Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street

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Then in December 2012, he played the same role at the Swan Theatre in High Wycombe, again alongside Widdecombe [38] and also in December 2013 at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. The Strictly final saw Leach and Coppola beat Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin, and Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell, to the title of series champion.

Despite Leach and Coppola failing to land the routine’s risky final lift, Horwood praised the otherwise “flawless” dance. BBC One – Michael McIntyre's Big Show, Series 5, The Big Christmas Show, Craig Revel Horwood Midnight Gameshow". On arriving in Europe Craig joined the famous company at the LIDO Du PARIS as a dancer in PANACHE and then as principle singer in FORMIDABLE at the MOULIN ROUGE, finding himself a year later in the UK tour of CATS in Edinburgh and Dublin.He was also a judge on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars for seasons 16 and 17, since its 2019 'revival', along with Sharna Burgess and Tristan MacManus. Horwood found out that he is not the first dancer in his family, and that he is descended from gold prospectors who went bankrupt before becoming rich on finding a 250-ounce (7. He was associate director and choreographer of West Side Story, assisted Bob Avian with Martin Guerre [14] and was resident director of Miss Saigon. In May and June 2007, Horwood appeared as a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef, [61] reaching the final alongside Nadia Sawalha and Midge Ure. Craig has performed in concert at The Grosvenor House, Smiths, Centre Stage, Talk of London, Prue Leith's, Kids at Heart (London Palladium) Groucho Club and at the New Connaught Rooms.

Horwood is best known as a judge on the popular BBC dancing series Strictly Come Dancing, and until 13 November 2021, as he tested positive for COVID-19 and missed the following week's show, had been the only judge to have appeared in every edition since its inception.In this, he has found common ground with Queen Camilla, the Society's Royal patron (whose mother, like his, had bone disease). During the summer of 2008, he directed a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard at the Watermill Theatre, which transferred to London's West End at the Comedy Theatre. In late 2021, Horwood moved to a seven-bedroom property dating back to 1867 in the Northamptonshire village of King's Cliffe.

In January 2012, he appeared on BBC television series The Magicians; and for the week beginning 3 September that year, he appeared as a panellist on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5, followed on 22 October by an appearance on ITV's Loose Women. BBC One – Strictly Come Dancing, Series 17, Week 11, Craig Revel-Horwood leads a group dance to a musical medley from Hello, Dolly! Craig also featured in numerous television commercials in Australia, notably, he was the face of the very first Kentucky Nugget advertisements for KFC and the voice of the MACLEANS toothpaste commercials. Horwood similarly breaks up the syllables and throws the stress forward to the final syllable for 'A-ma-zing! The choreographer and musical theatre performer is the only remaining original judge on the Strictly panel, having first joined the show in 2004.Horwood is known for stringently applying rules, as for example when marking down for an 'illegal lift' in some dances if the lady's foot leaves the floor. He also learned further that his great-great-grandfather, Moses Horwood, who is revealed in the programme to have been a petty criminal from England, was convicted at the Gloucestershire assizes and transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1841. He directed Strictly Ballroom the Musical which was due to tour the UK from September 2020, but got pushed back to September 2022 due to COVID-19. Horwood directed the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester [33] and staged Once Upon a Time – The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, a live concert in Copenhagen to mark the author's bicentenary.

He directed the Welsh Première Concert Production of My Land's Shore for the Gate Theatre in Cardiff. In October 2020, Horwood released his first novel with Michael O'Mara Books, entitled Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street; the paperback edition was published in June 2021. He then starred as Miss Hannigan in the UK touring production of Annie [25] in 2015, 2019, 2023 and also the West End (in 2017) at the Piccadilly Theatre.Television credits include CHILDREN IN NEED BBC, TVAM Breakfast Show, THE 1992 ROYAL VARIETY COMMAND PERFORMANCE for the BBC at the Dominion Theatre and THE 1993 LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARDS. The series was partly filmed at London's Royal Opera House, [63] where Horwood, as eventual winner, conducted Act II of La Bohème in late 2012. But after Horwood held back tears while watching Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola take home the Glitterball Trophy during last Saturday’s final, fans had theorised that Horwood could be hanging up his score paddle for good. In his autobiography, Horwood reveals that at the age of 17, he made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs and that his relationship with an unnamed celebrity was akin to prostitution.