{"id":168255,"date":"2025-12-04T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168255\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:45:07","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-announces-spectacular-dance-relay-performance-to-open-musicals-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168255\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing announces spectacular dance relay performance to open Musicals Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing will give our couples an extra chance to dazzle viewers &#8211; in a very special relay performance!<\/p>\n<p>Opening Saturday night&#8217;s Musicals Week special, the five-minute spectacular will see each pair take to the floor as part of a high-energy celebration of musicals, dancing to songs from shows including My Fair Lady, Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins Returns. Expect the best of London&#8217;s East End via the West End, plus a whole load of Strictly magic as our couples raise the roof for your votes.<\/p>\n<p>Backed with eight additional dancers, the couples will dance relay-style to the following songs:<\/p>\n<p>Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin &#8211; Trip A Little Light Fantastic from Mary Poppins Returns<br \/>\nBalvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon &#8211; With A Little Bit Of Luck from My Fair Lady<br \/>\nGeorge Clarke and Alexis Warr &#8211; Consider Yourself from Oliver!<br \/>\nKaren Carney and Carlos Gu &#8211; Flash Bang Wallop from Half A Sixpence<br \/>\nLewis Cope and Katya Jones &#8211; Me Ol&#8217; Bamboo from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/p>\n<p>The routine, choreographed by Matt Flint, will start and finish with all couples dancing together.<\/p>\n<p>Following the performance, Strictly will go live and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/articles\/2025\/strictly-come-dancing-2025#strictlysonganddancelist\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">each couple will dance their previously announced routine<\/a> for the judges&#8217; marks. Viewers will then vote for the couples they want to see through to next weekend&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The opening group relay number is a new addition for Strictly&#8217;s Musicals Week, and follows last Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/articles\/2025\/strictly-come-dancing-instant-dance-challenge\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instant Dance challenge<\/a> which received widespread praise from viewers.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s Musicals Week specials will also see Strictly&#8217;s Professional Dancers perform Cell Block Tango from Chicago, as well as exclusive performances from former Strictly contestant Tom Fletcher &#8211; alongside Paddington Bear himself &#8211; plus the cast of the Olivier Award-winning musical Titanique.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Comes Dancing continues on Saturday 6 December at 6.50pm and Sunday 7 December at 7.45pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>GK<\/p>\n<p>Follow for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing will give our couples an extra chance to dazzle viewers &#8211; in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-168255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}