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Post by Jon on Feb 10, 2024 11:28:05 GMT
The one that nobody remembers who won Pop Star to Operastar on ITV. Vanessa? Great voice, not a lot else. It's interesting that all the other Saturdays had fairly successful post careers but not Vanessa.
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Post by BVM on Feb 10, 2024 11:42:41 GMT
Am a massive Steps fan. Absolutely the gay soundtrack of my early 20's! Got all the albums. Seen all the tours.
I rather suspect this will be every bit as dreadful (both audience and plot wise) as I Should Be So Lucky but couldn't not be there and have bought tickets for Birmingham.
Have the Alexandra ever launched a musical before? It's not exactly known like Curve, Manchester theatres or various other regional houses for launch and tech-ing? Also slightly unusual that no further dates announced!
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Post by danb on Feb 10, 2024 11:52:40 GMT
Great voice, not a lot else. It's interesting that all the other Saturdays had fairly successful post careers but not Vanessa. The ‘actual’ singer…its crazy. Thought she’d have been snapped up by any number of dance acts to do features. Its only really Una that has carried on in music. (Daughter was a fan so I have a vested interest 🤣).
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Post by Jon on Feb 10, 2024 12:00:01 GMT
Am a massive Steps fan. Absolutely the gay soundtrack of my early 20's! Got all the albums. Seen all the tours. I rather suspect this will be every bit as dreadful (both audience and plot wise) as I Should Be So Lucky but couldn't not be there and have bought tickets for Birmingham. Have the Alexandra ever launched a musical before? It's not exactly known like Curve, Manchester theatres or various other regional houses for launch and tech-ing? Also slightly unusual that no further dates announced! I think because Steps were parts of 90s nostalgia and they had some great songs, the interest is there although I suspect the appeal is UK limited. I remember watching the documentary about their reunion years ago and it was interesting to see what caused the split and now they all much happier.
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Post by BVM on Feb 10, 2024 12:11:25 GMT
It's interesting that all the other Saturdays had fairly successful post careers but not Vanessa. The ‘actual’ singer…its crazy. Thought she’d have been snapped up by any number of dance acts to do features. Its only really Una that has carried on in music. (Daughter was a fan so I have a vested interest 🤣). Saw them at Hammersmith and Vanessa was literally CARRYING them. Without doubt the actual singer. So yeah it's a shame she disappeared.
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Post by samesam on Feb 11, 2024 23:16:49 GMT
The writer has previously produced an unofficial Steps musical - "5, 6, 7, 8: a Steps musical" in 2017. Traces of it appear to have been since hidden and removed from CV's etc but this 4-star review remains - monstagigz.com/2017/08/19/theatre-review-5-6-7-8-a-steps-musical/"We’re big Steps fans and what we most loved about this show, and weren’t expecting, was how faithfully recreated and how well executed each dance routine accompanying all those hits would be...at just 65 minutes we would have quite happily had an interval and sat through the whole romp again...we’d love to see this again in a bigger venue on a longer run."
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Post by ilovewemusicals on Feb 16, 2024 17:12:13 GMT
Steps said on BBC Radio Stoke earlier that there might be a sequel to Here and Now in the future.
Producer Pete Waterman: “This is quite a serious story. Completely different to I Should Be So Lucky, which is comedy with songs.”
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Post by manchestertheatrefan on Feb 17, 2024 9:19:46 GMT
Steps said on BBC Radio Stoke earlier that there might be a sequel to Here and Now in the future. Producer Pete Waterman: “This is quite a serious story. Completely different to I Should Be So Lucky, which is comedy with songs.” It will be interesting to have a serious story with such camp songs - but I am definitely here for it.
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Post by ilovewemusicals on Apr 15, 2024 18:14:21 GMT
Writer Shaun Kitchener posted on X that two weeks of workshops have now started.
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