Steps at the launch for HERE & NOW at The Alexandra in Birmingham. (Photo: Jonathan Hipkiss)

No Tragedy as Steps musical announces Aberdeen stop in 2025

UK pop band Steps have announced that their official musical Here & Now will visitAberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre from Tuesday, ...

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UK pop band Steps have announced that their official musical Here & Now will visit
Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre from Tuesday, October 21 to Saturday, October 25 2025 as
part of a major UK tour.


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

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Aberdeen Performing Arts Director of Programming and Creative Projects, Ben Torrie,
said: “If you like fun, fast-paced and fabulous musicals then Here & Now is the ideal night out.
The music of Steps lends itself perfectly to musical theatre – it would be a tragedy to miss it!”


Steps (Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins’, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa ScottLee) 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 #1 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, 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, and the band have since continued to release new music.


Tickets are on sale to Friends of Aberdeen Performing Arts on Thursday, November 21 and
on general sale on Tuesday, November 26, and are available from www.aberdeenperformingarts.com, phone (01224) 641122 or visit the box office at the Music Hall or His Majesty’s Theatre.

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