BAD GIRLS
ITV's hit show 'Bad Girls' has arrived in the West End and you are in for a good time with the inmates of HMP Larkhall.
Bad Girls shows us life behind bars, the dark side, the humour, the compassion and the warmth. The show will be packed with funny and original songs that will have you doing the time of your life
DADDY COOL
Daddy Cool tells the story of 'Sunny', a young man who lives for his music. Caught up in local rivalry between East and West London crews, he meets and falls in love with 'Rose', daughter of the East End's notorious club owner 'Ma Baker', fuelling the heated feud between the two gangs. Echoing shades of Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers' families are brought face to face with their past and are forced to confront their future. Set in multicultural London, to the music of Boney M (and other Frank Farian artists including Milli Vanilli and No Mercy), this new and exciting musical includes classics such as Rivers of Babylon, Brown Girl In The Ring, Ma Baker, Girl You Know It's True, Where Do You Go, One Way Ticket, Mary's Boychild. Many of the numbers, originally written in the 70s and 80s, have been re-interpreted with contemporary musical influences whilst still retaining the elements that made the songs such huge hits.
DANCING IN THE STREETS
DANCING IN THE STREETS recreates what
it was like to be here in 1965 when Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha
and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson first arrived in
the UK. Experience the energy, style and music of the great stars of
the Motown stable.
Motown was responsible for producing some of
the world's most influential and enduring songs of the 20th century
including 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine', 'Baby Love', 'My Girl',
'Dancing in the Streets', 'I'll Be There', 'Where Did Our Love Go?',
'My Guy', Stop in the Name of Love', 'Reach Out I'll Be There', 'You
Can't Hurry Love' and 'Tears of a Clown'.
DANCING IN THE STREETS
celebrates the very best of the classic Motown chartbusters. 'All we
need is music...sweet, sweet music...'.
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
Desperately Seeking Susan is based on the 1980's smash hit romantic comedy film and features the hits of Blondie.
Roberta, a New Jersey housewife escapes from her boring suburban life after reading the personal ads left by Susan, a savy New York drifter. Following a twist of fate, Roberta and Susan swap lives and rush headlong into a world of jewel heists, magic shows and rock 'n' roll. A wild journey of transformation and discovery, you never know just when your life will turn on its heels and something magical will happen.
Featuring a new song written by Debbie Harry 'Moment of Truth'
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Elaine Paige returns to the West End for the first time in 7 years to star in the Broadway smash-hit musical. This is an irresistible, totally original, five-time Tony Award-winning show, that will magically transport you to a world of high-kicking, toe-tapping delight.
As a die-hard musical theatre fan drops the needle on his favourite cast album, an outrageously funny musical from the 1920s bursts to life in his living room. What follows is the uproarious tale of a pampered starlet determined to give up show business to get married and her ruthless producer intent on sabotaging the nuptials. Add to this a Latin lover, a debonair groom, an English butler, a pair of gangsters disguised as pastry chefs and a very tipsy chaperone, and all manner of mix-ups and mayhem are set to ensue.
If you’ve ever sat in a darkened theatre and thought, “Dear Lord in heaven, please let it be good", this is the show for you. It will be great !
EVITA
'A SENSATIONAL HIT ALL OVER AGAIN' Daily Mail Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary musical 'celebrates its return to the West End this summer in a new, vibrant and colourful production directed by the award-winning director of GUYS AND DOLLS, DON CARLOS and The Donmar Warehouse, Michael Grandage. Eva Peron used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Argentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady. She won international acclaim and adoration from her own people as a champion of the poor, whilst glamour, power and greed made her the world's first major political celebrity. With its multi-award winning production team and hot new orchestrations, Evita tells Eva's passionate and tragic story through Andrew Lloyd Webber's most dazzling score and Tim Rice's most famous lyrics, including DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA, ANOTHER SUITCASE IN ANOTHER HALL and HIGH FLYING ADORED, together with YOU MUST LOVE ME, the Oscar winning song from the film of EVITA.
FAME
This show is inspired by the Oscar-winning movie and has encouraged generations to reach for the stars. Thirty of the UK's finest dancers and actors have been assembled for this legendary musical which features a spine-tingling finale, prompting standing ovations at every performance.
May not be suitable for those aged under 10 as it contains some stronge language and adult themes.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
One of the best loved musicals of all time has been revived at the Savoy Theatre.
The time has come for Tevye, a traditional jewish father in a small village, to find husbands for his beloved daughters. As tradition states, suitable match's must be made, but as we find out the young appear to be guided by their hearts and not their elders.
This musical has delighted audiences around the world for over 40 years and is the winner of 9 Tony awards and has been made into an Oscar winning film. It features some well loved songs including 'If I Were a Rich Man'
Olivier award winning Henry Goodman star's as Tevye.
GUYS AND DOLLS
Miami Vice star Don Johnson made his West End debut on 8 January 2007, taking over the role of Nathan Detroit.
KISMET
West End favourite Michael Ball will perform the role of Hajj/Poet in the new production of Robert Wright & George Forrest’s Kismet- this will be the first West End production for nearly 30 years. Kismet first premiered in 1953, when it was a huge hit on Broadway before becoming a bigger hit in the West End.
Michael Ball is the UK's leading
musical performer and has won much acclaim for his numerous roles in
the West End and on Broadway, as well as TV and music recordings
Wright
& Forrest’s Kismet is an eclectic choice, the symphonic score
incorporates a string of great numbers, a major dance element and
requires a blend of performance styles from musicals and opera to carry
off its stratospheric vocal demands. This makes Kismet ideally suited
to an opera ensemble and to a stage such as that of the London
Coliseum, the premier venue for big American musicals in the 1940s and
1950s.
Kismet is showing from 25th June to the 14th July 2007
Showing at The Coliseum, St Martin's Lane
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Down and out Skid Row floral assistant
Seymour becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic
plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon Audrey II grows
into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore offering
him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite… but
as Audrey II’s hungry demands increase, all that Seymour holds dear is
threatened as the plant’s sinister agenda for global domination is
revealed….
One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of
all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a
household name, thanks to a highly successful film version and a score
by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. Charming,
tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, LITTLE SHOP
OF HORRORS never fails to entertain.
This brand new Chocolate Factory Production is the first revival in London for over 20 years.
MARY POPPINS
This production will finish it's West End run in January 2008, prior to embarking on an international tour.
Jane
and Michael Banks need a nanny and one thing is for sure, after MARY
POPPINS arrives at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, with her no-nonsense approach
to making the right choices in life, nothing will ever be the same
again.
Presented by Cameron Mackintosh and Disney Theatrical
Productions, this delightful stage show is based on P L Travers witty
books and the magical Disney film. It feature's all of the popular
songs from the film including 'Chim Chim Cher-ee', 'A Spoonful of
Sugar' and 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' as well as new songs
written by the Olivier Award-winning Geroge Stiles and Anthony Drewe.
A must see for kids and adults alike.
Please note- Recommended for children aged 7 and over. Children under the age of 3 will not be admitted.
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TONYLOVERS OPINION
Was not as blown away by this one as we might have been BUT its still a great show and a fantastic family night out, with all your sing a long favorites.
PORGY AND BESS
Porgy and Bess by Gerswin is a bittersweet love story set in South Carolina during the Great Depression and features arguably one of the greatest, most beautiful and moving musical scores ever written for the stage, including such classics as Summertime, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So and I Loves You, Porgy.
Porgy and Bess first opened on Broadway in 1935 and has since played to audiences accross the world.
This brand new production of the show cost Ł3million and has been specially adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn.
Porgy and Bess has been extensively reworked and re-orchestrated as a 2 hour 20 minute musical and has been injected with renewed verve and pace. This fresh interpretation enjoys one of the biggest companies in the West End – including a cast of 40 and a 20-piece orchestra.
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
On the way to visit an old college professor, the two clean cut kids, Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss run into tyre trouble and seek help at the site of a light down the road. It's coming from the Frankenstein place, where Dr. Frank N Furter is in the midst of one of his maniacal experiments...
Follow Brad and Janet on an adventure they'll never forget, with the scandalous Frank N Furter, rippling Rocky and vivacious Magenta.
This will be a night of fun, frolics and frivolity. Bursting with classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn It Janet and, of course, the pelvic thrusting Time Warp, Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW just can't stop partying!
Please note- not suitable for children or the easily offended!
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW ended its run on January 27, 2007.