Gary Wilmot News

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, the new musical based on the DreamWorks Animation film, has announced that Ghostlight Records has released its original cast recording on CD online and in stores today, Friday, November 20.

The cast album of the hugely acclaimed musical Flowers for Mrs Harris, recorded by the Chichester Festival Theatre company, will be released on 3 December. With a book by Rachel Wagstaff and music and lyrics by Richard Taylor, Flowers for Mrs Harris captures the glowing humanity of the novel by Paul Gallico on which it is based.

Need something new to read, watch, or listen to? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases! This week's list includes new music from Josh Groban and Lea Salonga, plus the cast recording of Les Miserables: The Staged Concert, and a holiday album from the cast of Hadestown!

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, the new musical based on the DreamWorks Animation film, has announced that Ghostlight Records will release its original cast recording on CD online and in stores on Friday, November 20. The album is currently available in digital and streaming formats.

Sunday evening saw a very different kind of Zoom call. In aid of The Royal Theatrical Fund, Lockdown Theatre presented another excellent performance; Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, featuring an absolutely stellar cast who performed the play as a live table read over Zoom.

Elaine Paige will join the cast of Pantoland at The Palladium for the three-week festive run beginning 12 December 2020, which sees pantomime return to the world-famous The London Palladium for a fifth consecutive year.

This Christmas, Julian Clary will take us on a magical trip to Pantoland at The Palladium.  Performances will begin at the world-famous theatre on 12 December 2020 running until 3 January 2021, with tickets on sale from 10am today.

Hurrah for the green shoots in our beleaguered industry. Lots of venues are mounting new shows and bringing back our favourites over the next few weeks and months - albeit with social distancing and safety measures in place. Here are some of the live theatrical goodies on offer.

Following the success of Noël Coward's Private Lives in September which raised £44,000 for the Royal Theatrical Fund, Lockdown Theatre today announces a live virtual table read of The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, in association with The Royal Theatrical Fund. The table read will take place via Zoom, followed by a live Q&A with the cast and director on Sunday 25 October at 7pm.

This Christmas, Julian Clary will take us on a magical trip to Pantoland at The Palladium.  Performances will begin at the world-famous theatre on 12 December 2020 running until 3 January 2021, with tickets on sale from 10am today.

This Christmas Julian Clary will take audiences on a magical trip to Pantoland at The Palladium!

Danielle Tarento has brought together more than 150 Black and Black mixed race actors from the UK and the US, along with a 38-piece orchestra, to record a??Make Them Hear You,a?? from the Broadway musical Ragtime.

Due to the ongoing crisis with the global pandemic, the Theatre Royal Plymouth has closed its doors for the first time in 37 years.  More than 180 actors and singers from around the world have written posters pledging their love for TRP, alongside the shows and dates they performed in the theatre, for a special video.

Joe Allen, lovingly referred to as 'the West End's canteena??, streamed a virtual, live evening of star-studded entertainment. The beloved theatre haunt, running since 1977, has been severely affected by the pandemic and so created this show to raise funds for itself and all those in crisis in a?oetheatreland'.

Need something new to listen to, read, or watch? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases, including the soundtrack to Royalties, a book about the making of West Side Story, and more!

The West End production of THE PRINCE OF EGYPT has reopened ticket booking from 2 November 2020 to 4 September 2021. Audience members can now book tickets for the Stephen Schwartz musical - a stage adaptation of the Dreamworks animated film - during that period at London's Dominion Theatre.

The West End cast of The Prince of Egypt has released an exclusive lockdown jam from Christine Allado (Tzipporah) and Luke Brady (Moses). See their acoustic performance of 'Dance To The Day' - a new song from the musical.

Ghostlight Records will host a special online a?oeListening Partya?? to celebrate Passover tomorrow a?' Thursday, April 9 at 4:00 PM Eastern a?' for THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Original Cast Recording.

In 1998 Stephen Schwartz mesmerized audiences with his delightfully cinematic songs for Dreamworks' animated film The Prince of Egypt. Just in time for the 2020 Passover season, Ghostlight Records released THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (Original Cast Recording). Featuring the 2020 London Cast, this lushly recorded but surprisingly forgettable album includes five songs featured in the original film and a slew of new compositions.

For the first time, Chichester Festival Theatre is to stream a selection of its archive productions online, beginning with the musical Flowers for Mrs Harris from Thursday 9 April for the Easter weekend.