Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns to the West End with Shane Richie playing Hugo/Loco Chanelle
Shane Richie (as Hugo) in the Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Tour (Photo credit: Matt Crockett)
Out of the darkness…into the spotlight … back to the place where we belong
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the award-winning feel good musical sensation, is thrilled to announce today that it will return with social distancing to the Apollo Theatre from Thursday 20 May 2021, with Shane Richie (‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’) returning to play Hugo/Loco Chanelle until 18 July 2021. Shane will be joined by the West End cast staring Noah Thomas as Jamie New, Melissa Jacques as his Mum, Margaret, Sejal Keshwala as Ray, Hiba Elchikhe as Pritti Pasha and Gillian Ford as Miss Hedge.
The Apollo Theatre re-opens with social distancing in conjunction with other NIMAX theatres and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is currently booking until 29 August 2021.
Nica Burns, Producer of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie said “Year 11 at Mayfield school are back! Yes, freshly tested, clutching their customised masks, ready to rumble in their bubble! Everybody’s Talking About Jamie bursts back into the West End – fun, funny and joyful and ready to lift your lockdown blues.”
Shane Richie, said “It’s an absolute thrill & an honour to be getting back on stage in London’s West End biggest feelgood show reprising the role of Loco Chanelle .. time to get heels on! “
Capacity at the Apollo Theatre has been reduced to circa 50% to comply with COVID-19 Secure guidelines with socially distanced seats plus robust risk mitigation. Our preventative measures include:
- Health questionnaire to be emailed 48 hours in advance of the performance
- Contactless tickets
- Compulsory facemasks
- Hand sanitisation stations throughout the building
- Click and Collect bar App
- Deep clean and building sanitation
- Additional entrances and exits
- Supporting NHS Track and Trace
This epic musical is just the feel-good tonic we all deserve and will make the perfect stagey treat to look forward to post-lockdown. Take a look at our exclusive Everybody’s Talking About Jamie West End Live video with performances and Q&A’s and book your tickets by clicking the button below!
Six to return to the West End in May
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If the legendary pop-fuelled concert has been on your bucket list of musicals to see in 2021, you’re just in luck! Today, Six announced that the West End production will be reopening at the Lyric Theatre from Friday 21 May.
Tickets will go on sale from Monday 29 March, so be sure to mark your diaries and check back here to grab them!
In the meantime, check out this incredible performance from the Queens at Tower Bridge and get ready to lose your heads! And if you need more reasons to bag those tickets, check our round up of Six ways Six stunned us, right here as well as plenty of other exclusive videos over on Official London Theatre’s YouTube channel.
Tickets for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella are now on sale!
Victoria Hamilton-Barrett and Carrie Hope Fletcher
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is the exciting new musical comedy starring Carrie Hope Fletcher (as Cinderella) and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (as Stepmother), set to completely reinvent the world’s best-loved fairytale when it opens at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in spring 2021.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has described this new iteration of Cinderella as a ‘misfit’.
“It’s about beauty, but it’s about beauty being what you are rather than what you try and make yourself’”
Featuring a brand new score by the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Oscar-nominated David Zippel, with a script from Killing Eve’s Emerald Fennell, it’s sure to be a hit!
Tickets are now on sale from 25 June, grab yours now and give yourself something to look forward to when theatres reopen!
If this has got you feeling super stagey, don’t forget there’s a whole variety of online theatre for you to enjoy while we wait for theatres to reopen and we’ve created a page dedicated entirely to it. Check out our Virtual Theatre Fix page, right here and have a wonderful, safe weekend!