Musical Con will return to London in 2024.
The West End’s official musical theatre fan convention will return for a third year, running at ExCel London on the weekend of the 19 and 20 October 2024.
In its first two years Musical Con has been attended by over 10,000 musical theatre dance from across the globe with Musical Con 2023 inhabiting a much larger space than the previous year. In 2023 there were over 100 special guests and over 140 hours of programming across multiple stages and areas.
Special guests included Claude-Michel Schönberg, composer of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon; choreographer and winner of this year’s Special Recognition Olivier Award, Arlene Phillips (Starlight Express, Grease, Guys & Dolls); Laurence O’Keefe – the lyricist and composer of Heathers, Legally Blonde and Bat Boy The Musical; and Sheffield Theatres Artistic Director Rob Hastie (Operation Mincemeat, Standing At The Sky’s Edge).
2023 saw more theatre creatives attending the event including casting director Stuart Burt (Cabaret, Miss Saigon, Standing At the Sky’s Edge), designer Ben Stones (Operation Mincemeat, Miss Saigon, Standing At The Sky’s Edge), director Anthony Lau (Miss Saigon), writers Jake Brunger & Pippa Cleary (The Great British Bake Off Musical), and choreographer Mark Smith (The Little Big Things).
West End performers in 2023 included: Strictly Come Dancing’s Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard), Aimee Atkinson (Pretty Woman The Musical), Trevor Dion Nicholas (Next to Normal), Sophie Evans (Wicked), Alice Fearn (Diana The Musical), Ben Forster, Shanay Holmes (The Bodyguard), Lucie Jones (Les Miserables), Jon Robyns (The Phantom of the Opera), Jodie Steele (Bonnie and Clyde), Miriam Teak Lee (& Juliet), Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Disney’s Newsies), Bronte Barbe (Disney’s Newsies), Courtney Bowman (Pretty Woman), Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (Cinderella, Bat Boy), Dom Hartley Harris (Bonnie and Clyde), Holly Anne Hull (The Phantom of the Opera), Cassidy Janson (& Juliet), Aisha Jawando (Hamilton, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical), Hannah Lowther (The SpongeBob Musical), Grace Mout (Six The Musical), Natalie May Paris (Six The Musical), Josh Piterman (Les Miserables), Tosh Wanogho-Maud (Ain’t Too Proud), Michael Xavier (Roman Holiday), Matt Henry (Kinky Boots, The Drifters Girl), John McCrea (Cabaret, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Joanna Ampil (Miss Saigon, Cats, Waitress), Divina De Campo (The SpongeBob Musical), and Rob Madge (My Son’s A Queer, But What Can You Do?).
2024’s convention will once again include performances, interviews, panels, demonstrations, photo and signing opportunities, a huge selection of workshops and masterclasses and Theatreland with interactive experiences and all manner of musical theatre businesses.
Musical Con is produced by Chris Steward and Shanay Holmes of West End Musical Productions.
Co-producer Shanay said, This year was really special because the fans knew exactly what to expect and the entire community have taken full ownership of the event and made it their own. Musical Con is our home, it is the place where we belong, and we can’t wait for 2024!
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