TAKING you on a whistle stop tour from the heart of London’s theatre land to the glitz of Broadway, the critically-acclaimed Mad About The Musicals is back - celebrating the very best songs from the shows we all know and love.

With a host of favourite numbers from the pen of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Boublil & Schonberg, the cast of Mad About The Musicals will evoke the true spirit of the stage to bring you the very best show in town.

Gareth Gates and Michael Courtney will head the cast of the 10th anniversary production, which comes to the York Barbican on Friday, November 6.

They will be joined on stage by musical theatre actresses Rosanne Priest, Kerry O’Dowd and Nichola Lagen.

Gareth rose to fame in the inaugural Pop Idol TV show in 2001/2. He became a household name making it to the most memorable of these finals, when he went up against Will Young.

He went on to sell more than five million records worldwide and have hits across the globe. His version of Unchained Melody sold more than a million copies in the UK and is the third best-selling single of the Noughties, while Anyone of Us was an international hit. He is also the youngest ever-male solo artist to debut at number one.

More recently Gareth has had a hugely enjoyable and successful career in musical theatre and has appeared in Les Miserables, Legally Blonde and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Michael has produced and directed the UK tours of the critically-acclaimed Mad About The Musicals, Waterloo, Shakin All Over, Its D’Lovely, A Night Of Musicals, more than 30 UK pantomimes and was nominated as the UK Producer of The Year by Encore Magazine.

He is currently on tour in his show, Love Changes Everything and will direct a new stage comedy in 2015, 69 Shades of Black, starring ex-Steps singer and actress Faye Tozer.

For tickets, go to yorkbarbican.co.uk or phone 0844 854 2757.