Steve Steinman - The Man Behind the
Shows
Steve Steinman, from Oldham, is one
of the most successful touring show producer and director, and is about to make
his milestone of twenty consecutive years filling theatres and concert halls
all over the UK.
After his appearance in 1993
on Stars In Their Eyes performing
as Meat Loaf, Steve Steinman has worked hard to extend that ‘one night’ into a
full blown career. Steve has to be the most successful contestant the programme
has ever seen. He has built a fan base most rock stars would be proud of.
Steve’s fans have even gone to the extreme of having tattoos portraying him and
his band!
As well as being a busy singer and
actor, Steve is also the driving force behind his own production company Steve Steinman Productions, through which he has worked with some of the world’s
best-known rock stars.
Steve Steinman’s office and home can
now be found in Nottingham but born in Manchester in 1965, Steve started out on
a very different career path. A love of good food led him to train and begin
work as a chef in his home city. Though enjoying his job, Steve became
frustrated with being unable to create the food he wanted to, and decided to
open and run his own restaurant. It was a big gamble at a young age, but one that
paid off as Steve took over and re-launched his family owned hotel and
restaurant.
Never actually intending to leave
the restaurant business behind, Steve applied for Stars In Their Eyes,
after being urged to do so by anyone who heard him sing. After an amazing
response from the show, Steve decided he had achieved so much within the
restaurant business, that he would give performing a chance. Over twenty years
on, Steve no longer owns a restaurant, but still loves his time in the kitchen
whenever he gets the chance (which isn’t very often when you spend half your
life on a tour bus!)
In 2000 Steve produced his first
theatre show after many years performing all over the world including South
Africa and Europe as a tribute to Meat Loaf. Always looking to go that next
step Steve wrote and produced The Meat Loaf Story. It was so successful it reached
new heights when Steve and the show appeared for one night only at the London
Palladium to rave reviews.
In 2004 Steve wrote and produced the
brand new original show Vampires
Rock where he took the lead role as
Baron Von Rockula.
The show – along with Steve’s
popularity – continues to grow, and in 2005 Steve took a massive gamble when
Vampires Rock embarked on an arena tour, performing at Sheffield Hallam Arena,
Nottingham Ice Arena and Manchester Evening News Arena. Remarkably with all the
odds stacked against him he made it a success and re-toured the arenas again
the following year.
The 2007 tour saw US rock legend Eddie Ojeda of Twisted Sister guest star on lead guitar. In 2008 and
2009 the legendary singer and actress Toyah Willcox
joined the show in a brand-new role Steve created for her: The Vampire Queen.
As such, Toyah performed with Steve in over 200 shows.
The biggest project for 2009 saw
Steve in the driving seat once again: Bat the Symphony was
a dream Steve had had for a long time. Combining a 40-piece orchestra with
Steve’s very own rock band to perform all of Meat Loaf’s biggest hits, this was
always going to be a major project with a big risk. However the tour proved a
massive success selling out over 100 venues and touring for two seasons
2009/10.
In 2010 Steve took Vampires Rock
back on the road with a massive 100 date sell out tour taking the show well
into 2011. Vampires Rock has gone from strength to strength performing to over
50,000 fans every year. Steve has appeared on national TV many times and
recently his story appeared in the Sunday Times’
business section ‘How I Made It - my first million’.
In 2014 the original Vampires Rock
drew to a close with a tour called The Final Countdown.
Steve went on to write a sequel to the show - Ghost Train -
which began touring in 2015. Ghost Train continued to exceed expectations with
venues needing to add more dates due to sell-out shows.
New for 2017 Steve wrote and
launched a production called Iconic: the Show featuring some of the best
soundtracks from the coolest movies ever. This show ran alongside continued
Vampires Rock Ghost Train tours and Meat Loaf Story tours.
On the last Vampires Rock tour Steve
worked with X-factor favourite and winner Sam Bailey, who got her teeth into the real rocker
of a show as she stepped into the shows of Toyah Willcox to revive the role of
the Vampires Queen.
Coming up in Summer and Autumn 2019
the Meat Loaf Story continues in a new guise entitled Anything For Love. This tour stars Steve along with special guest star Lorraine Crosby who was the female lead vocalist on Meat Loaf’s Grammy
Award winning song and No 1 hit the world over ‘I Would Do Anything For Love
(But I Won’t Do That)’.
Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock will be coming to the Opera
House, Manchester on Saturday 6th April 2019. Tickets on sale now.
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