UK pop band Steps are delighted to announce the world premiere of HERE & NOW, a brand-new musical utilizing their iconic music, with an unique guide by Shaun Kitchener. HERE & NOW will open at The Alexandra, Birmingham for a restricted engagement from 9 – 24 November 2024. That includes Steps’ most beloved hit songs, HERE & NOW is produced by the band and ROYO with Pete Waterman, and will likely be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, with choreography by Olivier Award profitable Matt Cole.
Casting to be introduced.
Welcome to seaside superstore Higher Finest Bargains, the place it’s Friday evening, the vibe is correct, and everybody’s dancing within the aisles. However when Caz discovers the cabinets are stocked with lies and betrayal, the summer time of affection she and her mates dreamed of out of the blue looks like a tragedy. Have all of them misplaced their probability of a ‘blissful ever after’? Or does love produce other plans in retailer…
Steps stated, “We’ve been fortunate to do many issues collectively as a band, however the query we get requested many times is ‘the place is the Steps musical?’ Effectively…it’s lastly right here and we couldn’t be extra excited. We’ve looked for the right story for our music and we’ve discovered it within the aisle of a seaside superstore, the place 4 mates set out on their very own Summer season of Love. It’s a narrative of friendship, romance and neighborhood; full of our largest hits and certain to have everyone laughing, crying and dancing within the aisles. We are able to’t wait to open the doorways later this 12 months, and see you there!”
Steps (Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins’, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee) are the UK’s most profitable combined intercourse pop group of all time, with 14 prime 5 singles, 4 primary albums, 22 million report gross sales, 500 million streams & 11 sold-out nationwide area excursions beneath their belts. The band’s hits embody #1 singles Tragedy/Heartbeat and Stomp, the gold licensed One For Sorrow & Higher Finest Forgotten, the silver licensed 5,6,7,8, Final Factor On My Thoughts, Love’s Acquired A Maintain Of My Coronary heart, Chain Response, all of which can characteristic within the musical alongside many extra.
Steps’ 2017 comeback tour bought out all 300,000 tickets, making it one of many largest pop excursions of the 12 months. The band have since continued to launch new music together with two additional iTunes #1 singles, the Sia-penned What The Future Holds in 2020 and the Michelle Visage duet Heartbreak In This Metropolis in 2022. In 2022 Steps celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary with a headline summer time tour and launched the #1 album Platinum Assortment which implies they be part of ABBA, Rolling Stones and Stereophonics as the one teams in UK historical past to attain #1 albums in 4 consecutive many years.
