Who will win the 18th Musical Comedy Awards?

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Join us on April 10th at the Bloomsbury live or online with NextUp Comedy for a riotous celebration of the UK’s best up and coming musical comedians to find out!

Now in its 18th year, the MCA have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Adam Kay, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman and Jazz Emu. If you enjoy acts that combine comedy with music such as Bill Bailey, Tim Minchin and Flight of the Conchords, you will love this show!

Featuring the following 12 amazing finalists:

Dru Cripps

Tom Veck

Jonny Bennett

Will and Noah

Eoghan Collins

Vinny Shiu

Joe Da Costa

Sam Hickman

Sophie Banister

Aadar Malik

Ben Coleman

Chris Iskander

There will also be a performance from our Best Newcomers, John and Christian! “Hilarious surprises and original songs” – Voicemag “Deliciously sharp wit” – There Ought To Be Clowns

Headlined by the sensational Sugarcoated Sisters! (see pic at top of post)

The Sugarcoated Sisters are an award-winning musical comedy double-act and real-life siblings from Hertfordshire. With over 3 million online followers they are among the UK’s most-watched musical comedians, captivating fans with their unique and untamed edge. From women’s health and dating to politics and UK culture, they cover it all in slick musical sketches. Chloe has bipolar type 2 and Tabby has type 1 diabetes, which often features in their material.

Their original debut show “Bittersweet” was a smash-hit at Ed Fringe and Soho Theatre and was featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Click, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Scotland, Heart Breakfast Show and more.★★★★★ “Talented, creative and hilarious” – Entertainment Now★★★★★ “Flawed, fearless & fabulously feisty…these comedy queens cavort across musical genres, dropping punchlines & truth bombs.” – Fringe Biscuit★★★★ “from hip-hop to jazz…their lyrics are clever, funny and clearly drawn from life” – The Scotsman★★★★ “A showcase of true musicianship” – Fest Mag

Here’s a quote from Chloe and Tabby on how excited they are to headline the 2026 final:“Our first ever live gig as Sugarcoated Sisters was at the MCA heats in 2022. And our third ever live gig was the MCA final, where we were absolutely thrilled to win Best Newcomer! The MCA’s are where our live journey began, so we are honoured to return for this full circle moment.”

Book yourself in via http://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards

List of acts competing in the 2026 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards

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Dear friends,

We are thrilled to announce the acts that will be taking part in the 2026 WeGotTickets MCA, our 18th MCA! We had some tough decisions to make and if you entered but are not through, we are sorry that you didn’t make it this time and would like to offer you two complimentary tickets to one of our first round heats at the Phoenix on either Jan 10th, 24th or Feb 14th or 28th. Info on all of the MCA shows can be found at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards and you can send Ed an email at ed@musicalcomedy.co.uk regarding the heat you’d like to attend. We have occasionally opted to go for acts that have never taken part in the MCA over acts that have been with us a few times before. Again, if you’re not in the MCA this time round, please don’t be too disheartened and we would welcome another entry from you in the future. Thank you all so much for entering! We have selected 44 acts and here they are:

Tasmin Sarkany

Danny Garg

Roops

Amaya Holman

Callum & Toby

Aadar Malik

Bonya Kleyman

Chris Timoney

Aalex Mandel-Dallal

Louis Turner

Sophie Duncan

Will Skillington

Kevin Davidson

Abi Sharp

Irritable Babe Syndrome

Sophie Banister

Alex Duffy

Francesca Lewis

Becky Goodman

Alexis Sakellaris

Emma Price

Rich McCulloch

Will & Noah

Edi Johnston

Chris Iskander

Katie Hand

Steven Grainger

Harry Creffield

Tom Veck

Kirk Fontaine

Jonny Bennett

Jonny Brace

Ben Coleman

Joe Da Costa

Jonathan Rippon

Christian Loveless

Keith Redfern

3 Wise Men

Sam Hickman

Eoghan Collins

Anky Damz

Bad Cowboys

Dru Cripps

Merry Martyn

We will be in contact with acts soon via email regarding availability. Thanks all and we can’t wait for the coming MCA! Tickets are already selling fast for the final at the Bloomsbury on April 10th with our 2022 Best Newcomers, The Sugarcoated Sisters! Book via the link at the top of the article!

Results are out!

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The results are out for the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards!

In joint third place were Sarah Gaul and Paras Patel. In second place was Jack McMinn and the winners and audience favourites were Shots At The Dragon. As soon as we have more photos and reviews we will share them with you all!

Photos courtesy of Edward Moore.

Change to line-up

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Due to a recent injury and ongoing recovery, Vinny Shiu has stepped back from the 2025 final and will instead take part in the 2026 final. He is replaced by Al Nash, one of our semi-finalists with the next most audience and judge votes. Al has developed a huge following with his viral videos, amassing close to 100 million views with his videos. Book tickets to see Al and our other 11 finalists, Best Newcomer Roops and headliner, double Chortle award-winning star and MCA alumnus, Jazz Emu.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu

Running Order for the Final

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We are thrilled to announce the running order for the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Final on April 12th at the Bloomsbury!

In the first half after the show has been opened by our MCA resident MC, Nick Horseman, we will have a performance from our Best Newcomer, Roops! Then we will have performances from Al Nash, Zara Gladman, Paras Patel, Abi Sharp, Eoghan Collins and Jack McMinn.

In the second half we will have performances from Shots at the Dragon, Holly Spillar, Jonathan Oldfield, Sarah Gaul, Joe da Costa and Alex Prescot. St the end we will have a headline performance from multi-award winning MCA alumnus, Jazz Emu.

Book the last remaining tickets from the theatre here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu

Running out of seats!

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The 17th WeGotTickets MCA Final is fast approaching and we are running out of tickets. Snap up the last few via Bloomsbury theatre at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu or one of the last cheaper tickets via WeGotTickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards.

Who will win the 17th MCA? Come along and find out on April 12th! The show can also be livestreamed via NextUp at https://nextupcomedy.com/programs/mca-2025-final.