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BBC's musical celebration The Greatest Show: all the stage shows set to perform

Who’s excited for this special event?

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| London |

22 January 2021

Five of the performers and the shows they're a part of!
Five of the performers and the shows they're a part of!
© Dan Wooller

Here are all the shows on the BBC's Musicals: The Greatest Show tonight!

The events kicked off last weekend on BBC Radio Two with a few days' worth of documentaries, celebrations and performances, spearheaded by Sheridan Smith, Michael Ball and Elaine Paige.

This will reach a general stagey crescendo with Musicals: The Greatest Show – a
100-minute odyssey through musical feature, featuring a plethora of specially recorded numbers.

It will be shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 7 February at 7.40pm GMT) and will be available to stream for a full year!

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In a helpful round-up, we've listed all the shows you can expect to hear/see as part of the event (some of them are only available via radio – we've indicated below):

– Smith and Amanda Holden will duet on "I Know Him So Well" – from Chess

– Gavin Spokes, from the West End production of Hamilton, will perform hit number "You'll Be Back"

– Michael Ball will perform showstopper "You Can't Stop The Beat" from Hairspray

– Smith will also return to her lauded turn as Fanny Brice to give a rendition of "Don't Rain On My Parade" from Funny Girl

– Soon-to-be West End leading light Ivano Turco performs "Only You, Lonely You" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's upcoming mucsical Cinderella

– From Los Angeles, Nicole Scherzinger performs "Never Enough" from movie musical The Greatest Showman

– Josh Groban sings "The Impossible Dream" from Man Of La Mancha (on Radio 2 only)

– Paige will return to the part of Norma Desmond with Sunset Boulevard's "As If We Never Said Goodbye" (on Radio 2 only)

– Because they're the crown jewels of the West End, the Queens of Six will perform "Six"

– Stage star Ramin Karimloo sings "The Music Of The Night" from The Phantom Of The Opera, a show he's appeared in on a plethora of occasions

– Tight-knit trio Mazz Murray, Kate Graham and Jo Napthine of MAMMA MIA! perform "Dancing Queen"

– Simply the best – Aisha Jawando of the West End production of TINA, The Tina Turner Musical will perform, well, "The Best"

– Lea Salonga performs "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Misérables – with her performance recorded in Manila

– Former star of the West End show and current lead on the tour, Layton Williams of Everybody's Talking About Jamie performs "The Wall In My Head"

– WhatsOnStage Award-winner Sam Tutty sings "You Will Be Found" from Dear Evan Hansen, alongside members of the West End cast

– Announced as leading the upcoming tour of the show, Nicole Raquel Dennis of "Dreamgirls" with And I Am Telling You

– Former Elphaba Kerry Ellis sings "Defying Gravity" from Wicked

– Part of the original West End cast, Christine Allado and Alexia Khadime perform "When You Believe" from The Prince Of Egypt (on Radio 2 only)

– Jac Yarrow, with the public, performing "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

You can find out more about Yarrow's special performance here.

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