X FACTOR winner SAM BAILEY joins the cast of FAT FRIENDS – THE MUSICAL
Number one recording artist Sam Bailey, who rose to fame winning the tenth series of The X Factor, will join the previously announced Jodie Prenger in the original British musical Fat Friends – The Musical. Sam will share the much loved role of Betty, originated on screen by Alison Steadman, with award-winning comedian and actress […]
REVIEW: SAM BAILEY (Orchard Theatre) ★★★★
2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey released her second album Sing My Heart Out in September 2016 and is half way through an extensive UK tour, promoting the album and performing live to her fans. I went along to check out the show on Sam’s first of two nights in her home town of Dartford […]
Should theatre’s have better security in place?
As the lights went down at Sam Bailey‘s concert last night at the Orchard Theatre in her hometown of Dartford, a group of paralytic women took their seats near the back of the auditorium, two rows behind where I was sitting. An announcement from Sam Bailey herself came over the tannoy, saying that she was […]
REVIEW: Sam Bailey slays Southend as Mamma Morton in CHICAGO
Chicago is the 1920’s inspired musical based on the stories of female murderes in a Chicago prison. Velma Kelly is the talk of the town after killing her sister and her boyfriend after finding them in bed together. But as with any hot news topic, the newspapers are always on the look out for a […]
REVIEW: CHICAGO THE MUSICAL (New Wimbledon Theatre)
One of my all-time favourite musicals, Chicago, is back for a UK tour and I couldn’t be happier. Since closing in London’s West End back in 2012 (after 15 years), I have had to go all the way to Broadway to get my fix of merry murderesses but not anymore. Chicago tells the true story […]