Bill Bailey announced today on Instagram and X that he is the Official Patron of the Musical Comedy Awards!
I set up the MCA back in 2008 in order to support, discover and celebrate the UK’s best up and coming musical comedians. Over the years we have had the pleasure of hosting some amazing acts such as Rachel Parris, Abandoman, Bo Burnham and our headliner for this year’s final, the unstoppable Jazz Emu. Bill Bailey was one of the main sources of inspiration for setting up the competition and we are over the moon that he is now our Official Patron! A very proud moment.
After a hilarious week of watching and rewatching all the entries, MCA founders Ed and Tamara have selected their favourite acts to progress to the heats. Due to the extraordinarily high standard of quality and large number of entries, we decided to increase our number of acts competing from 40 to 48. We also had to make some very tough decisions, sometimes choosing to give unknown acts a chance over acts that we have had the pleasure of hosting before. There are also a few acts who obviously possess strong comedic talent and are already making waves/kicking ass but are not really music-based comedians compared to other acts entering. So sorry that we could not squeeze you in! If you are not on the list below, we thank you so much for entering and are sorry that we couldn’t involve you this time around. We invite you to contact Ed at ed@musicalcomedy.co.uk and we can offer you two free tickets to one of the first-round heats on Jan 11th, 25th, Feb 8th or 22nd.
If you are through, firstly, congratulations! We can’t wait to have you perform at the 2025 MCA! We will be in touch very soon via email regarding dates!
Here is our list of acts competing in the 2025 WeGotTickets MCA (in random order and apologies if we have accidentally missed out desired stage name):
Holly Spillar
Joe Da Costa
Margaret Saunderson
Ada Player
Christian Dart
Sophie Banister
Nerine Skinner
Matt Box
Baron Fortitude
Rich McCulloch
Laurie Stevens
EM The Master
The Really Useless Group
Sarah Gaul
Shaun Sonnier
Roops
Juliette Pochin
Jonathan Oldfield
Su Mi
Marc Salmon
Shots at the Dragon
Michael McKenzie
Nayonica Ghosh
Bob Roberts
No Worries If Not
Abi Sharp
Astro Wild
Binkie & Maud
Paras Patel
Katie Hand
Will & Noah
Carl Carzana
Fever Peach
Jonny Brace
Jack McMinn
Sophie Walmsley
Jonathan Rippon
Al Nash
Rachel O’ Connor
Vinny Shui
Alex Prescot
Anna Hale
Eoghan Collins
Madeleine Southey
Kirk Fontaine
Zara Gladman
The Boys from Fudge
Ch’ Lu
Tickets are already selling well for the live shows, grab yourself a Phoenix Pass to see all the Phoenix shows at a massively reduced price: www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards.
Thrilled to announce that the amazing Jazz Emu will headline the 2025 WeGotTickets MCA Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 12th! Book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards
Jazz Emu is an unpretentious pseudo-comedomusicologist from the UK, who writes glistening up-tempo pop for the emotionally stunted. His music has racked up millions of streams, been featured on the official Spotify ‘Fresh Finds’ playlist and played on BBCRadio 1 Breakfast with Greg James. In 2023 he won two Chortle Awards, in the social Social Media and Best Variety Act categories.
The Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century
“I think I may have just found my new favourite comedian” The Times *****
“Improbable, clever and very funny.” **** The Guardian
This year I got to meet my hero – the godfather of musical comedy and legend that is Bill Bailey! He was in Vienna on tour and took some time out to meet me before his show. This was a huge honour for me as he was one of the main sources of inspiration for me to set up an independent platform to celebrate the genre that is musical comedy back in 2008. For the last few years, Bill has been kind enough to give the final a plug on Twitter, helping us to raise the profile of our grassroots competition. Thank you Bill, you’re the best!
We are thrilled to announce that we have a date booked at the Bloomsbury Theatre for our 2025 final – the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Grand Final will be held on April 12th. Headliner is yet to be announced but the show will be hosted by our resident MCA MC, Nick Horseman. This year we have a number of options with different price categories – if you like what we do and want to help us increase our performance fees for our finalists, please consider booking one of the higher price category tickets.
Results are in for the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA Final! On a fantastic evening of musical comedy in a near-capacity crowd our 12 finalists, Best Newcomers The Queens of Cups and headliners Fjord delivered brilliant performances. Here are the results:
Audience Favourite – Anna Hale
3rd place – Jim Midge
2nd place – Anna Hale
1st place – Tom Towelling
Congratulations to all of our acts on a sensational evening!
For more pictures of the final courtesy of Edward Moore, click on this link.
Snap one of the very last tickets for £10! The Bloomsbury is fit to bursting but we have space for a few last friends! If you book via the Bloomsbury page, click through on the booking page and where it says Savings type in ‘Alumni’, the tickets will be reduced from £15 to £10. You don’t need to have been MCA alumni, don’t worry! But for a laugh you could invent yourself a stage name and say you were in the 1972 MCA but the act was quite niche! If you have already booked, please help us sell the last seats by mentioning on social media that you are coming tonight and invite friends to join you. Thanks for your support!
We are thrilled to announce our full line-up for the 2024 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Grand Final, taking place at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 13th.
Competing for the prestigious musical comedy crown are the following acts:
Tom Towelling
Anna Hale
Emily Cairns
Jim Midge
Sang Don Park
Frank Friendzione (very good friend of The Gorgeous Diva)
Amelia Bayler
Alex Camp
Baron Fortitude
Ben Pollard
Ash Weir
Lila Robirosa
There will also be a set from our 2024 Best Newcomers, The Queens of Cups and a headline performance from Fjord aka Giants (featuring 2017 MCA winner Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick). The show will be hosted by MCA resident MC Nick Horseman.
After our sold-out Semi-Final One with Abandoman (2010 WeGotTickets MCA Winner) we now have our first five finalists confirmed for the Grand Final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury! Here they are:
Anna Hale
Emily Cairns
Tom Towelling
Jim Midge
Sang Don Park
Tickets are selling fast for the Final, so early booking is strongly recommended! Check out how few stalls we have as of March 18th:
We are thrilled to announce our line-ups for the semi-finals of the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA! Which 12 acts will be going through to the final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury? In terms of headliners, Semi-Final 1 has Abandoman and Semi-Final 2 has Tony Law. We can’t wait! Check out the line-ups and book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards – see you at the Phoenix!
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