Dancing On Ice: Faye Brookes opens musicals week with a bang as she wins a respectable 29 points

Dancing On Ice: Faye Brookes opens musicals week with a bang as she wins a respectable 29 points… but fails to match her record breaking debut score after Mary Poppins inspired skate By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 18:24 GMT, 31 January 2021 | Updated: 18:24 GMT, 31 January 2021 Week three of Dancing On … Read more

High School Musical’s Joshua Bassett undergoes mystery surgery after being in ‘the worst pain’

High School Musical’s Joshua Bassett undergoes mystery surgery after being in ‘the worst pain of my life’ By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 07:04 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 07:04 GMT, 15 January 2021 High School Musical star Joshua ‘Joshy’ Bassett announced Thursday night that he’d undergone his ‘first surgery’ for a mystery ailment, … Read more

The X Factor ‘will not return until 2022 and will be replaced by All Star Musicals’

The X Factor will reportedly not return to screens until 2022 at the very earliest and will be replaced by celebrity show All Star Musicals. The hit talent contest, which has been running for 16 years, will take a break from ITV for at least 12 months amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to The … Read more

Strictly’s Maisie Smith and rumoured love interest HRVY lead the Musicals Week departures

Maisie Smith and rumoured love interest HRVY led the celebrity departures after Strictly Come Dancing’s Musicals Week on Saturday. The EastEnders actress, 19, looked in great spirits after another successful performance, as she donned a black face mask and waved to the camera. The beauty showcased her bronzed legs in grey shorts and trainers, and … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: There’s a musicals feast in store for Britain’s Got Talent 

Cameron Mackintosh was in his element, sitting in the circle of the Prince Edward Theatre, surveying a 70-strong company rehearse an important lyric change to the Les Miz anthem One More Day, one which transformed it into a declarative One More Show! ‘One More Day has become a song of survival,’ the theatre-owner and impresario … Read more

Hamilton on Disney+ causes theater sites showing filmed musicals to see a huge uptick in traffic

Hamilton on Disney+ causes theater sites offering other filmed Broadway musicals to see a huge uptick in traffic as pandemic keeps theaters closed By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 03:22 BST, 14 July 2020 | Updated: 03:22 BST, 14 July 2020 As the Broadway sensation known as Hamilton arrived on streaming platform Disney+ earlier this … Read more

‘CancelHamilton’ appears on Twitter just days after musical’s Disney+ debut

Calls have been made to ‘cancel Hamilton’ just days after the Broadway musical’s streaming debut on Disney+, after a renewed focus on it’s lead character, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The show, created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, portrays Hamilton as a ‘young, scrappy, and hungry’ immigrant and someone who was passionate about the abolition of slavery. However, in light … Read more

Lord Lloyd Webber says singing banned when musicals reopen

The Government has advised theatres to ban singing when musicals return to the West End, according to Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lord Webber revealed his plans to bring back The Phantom of the Opera in London’s Palladium in the first week of July this morning. The composer, 72, said he had spoken to the government … Read more

India Adams, who dubbed Joan Crawford and Cyd Charisse in Hollywood musicals, dies at age 93

India Adams, who dubbed Joan Crawford and Cyd Charisse in Hollywood musicals, dies at age 93 India Adams died Saturday at age 93 following a short illness  She provided the singing voice for Cyd Charisse in the musical The Band Wagon as well as for Joan Crawford in Torch Song  By Sarah Sotoodeh For Dailymail.com … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: My baby just LOVES musicals, says pregnant Sheridan Smith 

Sheridan Smith, who is expecting the arrival of her first baby in five weeks, told me that the ‘little fella’ loves a song and dance Sheridan Smith, who is expecting the arrival of her first baby in five weeks, told me that the ‘little fella’ loves a song and dance. The BAFTA and Olivier award-winning … Read more