Michael Xavier News

The cast has been announced for West End Musical Love Songs, which is making a return to the West End this March, following a sold-out concert in 2021. 

MUSICAL CON, the West End's official musical theatre fan convention, is back with over 70 West End stars joining fans at the ExCeL London on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023.

A stellar line-up of 12 musical theatre Stars, along with host Michael D. Xavier, will bring festive stardust and glitter to Covent Garden's The Actor's Church on the Sunday before Christmas, as they perform in a special concert in aid of Children with Cancer UK (CwCUK) accompanied by the students of MX Masterclass (MXM).

Learn all about MUSICAL CON including stars, activities and how to get tickets. Brand new for 2022, thousands of musical theatre fans and enthusiasts will come together under one roof for the first time for a weekend-long celebration of musicals at the iconic ExCeL London.

Press night was recently held for the West End premiere of THE CHOIR OF MAN at the Arts Theatre. Check out the photos here!

Rebecca Caine (Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Preludes) will join the previously announced Emma Williams and Michael Xavier for Love Story: 10th Anniversary Concert, directed by Kirk Jameson (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Marry Me A LiDle).

From Jeff Whitty, the creator of Avenue Q, and the Scissor Sister's Jake Shears and John Garden comes ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL based on Armistead Maupin's landmark series of novels about San Francisco in the 70s. The presentation is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the premiere musical staging at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater in 2011.

Today's Theater Stories features the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Learn about this history of the theatre, and productions to have graced its stage including Hair, Choir Boy, My Name is Lucy Barton and many more!

Un 9 de enero de 2017, el musical basado en la película homónima de Billy Wilder y con música de Andrew Lloyd Weber y librero de Don Black y Christopher Hampton, SUNSET BOULEVARD se instalaba en el Palace Theatre de Broadway durante 138 funciones.

Reprising her role in Gatsby - A Musical, Emma Williams chats to us about juggling acting and motherhood, writing her first novel and the roles she’d love to play.

Here is a snippet of some of the amazing artists joining Anderson & Petty present 'A Christmas Wish' a virtual Christmas concert in aid of the theatrical charity Acting for Others streaming worldwide from the 17th to the 20th December. 

Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm) with a 'Elegies' Reunion with Jayne Houdyshell, J Harrison Ghee, Marisha Wallace, Robin Lord Taylor and Vicki Lewis.

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is set to stream on World AIDS Day -today, December 1 (5pm), featuring 51 performers and benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens honors the lives lost to AIDS through free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.

Songwriters Anderson & Petty today announce A Christmas Wish, a virtual concert with West End stars from Everybody's Talking About Jamie, SIX: The Musical, Wicked and more, available to stream at select times from 17 December - 20 December 2020. The concert is hosted by Ben Stock and Hilary O'Neil and is in aid of theatrical charity Acting For Others who provide emotional and financial support to theatre workers in times of need through 14 member charities.

More Broadway, television and film stars have been added to the celebrated series of songs and monologues Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, set to stream on World AIDS Day - Tuesday, December 1, 2020. The virtual production, featuring 51 performers, will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

You Will Be Found by #CheerUpCharlie & West End Friends, a fundraising charity single in aid of youth charity The Diana Award, has been released today (Sunday 15 November 2020) by Auburn Jam Music to tie in with the start of National Anti-Bullying Week, which runs from 16-20 November. 

Auburn Jam Music will be releasing You Will Be Found by #CheerUpCharlie & West End Friends, a fundraising charity single in aid of youth charity The Diana Award, on Sunday 15 November to tie in with the start of National Anti-Bullying Week (16-20 November).  

Lifetime announces a new way for fans to engage with their favorite stars from the premiere entertainment destination for women.

The online concert, KINGS OF BROADWAY 2020, was held today, May 31st. The concert celebrated the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim.

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