LONDON: Wilmington Arms

Saturday 25th February, 2012

1:15pm

Event information

The Musical Comedy Awards is back! Now in it's fourth year, the MCA has grown in stature to become an annual fixture in the comedy calendar and the best place to see the UK's finest up and coming musical comedians alongside some of the best established acts of the genre on the circuit. Over the years the MCA have provided a launch pad to superstar acts like Frisky and Mannish (2009 Finalists), Abandoman (2010 winners) and Jay Foreman (Best Newcomer 2009 and now touring with Dave Gorman) and created a thriving independent platform to celebrate the artform that is musical comedy. The competition has also played host to stars of the genre such as Mitch Benn, David O' Doherty, Bo Burnham and many more.

So after four amazing and massively enjoyable, packed out first round heats, here come the Quarter-Finals! The top 40 musical comedy acts selected from musicalcomedyawards.com have taken part in the first round heats and we are now left with the top 24, who will battle it out through to the Semi-Finals and then the Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 7th. Judges for this year's competition include Mark Boosey of British Comedy Guide, Tim Clark of Such Small Portions, Rupert Majendie of BBC Comedy, Lynne Parker of Funny Women, Kenny Cavey of Com Comedy and Jon Grant and Paul Weedon of Red 24 Management. Both the judges and the audience vote for their favourite three acts to progress through to the Semi-Finals. We welcome back WeGotTickets as the sponsors of our Best Newcomer Category and are delighted to have them as our exclusive online vendor for all MCA shows.

Here are a list of the acts performing in Quarter-Final Three on Feb 25th:

Rachel Parris
Dog Eared Collective
Anne & Alan
Hannah Brackenbury
Rob Carter
Gabriella Burnel

And here is a list of the headliners performing at this year's MCA:

QF's:

Feb 11th: 6 acts plus James Sherwood
Feb 18th: 6 acts plus Frank Sanazi
Feb 25th: 6 acts plus Horse & Louis
Mar 3rd: 6 acts plus Rob Deering

SF's:

Mar 17th: 6 acts plus Jollyboat
Mar 24th: 6 acts plus Amateur Transplants

Final:

April 7th @Bloomsbury Theatre: 5 acts plus sets from our hosts Horse & Louis, the WeGotTickets Best Newomer and a headline performance from the hottest property on the UK comedy scene: the incredible Frisky and Mannish. Tickets will shortly be available for the Final on WeGotTickets.

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