Full cast announced for Steps musical Here & Now UK & Ireland tour

Producers of new show Here & Now – The Steps Musical have announced casting for the forthcoming UK & Ireland tour.

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).

Casting already announced includes Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical; School of Rock) as Caz and Finty Williams (The Baker’s Wife; The Ocean at the End of the Lane) as Patricia, both of whom are returning to the show following its premiere in Birmingham, and who are appearing until November 2025.

Also returning to the show are Blake Patrick Anderson (Emojiland; RENT) as Robbie, River Medway (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK) as Jem, Edward Baker Duly (The King and I; The Third Man) as Max and John Stacey (Kiss Me Kate; My Fair Lady) as Lesley.

New cast members joining the tour are Jacqui Dubois (Ghost The Musical) as Vel, Chris Grahamson (NOW That’s What I Call A Musical) as Gareth, and Rosie Singha (& Juliet) as Neeta.

Announced today joining the cast are Ben Darcy (Pretty Woman) as Ben, and Lauren Woolf (I Should Be So Lucky) as Tracey.

The cast is completed by Georgia Christofi, Kade Ferraiolo (I Should Be So Lucky), Albert Green (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole), Harry Jack (Les Misérables), Casey Jay (Grease the Musical), Charlie-Jay Johnson (Here & Now), Rosemary Annabella Nkrumah (Mamma Mia! The Party), Dean Rickards, Markus Södergren (Here & Now), Genevieve Taylor (Wicked) and Jessica Vaux (Starlight Express).

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.

The tour kicks off at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on 29 August 2025, and then visits Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Southend, Woking, Aberdeen, Newcastle, London, 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.

The original Birmingham trailer for 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.

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 (Kinky Boots The Musical, Now That’s What I Call A Musical, 13 Going on 30 The Musical).

Here & Now The Steps Musical - The cast on the first day of rehearsals (Photo via social media) — *Here & Now The Steps Musical – The cast on the first day of rehearsals*

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 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.

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