Results are in for the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA Final! On a fantastic evening of musical comedy in a near-capacity crowd our 12 finalists, Best Newcomers The Queens of Cups and headliners Fjord delivered brilliant performances. Here are the results:
Audience Favourite – Anna Hale
3rd place – Jim Midge
2nd place – Anna Hale
1st place – Tom Towelling
Congratulations to all of our acts on a sensational evening!
For more pictures of the final courtesy of Edward Moore, click on this link.
Snap one of the very last tickets for £10! The Bloomsbury is fit to bursting but we have space for a few last friends! If you book via the Bloomsbury page, click through on the booking page and where it says Savings type in ‘Alumni’, the tickets will be reduced from £15 to £10. You don’t need to have been MCA alumni, don’t worry! But for a laugh you could invent yourself a stage name and say you were in the 1972 MCA but the act was quite niche! If you have already booked, please help us sell the last seats by mentioning on social media that you are coming tonight and invite friends to join you. Thanks for your support!
We are thrilled to announce our full line-up for the 2024 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Grand Final, taking place at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 13th.
Competing for the prestigious musical comedy crown are the following acts:
Tom Towelling
Anna Hale
Emily Cairns
Jim Midge
Sang Don Park
Frank Friendzione (very good friend of The Gorgeous Diva)
Amelia Bayler
Alex Camp
Baron Fortitude
Ben Pollard
Ash Weir
Lila Robirosa
There will also be a set from our 2024 Best Newcomers, The Queens of Cups and a headline performance from Fjord aka Giants (featuring 2017 MCA winner Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick). The show will be hosted by MCA resident MC Nick Horseman.
Last tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards and https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2024/apr/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-2024-fjord. The show will be livestreamed by NextUp Comedy. Here’s a link to sign up to watch the livestream: https://nextupcomedy.com/programs/live-mca2024
After our sold-out Semi-Final One with Abandoman (2010 WeGotTickets MCA Winner) we now have our first five finalists confirmed for the Grand Final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury! Here they are:
Anna Hale
Emily Cairns
Tom Towelling
Jim Midge
Sang Don Park
Tickets are selling fast for the Final, so early booking is strongly recommended! Check out how few stalls we have as of March 18th:
Book tickets via WeGotTickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards or via the Bloomsbury at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2024/apr/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-2024-fjord
We are thrilled to announce our line-ups for the semi-finals of the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA! Which 12 acts will be going through to the final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury? In terms of headliners, Semi-Final 1 has Abandoman and Semi-Final 2 has Tony Law. We can’t wait! Check out the line-ups and book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards – see you at the Phoenix!
Our dear friend Jazz Emu has had to pull out of headlining the WeGotTickets MCA Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre as his best friend is getting married. Luckily, we have got the incredible FJORD stepping in to headline our final and see out the final with a big sexy Norwegian bang!
The best-selling electronic music duo Fjord are coming back for one night at the Bloomsbury. Norwegian Rears of the Year 2020, runners up at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest and of course the hosts of the only ever techno-house show on Radio 4: “Fjord: Breaking Britain.” They are humble and ready to play them all: the golden oldies, the silver newies and the bronze didn’t charties.
Fjord are played by Will Hislop (2017 MCA winners) and Barney Fishwick, the award-winning comedy duo.
Book tickets here: https://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards/event/595162
Dear friends,
Thank you so much to all of you who entered the MCA. There were so many brilliant entries and we could have easily taken 50 or 60 acts. If you are not through we are sorry that we couldn’t have you this time. If you would like two free tickets for one of the first round heats please contact Ed at ed@musicalcomedy.co.uk and I can arrange for two free tickets. If you are through we will be contacting you in the next few days to inform you about the competition and check for your availability. If you haven’t booked one yet, get yourself a Phoenix Pass to see all 6 shows for £20: http://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards. In no particular order, here are the 44 acts competing in the 16th WeGotTickets MCA:
Nerine Skinner
Michael McKenzie
Vinny Shui
Ben Pollard
Alex Franklin
Eddy MacKenzie
Sam Roulston
Jay Bennett
Jack McMinn
Carl Carzana
Benjamin Patterson
Jamie Mykaela
Sang Don Park
Alex Prescot
Chris Iskander
Jamie D’Souza
Eoghan Collins
Hair of the Dog
Glenn Wallis
Su Mi
Will BF
Steven Grainger
Adrian Lancini
Emily Cairns
Tom Towelling
Luke Nixon
Siomha Hennessy
Ash Weir
Amelia Bayler
Frances Keyton
Sam Hickman
Bobby Sidebottom
Rosie Williamson
Anna Hale
Alex Camp
Baron Fortitude
Ryan Simpson
The Queen of Cups
Dru Cripps
3 Wise Men
Jonathan Rippon
Ukebox
Dan Leith
Jamie Radcliffe
If I have written your name incorrectly please contact Ed on ed@musicalcomedy.co.uk and I will correct that ASAP. Can’t wait for the coming competition!
Very best wishes and MCA love from Ed, Tamara, Dave, Nick and Charlie
On October 1st we open doors for entries to the 2024 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards! It will be our 16th year and we can’t wait to see the entries for the coming competition! To find out how to enter visit the following page: https://musicalcomedyawards.com/2024-awards/
We are thrilled to announce that MCA alumni Jazz Emu will be our headliner for next year’s final at the Bloomsbury. We have just 15 Earlybird tickets available at £10. Snap them up here: www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards
Who will win the 2024 WeGotTickets MCAs? Join us for a riotous celebration of the UK’s best up and coming musical comedians to find out!
Now in its 16th year, the MCA have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman and Frisky and Mannish. If you enjoy acts that combine comedy with music such as Bill Bailey, Tim Minchin and Flight of the Conchords, you will love this show!
The final of the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA will see twelve finalists who have progressed through heats at the Phoenix in London, battle it out at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 13th, to win the musical comedy crown of this prestigious competition. A sell-out event every year since 2009.
Headlined by MCA alumni (2017 Best Newcomer and 2018 Runner-Up), JAZZ EMU!
Jazz Emu is an unpretentious pseudo-comedomusicologist from the UK, who writes glistening up-tempo pop for the emotionally stunted. His music has racked up millions of streams, been featured on the officialSpotify ‘Fresh Finds’ playlist and played on BBCRadio 1 Breakfast with Greg James.
His live show ‘You Shouldn’t Have’ received multiple 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, and in 2023 he won two Chortle Awards, in the social Social Media and Best Variety Act categories.
“I think I may have just found my new favourite comedian” The Times *****
“This is a work of genius” ***** The Telegraph
“A very funny man.” Greg James, BBC Radio 1
On April 29th at the Phoenix we will be hosting a special MCA showcase, featuring extended 15 minute sets from Katie Norris, best newcomer JoJo Maberly and 3rd place Annabel Marlow. They will be joined by headliner and MCA alumni Huge Davies.
The show will be hosted by our resident MCA MC, the brilliant Nick Horseman. Join us for an afternoon of musical comedy fun and a victory lap for three of the finest acts from our 2023 competition. Book tickets below!
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