I CAN'T SING announces closure, final performance 10 May 2014

Stage Entertainment and Syco Entertainment, the producers of I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium, have announced the closure of the production on Saturday 10th May 2014.

The show received a series of rave reviews and standing ovations from thousands of theatre goers following its opening earlier this year.

Rebecca Quigley, CEO of Stage Entertainment UK, said:
“We are sad to be bringing I Can’t Sing! to a close but are immensely proud to have co-produced the show.

I Can't Sing!: Musical Theatre Review

The London Palladium hosts the world premiere of I Can’t Sing!, the new musical written by Harry Hill. The musical pokes fun at the reality TV show, the X Factor, however this show is more F Factor than X Factor.

Chenice and her grandpa live in a caravan below a fly over and eat the road kill they catch, after picking up Chenices post off the floor Max, a plumber, volunteers to fix her boiler. After her grandpa dying and her house being reposed Max pushes her to enter the X Factor. Believe it or not they manage to spread this story over the course of the whole first act. In the second act we see the live finals of the X Factor and the drama unravels as Simon and Jordy (Cheryl Cole… clearly refused to let them use her name. And I don’t blame her) split Max and Chenice up. After Max wins back Chenices heart the winner is announced and an ‘interesting’ twist shakes up the ending. 

I’ll start by saying this isn’t actually as bad as you’d think, it has some good songs and some of the gags go down well. However when you have a gag every 10 seconds it starts to get old after the first 15 minutes. The show is Viva Forever with a bigger budget. 

I CAN'T SING postpones previews... Again.

Stage Entertainment and Syco Entertainment, the producers of I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium, have decided to postpone the beginning of preview performances due to a technical problem with one of the show’s set pieces. 

An integral part of the stage mechanism for the show’s set is currently not operating correctly and this needs to be resolved before performances can begin at the Palladium. As a result Saturday's performance has, regrettably, been cancelled.
The first preview will now take place next week.

I CAN'T SING cancel first two previews

Stage Entertainment and Syco Entertainment, producers of I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium, have decided to postpone the beginning of preview performances by 48 hours due to technical issues caused by the ambitious staging of the new musical comedy.

As a result, the performances scheduled for Thursday 27 and Friday 28 February will no longer go ahead, with the first preview now taking place on Saturday 1 March.

Rebecca Quigley, Producer for Stage Entertainment, said: "After much careful thought and discussion we’ve decided that we need to take some more time to work on technical aspects of I Can't Sing! at the Palladium. As audiences will soon see the production is hugely ambitious, and the volume of installation and scale of the set means that technical work has taken slightly longer than could have been anticipated to make the show audience-ready.

Full cast of I CAN'T SING announced

As previously announced, Olivier Award-winner Nigel Harman will play X Factor supremo Simon, with Cynthia Erivo and Alan Morrissey as lovestruck contestants Chenice and Max.

Joining Nigel on the judging panel will be Ashley Knight as the ever-positive boyband manager Louis and Victoria Elliot as pop queen Jordy. Simon Bailey  (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) will play the overly affectionate X Factor host Liam O'Deary, with Billy Carter (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me) as Executive Producer and Simon's right hand man, Gerard Smalls. Simon Lipkin  (Avenue Q, Rock of Ages) plays Chenice's faithful canine sidekick Barlow and Joe Speare (The Color Purple, To Kill A Mocking Bird) is her iron-lung bound Grandad.