Biggest WhatsOnStage TikToks of 2025 – so far

As we’re at the halfway point of the year, we thought it fitting to look back at our highest-performing TikTok videos of 2025 so far!

It’s been a bumper six months of theatre news, and we’ve been up and down the country covering season announcements, premieres, cast changes, and more, generating a whole load of video content for your enjoyment!

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Paddington trailer – 354.7K

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Paddington The Musical has released a West End trailer! The show opens at the Savoy Theatre this autumn. #WestEnd #Paddington #TomFletcher

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We promise to take care of this bear! The Tom Fletcher and Jessica Swale-penned Paddington musical will receive its world premiere in London, and a teaser of the suitcase at the station is enough to keep excitement high. Plus, there’s a little snippet of what to expect from the tunes.

The Great Gatsby cast reveal – 447.2K

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The full company for The Great Gatsby has now been revealed! See who’s joining Jamie Muscato and Frances Mayli McCann in the West End! #TheGreatGatsby #Gatsby #London #WestEnd #Musical #Theatre

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The all-star cast of The Great Gatsby is as lavish as the show itself. Roaring into the London Coliseum direct from Broadway, and starring Jamie Muscato, Frances Mayli McCann, Corbin Bleu, Amber Davies, Jon Robyns, Rachel Tucker, John Owen-Jones, Joel Montague, and many more, we’ve gone gaga for Gatsby. On our page, we had the grand reveal of the cast, totting up the most views, as well as party tricks, and performances, with “Roaring On” amassing 431.1K and counting.

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Corbin Bleu and the cast of The Great Gatsby performing “Roaring On”! #CorbinBleu #WestEnd #TheGreatGatsby

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WOS Awards red carpet with Hannah Lowther – 516.5K

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The West End are raising their YA YA YA’s at the #WOSAwards @Jodie Langel

♬ original sound – Hannah Lowther

We were thrilled to have stage and social media star Hannah Lowther hosting our red carpet celebrations at the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards. Raise your ya-ya-yas and check out her highlights!

Sing Street in rehearsals – 557K

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The hit film heads to the stage! Sing Street arrives in London next month and we got a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsals #SingStreet #Musical #Theatre #London

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This video is only going “Up” in views! We got a look at the new musical Sing Street in rehearsals and accidentally created a space in the comments for all fans of the movie to share their excitement. Watch it and join in.

Mega-Six news – 567.2K

TikTok lost its head earlier this year with all of the Six news – from a filmed performance being released in cinemas, a new cast, and the Japanese Queens heading to London – herstory is truly being made. We can’t embed photo TikToks, so we will leave you with a video from the film premiere!

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SIX ARRIVES IN CINEMAS THIS WEEK! The original West End cast reunited at the film’s premiere in London #Six #SixMusical #Musicals @SIX 👑 @Aimie Atkinson @Grace Mouat

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The Hunger Games workshop – 649.4K

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THE HUNGER GAMES STAGE ADAPTATION IS ON THE WAY!   See inside the workshop – with flying, stunts, and more! – before the show arrives in London   #HungerGames #TheHungerGames #Theatre #London #Katniss

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The odds were in our favour with the announcement of a Hunger Games stage adaptation, taking place this autumn in a custom-built theatre! With the latest novel of Suzanne Collins’ collection hitting shelves earlier this year, and a certain Lucy Gray Baird making her West End debut, there’s certainly an appetite for it.

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Complete casting has been revealed for Evita at the London Palladium – starring Rachel Zegler and directed by Jamie Lloyd! Check out WhatsOnStage for more details. #RachelZegler #JamieLloyd #Musical #Theatre #Evita #WestEnd #London

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Hadestown original cast to be recorded – 818K

We raise our cups to this! News of the original Broadway cast reuniting in the West End for a limited engagement could only be topped with confirmation that a performance was being filmed for future broadcast. Updates on that? We could say we’re waiting, very patiently, hoping that it’s coming.

Oliver! curtain call – 1.1M

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Consider yourself at home… in the West End! Oliver! is officially open in London! #Oliver #OliverOnStage #OliverTwist #Nancy #WestEnd #ShanayHolmes #London #Musical

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Consider yourself a TikTok hit! The WhatsOnStage Award-winning production of Oliver! arrived in the West End earlier this year, and the curtain call received a standing ovation.

New Wicked cast – 1.3M

Defying gravity and the TikTok algorithm! When Emma Kingston and Zizi Strallen were revealed as London’s newest witches, there was a tornado of excitement. We uploaded photos of the duo, which sadly, we cannot embed, but you can watch them in action below:

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Elphaba and Glinda bubbled into Mighty Hoopla this weekend for a Wicked performance! #Wicked #MightyHoopla #EmmaKingston #ZiziStrallen #Elphaba #WickedMovie

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“Zero to Hero” from Hercules – 10.8M views

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FIRST LISTEN TO “ZERO TO HERO” FROM THE WEST END’S MUSES! Bless our souls! The Hercules musical opens in London later this year #Hercules #Disney #WestEnd #ZeroToHero #Muses

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Pulling a Herculean feat and topping our list, it’s the unbeatable Hercules! Ever since the news got out that the Disney musical was West End-bound, our followers have really “Go(ne) The Distance) to show it a lot of love. Top of the pops are the Muses with their rendition of “Zero to Hero,” followed by the cast’s live performance at Big Night of Musicals (934K) and the grand cast reveal (435.1K).