UK Live Entertainment News - Rumour
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Hairpsray: the New Kids?
Gossip regarding Hairspray’s new principal line-up has settled and we are now awaiting official confirmation Michael Ball Ben James Ellis and Leanne Jones Edna Link and Tracy respectively will all be leaving the show in July after almost two years As previously reported British comedian actor and singer Brian Conley ...
Hair to shine the West End?
James Rado and Gerome Ragni’s rock musical Hair could be coming to London Recently opened on Broadway where it is already a huge hit producers of the current revival have expressed an interest in moving Hair over the Atlantic Believed to be making the move in the new year Hair ...
Brian Conley as the new Edna?
It has been suggested that TV comedian Brian Conley will be stepping into Michael Ball's fat suit as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray Michael Ball is due to leave the show on July after the longest unbroken contarct in a single show of his twenty-five year career and his replacement has ...
Sheridan Smith as Elle Woods?
Sheridan Smith left is rumoured to have bagged the much gossiped about role of Elle Woods in the mysterious London production of Legally Blonde Sheridan known to millions asJanet in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisp was last seen on the West End stage ...
Liza lined up to find Dorothy?
Liza Minelli is rumoured to be signed up on the judging panel of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new TV talent search The as yet unnamed show to be screened in will scour the nation to find a Dorothy for ALW’s planned West End production of The Wizard of Oz According to ...
Joseph closing for Phantom II?
The early closure of Joseph may be making way for Andrew Lloyd Webber's anticipated sequel to The Phantom of the Opera Last year it was speculated that Joseph might close its doors in January after a long delay in announcing a replacement for Lee Mead who left the show on ...
Big Brother the Musical?
It has been reported that former Big Brother housemate Stuart Hosking pictured right for everyone who doesn't remember has approached Andrew Lloyd Webber with plans for a Big Brother musical Hosking the second evictee from Big Brother in has come up with a plot that will incorporate live audience voting ...
Tom and Katie coming to the West End?
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have expressed an interest in treading the boards in London Talking to British tabloid the Daily Mirror Tom and Katie expressed a wish to move to London with Tom saying “It would be a fantastic move Katie was absolutely brilliant on Broadway and to work ...
Harry Potter: Musical magic?
Theatre don Trevor Nunn has suggested that a Harry Potter musical may be on the cards However he first approached JK Rowling’s publishers in the late ’s about bringing the bespectacled boy wizard to the stage only to be told that the film rights had been sold to Warner Brothers ...
