Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival, the UK’s first ever outdoor festival dedicated to all things stagey, has announced its stellar Variety Stage line up.

The stage will see a wide range of  musical performances, including West End stars, all-new musicals and choirs. Gaiety Festival  will feature three stages, the Main Stage with West End superstar headliners, the Community Bandstand, which is supported by NODA and will showcase local midlands talent, and the Variety Stage.  

Musical mainstays Shona White (Mamma Mia!, Wicked) and Jenna Lee-James (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats) will headline the Variety  Stage on 30 April at Ragley Hall.

For festivalgoers who want a fix of all-new, upcoming musicals, the Variety Stage is the place  to go, with new musicals Luna the Musical and Somewhere performing showcases during the day. Joining them will be Show Choir and Stagecoach Solihull, performing audience-favourite showtunes, as well as all-things-musicals Box Office Radio and ChiChi Fit, the theatrical fitness experience.  

As well as the three stages, there will be a funfair, silent disco, theatre merch village,  backstage hub, stagey activities and food and drink stalls, making Gaiety Festival the place to be this spring for all things musicals. The headliners of Gaiety Festival’s Main Stage will be Marisha Wallace (Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls); Kerry Ellis (Anything Goes, We Will  Rock You); Collabro, in one of their last-ever performances; Lee Mead (Joseph and  the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Wicked); Cassidy Janson (&  Juliet; Beautiful: The Carol King Musical); Lauren Samuels (Bend It Like Beckham, Grease) and Sophie Evans (Wicked, The Wizard of Oz).  The amazing line up will perform their favourite musical theatre songs on the Main Stage,  accompanied by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra.

The producer of Gaiety Festival, Mike Wilson, said: “The countdown is well and truly on to the  UK’s first showtunes music festival and we are delighted to announce more exciting news  about the incredible day of musical theatre entertainment that festivalgoers can look forward  to. Gaiety Festival is shaping up to be the stagiest of events and we can’t wait to share it with  the fans!” 

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