Starring Blake Patrick Anderson, Jacqui Dubois, Rebecca Lock, Rosie Singha & River Medway
Principal casting has been announced for the forthcoming tour of Here & Now – The Steps Musical.
Here & Now is the official new musical featuring all of the hit songs from pop phenomenon Steps.
The show is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (Clueless The New Musical, A Knight’s Tale The Musical, The Great British Bake Off Musical), with choreography by Olivier Award winner Matt Cole (Disney’s Newsies), and an original book by Shaun Kitchener (Hollyoaks).
Here & Now – The Steps Musical is packed full of Steps’ hit songs, including Tragedy/Heartbeat, Stomp, One For Sorrow, Better Best Forgotten, 5,6,7,8, Last Thing On My Mind, Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, Chain Reaction, and many more.
Principal casting for the tour has now been announced.
Returning to the show following its premiere in Birmingham are Rebecca Lock (ELF – The Musical, West End; School of Rock, UK Tour) as Caz, Finty Williams (The Baker’s Wife, Menier Chocolate Factory; The Ocean at the End of the Lane, National Theatre Tour) as Patricia – both of whom are in the production until November 2025.
Also returning to the show are Blake Patrick Anderson (Emojiland, West End; RENT, Hope Mill Theatre) as Robbie, River Medway (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK) as Jem, Edward Baker Duly (The King and I, Broadway & West End; The Third Man, Menier Chocolate Factory) as Max and John Stacey (Kiss Me Kate, Barbican; My Fair Lady, London Coliseum) as Lesley.
New cast members joining the tour are Jacqui Dubois (Ghost The Musical, UK tour) as Vel, Chris Grahamson (NOW That’s What I Call A Musical, UK and Ireland tour) as Gareth, and Rosie Singha (& Juliet, UK and Ireland tour) as Neeta.
Further casting is to be announced.
The original Birmingham trailer for Here & Now
The tour kicks off at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on 29 August 2025, and then visits Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Southend, Woking, Aberdeen, Newcastle, London Wimbledon, Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Brighton, Stockton, Southampton, Belfast, Cardiff, York, Oxford, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Truro, Plymouth, Milton Keynes, Blackpool, Norwich, Hull, Leicester, Leeds, and Canterbury. See all dates and booking info.
Audience reactions to the Birmingham run of Here & Now
The creative team also includes musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Matt Spencer-Smith, set design by Tom Rogers, costume design by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Adam Fisher, wigs, hair and makeup design by Sam Cox, music technology by Phij Adams, casting by Will Burton for Grindrod Burton Casting, and production management by Setting Line.
Video: Rebecca Lock sings ‘One for Sorrow’ from Here & Now
The show is produced by music industry svengali Pete Waterman (I Should Be So Lucky The Musical) of Stock, Aitken and Waterman fame, and ROYO (Now That’s What I Call A Musical, 13 Going on 30 The Musical, The Cher Show).
The story of Here & Now centres on seaside superstore Better Best Bargains, where it’s Friday night, the vibe is right, and everyone’s dancing in the aisles. But when Caz discovers the shelves are stocked with lies and betrayal, the summer of love she and her friends dreamed of suddenly feels like a tragedy. Have they all lost their chance of a ‘happy ever after’? Or does love have other plans in store…
Steps, comprising of Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee, 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 & 11 sold-out national arena tours under their belts. Their 2017 comeback tour sold out all 300,000 tickets, making it one of the biggest pop tours of the year.
Book tickets to Here & Now – The Steps Musical – UK & Ireland Tour
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