{"id":29316,"date":"2022-12-06T00:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/musical-con-to-return-to-london-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:25:37","slug":"musical-con-to-return-to-london-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/musical-con-to-return-to-london-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSICAL CON to return to London in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-46171\">\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westendwilma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MusicalCon-940x600-1-600x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MusicalCon 940x600\"\/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>MUSICAL CON will return to ExCel London in 2023 following two offered out dates in 2022. MUSICAL CON was visited by over 10,000 musical theatre followers in 2022 and can return for an additional weekend-long celebration of all issues musical theatre on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>After the overwhelming response from followers ultimately yr\u2019s occasion, MUSICAL CON 2023 will occupy a bigger area inside ExCel London and can supply new performances and interviews, dialogue panels, meet and greets, photograph and signing alternatives with the largest and brightest West End stars and an enormous choice of workshops, masterclasses and talks run by business professionals, with the road up being introduced at a later date. 2023 may even see the return of the massively widespread fan cosplay, lip-sync battles, sing-alongs, plus the Theatreland exhibition and market.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from final yr\u2019s occasion included performances of \u2018Defying Gravity\u2019 from Wicked\u2019s 4 earlier Elphabas, glimpses of latest musicals reminiscent of SuperYou and The Hope Mill Theatre\u2019s Cinderella, a highlight on Cameron Mackintosh\u2019s first 50 years of reveals, interviews with forged and creatives of &amp;Juliet and Back to the Future, forged reunions of In The Heights and Rent and performances by MUSICAL CON ambassadors Trevor Dion Nicholas, Ben Forster, Alice Fearn and lots of extra.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about MUSICAL CON, TV and West End star Layton Williams stated \u201cThis convention is something really special. The energy in the room was just insane. The atmosphere was unreal. It was iconic!\u201d with Trevor Dion Nicholas including that \u201cThis was a historic event. There has never been anything like it. It was a truly magical weekend!\u201d MUSICAL CON is produced by Chris Steward and Shanay Holmes of West End Musical Productions, with co-producer Shanay saying \u201cThis really is for the fans! It\u2019s the convention our community deserves, and we are delighted to be returning in 2023!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MUSICAL CON will return to ExCel London in 2023 following two offered out dates in 2022. MUSICAL CON was visited by over 10,000 musical theatre followers in 2022 and can return for an additional weekend-long celebration of all issues musical theatre on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023. After the overwhelming response from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}