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Earlier this week, it was announced that Joseph at the Adelphi London Theatre will close six weeks early after an admirable eighteen months. Even mixed reviews did not dispel the clamour for tickets as Lee Mead, winner of the BBC’s I’d Do Anything, took to the stage.
However, interest in the show dwindled in the run [...]
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However vulgar the phrase may be, ‘bums on seats’ are what keep theatre folk in work, and even not-so-hot shows need to pull in a crowd. For years, producers and advertising agents have come up with ingenious ways to embellish the truth to make even a damp squib sound like a blazing triumph.
To avoid [...]
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Producers of Oliver! announced this week that Iranian comedian and actor Omid Djalili will be taking over the role of Fagin from Rowan Atkinson in July. In keeping with the current trend of unusual celebrity casting, Oliver! will see Djalili making his West End debut, just as Joseph and La Cage Aux Folles have recently [...]
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After the excitement of the monolith musicals Wicked and We Will Rock You announcing record breaking sales and attendance figures at the beginning of the year, it seems that the Society of London Theatre wants the world to know that the entire West End is defying the credit crunch. According to the Society, 2008 was [...]
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This week, camp television presenter Graham Norton took his first steps onto the Playhouse stage as outrageous drag act Albin in La Cage Aux Folles. Although Norton is no newcomer to the theatre world, being a passionate musical fan, host of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, Any Dream Will Do and I’d [...]
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The West End’s festive season certainly defied the credit crunch, with so many people descending on London’s theatres, the last week of 2008 turned out to be a record breaker, with Wicked and We Will Rock You achieving the highest weekly gross and the most paid admissions respectively. While millions of people feel the pinch [...]
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Since Ken Ludwig’s Treasure Island is closing almost two months early, the Theatre Royal Haymarket has had to find a show pretty quickly to fill those seats before the arrival of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot on 30 April. What the theatre has found is a stage version of On [...]
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While the theatre gossips’ lips buzz with talk of Phantom II and TV talent searches, Andrew Lloyd Webber is now said to be planning a London revival of Herman and Stewart’s Broadway classic Hello Dolly! with Connie Fisher taking the title role.
The original 1965 West End production ran for almost two years [...]
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The Met office has been called in to investigate the sale of expertly counterfeited tickets for the West End production of Hamlet.
The almost perfect quality, but duff tickets were presented at the Novello Theatre’s box office around 2 weeks ago. It is believed that hundreds such copies may have been made in what appears to [...]
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