UK pop band Steps have announced that their official musical Here & Now will visit Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre from Tuesday, October 21 to Saturday, October 25 as part of a major UK tour.
Featuring Steps’ most beloved hit songs, Here & Now is produced by the band and ROYO with Pete Waterman and Fascination Management with an original book by Shaun Kitchener and is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and choreographed by Olivier Award winning Matt Cole. Casting for the UK and Ireland tour is to be announced.
Aberdeen Performing Arts director of programming and creative projects, Ben Torrie, said: “If you like fun, fast-paced and fabulous musicals then Here & Now is the ideal night out. The music of Steps lends itself perfectly to musical theatre – it would be a tragedy to miss it!”
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Steps (Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins’, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee) are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 number one albums, 22 million record sales, 500 million streams & 11 sold-out national arena tours under their belts. The band’s hits include #1 singles Tragedy/Heartbeat and Stomp, the gold certified One For Sorrow & Better Best Forgotten, the silver certified 5,6,7,8, Last Thing On My Mind, Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, Chain Reaction, all of which will feature in the musical alongside many more.
Steps’ 2017 comeback tour sold out all 300,000 tickets, making it one of the biggest pop tours of the year. The band have since continued to release new music including two further iTunes #1 singles, the Sia penned What The Future Holds in 2020 and the Michelle Visage duet Heartbreak In This City in 2022.
Tickets are on sale to Friends of Aberdeen Performing Arts on Thursday, November 21 and on general sale on Tuesday, November 26, and are available from www.aberdeenperformingarts.com, phone (01224) 641122 or visit the box office at the Music Hall or His Majesty’s Theatre.