Edinburgh Playhouse musical appearance for Toyah Wilcox announced just days after Strictly exit
Punk princess and 2024 Strictly Come Dancing contestant Toyah Willcox will join the cast of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical, as a special guest star in Edinburgh next year.
NOW That’s What I Call A Musical is a brand-new British musical written by award-winning comedian Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood. The show began performances on September 6 at Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre, before commencing a major UK and Ireland tour.
Toyah Willcox will take to the Edinburgh Playhouse stage from February 25 to March 1, 2025, as the guest star of this fun new musical during its run in the Scottish Capital.
Willcox is a uniquely gifted performer, having amassed 13 top 40 singles, recorded 25 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays, acted in more than 20 feature films and presented hundreds of television programmes.
The hit singles ‘It's A Mystery’, ‘I Want to Be Free’, ‘Brave New World’ and platinum-selling albums ‘Anthem’ and ‘The Changeling’ confirmed her status as one of the most significant talents of the 1980s. In 1982 she won the Best Female Singer at the British Rock & Pop Awards, the forerunner to The Brits.
On Christmas Eve 1981 Toyah's concert at Drury Lane Theatre Royal was broadcast live on BBC2 as The Old Grey Whistle Test to viewing figures of over 10 million.
In 2022, Willcox appeared in Channel 4's brand new show Fame In The Family, in 2023 she won the Great British Sewing Bee Celebrity Christmas Special on BBC One and she has just exited the 20th Anniversary series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Her theatre credits include The Rocky Horror Show: 40th Anniversary Tribute, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Calamity Jane, The Wizard of Oz, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cabaret.
In 2018 Paul McCartney awarded her a LIPA Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Companionship for Outstanding Achievement in music, drama, performance and media.
She joins the array of special guest stars playing themselves and singing the songs that made them NOW icons. In 2024 Sinitta will perform in Aylesbury, Sheffield, Canterbury, Nottingham and Norwich with Sonia in Newcastle, Cardiff, Milton Keynes and Brighton, Carol Decker in Truro, Belfast and Woking, and Jay Osmond in Bradford.
Get ready to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the iconic and chart-topping compilations brand NOW That’s What I Call Music, which has sold an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled evening is bursting with hits from Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet, Eurythmics and so many more.
Tickets for the Edinburgh run featuring Toyah Willcox as the special guest star, are available to buy now.