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Book a Phoenix Pass for all 6 of the remaining 2025 WeGotTickets MCA Phoenix shows! Instead of paying £60 for all the shows, save
£37.50 with a Phoenix Pass!

Now in its 17th year, the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards is an annual competition to support, promote, expose and celebrate the best emerging musical comedians in the UK. If you are a fan of musical comedy acts such as Tim Minchin, Flight of the Conchords and Bill Bailey, you'll love this show!

Over the years, the MCAs have provided a launch pad to now established and emerging stars of the genre such as Frisky and Mannish (2009 Finalists), Abandoman (2010 winners), Rachel Parris (Runner Up 2012 and star of the Mash Report), Mae Martin, Jazz Emu and many more. The MCA has created a thriving independent platform to celebrate the artform that is musical comedy. Other acts that have featured as headliners in our shows include DAVID O' DOHERTY, BO BURNHAM, JAYDE ADAMS, RUBBERBANDITS, MITCH BENN, JAY FOREMAN, PIPPA EVANS, TOM BASDEN, ISY SUTTIE, GINGER & BLACK, EARL OKIN, WILSON DIXON, JO NEARY, MR B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER, SARAH-LOUISE YOUNG, ADAMS & REA and many more.

So the seventeenth MCA begins! The top 40 musical comedy acts will be selected from online entries and will then battle it out in the heats at the Phoenix through to the Final at the Bloomsbury on April 12th. Come along for amazing Saturday afternoons of musical comedy entertainment and vote for your favourite acts to progress through to the next round!

Shows are from 3-5.30pm and here are our dates and headliners:

Heat 1 - Jan 11th with 2024 winner Tom Towelling
Heat 2 - Jan 25th with 2023 winner Katie Norris
Heat 3 - Feb 8th with 2013 finalist Tracey Collins as Elvis Lesley
Heat 4 - Feb 22nd with 2021 winner Christy Coysh
Semi-Final 1 - March 8th with Rob Deering
Semi-Final 2 - March 15th with 2010 winner Abandoman