Steps musical Here & Now to have Scottish premier in Glasgow as part of new UK & Ireland tour

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 have its Scottish premiere at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow as part of a major UK and Ireland tour.

Here & Now, The Steps musical UK tour announced

HERE & NOW began previews at The Alexandra, Birmingham on Saturday 9 November 2024 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.

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 Phil Adams with Production Management by Setting Line.

Steps have announced that the Scottish premier of the brand-new musical will come to Glasgow King's Theatre from Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 September 2025.

Further UK & Ireland dates and venues can be found here

Casting for the UK and Ireland tour is to be announced.

The Birmingham cast of HERE & NOW. Photo credit: Pamela Raith

What is The Steps musical, Here & Now about?

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…

Who are Steps?

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 number one 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 and 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.

Steps at the launch for HERE & NOW at The Alexandra, Birmingham. Photo credit: Jonathan Hipkiss

Here & Now, The Steps musical 2025 UK tour Scottish dates

Tue 16 – Sat 20 September

King’s Theatre, Glasgow

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21 – 26 October

His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

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24 – 1 March

Edinburgh Playhouse

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Other dates and venues including Manchester, Liverpool and York via ATG Tickets: https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/here-and-now-the-steps-musical/