Bill Kenwright News

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. We are very excited to present 'The Wizard of Oz' week here on BroadwayWorld.com where we'll be looking at footage from the new production each day. First up? 'We're Off to See the Wizard'!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch some archive footage of the cast rehearsing at Theatre Royal.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch the latest blog from Dorothy alternate Sophie Evans.

The Gaiety Theatre presents Willy Russell's BLOOD BROTHERS 7 - 25 June (For three weeks only).

THE WIZARD OF OZ is set to host a special Comic Relief gala performance to benefit Comic Relief, starring Michael Crawford as The Wizard and Danielle Hope (winner of the BBC's smash hit Over the Rainbow) as Dorothy, and ‘Dangerous Dave' - BBC's Over the Rainbow's winning Toto. THe event will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 21st April.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch the latest blog from Dorothy alternate Sophie Evans.

Bill Kenwright presents The Live Theatre Newcastle and National Theatre co-production of THE PITMEN PAINTERS

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. We are very excited to present a 'first listen' to Danielle singing 'Over the Rainbow' from the show's upcoming cast album. Stay tuned for further news on that release shortly and click below to play!

The Gaiety Theatre and Bill Kenwright present The Haunting by Hugh Janes adapted from the ghost stories of Charles Dickens from 7th-12th March

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch coverage from opening night!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch Hannah Waddingham singing 'Red Shoes Blues!'

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below for a sneak peek at the production which just opened in London!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below for a sneak peek at the production which just opened in London!

Gary Naylor sees ex-Wet Wet Wet man be Good Bad Bad as the infamous scientist.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Here is a look at photos from the red carpet for opening night in London tonight!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Here is a look at the production which began previews on February 7th and which opens tonight in London!

In the second part of our peek into The Wizard of Oz wigs room Paul Keating (The Scarecrow) gets wig-ready at the London Palladium...

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Here is a first look at the production which began previews on February 7th and which opens next week in London!

Say hello to some of our Munchkins! Resident Director Kate Golledge takes us backstage again, this time to find out what one of the teams of children playing our younger Munchkins - the Orange Team (with one Yellow Team member!) - think of their Oz experience so far…

We're in the Wizard of Oz Wigs room with Wigs Mistress Elaine Soloman, Deputy Wigs Mistress Helen Chirgwin and cast members including Rachel Spurrell and Jay Webb. Keep your wig on!