http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/49/scd

Meh just a re-hash of movie week.


Hope they don't have bloody back up dancers again.

I'm presuming only one routine each then and they're keeping two-dance for the semis as usual. Shame, I would have liked to have seen everyone dancing every genre (although it would mean A. Tango overload in the coming week).

Hopefully the production numbers are less ridiculously overblown than last year and they try to keep the backing dancers to a minimum.

isnt there a cha cha thon this week too?

Not again. Means we'll have a repeat of someone trying to dance to a ridiculously unsuitable song a la Helen last year.

That's the week before

Week 9 - Blackpool
Week 10 - Chachathon
Week 11 - Musicals Week
Week 12 - Semi Finals
Week 13 - Final

The end is in sight!

since they'll only be 5 routines a very short show I'm guessing like 50 mins long since its usually an hour when 6 dance, anyway I love musicals week look forward to it, but I'm saying that maybe because generally I'm a big fan of musicals

Unsuitable?

I loved her and Aljaz Paso..down to her little stumble at the end!

Yeah I hated that too They stitched her up. No pun intended.

How unnecessary.

As long as 'musicals' means 'musicals' not 'songs from Disney' or, even worse, songs from 'faded pop star rehashes greatest hits' shows. Don't get me wrong, some of those shows are great but to call them 'songs from musicals' really annoys me. Especially as it means the show doesn't look much different from any other week then.

No dancing teapots, it's all I ask.

That's my line!

So much for those of us hoping for "Music that fits the dance and traditional costumes" week then

Oh no

Totally agree.

They should be dancing to songs from musicals, not songs that were shoehorned into a musical. So no Take That, Abba, Queen etc.

I'd actually love a Rogers and Hammerstein week

Good theme week. There's such a huge number of musical songs and many of them are so obviously theatrical that they can make reallt good routines.


Tbf, Disney films ARE musicals in a sense and many have become stage musicals too. Nothing wrong with that.

Things from Mama Mia and the like though? No.

Shame Laura already attempted Moulin Rouge.

Bet you Danny gets Singin in the rain and Ed will have to be Roxie Hart in Chicago

We've had Singing in the Rain already - keep up.

Must admit I don't see the point of having the two themes when in Movie Week they use songs from musicals. Saying that this year most of the dances in Movie Week were from actual movies not musicals, and even those from musicals were musicals that were originally made as movies not on the stage. But then they ruined it by doing a Rogers&Hammerstein opening - should have been in Musicals Week!!!

One of the weeks, I thought that Claudia would make a great Dorothy from Wizard of Oz (assuming she's still in). Now I'm wondering if AJ would make a great cowardly lion with that mane

AGAIN! Boring! Can't we have a different themed week for once?....
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Actually, scratch that. Don't want another Round the World week.

Movies AND Musicals?? Two years in a row?? Really?!

Yay, I love musicals week Pity they used a lot of decent musicals songs in movie week though!


Er...you do realise they are all actually musicals, right? It's not "Original Stage Productions Week", so it's never going to be all Les Mis, Phantom or Wicked, for example.

I can see argument against songs from jukebox musicals (though again, they are still musicals), but Disney films turned into stage shows have original scores rather than a host of pop songs, so I don't see why they shouldn't be used.