Pop group Steps has announced a new musical, Here & Now, which will premiere in November.
Here & Now, The Steps Musical, which is aptly named after one of the band’s many chart-topping hits, will premiere at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham.
The new musical will be produced by the band and ROYO with Pete Waterman, and will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, with choreography by Olivier Award winning Matt Cole. With set design by Tom Rogers, costume design by Gabriella Slade, sound design by Adam Fisher with casting by Will Burton for Grindrod Burton Casting.
Steps over the course of their 25-year pop career, have carved a name for themselves, creating feel-good pop tunes with killer dance routines with hits such as One for Sorrow, 5678, Scared of the Dark, Deeper Shade of Blue and, course Here & Now.
The five-piece, which consists of Claire Richards, Ian “H” Watkins, Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford Evans and Lisa Scott Lee, first began talking about doing a musical back in 2021.
The new musical will feature many of the bands songs, it will be set in a fictional supermarket called Better Best Bargains, a fun reference to their track Better Best Forgotten!
Welcome to 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….
Tickets for Here & Now the Musical go on sale on 9 February, for a limited run at the Alexandra theatre in Birmingham from 9-24 November! You find out all the info here!
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