNOW. In the new storyline, the Guardians, desperate to escape the Collector's collapsing ship, jump into the Black Vortex Mirror and find themselves separated and trapped in strange new worlds. Crossing time and dimensions, each world was developed using different animation techniques to visually support the storytelling, including CG-stop motion, children's book illustration, 8-bit, motion comic – all firsts for a Marvel animated series – as well as Golden Age and traditional CG.

Paul Taylor-Mills has announced full casting for the Taster Menu series of new musicals featuring as part of MT Fest UK. Playing at The Other Palace from Monday 11 to Saturday 23 February, the series will showcase eight new musicals through 45-minute semi-staged sharings.

Fresh off the Bat Out of Hell rollercoaster, Christina Bennington plays her first solo concerts to a full house at The Crazy Coqs. This 'deep dive into all parts of [her] voice,' as Bennington described it, treats fans to 16 songs of varied styles and characters which beautifully showcase her range as a performer.

Chloe Hart (Wicked; Les Miserables Hairspray) sang 'Never Enough' from Pasek and Paul's smash hit musical film, The Greatest Showman at To The Moon and Back at The Other Palace last Sunday.

Written by Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins, 'EUGENIUS!' tells the story of Eugene, a teenage boy whose nightly dreams of a distant world of heroes and villains may just be the ticket to him creating his very own comic book movie in Hollywood. Joined by his best friends 'Janey' and 'Feris', our comic writing genius must discover the true meaning of growing up, finding the superhero within, saving the world from both earthbound villains and possibly those from distant galaxies, and along the way, falling in love.

Marvel's most popular superhero, Spider-Man, returns in an all-new action-packed season when 'Marvel's Spider-Man' season two debuts with a one-hour telecast featuring back-to-back episodes, MONDAY, JUNE 18 (6:30 p.m. EDT), on Disney XD, DisneyNOW and Disney XD VOD. Following the premiere weekend, new episodes will debut every Monday through August. Season two will feature higher stakes and epic battles as Spidey faces-off against new heroes and villains, some of which are voiced by exciting guest stars, including Sofia Carson (Disney's 'Descendants'), Booboo Stewart (Disney's 'Descendants'), Nathaniel Potvin ('MECH-X4'), NASCAR racer Ryan Blaney and social media sensation Teala Dunn.

The highly anticipated new animated series MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN will debut with a one-hour premiere on SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 (7:00-8:00 a.m. EDT), on Disney XD, and on the Disney XD App and VOD (12:01 a.m. EDT)

Earth's Mightiest Heroes unite once again to fight the foes no single hero could withstand alone as MARVEL'S AVENGERS: SECRET WARS (previously 'Marvel's Avengers: Ultron Revolution') debuts a fourth season with a one-hour premiere on SATURDAY, JUNE 17

Earth's Mightiest Heroes unite once again to fight the foes no single hero could withstand alone as MARVEL'S AVENGERS: SECRET WARS (previously 'Marvel's Avengers: Ultron Revolution') debuts a fourth season with a one-hour premiere on SATURDAY, JUNE 17

MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, the action-packed, animated space adventure following a ragtag band of disparate misfits, will debut its second season with a one-hour telecast featuring back-to-back episodes, SATURDAY, MARCH 11

MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, the action-packed, animated space adventure following a ragtag band of disparate misfits, will debut its second season with a one-hour telecast featuring back-to-back episodes, SATURDAY, MARCH 11