Debbie Reynolds to Star at the West End's Apollo Theatre in April 2010

DebbieReynolds, MGM legend and star of ‘Singing in the Rain', ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown' and ‘That's Entertainment!', is celebrating more than 50 years in showbusiness by bringing her award-winning one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds Alive and Fabulous to the West End for a 10-date season at the Apollo Theatre, from Wednesday 28 April to Sunday 9 May. It will be her first London theatre performances for 34 years

As a pre-West End warm-up she will tour the UK, for 15 dates, starting at Norwich Theatre Royal on Wednesday April 7 and including Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Leicester, Windsor, Southend, Northampton, Cambridge, Malvern and Leeds.

Debbie Reynolds Alive and Fabulous features actual MGM movie clips as Debbie reminisces about her glittering career, her many husbands and her incredible life of song and dance. "It's a variety show," she says. "I get to do impressions of Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Katherine Hepburn - even Jimmy Stewart!"

Nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and two Golden Globes and winner of the American Comedy Award, Debbie Reynolds is an American entertaiment legend. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton. Most of her film work was in MGM musicals, as perky, wholesome young women. She is one of the few actresses to have danced with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in the movies. In recent years she has appeared across the globe in her famous nightclub act, and was a series regular on TV's ‘Will and Grace', playing Grace's mother, Bobbi Adler. Her first appearance was in the episode entitled ‘The Unsinkable Mommy Adler', a play on the title of her Oscar-nominated 1964 movie, ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown'. In another, she entered a room humming "Good Morning", which was a song she sang in her most famous musical, ‘Singin' in the Rain'. She considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s, including Carmen Miranda's turbans, a pair of Judy Garland's ruby slippers from ‘The Wizard of Oz', John Wayne's guns and Marilyn Monroe's windswept dress from ‘The Seven Year Itch'. Nearly all the money she makes is spent toward her goal of creating a Hollywood museum. She is the mother of Star Wars' Pricess Leiah, actress and scriptwriter, Carrie?Fisher.

Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 4ES

Box office: 0844 412 4658 or www.nimaxtheatres.com

Wednesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 2.30pm and Sunday matinee at 4.00pm

Ticket prices: £49.50, £47.50, £37.50, £35.00, £25.00 (Concessions available) Premium seat are available - Booking fees apply (includes £1 restoration fee) www.debbiereynolds.co.uk