Musicals

Following last season's production of The Turn of the Screw, we continue our collaboration with English National Opera, with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 

In the unique environment of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, experience the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale anew in this operatic retelling, sung in English.

Ben Glassbergconducts members of the ENO Orchestra, with direction by Open Air Theatre Artistic director Timothy Sheader. 

Translation by David Pountney |Orchestral reduction by Derek J Clark

Ida Barr – the people’s pensioner and the Queen Mother of our hearts – is a former music hall singer turned rap star and Underbelly favourite. Her brand of Artificial Hip Hop has thrilled listeners globally from dope cribs to residential care homes.

Now the hip-op hip-hop star, the missing link between music hall and dancehall, presents her Revolutionary Bingo Show. Change the world and win big! Nothing will be the same again after a night of social agitation and tiny acts of rebellion using protest R&B and dissident songs from the 19th Century all rapped up in a communal hip hop style with mass singalongs and lots of that most revolutionary tool of all – laughter!
 

English National Ballet present the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, in a colourful and spellbinding show for all the family.

With a narrator to help the young audience follow the classic story of Aurora and her true love’s kiss, and a shortened version of Tchaikovsky’s beautiful melodies, My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty is an enchanting first encounter with dance for children, with performers dancing to recorded music as well as help with text and a narrator.

Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, if Faust will hand over his soul. Faust agrees, and Méphistophélès arranges matters so that Marguerite loses interest in her suitor Siébel and becomes infatuated with Faust.        

Faust initially seems to love Marguerite in return, but soon abandons her. Her brother Valentin returns from the war and is furious to find his sister pregnant. Will Faust repent his destructive actions and can their souls be saved?

Ireland’s finest hip hop musical comedian is back in the Udderbelly for four nights only!
Using his trademark blend of audience interaction and razor-sharp improvisation, Abandoman (aka Rob Broderick) will take you on a magical journey, transforming the audience’s likes, loathes and daydreams into hit songs and captivating tales.

Marcel Lucont (BBC1's The John Bishop Show, Comedy Central At The Comedy Store) presents a feast of international cabaret on Southbank.

"One of the finest nights in our fair city" - Time Out London. "Debaucherous, delightful and debonair… Marcel Lucont knows how to put on one hell of a show" - PerthNow, Australia.

Previous acts include The Boy With Tape On His Face, Piff The Magic Dragon, East End Cabaret, Le Gateau Chocolat, Phill Jupitus, Tim Key.

Cabaret sensation Le Gateau Chocolat’s international smash-hit is a joyous and moving celebration of the musical heroes, moments and relationships that shaped his life and inspired his dreams.
The beautiful bearded baritone delivers show-stopping renditions of Whitney, Bowie, Pavarotti, Madonna and Meat Loaf between stories about growing up gay in Nigeria, about being bullied, religion, finding love and losing a loved one.Live from a teenage bedroom furnished with pop-star posters, hairbrush microphone and wind machine, Le Gateau moves between his public and private personas, charting how the universality of music – pop, opera and rock – connects with a British-born Nigerian boy’s own objects of worship.

Following his success with The Encounter at the Barbican, Simon McBurney’s five-star production of The Magic Flute returns to ENO, concerning the search for truth and reason, love and enlightenment.

From the peaceful pleasures of Ratty’s beloved river bank to the fearful frights and wicked weasels of the Wild Wood, join Mole and Ratty on their marvellous adventures, along with gruff old Badger and magnificent Mr.Toad. A beautiful new adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s much loved classic by award winning theatre company Box Tale Soup, this wildly creative Wind in the Willows features fantastic puppetry and a charming original score.

Love and friendship triumph in Carlos Acosta's vibrant production of this dazzling ballet.

Over 100 dancers and musicians bring Nutcracker to life with exquisite dancing, beautiful sets and Tchaikovsky’s popular score played live.
On a sparkling Christmas Eve in a frost-dusted Edwardian London, Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker doll discover a magical world, where she battles with the Mouse King and meets a handsome stranger. As the air grows colder, Clara and her valiant Nutcracker take a hot air balloon ride across London to the glistening Land of Snow where her adventure really begins.
From the sound of the orchestra tuning up, to the final bows and cheers, a trip to English National Ballet at the London Coliseum is an unforgettable Christmas treat.

Travel to a faraway land for the adventures of a dashing pirate, Conrad, and his feisty girlfriend Medora. Will they outfox villainous schemers and find happiness on the high seas?
English National Ballet’s Le Corsaire is “hugely enjoyable entertainment” (The Daily Telegraph). Expect a swashbuckling romp, full of thrilling dancing by an extraordinary cast of performers, with gorgeous decors and costumes created by Hollywood’s Bob Ringwood, all set to a romantic score played live by English National Ballet Philharmonic.
English National Ballet is the only UK company to perform this classic story ballet. Their extravagant production, staged by Anna-Marie Holmes, has enthralled audiences and received rave reviews worldwide, including Paris and Tokyo. It returns to the London Coliseum following glorious performances in 2016.

Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance!

This international-hit, early childhood event let's parents and children five and under loose on the dance floor, in this friendliest of discos.
Selling out shows all over the world come find out why Monski Mouse and her Dancers are a hit with children and parents alike! Recently ex-Londoner, Aussie DJ, Producer and Mum of two, Monski Mouse, created the show in 2012 in response to becoming a Mum, having been a festival DJ for the earlier 10 years and performed in early childhood theatre.

Baby Disco Dance Hall is designed as a super-fun session of dancing and play with your small person as you bop to an eclectic selection of retro classics, thumping nursery rhymes and funky tunes. Grab your rainbow sequenced onesies and get your disco-dancing-booties on! (that means you too Mum & Dad!)

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve: the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.

Rome in 1800 is in political chaos. Cesare Angelotti, a former consul of the short-lived Roman Republic, has escaped imprisonment, and seeks refuge in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle. The painter and republican sympathizer Mario Cavaradossi promises to hide him at his country villa. Baron Scarpia, Rome's tyrannical Chief of Police, suspects that Cavaradossi has helped Angelotti to escape. He persuades the painter's opera singer lover Floria Tosca, whom he himself desires, that Cavaradossi has betrayed her. She leaves to confront Cavaradossi at his villa and Scarpia orders his men to follow her, in the hope they'll find Angelotti.

Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi, and tortures him in Tosca's presence until she reveals Angelotti's hiding place. Scarpia subsequently condemns Cavaradossi to death. Alone with Tosca, Scarpia tells her that he will save Cavaradossi - but only if Tosca spends the night with him. Will Tosca yield to the man she hates to save the man she loves?

Kenneth MacMillan poignant setting of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic score draws out the emotional and psychological intensity of the tale. Romeo and Juliet contains three passionate pas de deux: the lovers’ first meeting, the famous balcony scene and the devastating final tragedy, in which Romeo dances desperately with the lifeless Juliet.

After a sold-out run, Follies, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, returns in 2019.

Wet Wet Wet are Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell and Kevin Simm.
The band are one of the most successful groups in British pop history with an amazing back catalogue of songs including three No.1s – Help From My Friends, Goodnight Girl, and Love Is All Around.
They have sold over 15 million records to date and played to more than four million people around the world.

Step inside the iconic London Palladium to be enthralled and entertained by your all-time favourite big-screen comedy stars from yesteryear, accompanied by a live orchestra.
A trio of silent comedies from comedy giants Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy, will be presented by multi-award winning, critically acclaimed performer, writer and silent comedy aficionado, Barry Humphries.

Experience the thrill of Buster Keaton’s most famous – and most dangerous – stunt, the house fall, in the outstanding comedy masterpiece STEAMBOAT BILL JR (1927). Presented on a vast HD screen, the movie will be accompanied live by The Bristol Ensemble, who will perform the London premiere of a new score composed and conducted by maestro Carl Davis.
 

Due to its phenomenal success in previous years, Nativity! The Musical is back with more performances than ever before! So book now and join us for some MAYHEM in Bethlehem!

Direct from a SELL OUT Worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives in London’s West End! 

Following three sell-out tours and a successful West End run, the ALL OR NOTHING musical team return to The Arts with THE ALL OR NOTHING EXPERIENCE LIVE concert show.

These acrobatic pirates turn ship life upside-down! Every aspect of pirate life is explored through circus and physical comedy, with lots of laughs and fun for young and old. A rip-roaring and swashbuckling adventure in which 3 pirates hit the high seas in search of treasure, but only find haunted waters and scary storms.Walking the plank becomes the high flying teeterboard, cooking for the crew involves juggling knives and steering the ship the mesmerising cyr wheel.

Jason Byrne returns with his brand-new show, Wrecked But Ready. After 23 consecutive years, Jason is wrecked but he is as ever ready (which is a battery, but he’s more Duracell than Eveready). In particular, the past year has been extremely testing for the wrecked Jason, but despite all this, he’s waiting to spill it out on stage.
No one show is the same, expect all the usual spontaneous fun, come along and witness ‘the outright King of live comedy” (Times).

The world premiere of Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel, following his critically-acclaimed In Parenthesis. A disadvantaged group of working-class women are drawn together in their determination to survive the murderous terror that stalks London’s Whitechapel in 1888.

After its thrilling 2018 run, the classical ballet and street dance mash up that is Beats on Pointe is back. As two opposing dance worlds clash, 16 dancers go toe-to-toe in this fun-fuelled fusion of ballet and hip-hop. More than just thrilling dance-offs, this high-energy show is also packed with freestyle acts, singing and beatboxing, a touch of comedy and plenty of feel-good music covering an all-embracing mix of classical, 70’s grooves and current hits. 

VIOLET is a multi award-winning musical based on the short story The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts. Music by Jeanine Tesori (Tony Award winner for Best Original Score with Lisa Kron for the musical Fun Home, and Tony nominated scores for Caroline, Or Change, Shrek The Musical and Thoroughly Modern Millie), Book & Lyrics by Brian Crawley.

VIOLET premiered Off-Broadway and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Best Musical, before a Broadway revival where it was nominated for four Tony Awards. This is the UK premiere.

A must-see for music lovers and Streisand fans everywhere, Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman pays homage to one of the finest talents of a generation, squeezing history, warmth and humour into this critically lauded five-star triumph. Direct from a sell-out run at The Other Palace, Liza’s easy wit, flawless vocals & compelling storytelling will take your breath away, inspired by the offbeat and enchanting veracity of a musical legend. Give yourself a reason to smile this Spring.

See Fascinating Aida's Liza Pulman perform some of Barbra Streisand's greatest hits including "People", "New York State of Mind", "Don’t Rain on My Parade", "The Way We Were", "Second Hand Rose", "You Don’t Bring Flowers" and more!

On Sunday 12 May 2019 at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, there will be two concerts of The Best of… Rock Musicals for the benefit of The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust.  It will be the 20th Anniversary production from the same team who for the last 19 years have presented The Night of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall and elsewhere.

Hosted by Sir Tim Rice, The Best of… Rock Musicals will feature New York’s Adam Pascal (Rent); Europe’s Adrianna Hicks (The Color Purple), Kristina Love (Tina) and David Michael Johnson (Jesus Christ Superstar); and London’s Kerry Ellis (Wicked) together with a host of Broadway and West End talent, the West End Chorus, the City of London Philharmonic AllStars and some very special surprise guests.

Created to celebrate 20 years of democracy in South Africa, INALA (“abundance of goodwill” in Zulu) returns to London after the sell-out runs at Sadler’s Wells. 

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story.

As humans propel themselves towards the “the singularity,” the theoretical point when humans and technology converge, Dutch choreographer and digital designer David Middendorp explores the rapidly fading boundaries between fantasy and reality as they are blurred by an increasingly virtual world.

Live dancers perform alongside animations, projections and flying drones. Middendorp unites humans and technology in five pieces that defy gravity, twist perspective and make use of illusion to question reality.

SOMNIUM: A Dancer’s Dream, is the explosive dance show starring World Latin Showdance Champions and Strictly professionals Neil and Katya Jones.

Following a sell-out season at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the UK's best-selling author Julia Donaldson presents a show featuring Room on the Broom, The Magic Paintbrush, The Ugly Five, Superworm, The Gruffalo and The Cook and the King.
The cast of five, including Julia’s guitar-playing husband Malcolm, bring Julia's stories to life with songs, puppetry and a touch of magic.

Part show, part disco, ALL PARTY! With electric live performances and three channels of music to choose from on your glowing headphones, Silent Disco Show is a kaleidoscope of dancing, DJs and decadence.
After a huge year, with shows across the country we’re thrilled to back on London’s Southbank.
The essence of the unique club night that has swept through Britain’s party scene comes to life in this new theatrical approach.
Join our MC for a night of full of the biggest tunes, crazy cabaret & circus, amazing visuals and sing-alongs. Best. Night. Ever.

Kicking off Pride in London, SQUAD GOALS is a celebration of love in a show about overcoming adversity, embracing individuality, finding your chosen family and living your best life.
With stories about finding love from within as well as finding love from other people, SQUAD GOALS is an up close and personal emotionally vulnerable story of how three fierce queens found each other.

Screaming with Laughter is London's Original daytime comedy club where babies can come too.

See the best acts from TV and the Comedy Circuit without having to book a sitter, and enjoy a night out but in the day. We are so excited to be back at the Underbelly with a new line-up including Josie Long, Hatty Ashdown and others.

The Cocoa Butter Club presents a triple bill of exhilarating, vibrant and titillating cabaret.
From the award-winning, spirited show that celebrates performers of colour; experience any or all of the productions, boasting Burlesque, Voguing, Circus, Drag, Dance and more, like you’ve never seen before.

Your favourite trash glamour disco circus club night is back in town! Late night variety show and debaucherous disco after party, expect a pumping soundtrack with your favourite dance floor smashes and ridiculous performances from the Briefs boys joined by a cavalcade of world class, hand-selected guest cabaret and circus artists.
Stomp it out on the catwalk, dance until late, laugh until you ache and experience the fabulousness that is Club Briefs.

One day Monty found a book 'Inventions Very Rare' Create yourself a monster friend BUT ONLY IF YOU DARE!

This brand new show from the creators of Aliens Love Underpantsis monster-ously good! Follow the young inventor Monty as he creates a whole world of whacky inventions and incredible monsters, but he has a problem -now he has made them all, what is he going to do with them?!

This energetic show full of thrills, spills, magic and mayhem will delight thewhole family – with original music and plenty of audience participation!

Mercury Musical Developments and the The Stephen Sondheim Society present the 13th annual STEPHEN SONDHEIM SOCIETY STUDENT PERFORMER OF THE YEAR competition and STILES + DREWE PRIZE.

This annual competition sees 12 of the UK’s finest students of musical theatre compete for a £1,000 prize by singing a Sondheim song of their choice. Also up for grabs is the £1,000 Best New Song Prize, awarded by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe to the creators of an original piece of musical theatre, written by a member of Mercury Musical Developments.

What is Massaoke? The idea is simple: a brilliant live band plays well-known songs, with lyrics on a giant screen, and the whole audience sings along together. The Massaoke Family show is an hour-long party for all ages, with hits from The Greatest Showman, Disney films including Frozen and Beauty and the Beast, modern pop megamixes from the likes of Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and Little Mix, classics from ABBA and Queen, and a few solid gold 80s bangers for the mums and dads.
Bring the kids, bring Dad’s best dance moves and, most importantly, BRING THE SING!

Timothy Pope is looking through his telescope –but wait, is that a Shark, in the Park!? From the creative team behind ‘The Hairy Maclary show’ - see all 3 of Nick Sharratt’s ‘Shark in the Park’ books live on Stage!
Featuring all 3 of the ‘Shark in the Park’ Series – Shark in the Park, Shark in the Dark and Shark in the Park on a Windy Day – this fin-tastic, family musical follows Timothy Pope (and his telescope!) on 3 exciting adventures…

Here at The Showstoppers’ Kids Show we take your ideas and turn them into marvellous, musical interactive adventures.
You decide where the story is set, who we meet and where we go. Harry Potter on the moon? Done! Peppa Pig and the Gruffalo meet dinosaurs inside a dolls house? No worries!
VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR GROWN UPS!: Children (and ONLY children!) are in charge in – no cheating please! Kids get to decide who our heroes are and what happens next in every story. All they need to do is shout out their ideas and The Showstoppers will bring them to life, right there on the spot. They can even join in!
If your children could create their very own dream musical show, where would they start? A magical castle under the sea? A spooky graveyard? And who would the characters be? A super hero? A crocodile? A fairy? From their imaginations straight onto the stage – we’ll bring their ideas to life.

For the uninitiated, Massaoke is a huge sing-along party with a brilliant live band, where everyone sings together guided by giant video lyrics, and the crowd is the star of the show.

Join The Massaoke Band as they take over the spiegeltent once a month for special themed shows, including A Massaoke Night at the Musicals, Massaoke 80s, and their famous Massaoke Mixtape extravaganza.

They’ve got something for everyone, so whether you’re a pop princess, a rock god or a West End superstar, all you need to do is BRING THE SING!

D’Arrietta & band celebrate the late, legendary Leonard Cohen, offering arresting & imaginative arrangements of his most iconic music and poetry, punctuated by stories of his life and motivations behind the songs.
An EdFringe hit of 2016 and 2017, My Leonard Cohen sold-out at the Sydney Opera House and Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Paris, 1950 - a shy, unassuming civil servant, Dusoleil, lives alone and works diligently in a dreary office. To pass the time, he writes letters to his mother and daydreams about the beautiful Isabelle, who is kept locked away by her controlling husband. When Dusoleil miraculously gains the ability to walk through walls, he not only begins to lead a double life, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor to right the wrongs of his war-impoverished Parisian neighbours, but also gains the self-confidence to woo Isabelle and, just for a while, live the life he has always longed for.

AMOUR, a musical fantasy about daring to dream and the power of self belief, has music by multi award-winning Michel Legrand with English lyrics by Jeremy Sams (from the original French by Didier Van Cauwelaert). Adapted from the 1943 short story Le Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé, AMOUR opened on Broadway in 2002 and was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.