My latest show round up includes a gender swapping Cleopatra, recreations of Barbra, Liza, and Peggy, and a record-breaking Phantom unmasked.
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss – creators of the phenomenal SIX: The Musical – are sure to make history again with their new musical, Why Am I So Single?, which rarely for the West End, features a main non-binary character.
Toby, who is also non-binary, and Lucy have had worldwide recognition for SIX, so it’s likely this will follow in its global footsteps. The storyline follows two besties as they delve deep into their tragic love lives on dating apps, while they are trying to write their next musical. It has catchy tunes and promises Tik Tok choreography and it’s on now at London’s Garrick Theatre – tickets HERE
Three female stars of the West End and Broadway – Christina Bianca, Liz Calloway and Laura Pitt-Pulford – will be guesting with a true Broadway legend Hugh Panaro at London’s Crazy Coqs from 7-9 September.
If Hugh’s name isn’t immediately recognisable, let me quickly add that he has performed Lloyd Webber’s Phantom over 2,000 times on Broadway, as well as leading roles like Mary Sunshine, Jesus, Sweeney Todd and Jean Valjean in Les Mis.
Hugh Panaro – Man Without A Mask is at Crazy Coqs from 7-9 September – tickets HERE
Totally Thames – a celebration of the river – is back in September, with events and activities, some celebrating LGBTQ+ culture in the capital. Performed in Theatreship in Canary Wharf, Willy Does presents a climate crisis cabaret, with game show Get Your Ducks In A Row, featuring live performance, comedy, drag and much more.
One In, One Out by Lucy Hayhoe is a playful and intimate installation that invites audiences to experience a mini queer night out in just five minutes! The tiny queer bar in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place Roof Garden asks what is the role of a gay bar in London’s future. Tickets HERE
Peppered with comedy, Gay Pride and No Prejudice is the story of two men and one woman who struggle for acceptance in an era when the few retained the right to judge the many.
Darcy has loved Bingley since they were boys. But if Darcy declares his love publicly will Bingley and the world cast him out of society? It’s 1812 and the world has decided that two men should never be together.
Bingley accepts this and so attempts to fall in love with Jane Bennet – but will it work? It’s a show about pride, prejudice and women’s rights and sounds great fun. It’s at the Union Theatre, London from 8 October – 2 November. Tickets HERE
East London’s latest queer nightspot, The Divine, will be the home for a ground-breaking all-male version of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, with a cast including queer acting royalty of the highest order.
DJ, performance artist, drag star and night club owner Jonny Woo plays the Queen of Egypt as one quarter of a cast of out gay male actors.
Antony and Cleopatra – A Dream of Passion is a 70-minute adaptation conceived, edited and directed by the visionary disrupter Robert Chevara. The setting is a club based on Berghain, the Berlin hedonistic techno temple.
The lovers are unable to part, fuelled by love, lust and drugs. It’s a political queer re-telling of Shakespeare’s masterpiece of narcissism, self-destruction and ruined passion. The cast is made up by Alexis Gregory, William McGeough and Jonathan Blake. It runs 13-27 September. Tickets HERE
And finally, the Charing Cross Theatre presents two shows with three men as female divas we all worship. Steven Brinberg, who played recently at Brighton’s Ironworks, teams up with Rick Skye to present Barbra and Liza as guess who?
Both men have established world-wide careers presenting the vey essence of their chosen female stars – this is impersonation on an altogether higher plane.
And cheek by jowl with Steven and Rick will be Chuck Sweeney re-incarnating the late great Peggy Lee, as he has done for a number of years from New York to Miami and beyond.
The two shows run almost in parallel from 6 – 17 November – check dates and times at HERE
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