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Live Tweeting: West End Eurovision 2013

West End Eurovision 2013 takes place tonight (23 May 2013) from 11.30pm at the West End’s Dominion Theatre, and Whatsonstage.com will be there!

Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves – former winners of the Eurovision Song Contest – will do the honours as the special act at this year’s event, which sees casts from the West End’s biggest shows do battle with
Eurovision covers in aid of entertainment charity TheatreMAD.

Participating shows this year include: Spamalot, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Rock of Ages, Once, Viva Forever, Top Hat, Mamma Mia!, Phantom of the Opera and A Chorus Line.

View all the show’s idents below:

View latest twitter updates on West End Eurovision 2013 in the box below – and join in with the coverage on Twitter using hashtag #WEE13

Joining Russell Grant on this year’s celebrity judging panel are Jodie Prenger (winner of BBC’s talent search I’d Do Anything) and Rylan Clark (X Factor finalist and Celebrity Big Brother winner).

TheatreMAD’s
chairman, David Pendlebury said: “We are absolutely delighted that Jodie
and Rylan have kindly agreed to support this year’s West End Eurovision
and the work of The Make A Difference Trust as members of our Celebrity
Judging Panel. Having both been on the receiving end of the judges’
comments on I’d Do Anything and The X Factor respectively, it will be a fun opportunity for them to offer their comments to those shows taking part.”

Richard
Gauntlett
will be joined by celebrity guest hosts Sinitta, Christopher
Biggins, Kerry Ellis and Harriet Thorpe to curate the performances.

Last year’s contest was won by the Whatsonstage.com Award-winning Sweeney Todd, led by former Eurovision entrant Michael Ball (see video above).