Offering a one-night stand to remember, Coronation Street’s Kym Marsh dons the notorious bunny boiler role for a tension-filled evening of revenge. Relishing the role of Alex, the quick-witted villainess who sweeps the Opera House audience along with a tumultuous love triangle.

From the playwright that brought you Educating Rita, comes a dramady musical that plays with class expectations, friendship and love. Splitting a self-imposed and societal self-fulfilling prophecy, Blood Brothers ends as it begins, opening the show with a dramatic murder.

Rock opera aficionado, Andrew Lloyd Webber continues to stick it to The Man with his wildest West End offering that has finally hit Manchester theatres. Playing out an infectious 109-minute tribute to rock, the musical follows hapless teacher, Dewey Finn and his class of rebellious private school students.

In true Stone/Trey fashion, a musical focusing on the secretive Mormon religion, based within an exploited region of Uganda promises to be a salacious production made to produce shudders of laughter and winces of shame.