Musical Comedy Awards 2026 Heat One with Shots At The Dragon

So the eighteenth Musical Comedy Awards competition begins! The top 44 musical comedy acts have been selected from online entries and will battle it out in the heats at The Phoenix through to the Grand Final at The Bloomsbury Theatre on Friday April 10th. Come along for amazing Saturday afternoons of musical comedy entertainment and vote for your favourite acts to progress through to the next round!

Heat 1 will be headlined by the 2025 WeGotTickets MCAs winners Shots At The Dragon! A video from their award-winning set went viral on Instagram and has been seem almost 16 million times! Come and see our smash-hit winners of last year's MCA live in action!

Join us for this one show for £10, or for all 6 of them with a massive discount of £37.50 by purchasing a £22.50 Phoenix Pass at https://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards!

The acts competing in this first heat will be:

• Dru Cripps
• Sam Hickman
• Edi Johnston
• Emma Price
• Sansha
• Alex Duffy
• Now That’s What I Call Unresolved 90s Trauma
• Sophie Duncan
• Chris Timoney
• Ben Coleman
• Danny Garg

Now in its 18th 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 Flo & Joan, you'll love this show! Our official patron since 2025 is Bill Bailey MBE.

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 MCAs have 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, Rubberbandits, Mitch Benn, Jay Foreman, Pippa Evans, Tom Basden, Isy Suttie, Ginger & Black, Earl Okin, Flo & Joan, Wilson Dixon, Jo Neary, Mr B. The Gentleman Rhymer, Sarah-Louise Young, Adams & Rae and many more.

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