Steps musical Here & Now adds more dates to Birmingham world premiere

The world premiere run of new Steps musical Here & Now has added more dates at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham due to unprecedented demand.

The show has proved to be the Alexandra’s fastest selling on-sale in history, and will now run from 9 to 30 November 2024.

Here & Now is presented by UK pop stars Steps, and features their most-loved hits including Tragedy, Heartbeat, One For Sorrow, Better Best Forgotten, Last Thing On My Mind, Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, Better The Devil You Know, Stomp and Chain Reaction.

Directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (The Great British Bake Off Musical), and choreographed by Olivier Award winner Matt Cole (Newsies), the show has an original book by Shaun Kitchener and is produced by the band and ROYO with Pete Waterman.

The creative team aso includes musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Matt Spencer-Smith, set design is by Tom Rogers, costume design is by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Adam Fisher, wigs, hair and makeup design by Sam Cox, casting by Will Burton for Grindrod Burton Casting, associate direction by Matt Hassall, associate choreography by Jane McMurtrie with associate sound design by Ollie Durrant.

Casting is to be announced.

Steps are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 number one albums, 22 million record sales, 500 million streams and 11 sold-out national arena tours.

Steps, who are Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins’, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee, said in a statement: “We were thrilled and grateful for the response we received when we announced the show, people were queuing up outside the theatre from 3am to purchase tickets! The past few weeks we have been workshopping the script and songs; it is so exciting to see it lift off the page. We can’t wait to share this with you!”

Here & Now is playing at the Alexandra Theatre Birmingham from 9 to 30 November 2024.

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