"in 1942. The theatre was sold to EMI in 1962, and became the Shaftesbury Theatre the following year. Broadway productions that transferred to the theatre for long runs in the 1960s included ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1962)and ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1963). Part of the ceiling fell in on 20 July 1973, forcing the closure of the long-running musical ""Hair"", after 1,998 performances. Plans were made to redevelop the theatre, but a campaign by Equity succeeded in having the theatre placed on the 'Statutory List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest', and it was Grade"
"Footlight in 2011. The recording includes a track called ""Twang!!"" at the beginning of side B. Twang!! Twang!! is a musical with music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart and a book by Bart and Harvey Orkin, with assistance from Burt Shevelove. The piece was a spoof of the character and legend of the outlaw Robin Hood. It was a disastrous box-office failure and cost Bart his personal fortune. After a preview in Manchester, ""Twang"" opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End on 20 December 1965 and closed on 29 January 1966 after just 43 performances, receiving scathing"
"Company, who have owned the venue since 1984. In March 2006, the 1,400 seat theatre underwent an internal refurbishment, with the entire auditorium being reseated and recarpeted and the front of house areas redecorated. Since reopening, the theatre has hosted several revivals, including the European premiere of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit ""Hairspray"", which opened in October 2007 and closed in March 2010. ""Flashdance The Musical"" open in September 2010 and closing in January 2011. Shaftesbury Theatre The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden. Opened in 1911 as the"
"in the West End on 12 March 2013. The production won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 (including Best New Play), at the time equaling the record with ""Matilda the Musical"" in 2012, before both were surpassed by ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" in 2017 with 9 awards. During a performance on 19 December 2013, the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre collapsed causing the production to close. It reopened on 9 July 2014 at the Gielgud Theatre. The play closed at the Gielgud on 3 June 2017. The Broadway production debuted at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 5 October 2014"
"weeks of sale The Olympia, along with Dublin's Gaiety Theatre and The Helix Theatre, presents an annual Christmas pantomime. Its most recent productions have been ""Aladdin"", ""Cinderella"", ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", ""Robin Hood"" and a revival of ""Cinderella"" which starred Jedward as the Fairy Godbrothers. In 2011, the Olympia pantomime featured Jedward once more in ""Jedward and the Beanstalk"". In November 1974, the Olympia was forced to close following major structural damage when parts of the proscenium arch and the ceiling above collapsed during a break in rehearsals for a production of ""West Side Story"". The possibility of demolishing the"
"on 30 September 2013, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, and held its official opening gala night on 23 October. In all the London production features a cast of thirty three and a fifteen-member band. A typical London performance runs two hours and 50 minutes, including one interval of 15 mins. On 29 November 2013, it was announced the production would close on 26 April 2014, after a -month run, with the possibility of reopening at another theatre. The closure was later brought forward a month to 29 March. To mark the 72nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 2013,"
"theatre was closed by the Rank Organisation on 25 September 1971 with Bill Travers in ""Gorgo"" and Hayley Mills in ""Twisted Nerve"". The Odeon was converted into the Rainbow Theatre from 4 November 1971, when the Who performed the first concert in the newly named theatre. The Who later wrote and recorded the song ""Long Live Rock"", which celebrates the theatre (although still referring to it as The Astoria). The Osmonds made their debut appearance in London at the Rainbow Theatre in the early 1970s. Frank Zappa had serious injuries in the evening of 10 December 1971, when a member"
"Top Hat (musical) Top Hat the Musical is a 2011 stage musical based on the 1935 film of the same name, featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin with additional orchestration by Chris Walker. The show opened on 16 August 2011 at the Milton Keynes Theatre, touring the United Kingdom before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End. ""Top Hat"" won multiple 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards after receiving seven nominations. The musical closed in London on 26 October 2013, with a UK and Ireland tour commencing in August 2014. The musical is based on the 1935 film of"
"2014 it transferred to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre. The West End transfer received positive reviews from a number of national media outlets. The production ran for a limited season at the Shaftesbury Theatre, closing on 13 September 2014. The Pajama Game The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel ""7½ Cents"" by Richard Bissell. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where workers' demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise are going unheeded. In"
"première of the Broadway musical ""Footloose"", starring Cheryl Baker. Ending on 11 November, Footloose made way for the Royal Shakespeare Company's return season for 2006-7, following which the Broadway musical ""The Drowsy Chaperone"" made its European première on 6 June 2007. The London production starred Elaine Paige, Bob Martin, Summer Strallen and John Partridge. The London production closed after a run of only two months on 4 August 2007 after failing to attract audiences, despite positive notices. It was announced on 10 July 2007, just three days after the announcement of ""Drowsy's"" premature closure that the theatre would be the"
"Hague’s music is forgettable."" The Fig Leaves Are Falling The Fig Leaves Are Falling is a musical with a book and lyrics by Allan Sherman and music by Albert Hague. It was inspired by Sherman's 1966 divorce following 21 years of marriage. The musical opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on January 2, 1969 and closed on January 6 after four performances and 17 previews. Directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Eddie Gasper, the scenic design was by William and Jean Eckart, costume design was by Robert Mackintosh, and lighting design was by Tharon Musser. The cast included"
"Twang!! Twang!! is a musical with music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart and a book by Bart and Harvey Orkin, with assistance from Burt Shevelove. The piece was a spoof of the character and legend of the outlaw Robin Hood. It was a disastrous box-office failure and cost Bart his personal fortune. After a preview in Manchester, ""Twang"" opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End on 20 December 1965 and closed on 29 January 1966 after just 43 performances, receiving scathing reviews and playing to mostly empty houses. Bart produced it with Bernard Delfont and John Bryan,"
"Shaftesbury Theatre following previews from 15 August 2006. It closed on 17 February 2007. Germany (Berlin): from 18 April 2007 to 26 July 2007 (Boney M. Theater Palast). Tour in the Netherlands from 9 September 2011 to 27 January 2012 (Albert Verlinde Entertainment). Spain (Palma) (Albert Verlinde Entertainment): July 2012 Switzerland (Luzern): November 2015 - January 2016 (Le Théâtre Kriens-Luzern) Sunny lives on the islands with his Grandma Ella, who receives a letter from Sunny's mother Pearl in England, telling them that she wants him home. Young Sunny is hostile towards her at first, and begins to feel the music,"
"the Aldwych Theatre, where it closed on 14 January 2012. Also for theatre, Prowse co-wrote and directed ""Up On The Roof"", which received three Olivier Award nominations, including Best Musical. She also directed productions of the musical at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and the Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut. Prowse wrote and directed an adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""The Pearl"", which won her the Royal Shakespeare Company's Buzz Goodbody ‘Best Director’ Award. Other theatre includes Anthony Minghella's ""A Little Like Drowning"", ""The Amazing Dancing Bear"" and ""Overboard"". Prowse co-wrote the screenplay for ""Up On The Roof"", which was subsequently"
"was produced and directed by Jim Sharman. The original London production of the musical premiered at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) on 19 June 1973 (after two previews on 16 and 18 June 1973). It later moved to several other locations in London and closed on 13 September 1980. The show ran for a total of 2,960 performances and won the 1973 ""Evening Standard"" Theatre Award for Best Musical. Its 1974 debut in the US in Los Angeles had a successful nine-month run, but its 1975 Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre lasted only three previews and forty-five showings, despite"
"Yootha Joyce, composer/lyricist Lionel Bart, and writer Shelagh Delaney. Michael Caine was famously told by Littlewood: “P*ss off to Shaftesbury Avenue. You will only ever be a star.” The playwright and director Ken Hill, a protegé of Joan Littlewood, took over as artistic director after she moved to France, prompted by the death of her partner, Gerry Raffles. After his short tenure as Artistic Director, Hill continued to work with TRSE until his death, most notably in raucous musicals. They included ""The Invisible Man"" which transferred from TRSE to the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End in 1993 and ""Zorro!"
"in the Sixties we all played in bands, I was a drummer in The Sound Barrier, the greatest unsigned band of the Sixties."" ""Dreamboats and Petticoats"" was first performed in London at the Savoy Theatre on 22 July 2009. The run terminated on 31 October 2009 to make way for ""Legally Blonde. After a three-month hiatus, the musical found a new location at the Playhouse Theatre on 6 January 2010. It closed on 4 August 2012. The 3rd and final London venue for the musical was the Wyndham's Theatre, where it had a limited run, 16 October 2012 to 19"
"names to play there. It was closed by health authorities in 1973 because it could not earn the revenue to keep the building up. H.J. McManus, a London businessman, bought it and his son, Joe Jr., led the renovations, reopening in 1974 with the Harry James Orchestra performing before a sellout crowd. The last event was a performance by Day Break on New Year's Eve of 1978/79; a fire in a dumpster 12 days later damaged the building too heavily to save it. In the first decade of the 21st century, there were numerous proposals to operate a ferry between"
"to July 28, 2019 as part of its 2018/19 season. Due to the death of the director the production has been postponed with no announced date. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (musical) Bedknobs and Broomsticks is an upcoming stage musical based on the 1971 Walt Disney film and the stories by Mary Norton. It features the original songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, new songs and additional music and lyrics by Neil Bartram and book by Brian Hill. The musical was to have been directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell before her death on May 26, 2018. Her replacement"
"Shaftesbury Theatre The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden. Opened in 1911 as the New Prince's Theatre, it was the last theatre to be built in Shaftesbury Avenue. The theatre was designed for the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville by Bertie Crewe and opened on 26 December 1911 with a production of ""The Three Musketeers"", as the ""New Prince's Theatre"", becoming the Prince's Theatre in 1914. It had a capacity of 2,392 and a stage 31' 10"" wide by 31' deep. The Prince's was the last theatre to be"
"the time the performance ended, nearly four hours after the curtain first rose, most of the audience had departed. A victim of critical disdain and audience indifference, the show closed five weeks later on July 10. The cast included Paul Collis, Jane Arden, James Barron, and Hal Fowler. Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love is a musical with music and lyrics by Russell Dunlop, Duke Minks, Greg Moeller and Tommy Moeller and a book by John Kane. The 1993 West End production is considered one of the biggest disasters in the history"
"Academy that provided an opportunity for child actors to perform. The theater produced the world premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical ""Memphis"" in 2003, as well as the regional premieres of ""Hairspray"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""Ragtime"", and many others. The theatre suffered from a serious fire in 2005 and slipped into debt. The financial distress of the theatre was also attributed to a poor management decision, which canceled the extremely popular annual production of ""A Christmas Carol"" in favor of """". With debts totaling more than $10 million in 2009, NSMT officials announced that the financially distressed theatre had failed"
"8 October 2005. The Broadway production closed on 18 May 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical, following ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Schönberg oversaw the production of ""Les Misérables"" that returned to Broadway for an intended six-month engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre on 9 November 2006, although it later extended its run. Schönberg's ""Marguerite"" includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel ""La Dame aux camélias"" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, ""Marguerite"" is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who"
"closed on June 20, 1999, after 533 performances. This production was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. It then toured in North America. An Andrew Lloyd Webber production opened on November 15, 2006, at the London Palladium and ran until February 2009, produced by Live Nation's David Ian and Jeremy Sams. Following failed negotiations with Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson, the role of Maria was cast through a UK talent search reality TV show called ""How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?"" The talent show was produced by (and starred) Andrew Lloyd Webber and featured"
"by the Women's Social and Political Union. The demonstrators were expelled forcibly from the theatre. When one woman claimed property that had been left behind during the expulsion, Workman complained to Christabel Pankhurst, the leader of the Women's Social and Political Union, about the damage her members had caused. ""The Mountaineers"" closed on 27 November after 61 performances, making way for ""Fallen Fairies"", which needed to be rehearsed on the stage of the Savoy for an opening before Christmas. ""The Mountaineers"" later toured in the British provinces with many of the same cast, under management of Harry P. Towers (with"
"were varied. On March 20, 2018 on the popular American quiz show, ""Jeopardy!"", the host Alex Trebek supplied the statement: """"Bumblescratch"", set in 1665-1666 London starts with a plague and ends with this other disaster."" to which the contestant correctly posited, ""What is the Great Fire of London?"" Bumblescratch Bumblescratch is an original sung-through musical with book, music and lyrics by Robert J. Sherman. The musical premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 4 September 2016 as a one night, celebrity gala charity event in aid of Variety, the Children's Charity (UK). This was done as part of weekend"
"consists of boys and girls aged from six to eighteen years of age who play on Saturday and Sunday mornings at the Ridgewaye fields, off Yew Tree Road, Southborough from September to May. The Royal Victoria Hall Theatre was built in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, It opened in 1900. It was the first Municipal Theatre in England. unsympathetic Building alterations during the 1970s have prevented the Royal Victoria Hall from being listed. In January 2015, it was announced that the theatre would close after the end of the run of the pantomime ""Peter Pan"". Demolition could"
"no relation to the songs, and ""Twang!!"" transferred to London preceded by continued bad press. The show opened in disarray at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on 20 December 1965. Still, Bart thought he could save the show. On opening night, the musical director, Ken Moule, collapsed of exhaustion and still had failed to orchestrate the second act. Two songs were cut in the hours before the curtain rose, and the piece was played for camp, even adding some transvestism. The house lights kept going up and down throughout the performance, and vicious arguments were overheard backstage. ""Twang!!"" garnered scornful and derisive"
"demolition in the 1950s, but it was saved and presented a mixture of ballet, live shows and films. The last films were shown in November 1975, a double bill of Peter Cushing in ""Legend of the Werewolf"" (1975) and Adrienne Corri in ""Vampire Circus"" (1972), though the theatre remained open until 1976, after which it closed for five years. Led Zeppelin rehearsed there, on May Day, 1980. It reopened in 1981 as the Apollo Victoria Theatre with a Shirley Bassey concert. Musicals, including ""The Sound of Music"", ""Camelot"" and ""Fiddler on the Roof"" played at the theatre in the early"
"(later Allen) sang it. Legs Diamond (musical) Legs Diamond is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon based on the Warner Brothers film ""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), with a screenplay by Joseph Landon. The music and lyrics are by Peter Allen. ""The Almost Totally Fictitious Musical History of Legs Diamond"" follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business. The musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 26, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 64 performances and 72"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical premiered in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013 and ran for 3 years and 7 months before closing in January 2017. The show was reworked for a Broadway production opening in April 2017 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran almost nine months before closing in January 2018. The"
"in 1958, Tommy Steele in ""Half a Sixpence"" in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in ""Little Me"" in 1964 (334 performances), ""The Black Mikado"" (1975–76), and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical ""Chicago"" ran for 590 performances. More recently the 'rock'n'roll' musical ""Return to the Forbidden Planet"", which was based on Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, ""Miss Saigon"". The controversial show ""Jerry Springer - The Opera"" had a run from 14 October 2003 –"
"Legs Diamond (musical) Legs Diamond is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon based on the Warner Brothers film ""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), with a screenplay by Joseph Landon. The music and lyrics are by Peter Allen. ""The Almost Totally Fictitious Musical History of Legs Diamond"" follows the travails of its title character, a Depression-era mobster who wants to break into show business. The musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 26, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 64 performances and 72 previews (far more than"