Shaun Kitchener
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Here & Now review – Steps supermarket musical is a sweep of bangers, bops and ballads
Endlessly entertaining jukebox show frames its plot around a seaside store’s workers to purvey the band’s hits
www.theguardian.com
Back on planet earth after the opening week of Here & Now: The Steps Musical in Manchester - our 🔥 cast have another week at the Opera House and then they’re off to 28 more venues around the country!! And I have to keep refreshing this review to check it’s real! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
Kelly Clarkson x Ariana Grande ‘Santa, Can’t You Hear Me’, Costa Coffee Brentwood now 🚨 🎄
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Kelly Clarkson x Ariana Grande ‘Santa, Can’t You Hear Me’, Costa Coffee Brentwood now 🚨 🎄
The way we all spent the last week thinking that finale was a foregone conclusion… beautiful #CelebrityTraitors
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The way we all spent the last week thinking that finale was a foregone conclusion… beautiful #CelebrityTraitors
While we wait for Hilary Duff to drop the new song, would be so grateful to anyone who could vote for Here & Now at the Whatsonstage Awards - the Best New Musical Award and Best Regional Production are the big ones (for Venue I assume you can just put "tour") awards.whatsonstage.com/26th-annual-...
26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards: Nominate now – Awards.WhatsOnStage.com
26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards: Nominate now The WhatsOnStage Awards are back! You can nominate your favourites in our form below, but please make sure you read the eligibility criteria before you no...
awards.whatsonstage.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
While we wait for Hilary Duff to drop the new song, would be so grateful to anyone who could vote for Here & Now at the Whatsonstage Awards - the Best New Musical Award and Best Regional Production are the big ones (for Venue I assume you can just put "tour") awards.whatsonstage.com/26th-annual-...
It’s London week for Here & Now!! In Wimbledon for 8 shows between tonight and Sunday - let me know if you’re going!! (Do I have a mates’ rates link for the midweek shows? You’ll have to ask and find out 🤫) thestepsmusical.com
HERE & NOW | The Steps Musical
Happiness is only a heartbeat away with HERE & NOW, the hilarious and heart-warming new musical based on the songs of Steps.
thestepsmusical.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It’s London week for Here & Now!! In Wimbledon for 8 shows between tonight and Sunday - let me know if you’re going!! (Do I have a mates’ rates link for the midweek shows? You’ll have to ask and find out 🤫) thestepsmusical.com
NEW SINGLE IN 3 DAYS, LFG
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
NEW SINGLE IN 3 DAYS, LFG
Really just killing time until the Hilary Duff website countdown hits 0 tonight
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Really just killing time until the Hilary Duff website countdown hits 0 tonight
Love that when I don’t open this app for a few days, my feed is 90% thirst traps to catch up on 🙂↕️
November 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Love that when I don’t open this app for a few days, my feed is 90% thirst traps to catch up on 🙂↕️
Is the best song on West End Girl ‘Relapse’? It’s ‘Relapse’ isn’t it
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Is the best song on West End Girl ‘Relapse’? It’s ‘Relapse’ isn’t it
Reposted by Shaun Kitchener
the theatricality of West End Girl has me hoping again that we eventually get to hear the music Lily Allen made for that Bridget Jones musical
October 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
the theatricality of West End Girl has me hoping again that we eventually get to hear the music Lily Allen made for that Bridget Jones musical
love The Diplomat but it really needs a Previously On at the start of a new season, my Real Housewives-rotted brain cannot be expected to remember all of the very clever plot from a year ago 😩
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
love The Diplomat but it really needs a Previously On at the start of a new season, my Real Housewives-rotted brain cannot be expected to remember all of the very clever plot from a year ago 😩
took a break from new Lily to listen to new Demi and omg this song!!!! (wish it didn't have a fade-out though) open.spotify.com/track/2MzIuv...
Sorry To Myself
open.spotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
took a break from new Lily to listen to new Demi and omg this song!!!! (wish it didn't have a fade-out though) open.spotify.com/track/2MzIuv...
Reposted by Shaun Kitchener
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ten years since I went mildly viral for completing investigative journalism
October 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ten years since I went mildly viral for completing investigative journalism
Reposted by Shaun Kitchener
Today’s random Wikipediaing revealed that Better Best Forgotten by Steps and T-Shirt by Shontelle were written by the same person.
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Today’s random Wikipediaing revealed that Better Best Forgotten by Steps and T-Shirt by Shontelle were written by the same person.
I was not ready for Riot Women to get that dark in episode 4 🫣
October 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I was not ready for Riot Women to get that dark in episode 4 🫣
PSA: Brentwood is FULL of hot dads with prams today
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
PSA: Brentwood is FULL of hot dads with prams today
Hit my 365 streak on Duolingo and deleted the app
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hit my 365 streak on Duolingo and deleted the app
Leona Lewis was on the Kelly Clarkson Show and they didn’t do A Moment Like This together??? Waste!
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Leona Lewis was on the Kelly Clarkson Show and they didn’t do A Moment Like This together??? Waste!
Logged on to say exactly this, I am so happy!!!
i've only watched the first episode so far but Riot Women is peak Sally Wainwright and Sally Wainwright we love you!!!!
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Logged on to say exactly this, I am so happy!!!
It’s a little more generous to the new album than I would’ve been, but I still found myself nodding and mmming to lots of this. Strong recommend: open.substack.com/pub/post/p/y...
You wouldn’t be here for someone else
B.D. McClay on Taylor Swift, fame, and the allure of a showgirl
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s a little more generous to the new album than I would’ve been, but I still found myself nodding and mmming to lots of this. Strong recommend: open.substack.com/pub/post/p/y...
I loooove Blue Moon from the Zara Larsson album, and I love that it ends with her saying “let’s get reaaaally messy” so when I’m shuffling my playlist it leads not into Pretty Ugly but into, say, a polite Perrie song
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I loooove Blue Moon from the Zara Larsson album, and I love that it ends with her saying “let’s get reaaaally messy” so when I’m shuffling my playlist it leads not into Pretty Ugly but into, say, a polite Perrie song
while I haven’t given TLOAS much of a shot yet, I don’t really feel compelled to (a few tracks aside) - and THUS my Taylor ranking currently stands like so:
1️⃣ 1989
2️⃣ folklore
3️⃣ Red
4️⃣ Midnights
5️⃣ Lover
6️⃣ reputation
7️⃣ Evermore
8️⃣ Tortured etc etc
9️⃣ Speak Now
1️⃣0️⃣ Fearless
1️⃣1️⃣ Life of a Showgirl
1️⃣2️⃣ debut
1️⃣ 1989
2️⃣ folklore
3️⃣ Red
4️⃣ Midnights
5️⃣ Lover
6️⃣ reputation
7️⃣ Evermore
8️⃣ Tortured etc etc
9️⃣ Speak Now
1️⃣0️⃣ Fearless
1️⃣1️⃣ Life of a Showgirl
1️⃣2️⃣ debut
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
while I haven’t given TLOAS much of a shot yet, I don’t really feel compelled to (a few tracks aside) - and THUS my Taylor ranking currently stands like so:
1️⃣ 1989
2️⃣ folklore
3️⃣ Red
4️⃣ Midnights
5️⃣ Lover
6️⃣ reputation
7️⃣ Evermore
8️⃣ Tortured etc etc
9️⃣ Speak Now
1️⃣0️⃣ Fearless
1️⃣1️⃣ Life of a Showgirl
1️⃣2️⃣ debut
1️⃣ 1989
2️⃣ folklore
3️⃣ Red
4️⃣ Midnights
5️⃣ Lover
6️⃣ reputation
7️⃣ Evermore
8️⃣ Tortured etc etc
9️⃣ Speak Now
1️⃣0️⃣ Fearless
1️⃣1️⃣ Life of a Showgirl
1️⃣2️⃣ debut
Reposted by Shaun Kitchener
Got to see Here & Now last night and it was so worth the wait 🥹
The set, cast, story, atmosphere and (of course) the music …. incredible!
If you get a chance to see it tonight in Dublin - do it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Here&Now #TheStepsMusicwl
The set, cast, story, atmosphere and (of course) the music …. incredible!
If you get a chance to see it tonight in Dublin - do it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Here&Now #TheStepsMusicwl
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Got to see Here & Now last night and it was so worth the wait 🥹
The set, cast, story, atmosphere and (of course) the music …. incredible!
If you get a chance to see it tonight in Dublin - do it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Here&Now #TheStepsMusicwl
The set, cast, story, atmosphere and (of course) the music …. incredible!
If you get a chance to see it tonight in Dublin - do it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Here&Now #TheStepsMusicwl
I will say I like the bit that goes “the land! The sea! The sky!”
October 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I will say I like the bit that goes “the land! The sea! The sky!”