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 London Musicals

Musicals in London - a real treat!

Here is a list of London Musicals – wowing London audiences every week of the year – any one of them would make a great highlight to a London Theatre Break.
Also listed is a nearby hotel or two and the closest tube station if you need to travel. No inciteful comment I’m afraid – that’s elsewhere – just a list: I hope this is of use! You can even book your London musical Theatre Break

Billy Elliot
One of Britain’s most successful films comes to Theatre Breaks, with the story of the young Northern boy who is determined to dance at the Royal Ballet School – despite all the doubters. With award winning music by Elton John.
Theatre: Victoria Palace, Tube: Victoria
Hotels: Rubens at the Palace / Thistle Grosvenor

Blood Brothers
Told with gentleness, darkness and joy, Willy Russell’s truly great Theatre Break musical Blood Brothers tells the story of twin brothers, separated at birth, who go on to lead very different lives before their paths cross once more.
Theatre: Phoenix, Tube Tottenham Court Road
Hotels: St Giles Hotel / Radisson Edwardian Kenilworth

Chicago
Slick, sexy and very funny. Roxie has murdered her lover and is delivered into the hands of Mama Morton. But will her sleazy lawyer get her acquitted? More twists than the flamenco! The bright lights of Chicago beckon, click here quick – it’s closing soon!
Theatre: Cambridge Theatre, Tube: Covent Garden/ Leicester Square
Hotels: Radisson Edwardian Mercer Street

Dreamboats & Petticoats
Dreamboats and Petticoats became the biggest selling album of the decade after its release last year, amassing an amazing 600,000+ sales. Inspired by the album, Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical will give you the greatest time of your life – taking you back to a time when each passing week brought another classic track. Featuring songs from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, Chuck Berry and many more.
Theatre: Playhouse, Tube: Embankment/Charing Cross
Hotels: Gouman Charing Cross

Ghost – The Musical
The dazzling new musical Theatre Break GHOST, based on the phenomenal Oscar winning Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Theatre: Piccadilly Theatre, Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Hotels: Thistle Piccadilly

Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys Theatre Breaks, The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is playing at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. Discover the rags-to-rock-to riches tale of four boys working their way from the streets of New Jersey to the heights on international pop-stardom.
Theatre: Prince Edward Theatre, Tube: Leicester Square
Hotels: St Giles Hotel / Radisson Edwardian Hampshire

Legally Blonde The Musical
Legally Blonde Theatre Breaks! OMG!! College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn’t take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law School!
Theatre: Savoy Theatre, tube: Charing Cross/ Covent Garden
Hotels: Strand Palace Hotel / Guoman Charing Cross

Les Miserables
Whether you’re revisiting an old favourite or enjoying this great story afresh, Les Miserables is a truly epic Theatre Break spectacle. A powerful story gently told, of one man and the effect he has on a host of vivid characters as 19th century France plunges toward revolution.
Theatre: Queen’s Theatre, tube: Piccadilly Circus,
Hotels: Thistle Piccadilly

Mamma Mia
The Theatre Breaks musical, based around the songs of 80s super group Abba, about a lass who’s getting married on a Greek Island and her search for her real dad – Super Duper.
Theatre: Prince of Wales Theatre, tube: Piccadilly Circus
Hotels: Thistle Piccadilly

Million Dollar Quartet
A smash hit Theatre Break on Broadway and in Chicago, the Tony® Award-winning MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET tells the electrifying story of the night ELVIS PRESLEY, JOHNNY CASH, CARL PERKINS and JERRY LEE LEWIS came together to make music, and ended up making history.
Theatre: Noel Coward Theatre, tube Leicester Sqaure
Hotels: Radisson Edwardian Hampshire/Guoman Charing Cross

Rock of Ages
In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl meets a big city rocker in LA’s most famous rock club and they fell in love to the greatest songs of the 80s.
Theatre: Shaftesbury Theatre, Tube: Holborn
Hotels: Radisson Edwardian Kenilworth Hotel

Shrek the Musical
This new stage musical is based on the story and characters from the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film Shrek , the first chapter in the much loved series of irreverent fairy tales. The smash hit of 2011
Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Tube Covent Garden
Hotels: Strand Palace Hotel/Waldorf Hilton

The Lion King
Disney’s magnificent stage adaptation of The Lion King Theatre Break features inspired puppetry and technical wizardry, brought to life by a cast of over 40 actors, singers and dancers. A spectacular visual feast, The Lion King transports audiences to a dazzling world that explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting music.
Theatre: Lyceum Theatre, Tube: Covent Garden
Hotels: Strand Palace Hotel/Waldorf Hilton

The Phantom of the Opera
The Theatre Breaks story of the haunted stage of the Paris Opera. When an unknown is tutored to become the leading lady by a mysterious masked man, there are bound to be fireworks.
Theatre: Her Majesty’s Theatre, Tube Piccadilly Circus
Hotels: Thistle Piccadilly/Radisson Edwardian Hampshire

Thriller – Live
Thriller – Live is a spectacular, high-octane show specially created to celebrate the career of the world’s greatest entertainer and undisputed King of Pop – Michael Jackson. Moonwalking into the West End after three acclaimed UK tours and standing ovations across Germany, Holland and Scandanavia, Thriller – Live pays tribute to the musical hits and career of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5.
Theatre Lyric Theatre, tube: Piccadilly Circus
Hotels: Thistle Piccadilly

We Will Rock You
A We Will Rock You Theatre Break features 31 of Queen’s greatest songs. Set on Earth in the future, all music instruments are banned. But there is growing resistance from the rebel Bohemians! An underground movement of music lovers is looking for a leader to take them out of the subway and into the real world of rock ‘n’ roll: enter Galileo.
Theatre Dominion Theatre, Tube Tottenham Court Road
Hotels: St Giles Hotel/Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street

Wicked
Direct from Broadway, the spellbinding Wicked transports theatre breaks audiences to a spectacular fantasy world of wizards and witches to tell the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz and how one came to be called good and the other ‘wicked’…
Theatre Apollo Victoria Theatre, tube: Victoria
Hotel: Rubens at the Palace Hotel/Thistle Grosvenor

Wizard of Oz
“We’re off to see…” …the most magical theatre break of them all! Follow the yellow brick road over the rainbow and into The London Palladium for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of The Wizard of Oz. Starring Michael Crawford as The Wizard and Danielle Hope (winner of the BBC’s smash hit Over The Rainbow) as Dorothy.
Theatre: London Palladium, tube: Oxford Circus
Hotels: Courthouse /Radisson Berkshire