Bring It On The Musical, starring Amber Davies and Olympian Louis Smith, was meant to spend Christmas at London's Southbank Centre as part of a UK-wide tour. It has now been postponed until 2021, along with four other Selladoor musicals. Selladoor Worldwide has announced that it will suspend its 2020 touring productions – shifting the majority of shows to start in 2021. Major productions including Footloose, We Will Rock You, Madagascar the Musical, 9 to 5 the Musical and Bring It On will be postponed as a result of Covid-19. The company - who are behind productions such as Fame, Avenue Q and ..read more

UPDATED 22 June 2020: The Sound of Music returns to The Shows Must Go On for 48 hours from 7pm on Friday 26 June 2020. From 8pm that night, the Rodgers and Hammerstein organisation, teaming up with Time Out London and Time Out New York will host a live watch party on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #SoundOfMusic. We were worried after Andrew Lloyd Webber signed off, but The Shows Must Go On free musical theatre lockdown viewing will continue on YouTube. Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is next up. Watch the trailer, plus Lloyd Webber's reflection on the series, he ..read more

After ten weeks, 72 virtual shows and over £30,000 raised for musical theatre performers during lockdown, the hugely successful #LeaveALightOn online concert series will come to a close next Friday 26 May 2020 with Beverley Knight. Leave a Light On, the online concert series launched by Lambert Jackson Productions and The Theatre Café shortly after the coronavirus theatre lockdown began in London, will draw to a close on Friday 29 May 2020 at 6.30pm with a finale concert by Beverley Knight. During lockdown since mid-March, Leave a Light On has become one of t ..read more

The Open Air Theatre has announced its third musical cancellation this year. Carousel follows news about 101 Dalmatians and its transfer of Evita to the Barbican, along with the postponement of its entire summer season until 2021. Following announcements in March and April of first 101 Dalmatians and then Romeo and Juliet, the Open Air Theatre has today announced that their entire 2020 season in Regent's Park, which also includes a major revival of classic Rodger and Hammerstein musical Carousel, has now been postponed until 2021 in the face of the continuing coronavirus crisis. It ..read more

When will be able to see our fave West End musicals again? The rolling cancellations continue as the National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris and Nimax Theatres' owner Nica Burns warn that many theatres may not survive... The latest statement from the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) – on behalf of the major commercial West End theatre operators – was issued this week, confirming that theatres will remain closed until 28 June 2020, with updates on subsequent cancellations issued on a rolling basis. Here’s the full statement: “London’s West End looks forward to welcoming audiences ..read more

It was last in the West End more than twenty years ago so this may be the first opportunity for many to see Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn's sole collaboration. Their musical comedy BY JEEVES, inspired by PG Wodehouse's classic Jeeves and Wooster stories, streams for 48 hours for free on YouTube from this Friday 8 May 2020. Watch two of the show's songs here... The lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On will continue this Friday with a broadcast of By Jeeves, his musical comedy collaboration with Alan Ayckb ..read more

Another weekend must-watch for musical theatre fans. The latest broadcast on the lockdown line-up for The Shows Must Go On freeview YouTube channel is the star-studded 50th birthday concert for composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. The lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On will continue this Friday with a broadcast of the star-studded concert held at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1998 to celebrate the composer’s 50th birthday. For 48 hours from 7pm this Friday 1 May 2020 ..read more

Sadly, it's getting to be a habit announcing coronavirus postponements and cancellations. SISTER ACT, including the much-anticipated return of Whoopi Goldberg to the role of Deloris Van Cartier, has been delayed a year until next summer. Due to current government guidelines resulting in a delay to the production, the producers of Sister Act have announced that performances in London and on tour have now been rescheduled. Sister Act was due to open at Curve, Leicester this month with a London run at the Eventim Apollo from 21 July 2020 to 30 August 2020. The London run is now rescheduled to ope ..read more

Tickets to the star-studded special staged concert of Les Miserables were like gold-dust last year when the West End's longest-running musical moved temporarily to the Gielgud Theatre while its home at the Queen's Theatre was refurbished. Now's your chance to see it - or see it again... and help out those suffering during coronavirus... Cameron Mackintosh has announced the debut of the hugely successful Les Misérables –The Staged Concert on digital download in the UK and Australia, which will also raise much-needed funds for performers, musicians and the NHS. For every digital download&nb ..read more

'Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning': Peter Pan Live! is next up on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel this Friday. How well do you know the Broadway musical? Watch the trailer and a wickedly funny Saturday Night Live's send-up. Free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On continues its theatre lockdown weekly schedule with another ‘live’ television broadcast of a Broadway musical, Peter Pan Live!, which aired during the 2014 Christmas season on American’s NBC channel. For 48 hours only in the UK from 7pm this Friday 19 June 2020, fans can wa ..read more