Helena Blackman News

Carrie Dunn talks to the award-winning composer and the show's producer about the forthcoming concert at the Apollo on November 1

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Celebrated screen and stage actress Finty Williams will make her musical theatre debut alongside West End stars

West End stars Julie Atherton, Helena Blackman, Daniel Boys, Clare Foster, Alex Jessop, Sarah Lark and Paul Spicer to showcase work of new composer

The star of Saturday Night - now playing at the Arts Theatre - talks Sondheim, songs and celebrity

Jermyn Street Theatre's production of Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night, will now transfer from the off West End venue, to the West End's Arts Theatre for a limited run from 25 March to 11 April 2009.

Jermyn Street Theatre's production of Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night, will now transfer from the off West End venue, to the West End's Arts Theatre for a limited run from 25 March to 11 April 2009.

Hidden away in the tiny basement that is London's Jermyn Street Theatre is a new production of a relatively unknown gem of a show - Saturday Night - with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Casablanca screenwriters, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein. And in the intimate theatrical world created for the piece by director Tom Littler the gem glistens and gleams with delight.

Following its sell-out success as a gala West End concert in July, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe will live on in the form of a live highlights recording, released on CD today, Monday 8 December 2008.

Pop Idol Finalist & Dancing on Ice Star Gareth Gates Makes His West End Debut in Spoonful Charity Gala.

Celebrating 25 years of songwriting by the Olivier Award winning duo of musical theatre composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe is a one night only charity gala performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Sunday 6 July 2008, in support of Mercury Musical Developments, a unique organisation working to nurture new British musical theatre writing.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, the winner of nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize, is revived in a brand new production for an extensive UK tour, starring West End musical theatre stalwart Dave Willetts and Helena Blackman, runner-up in BBC One's 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?.'

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, the winner of nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize, is revived in a brand new production for an extensive UK tour, starring West End musical theatre stalwart Dave Willetts and Helena Blackman, runner-up in BBC One's 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?.'

For the first time Tony and Academy Award Winner Joel Grey (Cabaret, Chicago, Wicked) will be headlining at the National Autistic Society and ADDISS Benefit The Night of 1000 Voices.

For the first time Tony and Academy Award Winner and Broadway legend Joel Grey will be headlining at The Night of 1000 Voices. He will be joined by the current Phantom in Las Vegas, Anthony Crivello, Tony Award Winner for his performance in Kiss of The Spiderwoman, Ruthie Henshall and members of the Cast of Avenue Q and special guests. This exciting and exclusive performance will introduced by I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Queen, Myleene Klass and will be for the benefit of The National Artistic Society.

Another year draws to a close and a new year beckons. Almost as the clock turns between the years we say adieu to Idina and say hello to Kerry, wave a fond goodbye to Caroline or Change and The Producers and welcome the brief return of The Rocky Horror Show and The History Boys. As we sing Auld Lang's Syne, it gives cause to look back on and look forward to the respective years in London theatre.

Connie Fisher, chosen by popular vote as the winner of the UK reality show 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,' will star in the upcoming London revival of The Sound of Music

Andrew Lloyd Webber has written on his website that Simon Shepherd will play Captain von Trapp, the authoritarian father softened by love, in the upcoming London revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.

Emma Williams has been confirmed as the stand-by in the role of Maria for the much-publicized upcoming London revival of The Sound of Music.