Here and Now - Steps the musical is heading to Stockton Globe for Christmas 2025

Steps the musical Here & Now - featuring the band's biggest hits - will be heading to Teesside for Christmas 2025.

The band announced that its official musical, which has been wowing audiences in Birmingham for the last few weeks, will embark on a UK and Ireland tour from August 2025 through to May 2026. And, between December 15 - 28 next year, the show will be staged at The Globe, in Stockton - with tickets already on sale.

Featuring Steps' most beloved hit songs, Here & Now is produced by the band and theatre company 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.

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Casting for the UK and Ireland tour is to be announced.

The show is set in a seaside superstore called Better Best Bargains, where it's Friday night, the vibe is right, and everyone's dancing in the aisles. Charachter Caz discovers the shelves are stocked with lies and betrayal, and the summer of love she and her friends dreamed of suddenly feels like a tragedy. Have they all lost their chance of a 'happy ever after'? Or does love have other plans in store?

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, four 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.

In 2022 Steps celebrated their 25th anniversary with a headline summer tour and released the #1 album Platinum Collection which means they join ABBA, Rolling Stones and Stereophonics as the only groups in UK history to score #1 albums in four consecutive decades.

Musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Matt Spencer-Smith, set design is by Tom Rogers, costume design is by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Adam Fisher, wigs, hair and makeup design by Sam Cox, casting by Will Burton for Grindrod Burton Casting, Music Technology by Phij Adams with Production Management by Setting Line.

For tickets visit www.stocktonglobe.co.uk