The West End Gets the Star Treatment
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The West End Gets the Star Treatment
According to theatre ticket comparison site SeatChoice.
com 2009 is a great year for
seeing the stars on the West End stage.
London, UK, April 21, 2009 -- According to theatre ticket comparison site...
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The West End Gets the Star Treatment
According to theatre ticket comparison site SeatChoice.
com 2009 is a great year for
seeing the stars on the West End stage.
London, UK, April 21, 2009 -- According to theatre ticket comparison site
SeatChoice.
com 2009 is a great year for seeing the stars on the West End stage.
From Shakespearean actors to celebrity stand-ins there?s something for everyone in
Theatreland this year.
Dame Judi Dench is currently appearing in Madam De Sade at the Wyndham?s Theatre,
Charring Cross Road.
Tickets start at just £25.
00 and there are still some seats
available through various ticket agents from now until the 23rd of May.
Seeing
probably the greatest British actress of her generation may not be as difficult or
as expensive as you might think.
Waiting for Godot opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on the 6th of May and brings
with it a stellar cast.
Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart take the two leading
roles of Estragon and Vladimir whilst Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup support as
Pozzo and Lucky.
It?s the sort of cast which only assembles once in a decade and
Waiting for Godot looks to be a ?must see? play this year.
Tickets start at just
£16.
50 though seats in the stalls will cost you £47.
50.
SeatChoice.
co.
uk advises
Beckett fans to book soon though as seats are already becoming hard to find for the
two month run which follows on from a sell-out tour.
Jude Law has his first crack at playing Hamlet when he appears at the Wyndhams
Theatre from the 29th of May to the 22nd of August 2009.
Tickets cost from just £10
to £32.
50, an absolute steal.
Rowan Atkinson has been a big hit as Fagin in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury
Lane.
But despite his enthusiasm for the role he was never going to stay in the
show for long.
Sure enough the producers recently announced that Mr Atkinson would
leave Oliver! on the 18th of July when Omid Djalili would take over.
However, what
no one could have predicted is that comedy star Russ Abbot would be standing in for
Rowan Atkinson whilst he undergoes some emergency surgery for a hernia which flared
up on his recent break.
Mr Abbot, who played Fagin in the 1997 production of
Oliver! at the Palladium, will stand in from the 13th to the 27th of April.
Expect
to pay from £17.
50 to £85.
00 plus booking fees for tickets whichever Fagin shows
up.
Former Stars in their Eyes presenter turned actor Matthew Kelly plays George in
Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Trafalgar Studios until May 9th.
George was
famously played by Richard Burton opposite Elizabeth Taylor in the multi Oscar
winning 1966 cinema version so Mr Kelly has a big act to follow.
Tickets cost £22
but with only 100 seats for each performance these could sell quickly!
Actor, comedian and presenter Brian Conley will take over as Edna Turnblad in
Hairspray when Michael Ball finally hangs up his bouffant wig in July.
Mr Conley is
no stranger to musical theatre having previously appeared in Jolson, Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang and most recently The Music Man at the Chichester Festival.
He takes over
from Michael Ball on the 27th of July.
Tickets for Hairspray cost from £22.
50 to
£85.
00.
Despite his name appearing in the title of a controversial musical, US talk Show
host Jerry Springer has never actually appeared on the West End stage.
However, on
June 1st Springer takes on the role of Billy Flynn for a six week stint in Chicago
at the Cambridge Theatre.
Tickets cost from £30.
00 to £85.
00 plus booking fees
although discounts of £25.
50 per ticket have been available recently.
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