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Apollo Victoria Theatre |
Currently showing:
Movin' Out |
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The Apollo Victoria Theatre
is a theatre on Wilton Road near Victoria station in
London.
The building was designed as a "super-cinema" by E.
Warmsley Lewis in 1930 in striking art deco style. The
cinema closed in 1975, reopening six years later as a
theatre, with a concert by Shirley Bassey providing the
opening night.
For eighteen years, the theatre was home to Andrew Lloyd
Webber's musical, Starlight Express, for which the
theatre was extensively redesigned to accommodate a
multi-tier roller skating arena. On 12 January 2002,
shortly before the show's 18th birthday, Lloyd Webber
made the decision to stop the show, in order to open his
new production of A. H. Rahman's Bombay Dreams, which
received its world premiere on 19 June 2002. The
original production, which starred Raza Jaffrey, ran for
two years before closing on 13 June 2004 after over
1,500 successful performances.
As a 'short' filler production, the Bee Gees musical
Saturday Night Fever was brought back to the West End
following a 14-month UK tour and a previous world
premiere at the London Palladium in 1998. The show,
booking to December of that year, was extended and was
booking through to 29 April 2006. However, it will now
leave the theatre on 18 February 2006 to make way for
the European premiere of Broadway's Movin' Out, the
Billy Joel musical from March 2006. This will run for a
strictly limited season prior to a European tour, before
Broadway's Wicked receives its European premiere at the
venue on 27 September 2006.
One of the largest theatres in the capital, its capacity
is 2,208.
Principal productions
The Sound of Music (August 17, 1981 - September 18,
1982)
Camelot (November 23, 1982 - February 5, 1983)
Fiddler on the Roof (June 28, 1983 - October 29, 1983)
Starlight Express (March 27, 1984 - January 12, 2002)
Bombay Dreams (June 19, 2002 - June 13, 2004)
Saturday Night Fever (July 2, 2004 - February 18, 2006)
Movin' Out (March 28, 2006 - July 17, 2006)
Wicked (previews September 7, premieres September 27,
2006) |
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