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A-F Adelphi Theatre
Strand, WC2E 7NA
Tube Charing Cross
Telephone 0870 895 5598 JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Lyrics by Tim Rice | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 6 Jul 07 | | Opens | 17 Jul 07 | | Booking to | 10 Jan 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon, Wed- Sat 7.30pm, Tues at 7pm; Matinees Wed & Sat at 3pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Winner of the BBC's 'Any Dream Will Do' Lee Mead (Joseph - NOTE:LEE MEAD WILL BE ON HOLIDAY WEEKS COMMENCING 5 May 2008, 28 July, 3 Nov ).
Any Dream Will Do second runner-up Lewis Bradley will play 'Joseph' while Lee Mead is on Holiday on week commencing 5 May.
Show also features Jenna Lee-James (Narrator, except Weds Matinees), Dean Collinson (Pharaoh), Stephen Tate (Jacob/Potiphar/Guru). | | Director | Steven Pimlott (associate director Nichola Treherne) | | Design | Mark Thompson | | Lighting | Anthony Van Laast | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Really Useful Company | | Synopsis | The musical retells the biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colours. Themany famoussongs include 'Any Dream Will Do', 'Close Every Door To Me', and 'One More Angel min Heaven'. | | B/O Price | £ 15 - £ 49.50 | | Length | | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | This is a new staging of the 1990's London Palladium production, which was directed by Steven Pimlott, and will, once again, be designed by Mark Thompson and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast. |
Aldwych Theatre
Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DF
Tube Holborn / Covent Garden
Telephone 0844 847 2330 DIRTY DANCING - The Classic Story on Stage
by Eleanor Bergstein | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 29 Sep 06 | | Opens | 24 Oct 06 | | Booking to | 17 Oct 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat at 7.30pm, Mats Fri & Sat at 3pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | | | Director | James Powell | | Design | Stephen Brimson-Lewis | | Lighting | Tim Mitchell | | Choreography | Kate Champion | | Costume | Jennifer Irwin | | Sound | Bobby Aitken | | Producer | | | Synopsis | The film Dirty Dancing, which starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, was released in 1987. All the hits from the film's soundtrack, which includes Do You Love Me?, She's Like The Wind and Time Of My Life, are featured in the stage show along with some new numbers. The story has been re-written for the stage, but includes all of the movies memorable moments and some added scenes as well. The Houseman's take their vacation at a popular holiday camp, where youngest daughter 'Baby' meets dance teacher from the wrong side of the tracks, Johnny. There begins a classic love story through which we see that love can conquer all barriers and we learn that 'nobody puts Baby in the corner'! | | B/O Price | £27.50 - £63 | | Length | 2hrs 30mins | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | Musical Supervisor: Conrad Helfrich
***'The show features a limited amount of mild swearing and themes of a sexual nature. |
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
Tube Angel
Telephone 020 7359 4404 LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
by Stephen Adly Guirgis | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 28 Mar 08 | | Opens | 3 Apr 08 | | Booking to | 10 May 08 | | Closes | 10 May 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat at 7.30pm, Sat mats at 3.00pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Douglas Henshall (Satan), Gawn Grainger (Caiaphas The Elder/Saint Matthew), Susan Lynch (Fabiana Aziza Cunningham), Joseph Mawle (Judas Iscariot), Shane Attwooll (Butch Honeywell), Amanda Boxer (Henrietta Iscariot), Ron Cephas Jones (Pontius Pilate/Uncle Pino), Josh Cohen (Sigmund Freud/Saint Thomas), Dona Croll (Gloria/Mother Theresa), Edward Hogg (Jesus of Nazareth), Corey Johnson (Judge/Soldier), Mark Lockyer (Yusef El-Fayoumy), John MacMillan (Bailiff/Simon the Zealot), Poppy Miller (Loretta/Mary Magdalene/Sister Glenna) and Jessika Williams (Saint Monica). | | Director | Rupert Goold | | Design | Anthony Ward | | Lighting | Howard Harrison | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Adam Cork | | Producer | Almeida Theatre and Headlong co-production | | Synopsis | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a time-bending, serio-comic drama in an imagined world between Heaven and Hell that re-examines the plight and fate of The New Testament's most infamous sinner. Throughout the play figures ranging from Pontius Pilate to Sigmund Freud are called to testify in a trial of 'God and the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth versus Judas Iscariot.' Guirgis uses the violent, chaotic energy of modern America, and particularly of New York, to explore timeless questions of free will and responsibility, of faith and fate. | | B/O Price | £6 - £ 29.50 | | Length | 3hrs | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
Tube Angel
Telephone 020 7359 4404 ROSMERSHOLM
by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Mike Poulton | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 15 May 08 | | Opens | 22 May 08 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 08 | | Closes | 5 Jul 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat at 7.30pm, Sat mats at 3.00pm (22 May at 7pm) (Plus mid week matinees 8 June and 2 July at 2.30pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Paul Hilton (Rosmer), Helen McCrory (Rebecca West), Malcolm Sinclair (Kroll), Paul Moriarty (Ulrik Brendel), Veronica Quilligan (Mrs Helseth), Peter Sullivan (Peter Mortensgaard) | | Director | Anthony Page | | Design | Hildegard Bechtler | | Lighting | Peter Mumford | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Almeida Theatre | | Synopsis | For generations the house of Rosmer has been a stronghold of religious and political conservatism, but great changes are taking place at Rosmersholm. The tragic suicide of his wife and the influence of the mysterious Rebecca West bring former clergyman Rosmer's new libertarian beliefs into the light. But the past won't easily release him. Written in 1886, Ibsen's play charts the struggle between freedom and the cruelty of conscience in an age of political division. Isolated by their beliefs and afraid of the force of their love Rosmer and Rebecca's journey races them to an astonishing conclusion. | | B/O Price | £6 - £ 29.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
Tube Angel
Telephone 020 7359 4404 AN OCEAN OF RAIN
Yannis Kyriakides (music) and Daniel Danis (text), Translation is by Linda Gaboriau | Location | West End | | Genre | Opera | | Previews from | 10 Jul 08 | | Opens | 10 Jul 08 | | Booking to | 13 Jul 08 | | Closes | 13 Jul 08 | | Time | 10 July (7.30pm), 11 July (7.30pm), 13 July (7pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Anna Dennis, Camille Hesketh, Katalin K rolyi, Hyacinth Nicholls | | Director | Cathie Boyd | | Design | John Otto | | Lighting | Zerlina Hughes | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Aldeburgh Almeida Opera, Theatre Cryptic and Ensemble MAE co-production | | Synopsis | Three cosmopolitan women make their annual escape to Haiti to help in an orphanage. Their jaded bodies and souls begin to be re-awakened by the beaches and the challenges of helping the orphans. A girl on the run from the murder of a sex tourist returns to the orphanage to shatter the comfort of the women's' lives and the sea unexpectedly reveals its hidden strength. | | B/O Price | £6 - £27.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
Tube Angel
Telephone 020 7359 4404 NOCTURNE
by Adam Rapp | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 16 Jul 08 | | Opens | 16 Jul 08 | | Booking to | 26 Jul 08 | | Closes | 26 Jul 08 | | Time | 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 July at 7.30pm / and 19 and 26 July at 3pm. | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | Matt Wilde | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Almeida Theatre | | Synopsis | One man play! Exploration of the accidental killing of a little girl by her teenage brother. Across the decade and a half that follows the teenager becomes a man, and tries to cope with the ramifications of his guilt and the estrangement of his surviving family, while making a desperate search for redemption. | | B/O Price | £6 - £20 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Ambassadors Theatre
West Street , London, WC2H 9N
Tube Leicester Square
Telephone 08448 112 334 STOMP
created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas | Location | West End | | Genre | Entertainment / Musical | | Previews from | 27 Sep 07 | | Opens | 4 Oct 07 | | Booking to | 12 Oct 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon, Thu - Sat 8pm, Mats Thur & Sat 3pm, Sun 2.00pm & 5.30pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | STOMP finds beauty and music in the mundane - from boots and bins to zippo lighters and plumber's plungers - everything including the kitchen sink becomes part of this production as a cast of 8 performers make instruments out of brooms and turn hand-clapping into conversation. With energy and toe-tapping exuberance, STOMP takes the clutter and junk of everyday life and transforms it into a theatrical event. | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 1hr 45min (No Interval) | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | At Vaudeville Theatre 24 Sep 2002 - 23 Sep 2007; Transferred to Ambassadors 27 Sep 2007 |
Apollo Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue London, W1V 7HD
Tube Piccadilly Circus
Telephone 0870 8300 200 VORTEX, THE
by Noel Coward | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 20 Feb 08 | | Opens | 26 Feb 08 | | Booking to | 7 Jun 08 | | Closes | 7 Jun 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 8pm, Mats Wed 3pm & Sat 4pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Felicity Kendal, Dan Stevens, Phoebe Nicholls, Annette Badland, Vivien Keene, Daniel Pirrie, Paul Ridley, Timothy Speyer, Cressida Trew, Barry Stanton | | Director | Peter Hall | | Design | Alison Chitty | | Lighting | Paul Pyant | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Gregory Clarke | | Producer | Bill Kenwright Limited | | Synopsis | Amidst a backdrop of glittering decadence The Vortex centres on the tempestuous relationship of Florence and her hedonistic son Nicky. With the Mother's desire for younger men driven by her refusal to grow old, and the Son's obsession with competing for her love, Florence Lancaster insatiable needs are fundamentally the crux of the 'Vortex of beastliness' that drives Nicky to his demons. | | B/O Price | £15 - £45 | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Apollo Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue London, W1V 7HD
Tube Piccadilly Circus
Telephone 0844 412 4658 DIVAS
| Location | West End | | Genre | Dance ' Musical ' | | Previews from | 19 Jun 08 | | Opens | 25 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 08 | | Closes | 5 Jul 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat 3pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | | | Director | Peter Schaufuss | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | Peter Schaufuss | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | A dance spectacular, 'Divas', pays homage to three of the world's greatest icons - Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland in three acts. The story focuses on the art and individuality of the three singers and is performed to the original songs. Featuring original recordings from 'La Vie En Rose' to 'Falling in Love Again' and 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'. | | B/O Price | £16 - £41 | | Length | 2hrs 10mins (Including two intervals ) | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Apollo Victoria Theatre
Wilton Rd, London, SW1
Tube Victoria
Telephone 0870 4000 751 WICKED
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 7 Sep 06 | | Opens | 27 Sep 06 | | Booking to | 4 Apr 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (Extra performance: 29 May & 30 Oct 2008 at 2.30pm ) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets & Meal Deal | | Performers | CAST TO 7 JUNE 2008: Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Harriet Thorpe (Madame Morrible), Nigel Planer (The Wizard), Dianne Pilkington (Glinda), Katie Rowley Jones (Nessarose) , James Gillan (Boq), Andy Mace (Doctor Dillamond). (Cassidy Janson will be the Elphaba Standby and Sarah Earnshaw will be the Glinda Standby.)
CAST FROM 9 JUNE 2008: Alexia Khadime (Elphaba, from 1 Dec 2008 Kerry Ellis returns) , Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero), Harriet Thorpe (Madame Morrible), Desmond Barrit (The Wizard), Dianne Pilkington (Glinda), Caroline Keiff (Nessarose) , Jeremy Legat (Boq), Andy Mace (Doctor Dillamond). (Ashleigh Gray will be the Elphaba Standby and Sarah Earnshaw will be the Glinda Standby.) | | Director | Joe Mantello | | Design | Eugene Lee | | Lighting | Kenneth Posner | | Choreography | | | Costume | Susan Hilferty | | Sound | Tony Meola | | Producer | Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. | | Synopsis | Two girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, feisty and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very, very popular. WICKED is the story of these two unlikely friends and how they end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. | | B/O Price | £ 15 - £ 60 | | Length | 2hrs 50mins | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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| Other Info | Orchestrations by William David Brohn, musical staging by Wayne Cilento |
Arts Theatre
Great Newport Street London, WC2H 7JB
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0844 847 1608 TELL ME...LIES
by Carole-Anne Le Foll | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 6 May 08 | | Opens | 6 May 08 | | Booking to | 17 May 08 | | Closes | 17 May 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat at 9.30pm, Matinees Wed 14 May at 3pm (6 May at 7.30pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Sally Day (Abi), Eleanor Samson (Emma), Carole Weyers (Fleur), Jonathan Taylor (Derek), Sean Carrigan (Matt ) | | Director | Catherine Paskell | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Sudden Productions | | Synopsis | Combines physical theatre, drama and surrealism. The play introduces us to Abi, a young woman whose mother has just died. Abi is totally our of control., yet despite her increasingly bizarre and antisocial behaviour her sister refuses to let her move out and on - the question is why? | | B/O Price | £12.50 - £15 | | Length | 1hr 20min | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Arts Theatre
Great Newport Street London, WC2H 7JB
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0844 847 1608 ZAMEEN
by Kali Theatre | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 May 08 | | Opens | 7 May 08 | | Booking to | 17 May 08 | | Closes | 17 May 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat at 7.15pm, Thurs & Sat mat at 3pm (7 May at 7pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Kali Theatre | | Synopsis | Shows the devastating effect of globalization on a Punjabi farmer, his land and family. This topical work explores the human reality of a major global issue that will ultimately affect us all. | | B/O Price | £15 - £20 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Arts Theatre
Great Newport Street London, WC2H 7JB
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0844 847 1608 HAUNTED
by Jon Claydon & Tim Lawler | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 21 May 08 | | Opens | 23 May 08 | | Booking to | 14 Jun 08 | | Closes | 14 Jun 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat at 7.30pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Jessie Wallace, Gary McDonald, Hamish Clark, Caroline Catz , Sue Devaney | | Director | Paul Jepson | | Design | Tim Shortall | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Only Hope Productions | | Synopsis | Five guests attend a dinner party at a chi-chi loft apartment in Southwark, south London. As the evening progresses, things begin to unravel and a sixth character becomes apparent - the house itself. Is it haunted? And is the lift in the living room a portal to evil spirits? | | B/O Price | Mon - Thu £20 / Fri & Sat £25 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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Arts Theatre
Great Newport Street London, WC2H 7JB
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0844 847 1608 ALL BOB'S WOMEN
by Romy Padovano, in a new adaptation by Michael W Kelly | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 18 Jun 08 | | Opens | 24 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 23 Aug 08 | | Closes | 23 Aug 08 | | Time | 18 to 24 June at 7.30pm (No perf Mon 23 June), Then Tues - Sat at 9.30pm, plus matinees Sat at 3pm, Sundays at 4pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Nicole Faraday, Amy Booth-Steel, Sharon Cherry Ballard, Danielle Corlass, Sam Oatley, Tanya Robb, Lucy Thatcher | | Director | Russell Labey | | Design | Jason Denvir | | Lighting | Mike Robertson | | Choreography | Sadie Flower | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Society Productions Ltd and Chokolate Ltd & PayperMoon (Milan) | | Synopsis | A musical comedy: Casasanova Bob is a man on a mission: to seduce five very different women and manage to keep them apart so they don't become aware of all his other conquests. And this Lothario is so desperate to score with them all and keep their existence a secret from the others that he resorts to extreme measures to learn their secret desires. | | B/O Price | £10 - £29 (Tues all seats £20) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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| Other Info | Musical Arranger & Musical Director Sacha Puttnam |
Barbican Pit
Barbican Centre , Silk Street , London, EC2Y 8DS
Tube Barbican
Telephone 0845 120 7550 RUNNING THE SILK ROAD
by Paul Sirett, conceived by David Tse Ka-shing | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 24 Jun 08 | | Opens | 25 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 28 Jun 08 | | Closes | 28 Jun 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.45pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Performed in Mandarin Chinese (with surtitles) by the acrobatic Beijing Opera performers from China. | | Director | David Tse Ka-shing | | Design | Yoon Bae | | Lighting | Douglas Kuhrt | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Yellow Earth Theatre | | Synopsis | In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an 'alternative' Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflicts test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success. | | B/O Price | £15 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | |
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Cambridge Theatre
Earlham Street , London, WC2
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0844 412 4652 CHICAGO
Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 28 Apr 06 | | Opens | 28 Apr 06 | | Booking to | 1 Aug 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon-Thurs 8pm, Fri at 4.30pm & 8pm, Sat 3pm & 8pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets & Meal Deal | | Performers | Cast to 31 May 2008: Rachel McDowall (Velma Kelly), Sarah Soetaert (Roxie Hart), Terence Maynard (Billy Flynn ), Paul Rider (Amos Hart), Claudia Shear (Mama Morton). Cast from 2 June 2008: Suzanne Shaw (Roxie Hart to 12 July - except Fridays), Anna Jane Casey (Velma Kelly), Terence Maynard (Billy Flynn) , Victor McGuire (Amos Hart), Sue Kelvin (Mama Morton) . | | Director | Walter Bobbie | | Design | John Lee Beatty | | Lighting | Ken Billington | | Choreography | Ann Reinking | | Costume | William Ivey Long | | Sound | | | Producer | Chicago Partnership | | Synopsis | Concerns Roxie, a chorus girl who has murdered her lover but manages to get acquitted with the help of sleazy lawyer. | | B/O Price | £20 - £52.50 (Sat Eve £20 - £55) | | Length | 2hrs 15mins | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | Opened 18 Nov 1997 at Adelphi, re-opened 28 April 2006 at Cambridge |
Cinema Haymarket
63 - 65 Haymarket, London, SWIV 4RL
Tube Piccadilly Circus
Telephone 0871 230 1562 BRIEF ENCOUNTER
by Noel Coward, adapted by Emma Rice | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 2 Feb 08 | | Opens | 17 Feb 08 | | Booking to | 21 Sep 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm , Sun at 4pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 3pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Tristan Sturrock (Alec), Naomi Frederick (Laura), Tamzin Griffin (Myrtle until 20 July then Emma Rice takes over the role to 17 Aug), Amanda Lawrence(Beryl), Stuart McLoughlin (Stanley), Andy Williams (Fred/Albert) | | Director | Emma Rice | | Design | Neil Murray | | Lighting | Malcolm Rippeth | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Simon Baker | | Producer | Kneehigh Theatre / David Pugh / Dafydd Rogers / Cineworld Group Plc | | Synopsis | In 1946 the classic film Brief Encounter premiered at the cinema on the Haymarket. Now, the Kneehigh Theatre production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is back at a cinema on the Haymarket, this time Live on Stage! Switching seamlessly between theatre and film using a combination of Coward's original stage play Still Life and the screenplay of Brief Encounter, Emma Rice, Kneehigh's Artistic Director, takes you back to a bygone age of romance and the silver screen from the moment the commissionaire opens the doors. The lives and loves of three couples are played out in the famous station tearoom using the words and songs of Noel Coward. | | B/O Price | £35 - £39.50 | | Length | | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | | | Map | |
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| Other Info | Original music by Stu Barker; projection by Gemma Carrington & Jon Driscoll. |
Comedy Theatre
Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN
Tube Piccadilly Circus
Telephone 0844 847 1545 DICKENS UNPLUGGED
by Adam Long | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical Comedy | | Previews from | 23 May 08 | | Opens | 9 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 21 Sep 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon, Wed - Sat at 7.30pm, Sun at 4pm , plus matinees Thu & Sat at 2.30pm (9 June at 7pm) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Joseph Attenborough, Matthew Hendrickson, Simon Jermond, Adam Long, Gabriel Vick | | Director | Adam Long | | Design | Lez Brotherston | | Lighting | Jon Clark | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Mark Goucher & Wimpole Theatre, in Association With Araca Group New York | | Synopsis | 'This is the life and works of Charles Dickens as never seen before. It's fast, furious and in five-part harmony. This unique interpretation will give audiences a light-hearted insight into an incredible man: from his bleak childhood to his complicated marriage, numerous children and his final years. With instruments from acoustic guitar to accordion and harmonica to horns, and using an incredible mix of musical styles, the cast give voice to a host of Dickens' most eccentric and loved characters. Oliver Twist, Tiny Tim, David Copperfield, Miss Havisham, Charles Darnay and many more appear in Adam Long's 20 original songs which include 'Aint Goin Back To Blackin' and 'Far Far Better Thing'. ' | | B/O Price | £?? - £46.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Criterion Theatre
Piccadilly Circus, London, W1
Tube Piccadilly Circus
Telephone 0870 060 2313 39 STEPS , THE
by John Buchan, adapted by Patrick Barlow. From an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon | Location | West End | | Genre | Comedy | | Previews from | 14 Sep 06 | | Opens | 20 Sep 06 | | Booking to | 11 Oct 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat at 8pm , Mats Tues 3pm , Sat at 4pm ( no perf 5 May 2008) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Jo Stone-Fewings (Richard Hannay), Josefina Gabrielle (Annabella Schmidt), Martyn Ellis (Clown), Simon Gregor (Clown) | | Director | Maria Aitken | | Design | Peter McKintosh | | Lighting | Ian Scott | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd and The Tricycle Theatre | | Synopsis | Comic Adaptation: The 39 Steps is best known as Hitchcock's 1935 classic move thriller. This brand new version will be performed by four actors playing a minimum of 150 roles and contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie - including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium, besides many other favourite cinematic moments, including the memorable and controversial 'stockings and suspenders' scene! | | B/O Price | £10 - £42.50 | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | ** A Transfer from Tricycle Theatre |
Dominion Theatre
Tottenham Court Road, W1P OAG
Tube Tottenham Court Rd
Telephone 0870 169 0116 WE WILL ROCK YOU ( Queen Musical )
Musical with songs by Queen and book by Ben Elton | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 26 Apr 02 | | Opens | 14 May 02 | | Booking to | 4 Oct 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mat Sat 2.30pm (Also 2:30pm matinee perf on the last Wed of every month ) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Ricardo Afonso (Galileo), Sabrina Aloueche (Scaramouche ), Julian Littman (Pop), Lain Gray (Britney), Lucy Sinclair (Meat), Mazz Murray (Killer Queen), Alex Bourne (Khashoggi ) | | Director | Christopher Renshaw | | Design | Mark Fisher and Willie Williams | | Lighting | | | Choreography | Arlene Phillips | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Queen Productions/Phil McIntyre Promotions/Tribeca production. | | Synopsis | The musical does not chronicle the story of the band, Queen, rather it incorporates the songs of the rock group. The time is the future. Globalisation is complete. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It's a safe happy, Ga Ga world. Unless your a rebel. Unless you want rock. On Planet Mall all musical instruments are banned. The company computers generate the tunes and everyone downloads them. But resistance is growing. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist...... | | B/O Price | £27.50 - £55 (Sat Eve £27.50 - £60) | | Length | 2hrs 40mins | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | |
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| Other Info | ** Musical Supervisor: Mike Dixon |
Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 SMALL CHANGE
By Peter Gill | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 10 Apr 08 | | Opens | 15 Apr 08 | | Booking to | 31 May 08 | | Closes | 31 May 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 2.30pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Sue Johnston (Mrs Harte), Lindsey Coulson (Mrs Driscoll), Luke Evans (Vincent), Matt Ryan (Gerard) | | Director | Peter Gill | | Design | Anthony Ward | | Lighting | Hugh Vanstone | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse | | Synopsis | Set on the east side of Cardiff in the 1950s. Recalls the friendship between two boys and the relationship with their mothers, and the tragedy of the things that go unsaid and are forever unresolved. | | B/O Price | £15 - £ 26 (Mon Eve & Thu Mat £15 - £ 20) (Fri & Sat Eve £15 - £ 29) | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 CHALK GARDEN, THE
By Enid Bagnold | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 5 Jun 08 | | Opens | 11 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 2 Aug 08 | | Closes | 2 Aug 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 2.30pm (11 Jun at 7pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Penelope Wilton, Margaret Tyzack , Steph Bramwell, Linda Broughton, Suzanne Burden, Jamie Glover, Felicity Jones, Clifford Rose | | Director | Michael Grandage | | Design | Peter McKintosh | | Lighting | Paule Constable | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Adam Cork | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse | | Synopsis | Raised in a manor house beside the sea, where the flowers struggle to grow, sixteen-year-old Laurel runs wild. As her eccentric grandmother tends to the garden, Laurel's need for love forces her into a world of fantasy. But things begin to change with the sudden appointment of a governess who brings a mysterious new presence to an already dysfunctional household. | | B/O Price | £15 - £ 26 (Mon Eve & Thu Mat £15 - £ 20) (Fri & Sat Eve £15 - £ 29) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 PIAF
By Pam Gems | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 8 Aug 08 | | Opens | 13 Aug 08 | | Booking to | 20 Sep 08 | | Closes | 20 Sep 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (13 Aug at 7pm) PUBLIC BOOKING OPENS 2 JUNE 2008 | | Tickets | | | Performers | Elena Roger | | Director | Jamie Lloyd | | Design | Soutra Gilmour | | Lighting | Neil Austin | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse | | Synopsis | From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame, Edith Piaf continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and her equally extraordinary life. In this new production of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her 1978 play vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall, of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer. | | B/O Price | £15 - £ 30 (Mon Eve & Wed Mat £15 - £ 20) (Fri & Sat Eve £15 - £ 32.50) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | Musical Director: Nigel Lilley; Original Composition: Ben and Max Ringham |
Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 CREDITORS
by Strindberg, in a new version by David Greig | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 25 Sep 08 | | Opens | 30 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 15 Nov 08 | | Closes | 15 Nov 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 2.30pm (30 Sep at 7pm) PUBLIC BOOKING OPENS 2 JUNE 2008 | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | Alan Rickman | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse | | Synopsis | Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolf finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled. | | B/O Price | £15 - £ 26 (Mon Eve & Thu Mat £15 - £ 20) (Fri & Sat Eve £15 - £ 29) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 FAMILY REUNION, THE
by T.S. Eliot | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 20 Nov 08 | | Opens | 25 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 10 Jan 09 | | Closes | 10 Jan 09 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 2.30pm (25 Nov at 7pm) (No perfs 1, 2, 17, 25, 26 Dec & 5 Jan / Matinee only on 24 Dec; extra matinee perf on 30 Dec at 2.30pm; no matinee perf on 1 January) PUBLIC BOOKING OPENS 2 JUNE 2008 | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | Jeremy Herrin | | Design | Bunny Christie | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Nick Powell | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse | | Synopsis | After eight years absence, Harry returns to the ancestral home to celebrate his mother's birthday. Tormented by a dark secret, he confides in Aunt Agatha only to discover that the family too have their own hidden demons. | | B/O Price | £15 - £ 26 (Mon Eve & Thu Mat £15 - £ 20) (Fri & Sat Eve £15 - £ 29) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Donmar Warehouse
Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6624 BE NEAR ME
By Andrew O'Hagan, adapted for the stage by Ian McDiarmid | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 22 Jan 09 | | Opens | 26 Jan 09 | | Booking to | 14 Mar 09 | | Closes | 14 Mar 09 | | Time | (26 Jan at 7pm) TICKETS NOT ON SALE YET! | | Tickets | | | Performers | Ian McDiarmid (Father David Anderton) | | Director | John Tiffany | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Donmar Warehouse /National Theatre of Scotland | | Synopsis | David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest is assigned to a parish in a dispirited Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast. Lonely and adrift he befriends two unstable teenagers from the local school and is drawn into their exotic world. As events spin out of control he is forced to face his greatest trial yet. | | B/O Price | | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Drury Lane, Theatre Royal Theatre
Catherine St , WC2B 5JF
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 890 6002 LORD OF THE RINGS, THE
Stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy. Book and lyrics by Shaun McKenna & Matthew Warchus and music by A.R. Rahman & Varttina with Christopher Nightingale. | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 9 May 07 | | Opens | 19 Jun 07 | | Booking to | 19 Jul 08 | | Closes | 19 Jul 08 | | Time | Mon 7pm, Tues - Sat at 7.30pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 2pm | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets & Meal Deal | | Performers | Malcolm Storry (Gandalf), James Loye (Frodo Baggins), ? (Galadriel), Michael Therriault (Gollum), Peter Howe (Sam), Jerome Pradon (Aragorn), Richard Henders(Merry), Owen Sharpe (Pippin), Michael Rouse (Legolas), Sevan Stephan (Gimli), Steven Miller (Boromir), Rosalie Craig (Arwen), Andrew Jarvis (Elrond) , Terence Frisch (Bilbo), Tim Morgan (Theoden) and Kirsty Malpass (Rosie). | | Director | Matthew Warchus | | Design | Rob Howell | | Lighting | | | Choreography | Peter Darling | | Costume | Rob Howell | | Sound | | | Producer | Kevin Wallace and Saul Zaentz. | | Synopsis | The production uses the very latest in special effects and ingenious design to transport you directly to the world of Middle-earth. | | B/O Price | £15 - £60 | | Length | 3hrs 5mins | | Review | Review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Drury Lane, Theatre Royal Theatre
Catherine St , WC2B 5JF
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0844 412 2955 OLIVER!
by Lionel Bart | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 12 Dec 08 | | Opens | 14 Jan 09 | | Booking to | 26 Sep 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (XMAS: No Perf 25 Dec, Matinee only Wed 24th Dec, extra matinee Tues 23rd Dec at 2.30pm) (14 Jan at 7pm) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Rowan Atkinson (Fagin). The roles of 'Nancy' and 'Oliver', are being decided by BBC reality show 'I'd Do Anything'. | | Director | Rupert Goold & Matthew Bourne | | Design | Anthony Ward | | Lighting | Paule Constable | | Choreography | Matthew Bourne | | Costume | | | Sound | Paul Groothuis | | Producer | Cameron Mackintosh in association with the Southbrook Group Limited. | | Synopsis | Songs including Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You've Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, I'd Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah, As Long As He Needs Me and many more. | | B/O Price | £17.50 - £60 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | Orchestrations by William D Brohn and musical supervision by Martin Koch |
Duchess Theatre
Catherine St , London, WC2
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0844 412 4659 BUDDY
by Alan Janes & Rob Bettinson | Location | West End | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 3 Aug 07 | | Opens | 7 Aug 07 | | Booking to | 28 Mar 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Thu 7 30pm: Fri 5 30pm & 8 30pm. Sat 5pm & 8pm.
(No perf Mon 5 May, Mon 26 May & Mon 25 Aug; Extra Wed matinee at 4pm on 7 May, 28 May & 25 Aug )
Times from 27th October: Mon - Sat, 7 30pm: Wed & Sat mat at 3pm (XMAS: No perfs 24 & 25 Dec & 1 Jan - Extra matinee Tues 23 & Fri 26 Dec & Fri 2 Jan at 3pm) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | | | Director | Rob Bettinson | | Design | Adrian Rees | | Lighting | Joe Atkins | | Choreography | | | Costume | Bill Butler | | Sound | Pete Cox for Thames Audio | | Producer | Alan Janes | | Synopsis | Story of Buddy Holly who died at the young age of 22. Buddy tells the story of the three years in which he became the world's top recording artist with a show that features over 20 of Buddy Holly's greatest hits including Peggy Sue, That'll be the Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, Heartbeat and Raining in my Heart. | | B/O Price | £20 - £55 | | Length | 2hrs 25mins | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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| Other Info | Originating Musical Director: Paul Jury |
Duke of York's Theatre
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0870 060 6623 THAT FACE
by Polly Stenham | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 1 May 08 | | Opens | 9 May 08 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 08 | | Closes | 5 Jul 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (9 May at 7pm) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Lindsay Duncan (Martha), Hannah Murray (Mia), Matt Smith (Henry), Catherine Steadman (Izzy) , Julian Wadham (Hugh). | | Director | Jeremy Herrin | | Design | Mike Britton | | Lighting | Natasha Chivers | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Emma Laxton | | Producer | Sonia Friedman Productions, Tulchin/Bartner and Jamie Hendry presents the Royal Court Production | | Synopsis | Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother. | | B/O Price | £10 - £45 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Duke of York's Theatre
St Martin's Lane, London, WC2
Tube Leicester sq
Telephone 0870 060 1483 UNDER THE BLUE SKY
by David Eldridge | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 15 July 08 | | Opens | 25 Jul 08 | | Booking to | 20 Sep 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.45pm, Mats Thu & Sat at 3pm (25 July at 7pm) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Catherine Tate (Michelle) , Francesca Annis ((Anne) , Lisa Dillon (Helen) , Chris O'Dowd (Nick), Dominic Rowan (Graham) | | Director | Anna Mackmin | | Design | Lez Brotherston | | Lighting | Mark Henderson | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Paul Arditti | | Producer | Sonia Friedman Productions and Robert G. Bartner. | | Synopsis | Three subtly connected love stories that reveal in turn the roller-coaster ride of lust in its prime, the sacrifices of a life in public service and unrequited passions. | | B/O Price | £25 - £47.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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Fortune Theatre
Russell St, WC2B 5HH
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 0870 060 6626 WOMAN IN BLACK, THE
by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill | Location | West End | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Jun 89 | | Opens | 7 Jun 89 | | Booking to | 20 Dec 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Mon-Sat 8pm / Mats Tue 3pm / Sat 4pm (NOTE: September 9, 10, 11, 12 at 8pm September 13 at 4pm will be in Japanese! Starring Haruhiko Saito and Takaya Kamikawa !) | | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets & Meal Deal | | Performers | Sean Baker (Arthur Kipps), Ben Porter (The Actor) | | Director | Robin Herford | | Design | Michael Holt | | Lighting | Kevin Sleep | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | PW Productions | | Synopsis | Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps , a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose. Years later, as an old man, he recounts his experiences to an actor in a desperate attempt to exorcise the ghosts of the past. The play unfolds around the conversations of these two characters as they act out the solicitor's experiences on Eel Marsh all those years ago. | | B/O Price | £12.50 - £36 (From 11 Feb 2007: £13.50 - £39) | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | Click for review | | Seating Plan | Seating Plan | | Map | Map |
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