Kevin is best known as a Pro Dancer on BBC One’s, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ being the only pro dancer to ever dance in four consecutive finals. Now, he’ll be returning to the stage in 2022 for this exciting role. Kevin has thrilled audiences in the West End and across the UK, starring in ‘Rock of Ages', ‘Dirty Dancing the Musical’ and 'The Wedding Singer’. Strictly and West End star Star Kevin Clifton will debut as The Artilleryman.
Claire is often our TV screens, including The One Show, Loose Women, Celebrity Big Brother and Popstar to Operastar, and her 2019 solo album, My Wildest Dreams, hit the UK Top 10. With Steps, Claire has amassed fourteen Top 5 singles (including three Number 1’s), and three multi Platinum albums, including 20 million in record sales and seven sold-out arena tours. Steps’ and stage star Claire Richards makes her debut as Beth, The Parson’s Wife. One of the most trailblazing arena tours of all time, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of ‘The War of The Worlds’ - Alive on Stage! returns to arenas throughout the UK in 2022, and we’re thrilled to announce two of our new cast members! I’m very proud that role has been performed beautifully by my daughter, Anna-Marie.Īnd that’s how I and the Martians met and started working together - we remain very close, except when our show erupts and we’re arch enemies, although we always wind up in the pub with cast, musicians and crew, sharing a brew. I should also add that since we began touring in 2006, the role of Carrie, The Journalist’s fiancée has become very much part of the heart of the story. Liam Neeson taking the baton from Richard Burton and Take That’s Gary Barlow, Kaiser Chief’s Ricky Wilson, Joss Stone, Alex Clare and Maverick Sabre becoming the cast for a New Generation. My Musical Version since 2006 has sold out Arenas worldwide and in 2012 we re-imagined the 1978 double album with a modern twist. I won two Ivor Novello Awards, my double album went Top 10 in 22 countries and No.1 in 11 of them. The success was instant, and the support received was totally unexpected. The Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward (The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist), David Essex (The young Artilleryman), Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott (Parson Nathaniel), Manfred Manns Earth Band’s Chris Thompson (The Voice of Humanity) and Julie Covington (Beth, Parson Nathaniel’s wife).īy 1978 the double album was released on CBS Records (now part of Sony Music). The rest of our cast were musically based - and what a diverse and special group they were.
The Dixie Chicks' previous live DVD, An Evening With The Dixie Chicks, has been certified 2X Platinum.Fortunately I wasn’t the only person who felt that a Musical work based upon HG Wells’ iconic novel had promise, and we managed to attract an incredible cast - Richard Burton one of the leading men of his day, played The Journalist. Recorded live onstage during the Dixie Chicks' historic North American tour, Top Of the World Tour Live brings together songs from all three of the Dixie Chicks multi-platinum albums- 1998's Wide Open Spaces (the best-selling album in country music history), 1999's Fly (the first album by a country group to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200) and 2002's Home (which earned the Dixie Chicks the distinction of being the first country group and first female group, in the Soundscan era, to have two #1 debuts on the Billboard Top 200). In fact, first day's sales for the "Top Of The World" tour-some 867, 000 tickets-was the largest in music history, eclipsing records set by Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, U2 and Paul McCartney. The group rapidly sold more than one million tickets for the 66 North American shows, with 51 shows selling out completely on the first day of sales.
Shortly after the Dixie Chicks announced the group's "Top Of The World" tour at a press conference held in New York City on February 20th, 2003, the buzz was on. this 52 minute, 18 song set captures the exuberant spirit and magic of the Dixie Chicks' record-shattering 2003 "Top Of the World Tour Live" tour, and features all of their hits: "Landslide," "Wide Open Spaces," "Long Time Gone," "Sin Wagon" and other fan favorites. Top Of The World Live is the title of the highly anticipated double live DVD from the Grammy Award and Country Music Award-winning Dixie Chicks.