The producers of the U.K. Tour of Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meatloaf’s greatest hits, are delighted to announce the return of Sharon Sexton as Sloane and Rob Fowler as Falco (both starred recently in the Mamma Mia! International Tour and the original West End cast of Bat Out Of Hell), and introduce the new stars of the musical: Glenn Adamson (American Idiot) as Strat and Martha Kirby (Grease, Rags the Musical) as Raven.
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Relive The Sound Of The Greatest Folk/Rock Duo Of All Time As The Simon And Garfunkel Story Comes To Liverpool Empire Theatre.
Has it really been 50 years since the most successful Folk/Rock duo of all time recorded their first no1 hit single The Sound of Silence’?
Having performed to SOLD OUT audiences in over 50 countries across the world from Sydney to Seattle, The Simon and Garfunkel Story is now sat in the West End at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. The show is currently the biggest and the most successful theatre show celebrating the lives and career of Folk/Rock sensation Simon and Garfunkel.
Alexandra Burke Returns To The Starring Role Of Rachel Marron In The Bodyguard Coming To The Liverpool Empire Next February.
Liverpool Empire are thrilled to welcome Alexandra Burke to the venue next February where she will reprise her role of Rachel Marron in the West End smash-hit musical, The Bodyguard.
Alexandra Burke returns to the role of ‘Rachel Marron’ following her triumphant run in the show in both the West End and the subsequent sell out U.K. tour which came to the King’s Theatre in March 2015. She first rose to fame after winning the fifth series of The X Factor and her debut number one single Hallelujah sold over one million copies in the U.K., a first for a British female soloist. She most recently appeared as Svetlana in Chess at the London Coliseum and will soon appear as Roxie in Chicago at the West End’s Phoenix Theatre. Last year she reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Her other theatre credits include Deloris Van Cartier in the national tour of the musical Sister Act.
Full Casting Announced For World Premiere Of An Officer And A Gentleman-The Musical.
The full cast for the World Premiere of An Officer And A Gentleman – The Musical is officially announced. Emma Williams will play ‘Paula Pokrifiki’, Jonny Fines is ‘Zack Mayo’, Ray Shell as ‘Foley’, Ian Macintosh as ‘Sid Worley’ and Jessica Daley as ‘Lynette Pomeroy’. The production will open at Curve on Friday 6th April 2018 before playing at Liverpool Empire 21st-26th May.
The Waterboys Return To Liverpool In 2015 As Part Of National Tour.
Mike Scott. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
The Waterboys have announced their 2015 U.K. tour, which includes a performance at the Liverpool Empire on 22nd November 2015.
“People should expect the unexpected from The Waterboys,” says Mike Scott. It’s a mission statement which has inspired three decades of compelling musical shape-shifting, and one which yields thrilling results on The Waterboys’ eleventh album, Modern Blues, released in January 2015.
The Searchers, Gig Review. Sixties Gold Tour, Empire Theatre, Liverpool.
The Searchers at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You are never too young to be spoken of highly, you are never too old to perform as if the world has always loved you and as long as there is an audience who responds to your music then never mind the detractors, forget those that decry the period as something that is no longer relevant, for the four men who make up The Searchers, every cheer, every moment of the long lasting applause between songs and every well played note was more than worth rolling back the years to headline a night of pure wonderful 60s music at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.
The Fortunes, Gig Review. Sixties Gold Tour, Empire Theatre, Liverpool.
The Fortunes, Liverpool Empire Theatre. November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The ties that bind Liverpool and Birmingham are deeper and stronger than many might realise or even understand. Politically both squeezed by the Westminster Empire and its mouldy London centric viewpoint, both devastated by unrest in the early 80s and both at one point claiming the title of second city of the U.K. They also share a people who took music to the hearts more than any other city during the 60s pop revolution and who have spawned some of the greatest musicians to ever play on a stage the length and breadth of the islands.
Annie Get Your Gun, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Jason Donovan, Emma Williams, Norman Pace, Dermot Canavan, Ed Currie, Kara Lane, Yiftach Mizrahi, William Oxborrow, Lorna Want, Ste Clough, Matthew Dale, Natalie Day, Floe Fields, Sarah Galbraith, Jonny Godbold, Hannah Grace, Katie Marie-Carter, George Parry.
There is no business like show business…even when sometimes during a performance, for whatever reason, the tension in the actor’s voices, the verve and command of the piece feels a little flat, there is still nothing quite listening to an audiences reaction before the star of the show says a word and the adulation given at the end of the musical.
Del Amitri, Gig Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The very nature of a seated gig, the chance for the music lover to sit and take in a set of musicians in a relaxed manner is one that doesn’t always suggest that an audience is going to do anything for most of the night but smile, perhaps take a picture or two as keep sakes of hopefully a good night out and generally let the stress of the day wash off them as if being hosed down by the makers of any soap bar. They might get up off their chairs towards the end of the evening when the big hits come rolling out, the provocative spellbinding finish in which audience and artist can be as one in mutual adoration of a well-played out gig, rarely does an audience stand throughout, the worries of age and tiredness forgotten for a couple of hours as they revel from first note to last teasing goodbye.
Tonight’s The Night, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Ben Heathcote, Jenna Lee-James, Jade Ewen, Michael McKell, Tiffany Groves, Andy Rees, Michael Antrobus, Joshua Dever, Amy Diamond, Rosie Fletcher, Rosie Heath, Sinead Long, Craig Mather, Tom Millen, Darryl Paul, Ricky Rojas, Lindsay Tierney, Spin.
Rod Stewart certainly belongs in the pantheon of all-time greats of performers that have bridged both sides of The Atlantic Ocean. His music is as popular as it perhaps ever was and still gets performed live by a man whose life off stage is as interesting to millions as the music he has helped make musically immortal. That immortality will perhaps continue long after the end of the next decade and beyond with Ben Elton’s latest foray into the world of musical theatre in The Rod Stewart Musical, Tonight’s The Night.