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  • The West End's longest running musical, Les Misérables today celebrates its 30th anniversary in London's West End, where it is currently playing at the Queen's Theatre and booking to 1 October 2016.The Cameron Mackintosh and Royal Shakespeare Company production first opened at the Barbican Theatre on 8th Oct 1985, before transferring to the Palace Theatre on 4 December 1985. After 19 years, the show transferred to the Queen's Theatre, where it opened on 3 April 2004 and continues to run to...

  • Cast has been announced for Big White Fog by Theodore Ward, which opens at the Almeida Theatre 17 May 2007, following previews from 11 May - running to 30 June 2007. Cast includes: Tony Armatrading (Daniel Rogers), Lenora Crichlow (Claudine), Jenny Jules (Ella), Novella Nelson (Martha Brooks), Danny Sapani (Victor Mason), Ayesha Antoine (Caroline), Martin Barron (Patrolman), Aaron Brown (Nathan Piszer), Clint Dyer (Percy Mason), Tunji Kasim (Lester), Al Matthews (Count Strawder), Gugu Mbatha-Raw...

  • The off-Broadway musical revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris will open at the Charing Cross Theatre in central London on 18 October 2014, following previews from 16 October, running until 22 November 2014. The production will be directed by Andrew Keates and feature a cast that includes Daniel Boys, Gina Beck, David Burt and Eve Polycarpou. Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a musical revue of the greatest works by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel....

  • Cut to the Chase theatre company will present Ken Ludwig's comedy Lend Me a Tenor at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, in the London Borough of Havering, from 3 to 25 October 2014, with an official opening on 6 October 2014. Described as a "furiously-paced frivolous frenzy", this farce was Ludwig’s first commercially-produced play and went on to enjoy success in the West End and on Broadway and has since been translated into 16 languages and produced in 25 countries. The cast for the production...

  • Eat Pray Laugh! - Barry Humphries Farewell Tour, opens at the London Palladium, 15 Nov 2013, following previews from 13 Nov - running to 5 Jan 2014, as part of a uk tour. "Act One features gentle, grandfatherly Sandy Stone, perhaps Humphries’ greatest creation, and the outrageous Sir Les Patterson – according to Dame Edna 'this is just a bit of foreplay really before I make an orgasmic appearance in Act Two!' Surrounded by spectacular sets and dancers, Dame Edna promises to 'empower' audiences...

  • From 2 Feb Nigel Planer & Verity Rushworth will join the cast of Hairspray Nigel Planer (as Wilbur Turnblad) & Verity Rushworth (as Penny Pingleton) are to join the cast of Hairspray from 2 Feb 2009. Michael Ball (Edna Turnblad), Leanne Jones (Tracy Turnblad) and Ben James-Ellis (Link Larkin) have all extended their contracts to remain with the show and will now perform until Saturday 25 July 2009. Nigel Planer is one of the UK’s most prolific comedy actors with credits including ‘The Comic...

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