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Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, written by Robyn Grant and Daniel Foxx with music by Tim Gilvin, tells the “true” story of Ursula, starting from her childhood and ending with what happens after The Little Mermaid (both 1989 and 2023).

The “greatest spy movie never made” revolves around writer Ian Flemish and real-life spy, Jane Blonde. A group of villains known by EVIW is using the adventures of Flemish’s main character, spy Dick Hardwood, as inspiration for their own evil schemes, and Flemish and Blonde must stop them before they get their hands on his latest work.

BroadwayWorld sat down to chat with some of original Mischief Theatre group - Charlie Russell, Greg Tannahill and Nancy Zamit, who are all back in the show on the West End for the festive season.

Recently we had the opportunity to talk with Alison Faulk, the choreographer for not only Magic Mike Live but the Magic Mike movies as well! We discussed how she first fell in love with dance, what it is like to choreograph with a team, and what the creative process is like for something so interactive like Magic Mike Live.

BroadwayWorld chatted with Monique Ashe-Palmer and Yasmin Taheri, two of the stars of £1 Thursdays. We discussed the show and the role their characters play, what made them want to be a part of the production and whether they had their own Club Ocean when growing up.

Mat Ewins: Mr. TikTok* is a fun hour of comedy that packs as many jokes as it possibly can into its running time, using a brilliant combination of technology, pranks, and a brilliant tech partner. Not including the strange ending, it may have been one of my favourite comedy shows of the year.

As someone who moved to the UK last year, I’m still getting used to the tradition of pantomimes but have fallen in love with their boundless energy and cheesy jokes. Recently, I attended a 10:30 AM performance of Dick Whittington at the Arts Centre Hounslow, where I was one of two adults who was not there as part of a giant school group.

Ginger Johnson, the recent winner of series five of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, is currently at the Soho Theatre “for a wild night in by the festive fireside” with her new show, Ginger All the Way!, which will include a range of Christmas classics done in a camp fashion with “more ham than a boxing day buffet.”

After a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Josh Glanc has brought Collections 2023 to Soho Theatre, showing off a collection of characters and silly sketches. It was quite a relief to be going to a show with no plot where I could simply sit and watch a comedian play a range of roles without the stereotypical “dark ending” found in Fringe shows.

Written by Mischief trio Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and directed by Adam Meggido, Peter Pan Goes Wrong brings the Cornley Polytechnic gang back to the West End, this time taking on the “traditional Christmas vignette,” definitely not a pantomime, as Director Chris Bean emphatically informs the audience.

The Vinyl Countdown has a fascinating concept - Dan Lees has picked several vinyl records from a record shop and is going to recreate them for an audience in “a riotous night of musical mayhem and clowning.” If you had not read the summary of the show beforehand, you would have spent the first several minutes wondering exactly what was going on.

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Ami Okumura Jones, who returns to the role of Satsuki, Mei’s older sister. We discussed what it has been like to be part of both the original and current production of the show, how it feels to be part of an adaptation of a classic Studio Ghibli film, and even her first reaction to seeing the puppets!

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to properly deliver a funeral, look no further than “top celebrant Áine Reilly.” In Nimah Denyer: Get Blessed!, Denyer becomes Áine, presenting her course on funerals to a crowd of eager participants.  The whole show is a part of Áine’s series on “how to become a generic spiritual celebrant.'

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Joaquin Pedro Valdes, who is taking on the role of John Manjiro in Pacific Overtures. We discussed how he first got started in musical theatre, what it has been like to be a part of such a unique Sonhdime work, and even how the themes of the show can be compared to sushi!

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the eagerly-awaited stage adaptation of the hit Netflix series, is set to open on 16 December at the Phoenix Theatre. The show is set in Hawkins, Indiana in 1959, following characters like Jim Hopper, Bob Newby and Joyce Maldonado “before the world turned upside down.” 

The Realness, directed by Maggie Norris, is “an urban musical” that tells the story of Jay Johnson, a man who has been released from prison. Determined to change for the better, Jay is working to try to stay straight, but soon finds himself being pulled back into the world that had sent him to prison in the first place.

Wishmas: A Fantastical Christmas Adventure has opened at London’s hidden Old Bauble Factory under Waterloo Station. Audience members are invited on a tour of “a working wish factory,” joining the Wishkeepers and their friends as they work to make wishes from around the world come true.

Based on the Ancient Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, by Euripedes, Bacchanalia, the first show from Sleepwalk Immersive, transforms CRYPT at St. Peter’s Bethnal Green into the city of Thebes, but with a psychedelic twist.

Directed by Luke Hereford, Leila Navabi: Composition is a musical comedy show in which Navabi talks and sings about the theme of identity and how it has played a role in her life, regardless of how much they try to avoid it. She is doing what she said she never wanted to do, all because of BBC Radio Wales.

After seeing the Voloz Collective’s incredible production of The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past August, I was looking forward to seeing their second show, The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose, which was playing at Pleasance London as a part of their “Best of Edinburgh Season.”