Olivier Award winning star of Hairspray Tracie Bennett returns to the West End Stage in Peter Quilter’s new play based on the later life of Judy Garland. Directed by the multi celebrated award winning Terry Johnson, End Of The Rainbow received 5 star reviews and nightly standing ovations on its pre London run. It’s December 1968 and Judy Garland is about to make her comeback… again. In a London hotel suite with her young new fiance at her side, Garland battles with a tornado of drugs and alcohol as she undertakes an exhausting series of concerts at the Talk of the Town to try and reclaim her crown as the greatest talent of her generation. Despite a series of failed marriages and a wrecked Hollywood career, Judy remains a tough, compelling, remarkable woman always armed to the teeth with her legendary razor-sharp wit. Featuring a breathtaking performance by Tracie Bennet the production features several of Garland’s classic songs, including The Man That Got Away, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Trolley Song and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, with a live onstage band.
Price: £37.50
The Rivals is Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s social farce set in Bath in 1775. The fashionable world is descending on Bath to show off its finery, take the waters, enjoy the gossip and pursue romance. Among them are the verbally misguided Mrs Malaprop, her absurdly romantic niece Lydia Languish, the blinkered Sir Anthony Absolute, the blustering Irishman Sir Lucius O’Trigger and the bumpkin Bob Acres. Throughout the course of a single day these suitors and schemers and their servants indulge in an assortment of hilariously extravagant intrigues before everyone is paired off to their own satisfaction. Peter Hall’s production of The Rivals, which played in his season at Theatre Royal Bath before this West End visit, stars Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, two well-known names who once starred alongside each other in popular sitcom To The Manor Born and are now appearing together on stage for the first time. Keith, who is also known for playing Margot in The Good Life, plays the plum role of Mrs Malaprop, while Bowles takes on Sir Anthony Absolute. The Theatre Royal Haymarket welcomes back The Rivals, which opened the present theatre in 1821.
Don’t miss your last chance to see Gerald Scarfe and Christopher Hampson’s vibrant and eccentric Nutcracker. English National Ballet’s magical show is the ideal Christmas treat for all the family. The Nutcracker tells the story of Clara, her Nutcracker doll and the magician Drosselmeyer, and their amazing adventures in the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of the Sweets. It is a spellbinding experience as Clara battles with a Mouse King, dances with snowflakes and falls in love with a handsome Prince. The eternally popular Tchaikovsky score features the ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ and many other familiar favourites.
Combine your ticket with a pre theatre meal at one of the top London restaurant for great savings! Pre-Theatre Meal – valid Monday – Friday. Top price ticket and dinner at Moti Mahal – ?84.00 Combine a 2 course dinner from the pre-theatre menu at Moti Mahal with a top price ticket for War Horse at the New London Theatre for ?84.00 per person. Restaurant Reservation 17:30 or 18:00 Show: Mon, Wed-Fri 19:30, Tue 19:00 About the Restaurant: Moti Mahal is the chic London outpost of the celebrated Delhi restaurant which opened in 1959. ‘Un unexpected delight’ (Harden’s guide) Moti Mahal is presenting its menu the Grand Trunk Road. Inspired by the culinary roots of rural India particularly along the famed Grand Trunk Road, Chef Anirudh Arora has brought to us time honored dishes and recipes. By accentuating new tastes and flavors from India’s richly woven history, the new menu at Moti Mahal is a feast for the senses. A perfect setting with curved glass-fronted kitchen and gleaming copper bar and an attentive service will transform your meal in a memorable experience plus is perfect before a show. Sample Menu
Featuring Bill’s trademark musical interludes, observations and stories of the road, Dandelion Mind will be based loosely on the theme of doubt (or will it?), as we follow Bill from his real-life saga of being trapped by the ash cloud, to his barely contained rants about celebrity, TV, creationism and Michael Winner. He demonstrates new instruments, both ancient and modern, he sings an internet love song, a lament about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop, and plays a mean folk-bouzouki. Thomas the Doubter gets a new look, and Darwin?s curious obsessions and the myth of intelligent design are all worked over in Bailey?s own surreal style. He revisits the music of his youth, with a brand-new French Disco re-working of Gary Numan?s hit, Cars, played in his own inimitable way, and maybe some Wurzels-based remixes of classic German techno. Just your normal Bill Bailey gig, then.
A timeless fantasy about the power of love in which Sam is trapped as a ghost between this world and the next trying to communicate with girlfriend Molly through a phoney psychic, in the hope of saving her from his murderer. A rollercoaster ride of romance, drama and excitement, Bruce Joel Rubin adapts his Oscar-winning screenplay for the stage. GHOST features stunning new music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning legends Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (writer of Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror), and also includes the unforgettable ‘Unchained Melody’. Directed by the multi-award-winning Matthew Warchus, designed by Rob Howell and with extraordinary and stunning stage effects by Paul Kieve (illusionist for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), GHOST promises to be a magical night out that will send spirits soaring in what will be the theatrical event of 2011.
Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Jasmin Vardimon has consistently illustrated the power to grip and seduce audiences; exciting with athletic prowess, lulling through quiet beauty, and tearing our emotions with a gutsy and dramatic voice of intention. Man’s inhumanity to man never ceases to stun each generation. 7734 takes a contemporary view of the legacy of brutality and manipulation of power, evoking personal stories from around the world; it questions the human forces and weaknesses that have manufactured hell on earth whilst illuminating both our capacity for survival and the poetry of hope. For 7734, Vardimon’s visceral choreography and use of video integration dramatically combine with text, music and awe-inspiring performances by a nine-strong company. Drawing the worlds of dance and new writing together, 7734 is co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Soho Theatre. Following the sell-out success of Yesterday at the Peacock Theatre, 7734 marks the company’s highly anticipated debut on the Sadler’s Wells main stage. Latecomers are not admitted
The world’s greatest love story is told through Nureyev’s inventive choreography with sumptuous costumes and sets that transport you to the grandeur and bustle of Renaissance Venice. Prokofiev’s exhilarating and memorable score played by the Orchestra of English National Ballet is the very heartbeat of this tragic tale of love and destiny. Rudolf Nureyev’s award-winning production of Romeo and Juliet was especially created for English National Ballet in 1977 to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. The Company has since performed it worldwide to critical acclaim. Please note: There are no surtitles for this production
Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep dark wood in this magical, musical adaptation of the award winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Mouse can scare hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined? Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged three and up, and their adults… Let your imagination run wild Suitable for ages 3+
Now a major fixture in the Christmas calendar, the stage version of Raymond Briggs’ much-loved book continues to delight children as it returns to the Peacock Theatre this Christmas. When a young boy’s snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve, the two set off on a night-time quest for adventure. On their travels, they meet dancing penguins, reindeer and, of course, Father Christmas. Watch spellbound as the Snowman literally flies through the night sky above you, before escaping the clutches of the evil Jack Frost to return home for Christmas morning. Suitable for all children aged two and upwards, this is a captivating mix of dance, stagecraft and music. Featuring Howard Blake’s beautiful Walking in the Air, performed by a live orchestra, choreography from Robert North and directed by Bill Alexander, this is the perfect Christmas treat for all the family. Latecomers will not be admitted until the interval. Children aged 2 years plus need their own ticket. Strobe Lighting is used.