Winter Garden: Celebs Rumors

A man carrying out a challenge to visit all 875 Wetherspoon pubs in the UK has bought a plane ticket to complete his challenge.

Prince William has celebrated his wife's work with young children as he joined a conference to help end homelessness - just hours after a video emerged of the Princess of Wales out in Windsor amid her recovery from abdominal surgery.The Prince of Wales has visited Sheffield on Tuesday, 19 March as part of his ambitious project to help end homelessness, which has been given a boost worth £1million from a DIY retailer.The outing comes just hours after footage emerged showing him and Kate visiting a farm shop near their home, Adelaide Cottage, that shows the princess appearing to be well on the road to recovery following her surgery in January. In the video, Kate can be seen with her hair down, wearing a black jacket and leggings, chatting with William and carrying a large white bag.

The Damned have announced a 2024 UK tour and the return of their ’80s line-up featuring drummer Rat Scabies.The band – comprising David Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies and Paul Gray – will perform 12 shows across the UK next year, marking the first time the line-up has played together in 35 years.The tour will open at Newcastle’s NX on December 4, followed by dates in Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol, Cambridge and more, before closing out the run at London’s Roundhouse on December 18.Tickets will go on general sale this Friday (November 24) at 10am GMT from here. A pre-sale will also go live on Thursday (November 23) which fans can sign up for here.A post shared by The Damned (@thedamnedofficial)Rat Scabies will rejoin the band for tours, festivals and more in 2024, who quipped in a press statement: “Be careful what you wish for.’”Audiences will be able to expect songs from ‘Machine Gun Etiquette’, ‘The Black Album’ and ‘Strawberries’, along with favourite tracks like ‘Neat Neat Neat’, ‘New Rose’ and more.Find the full tour schedule below.DECEMBER4 – Newcastle, NX5 – Glasgow, Barrowlands6 – Manchester, Academy8 – Leeds, O2 Academy9 – Nottingham, Rock City10 – Wolverhampton, Civic at The Halls12 – Bristol, Beacon13 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall14 – Eastbourne, Winter Garden16 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange18 – London, Roundhouse47 years after the release of their debut, ‘Damned Damned Damned’, The Damned released their twelfth studio album ‘Darkadelic‘ earlier this year.Elsewhere, The Damned’s Captain Sensible recently spoke about his relationship with Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, and how the late bassist “saved” the band.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Casey Likes fully expected to be performing on Broadway this year, but the plan was for him to be riding shotgun with Stillwater instead of sitting behind the wheel of a DeLorean. He’d appeared as teen rock journalist William Miller in an acclaimed run of “Almost Famous: The Musical” at The Old Globe in San Diego and reprised the role when the show transferred in 2022 to Broadway. But New York critics were harsher, and “Almost Famous” struggled to draw crowds.

Air-conditioned Broadway held its own as New York City plunged ever deeper into a hot summer last week, with total box office receipts keeping steady at $31,520,593, a tiny increase of 2% over the previous week.

While most eagle-eyed viewers who spotted Nathan Aspinall's gesture to Jonny Clayton before their World Matchplay final probably thought the Stockport-born darts player was just messing about, there was plenty more to it than that.

Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June’s Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downward trend, one very impressively so.

Back To The Future: The Musical landed on Broadway last week in overdrive: The stage adaptation starring Casey Likes and Roger Bart scored a dizzying $1,035,256 for just four preview performances, filling 98% of seats at the Winter Garden.

She qualified and faced off against Lisa Ashton in the Women’s World Matchplay last year.

Funny Girl broke a house record with more than $2 million in receipts at the August Wilson Theatre, A Beautiful Noise continued its $1 million-plus weekly take, and The Piano Lesson topped the list of highest-grossing non-musical productions with $914,752, each contributing to Broadway’s $37M box office tally for the week ending Dec. 18.

Brent Lang Executive Editor It turns out Hugh Jackman is irreplaceable. “The Music Man” will end its run on Jan. 1, 2023 as the Tony-winning star of stage and screen finishes his lengthy commitment to the hot-selling Broadway revival. There had been some chatter that the producers were looking for another actor to take over for Jackman as Professor Henry Hill, but those kind of performers are few and far between. And, well, they don’t usually have the kind of commercial appeal to fill the Winter Garden. The revival, which also starred two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, will have played 358 regular and 46 preview performances by the time it takes its final bow. 

Box office for most Broadway shows – Funny Girl and Mr. Saturday Night included – was up a bit last week, as the hits – Into The Woods and MJ included – stayed strong and even some struggling shows saw a slight uptick in attendance.

Sutton Foster will be missing a few performances of The Music Man.

The wife of a Broadway stagehand who fell to his death from a ladder 30 feet over the stage at an empty Winter Garden Theatre in 2020 is suing the producers of the Beetlejuice musical, claiming that the production companies involved in the show were negligent and failed to provide proper protections.

Rishi Sunak has slapped down the Prime Minister for comparing Ukraine's fight against war crimes to Brits voting for Brexit.

DMA’s have announced details of their ‘Live At The Seaside’ summer shows in the UK.The Australian trio have added to their growing tour schedule for 2022, which already includes slots at TRSNMT, Neighbourhood Weekender and the inaugural Neck of the Woods Festival, with this new announcement.DMA’s will play two seaside headline shows in July, with the band set to perform at Winter Gardens in Margate on July 8 before they head up north to Scarborough for a show at the Spa Grand Hall on July 9.Tickets for DMA’s’ ‘Live At The Seaside’ shows will go on general sale here from 10am on Friday (February 25).A post shared by DMA'S (@dmasmusic)DMA’s most recent release, the ‘I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You’ EP, was released back in August 2021.Speaking to NME last year, guitarist Johnny Took said that the sound of the EP could be a sign of things to come on the band’s forthcoming fourth album.“When you have an experience like making this EP, it’s amazing how much you learn about yourself. It makes you realise where you’re at and what path of music you want to write,” he reflected.

Apparently fans have been saying his name three times: Alex Brightman will return as Broadway’s favorite ghost when Beetlejuice resumes performances this spring.

was postponed.The September 26 gala will be spread across two separate televised events, according to Playbill.Nominees were announced last October, and winners will be announced on a Paramount+ live stream before a live concert event entitled “Broadway’s Back!,” airs on CBS.The Tonys were reportedly presented at the Winter Garden once before, in 1975.The show honoring plays and musicals from the cut-short 2019-2020 season was put on on the backburner for a year and a half during Broadway’s prolonged COVID-19 intermission.

New York Post, in order to begin putting up props for the next show “The Music Man,” featuring Hugh Jackman. Police said he fell 50 feet at around 9:30 a.m.

By Greg Evans