UK pop band Steps are delighted to announce that their official musical HERE & NOW, which has been wowing audiences in Birmingham for the last few weeks, will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour from August 2025 through to May 2026.
HERE & NOW began previews at The Alexandra, Birmingham on Saturday 9 November and will finish it’s run on Saturday 30 November 2024. The musical was The Alexandra’s fastest selling on-sale in history, which saw 50% capacity sold within 24 hours.
Featuring Steps’ most beloved hit songs, HERE & NOW is produced by the band and 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.
Casting for the UK and Ireland tour is to be announced.
Welcome to seaside superstore Better Best Bargains, where it’s Friday night, the vibe is right, and everyone’s dancing in the aisles. But when Caz discovers the shelves are stocked with lies and betrayal, 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, 4 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.
2025/26 TOUR SCHEDULE
29 – 30 August 2025 Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
2 – 13 September Manchester Opera House
16 – 20 September Glasgow Kings Theatre
23 September – 4 October Dublin Bord Gais Energy Theatre 0818719 377 (ROI)
bordgaisenergytheatre.ie 08442485101 (UK) On sale 29 November
7 – 11 October Southend Cliffs Pavilion
www.thecliffspavilion.co.uk On sale 22 November
14 – 19 October Woking New Victoria Theatre
21 – 26 October Aberdeen His Majesty’s Theatre
aberdeenperformingarts.com On sale 26 November
28 October– 2 November Newcastle Theatre Royal 0191 232 7010
www.theatreroyal.co.uk On sale soon
4 – 9 November London New Wimbledon Theatre
11 – 16 November Nottingham Theatre Royal 0115 989 5555
trch.co.uk On sale 29 November
18 – 22 November Sheffield Lyceum 0114 249 6000
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk On sale soon
25 – 29 November Liverpool Empire Theatre
2 – 13 December Theatre Royal Brighton
15 – 28 December Stockton Globe
www.stocktonglobe.co.uk On sale 20 November
20 – 24 January 2026 Southampton Mayflower Theatre 02380 711811
www.mayflower.org.uk On sale 29 November
27 – 31 January Belfast Grand Opera House
www.goh.co.uk On sale soon
3 – 7 February Cardiff Wales Millenium Centre
www.wmc.org.uk On sale 6 December
10 – 15 February York Grand Opera House
17 – 22 February Oxford New Theatre
24 – 1 March Edinburgh Playhouse
10 – 15 March Wolverhampton Grand 01902 42 92 12
www.grandtheatre.co.uk On sale 22 November
24 – 28 March Theatre Royal Plymouth 01752 267 222
www.theatreroyal.com On sale soon
31 March – 4 April Milton Keynes Theatre
8 – 12 April Blackpool Opera House 0844 770 0593*
www.wintergardensblackpool.co.uk On sale soon
14 – 19 April Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000
www.norwichtheatre.org On sale soon
21 – 26 April Hull New Theatre 01482 300 306
www.hulltheatres.co.uk On sale 22 November
28 April – 3 May Leicester Curve 0116 242 3595
www.curveonline.co.uk On sale soon
5 – 10 May Leeds Grand Theatre 0113 243 0808
www.leedsheritagetheatres.com On sale 6 December
STEPS (Producer) are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 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 & many more.
