Scarlett Clegg

The sparkling new production of this hilarious musical, based on the hit film, promises to be the biggest party in town when it comes to the Winter Gardens Blackpool next spring. The year is 1985, hair is big, greed is good and rock star wannabee Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. However, when his own fiancée dumps him at the altar, Robbie sets out to ensure that every wedding is as disastrous as his own. Will sweet natured Julia and her best friend Holly manage to lure Robbie back into the limelight? Or is she going to head…

This Tony Award winning, comedy musical is back in Blackpool this week where it will surely delight audiences during its run at the Winter Garden’s Opera House.  Already a smash hit on Broadway and in the West End, it is bringing a host of fuzzy friends to Blackpool. Avenue Q is a musical about growing up, dreaming big and finding your purpose in life.  It features what are described as the naughtiest puppets in town, hilariously brought to life by an ensemble cast of 11 performers. Princeton, a bright eyed graduate, arrives in New York City with big dreams and a tiny…

It will soon be time to Time Warp Again as the classic cult musical, The Rocky Horror Show, is staged at Blackpool Opera House this autumn. For the uninitiated, The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two young people, squeaky clean college kids Brad and his fiancée Janet. After their car breaks down the pair are catapulted into the weird world of Frank N. Furter and his friends. As guests in his strange home the couple embark upon an adventure they will never forget. An adventure filled with fun, frolics, frocks (or lack of them) frivolity and, at times,…

Over sixty years after they first formed in 1953, Blackpool Operatic Players should know a thing or two about putting on a play and their latest production, which played at The Grand Theatre, The Producers, shows that they most definitely do. The Producers is an hilarious tale of a plan to produce the worst musical ever, but even the best laid plans go wrong sometimes … Fading Broadway producer, Max Bialystock, once known as the King of Broadway, has grown tired after an endless string of flops and vows to return to his previous successful form. However, a chance remark…

The plot of this musical may be about an attempt to stage a Broadway flop, but this musical was certainly no flop when it took Broadway by storm in 2001 followed by similar success in The West End in 2004. This Academy Award winning, hilarious musical has wowed audiences ever since and now it’s here in Blackpool courtesy of Blackpool Operatic Players and The Grand Theatre. Producer, Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo Bloom to help him pull off Broadway’s biggest scam. Bialystock, impoverished by a string of theatrical flops, needs to persuade his admiring string of elderly, widowed backers…

A little bit of magic and a smidgeon of mischief were in the air as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Poulton Drama and children from Larkholme School took to the stage on Tuesday at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre in Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation. This ground breaking production, directed by the RSC Deputy Artistic Director, Erica Whyman, saw a company of 18 professional actors working alongside amateurs, who played the Mechanicals and local school children playing Titania’s Fairy Train.  The performance, which celebrates Shakespeare’s timeless legacy in the 400th anniversary of 1616, the year when the bard took his extraordinary talents…