Third Musical Comedy Awards Hits The Right Note With WeGotTickets

• WeGotTickets Sponsor Best Newcomer Category At 2011Musical Comedy Awards
• MCA 2011 launch Party At The Wilmington Arms on Oct 19^th
• Sarah-Louise Young, 2010  Three Weeks Editors' Award Winner to Headline

WeGotTickets have partnered with Avin a Larf to sponsor this year's Best Newcomer category at the third Musical Comedy Awards (MCA), the annual competition to discover, support and promote the best emerging talent in the UK's growing musical comedy community.With some of the biggest names in comedy, acts such as Bill Bailey and Tim Minchin, popularising musical comedy, the Musical Comedy Awards have grown in stature to become a key date in the comedy calendar and a launch pad for many careers.The exclusive ticket agency for all of last year's sold out heats, WeGotTickets will again be the sole ticket vendor for all seven heats of the 2011 competition, which take place from January through to March 2011 at the Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell.The Launch of the 2011 MCA takes place at the Wilmington Arms on Tuesday October 19^th and features a headline performance from Sarah-Louise Young, winner of both the Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe and the Three Weeks Editors' Award at this year's Fringe.There will also be a special guest performance from DJ Danny (as seen on BBC3's 'Mischief', Newsnight's 'Party Anthems', 6Music and Radio 4's 'The Museum of Everything' and 'Danny Robins' Music Therapy) plus sets from the 2010 Best Newcomer Sooz Kempner, Finalists Jay Foreman and Rob Carter, Semi-Finalist Tom McDonnell and 2011 entrant, Richard Fox. The show will be hosted by last year's runners up, Horse and Louis.Said Ed Chappel, Avin a Larf's founder, "WeGotTickets is recognised by artists, promoters and audiences, particularly those in the independent comedy and music communities, as the fairest and simplest method for buying or selling tickets for events. As an independent promoter we always use WeGotTickets for our live events and we're delighted to have them sponsor the Best Newcomer category for the coming Musical Comedy Awards." Said Edd Lewington, WeGotTickets, "We're delighted to be working with Avin a Larf again on the 2011 Musical Comedy Awards and to sponsor this year's Best Newcomer Category. The MCAs provide an amazing platform for all those involved and we look forward to helping raise the profile of the best new acts out there." Notes for EditorsMusical Comedy Awards 2011 Launch PartyThe Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebery Avenue London EC1R 4RLTuesday October 19^thDoors open at 7.30pm, Comedy starts at 8pm.Tickets £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94694The first heats of the 2011 Musical Comedy Awards will take place at the Wilmington Arms in January 2011.Enter the MCA 2011How does the competition work? Artists upload videos of their own original musical comedy material to the website www.musicalcomedy.co.uk and add their video to the section titled 'Awards'. After December 12th, the best 40 acts are then selected by a number of industry judges. This year on the panel we have the editor of the British Comedy Guide, the head of Amused Moose, experts from Get Comedy and executives from Red 24 Management.The selected acts enter a series of live knockout heats at the Wilmington Arms in Clerkenwell and the audience and judges vote for their favourite five artists from each heat to progress to the next stage until the final five reach the Grand Final at the New Players Theatre in Embankment.Each of the heats has an established guest headliner. The 2010 competition featured top circuit acts such as Pippa Evans (IF.Comedy Best Newcomer Nominee 2008), Tom Basden (IF.Comedy Best Newcomer 2007), Ginger and Black, Earl Okin, Gavin Osborn, Jo Neary, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer and Isy Suttie (Peep Show).The winner of the MCA receives a cash prize of £500, the WeGotTickets Best Newcomer receives £200 and all acts that take part in the competition may be invited to take part in Edinburgh showcases of the MCA, a tour of UK universities next Autumn and potentially shows at the legendary Kookaburra Club in Berlin, where MCA founder Ed Chappel is now based.For more information on the MCA join the mailing list at www.musicalcomedy.co.ukAbout the Musical Comedy AwardsNow approaching its third year, the MCA has rapidly become one of the highlights of the comedy calendar year and the best opportunity to witness the stars of today and tomorrow in the musical comedy world. With the resurgence of the genre through superstar acts such as Flight of the Conchords, Bill Bailey, David O'Doherty and Tim Minchin, musical comedy is very much back in the limelight. The MCA is a celebration of the UK's finest emerging and established comedians, providing audiences with the chance to sample the incredible diversity and talent that this genre of comedy has to offer.After a sell-out final for the inaugural MCA in 2009 at the London's Pleasance, the 2010 MCA grew from strength to strength with 8 sell out shows between January and March this year. The Grand Final was both the Time Out Critics' Choice and the Guardian Pick of the Week, selling out well in advance. The winners of the competition, Abandoman, who also won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Award are surely destined for the big time. Who will storm the 2011 MCA?About WeGotTicketsWeGotTickets is the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters. Working with over 4000 venues and promoters to sell over 500,000 tickets a year, the company's 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the ticketing industry.Over the years, WeGotTickets has pioneered several ticketing concepts, such as paperless ticketing and the easy reallocation of tickets that are now accepted practice throughout the industry. The company has continued to develop their site based on feedback from their ticket buying customers, promoters and venues, to make it uniquely user-friendly to both ticket buyers and sellers.In 2009 WeGotTickets launched a new website WeGotComedy.com, the UK's first ticket portal dedicated exclusively to comedy events, and today comedy events account for nearly a quarter of all WGT ticket sales.To hear more about the hundreds of comedy, music and other live events being sold through WeGotTickets, join their mailing list at http://www.wegottickets.com/#_mailinglist