According to published reports, Monty Python's Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe, will move to the Playhouse Theatre following its current run at the Harold Pinter Theatre. After closing at the Pinter on September 9, the show will open at the Playhouse on November 14, where it will play through April 13.
BWW reports on the upcoming cabaret of new songwriting by Anderson & Petty, Laura Tisdall and Christopher J. Orton with a cast of West End star vocalists at the Union Theatre on August 12 .
Howard Panter (Mr West End himself) for The Ambassador Theatre Group presents Monty Python's Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe. Galloping into the West End for a truly bespoke season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (long pause) tonight, 24 July - Sunday 9 September 2012 (press night Tuesday 31 July). Tickets on sale now.
West End stars Louise Dearman (Wicked), Tim Driesen (Never Forget), Gerard Carey (Masterclass) and Lucy Sinclair (We Will Rock You) will lead a workshop presentation of a brand new musical comedy version of JM Barrie's Peter Pan.
Robert Gould reports on the latest monthly Gigging For It cabaret at Freedom Bar, Soho, showcaing the songs of Dougal Irvine.
Check out these pictures taken at BBC White City when TV impressionist Jon Culshaw met up with Monty Python's Eric Idle, who wrote and created 'Spamalot'. Jon Culshaw is playing the role of King Arthur in the all-new production of Monty Python's Spamalot at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London when the new version of the show returns to the West End.
Howard Panter (Mr West End himself) for The Ambassador Theatre Group presents Monty Python's Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe. Galloping into the West End for a truly bespoke season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (long pause) Tuesday 24 July - Sunday 9 September 2012 (press night Tuesday 31 July). Tickets on sale now.
Robert Gould reports on the 2012 final of the Principality Building Society Welsh Musical Theatre Young Singer Of The Year final at the Taliesin Theatre, Swansea on April 14th.
BWW reports on the live showcase and album signing event at Dress Circle on April 21, when Jos Slovick, Rosa O'Reilly and Ben Stott will perform songs from Joe Sterling's debut album, 'Somewhere In My Mind'.
Following the success of the 2011 Giggin4Good showcase, a follow-up charity concert will take place at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden on Sunday February 5th, 2012 with an all-star cast.
Full star casting is announced (sound the trumpets!) for Spamalot's cracking four-week Christmas season at Theatre Royal Brighton beginning on December 15, 2011; Marcus Brigstocke triumphantly returns as Arthur, King of the Britons; Nancy, sorry, Jodie Prenger, reprises her role as the Lady of The Lake; and Todd Carty, is back again (there's no getting rid of him it seems) on coconuts as Patsy.
Robert Gould reviews Phill Jupitus in the role of King Arthur
Dress Circle are delighted to announce that Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables & Miss Saigon) and Sarah Lark (Oliver!, Witches Of Eastwick & Finalist on the BBC Show, 'I'd Do Anything') will be at Dress Circle on Saturday 5th December at 12.15pm to sign copies of the new Bluebird Original Concept Cast Recording CD.
Dress Circle are delighted to announce that Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables & Miss Saigon) and Sarah Lark (Oliver!, Witches Of Eastwick & Finalist on the BBC Show, 'I'd Do Anything') will be at Dress Circle on Saturday 5th December at 12.15pm to sign copies of the new Bluebird Original Concept Cast Recording CD.
The Hot Mikado, currently being presented at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre as part of the UK tour of a Watermill Theatre-originated production, is certainly 'hot'.
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
After a sell-out run at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury in 2006, Craig Revel Horwood's actor-musician production of The Hot Mikado is back on the road and will hit London in September, when it will play at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 22nd to the 26th.
Spend Spend Spend, a show that first hit the West End back in 1999 - with its tuneful score, hard-nosed but also raunchily humorous book and an emotional core that rings with human truth - is a much underrated gem of a musical. Now, in a newly forged 'actor-musician' production at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, the gem sparkles and shines even brighter.
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