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Queen's Theatre |
Currently showing:
Les Miserables |
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The Queen's Theatre is a
theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of London,
next to the Gielgud Theatre, as whose twin it was
designed by W. G. R. Sprague at the beginning of the
20th century. The theatre opened in 1906. As opposed to
the Gielgud, whose exterior has little changed, the
facade of the Queen's Theatre was hit by a German bomb
in September 1940 so that the theatre today has a modern
shell and an Edwardian interior.
The Queen's Theatre has seen such talents as Edith
Evans, George Bernard Shaw, John Gielgud, Noel Coward,
Kenneth Branagh, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Hawthorne,
Jane Lapotaire, Alec Guinness, Fiona Shaw and Maggie
Smith.
Since April 2004, the theatre has played host to Cameron
Mackintosh's production of Les Miserables which
transferred, after 18 years from the Palace Theatre just
100m up the road. The musical celebrated its 20th
anniversary at the venue on 8th October 2005 and will
overtake Cats as the longest running musical of all time
on 8th October 2006 should it continue.
The Queen's is set to form part of owner Cameron
Mackintosh's masterplan for a new Shaftesbury Avenue
theatre complex. As part of this scheme, the foyer will
be amalgimated with the adjoinding Gielgud Theatre (also
owned by Mackintosh), and the Queen's is to be reformed
into 1200 seats over two levels. On the roof, will be
the new Sondheim Theatre scheduled to open in late 2007. |
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Queen's
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