Rhydian Roberts and Roxanne Pallett have been announced as lead cast members for The Rocky Horror Show's 40th anniversary tour. Roberts and Pallett are to join West End star Oliver Thornton and Superstar winner Ben Forster in the new musical production, which is due to open at the end of the year. X Factor star Roberts will play Rocky and Pallett will take on the role of Janet in the Richard O'Brien-penned classic. Thornton is to play the eccentric lead Frank-n-Furter and Forster - who recently finished his run in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour - will star as Brad. The tour is scheduled to play at theatres up and down the country for an entire year, and opens at Brighton's Theatre Royal on December 20, 2012. Despite having been revamped by Christopher Luscombe (History (more)...
- 10/19/2012
- by By Alison Rowley
- Digital Spy
The Biblical-inspired musical Children of Eden is being revived in the West End for one night only in a spectacular star-studded charity gala at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday 29 January. They show Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical's Oliver Thornton, who plays Adam We Will Rock You Killer Queen Brenda Edwards Mamma Noah 2011 X Factor contestant John Wilding Abel and Anton Stephans Father. Check out a sneak peek from the event below...
- 1/9/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The big news since we debuted the new Weekend Meme is that Atlanta’s Bishop Eddie Long has announced his intent to keep his position at his mega-church and intends to fight the four lawsuits (and counting) alleging that he coerced you male members of his church into sexual relationships. The pastor of a 25,000 member church cast himself in the role of David with five stones to sling at Goliath.
The United Nations, having conquered world peace, poverty, famine and human rights abuses has now turned their attention to naming little known Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman as the official ambassador to aliens should they ever contact the human race. So when they say, “Take me to your leader” we'll all know who to send them to.
Stephen Fry has signed up to play Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock Holmes 2. I was unaware that Sherlock had a smarter older brother, but...
The United Nations, having conquered world peace, poverty, famine and human rights abuses has now turned their attention to naming little known Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman as the official ambassador to aliens should they ever contact the human race. So when they say, “Take me to your leader” we'll all know who to send them to.
Stephen Fry has signed up to play Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock Holmes 2. I was unaware that Sherlock had a smarter older brother, but...
- 9/27/2010
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
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