This Is London 5 April 2019

63 Years Informing International & UK Visitors 

Est. 1956 Issue 3147 

Friday 5 April, 2019

CONTENTS 

Events 4 

Sir Andy Murray Starts London Marathon 

Dinosaur World Roars into Wembley 

Dambusters at RAF Museum London 

Music 8 

English Chamber Orchestra 

Celebrating Mozart’s Women! 

Bach Choir: St Matthew Passion 

Exhibitions 14 

200th Anniversary of Victoria’s Birth 

New Season of Hidden London Tours 

Theatre 16 

Admissions 

Downstate 

Mamma Mia! 20th Anniversary 

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Welcome to London 

‘What country, friends, is this?’ 

That is the question that Viola – 

finding herself in an unfamiliar new land 

after a devastating shipwreck – asks in 

the opening moments of Shakespeare’s 

comic masterpiece, Twelfth Night. We 

look forward to welcoming you to 

Shakespeare’s Globe this summer as we 

join Viola, and Shakespeare, in asking 

questions about national identity, 

belonging and refuge. 

The Globe Theatre season opens on 23 April – the date of Shakespeare’s 

birthday – with a trilogy of plays that reflect on English history and myths: 

Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Once again, we will have 700 tickets 

priced at £5 for every performance in the Globe Theatre season as part of our 

commitment to making Shakespeare accessible to all. 

Later in the season, we will also perform some of Shakespeare’s best-loved 

comedies, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as holding festivals 

on the themes of Women and Power and Shakespeare and Poland. Our lively 

family storytelling festival, Shakespeare’s Telling Tales, returns in July and, 

away from Bankside, you can also catch Emilia, our smash-hit new play from 

2018, at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End. 

Our open-air theatre on the bank of the River Thames is a unique artistic 

and cultural venue, and a must-see London visitor attraction. If you’re 

interested to learn more about the space, we also run guided tours throughout 

the year. 

We look forward to seeing you on Bankside this summer! 

“AN ABSOLUTE 

BLAST.” 

© WLPL 

SW1V 1LG• 

The Guardian 

Neil Constable 

Chief Executive, Shakespeare’s Globe 

VICTORIA 

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SIR ANDY MURRAY TO START 2019 

VIRGIN MONEY LONDON MARATHON 

British sporting icon Sir Andy Murray 

will be the official starter of the 2019 

Virgin Money London Marathon. The 

tennis superstar, one of Britain’s greatest 

ever athletes, will start the world’s 

greatest marathon on Sunday 28 April. 

Andy became the first British man in 

77 years to win the Wimbledon singles 

title in 2013 and repeated the triumph 

again in 2016. He won successive 

Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016 

with the first of those coming at 

Wimbledon as part of the London 

Olympic Games. 

The 31-year-old, who grew up in 

Dunblane, Scotland, also won the US 

Open in 2012 and in 2014 famously led 

Great Britain to a first Davis Cup title 

since 1936. He was the world’s number 

one ranked player from November 2016 

to August 2017. He was knighted in the 

2017 New Year’s Honours List. 

Andy, who is currently rehabilitating 

after surgery on his right hip, has a 

personal connection with the event as he 

was there to support his wife Kim when 

she ran in 2014. 

Last year, Her Majesty The Queen was 

the official race starter while in 2017 the 

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and 

Prince Harry pressed the famous red 

button to get the marathon under way. 

The official starters over the years have 

also included five time Olympic 

champion Sir Steve Redgrave and 

double Olympic champions Helen 

Glover and Heather Stanning. 

Hugh Brasher, Event Director of the 

Virgin Money London Marathon, said: 

‘Sir Andy Murray is one of Britain’s 

greatest sporting superstars and it is 

so fitting that he will be the official 

starter for one of the country’s greatest 

sporting events and the world’s greatest 

marathon. Andy is renowned as one of 

the toughest and most competitive 

sportsmen on the planet and someone 

who does not recognise barriers in 

sport. We are delighted that he will be 

with us on Sunday 28 April to start the 

field of 42,000 runners undertaking the 

legendary 26.2 mile challenge – 

including both the very best marathon 

runners in the world and thousands of 

first-timers who have been inspired to 

get active and raise money for charity.’ 

DAMBUSTERS: VIRTUAL REALITY 

EXPERIENCE AT RAF MUSEUM 

The Royal Air Force Museum is 

inviting visitors to take a seat on board a 

Lancaster during the legendary 

Dambusters raid of 1943, using Virtual 

Reality technology. 

The Dams Raid was the greatest feat of 

arms performed by the Royal Air Force 

and one of the key stories of the Second 

World War. Its success captured the 

public imagination at the time and over 

the next 70 years inspired a multitude of 

books, films and documentaries. 

Dambusters: Immersive Histories is 

the newest part of the Dambusters offer 

that also includes a replica of the 

‘bouncing bomb’, Barnes Wallis’ office 

and the original moulds of the first test 

bombs. The Virtual Reality Experience 

puts the user inside a moment in history. 

For the first time ever, visitors to the 

Museum can step inside the story of the 

iconic operation through an authentic, 

interactive recreation of the Dambusters’ 

first mission on 16 May 1943 attacking 

the Möhne Dam. 

Lancaster during the Dambusters raid. 


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CHELSEA FC STADIUM TOURS 

OF STAMFORD BRIDGE 

For visitors to London, a tour of 

Stamford Bridge is not to be missed. 

Home of one of the world’s most iconic 

football clubs, its a fun, informative and 

unforgettable experience enjoyed by 

sports fans of all ages from all over the 

world. The guided hour-long tour will 

take you behind the scenes at one of the 

worlds greatest football clubs, giving 

visitors access to areas normally 

reserved for players and officials. 

Along the way you will visit various 

stands in the stadium, the press room, 

home and away dressing rooms, the 

tunnel and dug-out areas. All tours 

include entry to the Museum, giving the 

chance to see how Chelsea has evolved 

on and off the pitch over the years. 

Chelsea pride themselves on having 

guides who are both knowledgeable and 

enthusiastic about the club, and it's their 

passion that make the tours a truly 

memorable experience. 

Whilst at the Stadium, have lunch at 

Chelsea's very own Frankie's Sports Bar 

& Diner as part of the Tour and Lunch 

package. A combined Tour and Lunch 

package includes a full stadium tour, 

entrance to the Chelsea FC Museum and 

a two course lunch from a set menu in 

Frankie's Sports Bar & Diner. 

Visit www.chelseafc.com/tours 

CIRCUS 1903 RETURNS TO THE 

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 

Circus 1903 is back! Thousands of 

people flocked to the Royal Festival Hall 

over Christmas last year to delight in the 

wonders of the Golden Age of Circus 

and the show will return to the UK for a 

repeat season at Southbank Centre’s 

Royal Festival Hall. 

This year’s show will feature many of 

the best loved acts from last year, 

including Peanut and Queenie, 

undoubtedly the most charming elephants 

on any stage around the world, alongside 

ringmaster David Williamson. A range of 

new acts from around the world join the 

troupe to delight audiences. 

ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST WITH 

BUNNY FOR EASTER 

Hard Rock Cafe London is hosting a 

hoppin’ Breakfast with Bunny feast on 

Sunday 14 April, for families looking for 

an entertaining experience everyone can 

enjoy. The Breakfast with Bunny buffet 

will take place from 10.00 through to 

12.00 and features an all you can eat 

spread of egg-cellent dishes such as 

scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes, 

muffins and an assortment of juices. 

Future Roxstars Easter can also enjoy 

an Easter egg hunt, face painters and a 

surprise visit from the Easter bunny. As 

an egg-stra special Easter treat, Roxtars 

will receive an Easter Goodie Bag to 

take home. 

‘Hard Rock Cafe is creating a unique 

breakfast experience that caters to kids 

and adults alike this Easter,’ said Leigh 

Merritt, Vice President of Food & 

Beverage for Hard Rock International. 

‘Bringing families together through 

music, food and fun is what Hard Rock 

Cafe does best, and we’d love for 

everyone to join the fun at Hard Rock 

Cafe London.’ Beginning with an Eric 

Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the 

world's most valuable collection of 

music memorabilia, which is displayed 

at its locations around the globe. 

Booking is essential as spaces are 

limited. For more information, call 

020 7514 1700 or visit the website. 


SUSAN CALMAN VOICE OF NEW 

CALEDONIAN SLEEPER 

Guests travelling on board the 

Caledonian Sleeper will soon be woken 

by one of Scotland’s most popular 

celebrities, after Susan Calman was 

named the voice of the new trains. 

The TV and radio star is no stranger 

to travelling to some of the nation’s 

best-loved destinations having recently 

presented Channel 5’s Secret Scotland. 

Now, her tour of Scotland will 

continue six nights a week as she 

‘travels’ on board the Caledonian Sleeper 

between London and various Scottish 

locations including Aberdeen, 

Edinburgh, Fort William, Glasgow and 

Inverness. Susan, who will voice all 

scheduled announcements, is a frequent 

guest on board and a huge advocate of 

sleeper travel. During her time on BBC 

One’s Strictly Come Dancing last year, 

she even filmed on the train as part of 

the show. 

The new Caledonian Sleeper trains 

will be introduced in May and for the 

first time will include rooms with double 

beds and en-suite toilet and showers. 

Ryan Flaherty, Serco’s Managing 

Director at Caledonian Sleeper, said: 

‘Susan is the perfect fit as the voice of 

Caledonian Sleeper. Like us, she has a 

real sense of adventure and is 

completely at home travelling around 

Scotland. Our ambition with our new 

trains is to deliver a timeless experience 

for guests and I know Susan is thrilled 

to be part of such a huge change to the 

service. We’re firmly on the final 

countdown now and I cannot wait for 

guests to step on board and see the new 

Caledonian Sleeper for the first time.’ 

The new fleet, built at a cost of over 

£100m and part funded by a capital grant 

from the Scottish Ministers of £60m, has 

been designed to accommodate the 

modern-day traveller and cater for both 

business and leisure travel guests. 

It’s the perfect way to travel from the 

capital to Scotland without the 

inconveniences of flying or the long 

road journey. 

Susan Calman on the new Caledonian Sleeper. 

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ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY’S 143rd 

GOOD FRIDAY MESSIAH 

There is no better way to kick off the 

Easter weekend than with the joyous, 

moving music of Handel’s choral 

masterpiece, Messiah. This year sees the 

Royal Choral Society’s 143rd annual 

Good Friday afternoon performance at 

the Royal Albert Hall; it’s an event that 

forms an important part of London’s 

Easter celebrations. 

The Royal Choral Society was formed 

for the opening of the Royal Albert Hall 

in 1871, and the choir performed 

Messiah in its first season in 1872 but is 

was in 1876 the great Easter tradition of 

singing Messiah every Good Friday 

afternoon at the Royal Albert Hall began. 

It is thought that this choir has sung this 

profound spiritual epic more times than 

any other choral ensemble, estimated at 

around 280 performances. Messiah is 

the perfect musical choice for 

Passiontide, with the moving and 

uplifting music illustrating Christ’s 

passion, redemption and resurrection. 

Messiah contains one of the greatest 

choruses in the choral repertoire – the 

The Royal Choral Society. 

‘Hallelujah Chorus’. It is thought that 

when King George II first heard the 

Hallelujah he stood up on his feet, and 

ever since, when the opening bars of 

this chorus are played, the audience 

rises to its feet: this is quite a sight in 

the sumptuous interior of a packed 

Royal Albert Hall on Good Friday 

afternoon. 

From the earliest days the finest 

orchestras, conductors and soloists 

have joined the RCS at the Royal Albert 

Hall on Good Friday and this year is no 

exception with the Royal Philharmonic 

Orchestra, soprano Mhairi Lawson, 

mezzo-soprano Madeleine Shaw, tenor 

Jamie MacDougall and bass Božidar 

Smiljani all joining the choir under the 

baton of conductor Richard Cooke. 

Be part of this great Easter tradition 

on Good Friday afternoon and enjoy 

Handel’s magnificent oratorio in one of 

the world’s greatest concert halls. 

Tickets are available from the website 

at www.royalalberthall.com or by 

telephone on 0845 401 5045. 

For further information visit 

www.royalchoralsociety.co.uk 

DELICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS 

The Délica Chamber Orchestra will 

perform with Paula Duarte & Dante 

Culcuy tango dancers at Cadogan Hall 

on Thursday 11 April at 19.30. Visitors 

can experience classical music from a 

new perspective – Italian Melodies & 

Tangos arranged for string chamber 

orchestra, in works from Rossini and 

Puccini to tangos by Piazzolla and 

Albéniz and including leading tango 

dancers Paula Duarte and Dante Culcuy. 

Paula Duarte is currently world 

touring with tango dancer Michael 

Nadtochi, together they are known as 

‘Paulita y el Gato’. She is also Principle 

dancer of Revelacion Tango tango stage 

show by Adriano Mauriello. 

The Délica Chamber Orchestra was 

founded in June 2017 in Madrid and 

comprises musicians from some of 

Europe’s most prestigious universities. 

Their diverse backgrounds, views and 

cultures come together in a powerful 

union of talent and love of music. Their 

broad range of musical styles, from 

Baroque to contemporary, has delighted 

audiences wherever they have 

performed, with playing of passion, 

sensitivity and elegance. 

For tickets, telephone 020 7730 4500. 


ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 

PLAYS MENDELSSOHN AND SCHUBERT 

Experience the intimacy and energy of 

live classical music performed without a 

conductor with the English Chamber 

Orchestra at Cadogan Hall (Sloane Square) 

on 16 April (19.30). 

The ECO’s leader Stephanie Gonley 

directs from the violin in a concert that’s 

been designed to show the ECO at its very 

best: chamber music on the most allembracing 

scale. Bartók’s Divertimento is 

one of the 20th Century’s greatest 

masterpieces for strings: a premonition of 

the Second World War, charged with a 

fierce, burning vitality that simply won’t roll 

over and be polite. Suk’s Serenade comes 

from a happier world: a song of summer, 

drenched in romantic melody and glowing 

with Bohemian sunshine. In other words, 

exactly what you’d hope for from Dvořák’s 

favourite pupil. 

In between, Stephanie steps into the 

spotlight, as soloist not just in the teenage 

Mendelssohn’s surprisingly dramatic ‘other’ 

violin concerto, but also in Schubert’s 

deliciously tuneful and virtuosic Rondo. 

The world’s most-recorded chamber 

orchestra, the ECO has long been an 

integral part of the UK’s orchestral heritage, 

with almost 60 years of music making 

across the globe. The illustrious history of 

the orchestra features many major musical 

figures including Benjamin Britten (the 

orchestra’s first patron), Mstislav 

Rostropovich, Pinchas Zukerman and 

Daniel Barenboim and many others. Under 

the patronage of HRH Prince Charles, the 

ECO has been honoured to participate in a 

number of royal occasions over the years, 

most recently for the wedding of Prince 

Harry and Meghan Markle. 

Later in the season, hear the ECO again 

on 22 May (at Cadogan Hall) with the 

phenomenal Uzbek pianist Behzod 

Abduraimov directing Beethoven's First 

Piano Concerto from the keyboard. 

Cadogan Hall is a two-minute walk from 

Sloane Square tube station (District and 

Circle Line), in the heart of Chelsea. 

Box Office telephone 020 7730 4500 or 

visit www.cadoganhall.com 

The English Chamber Orchestra 

Photo: Chris Christodoulou. 

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THE BACH CHOIR: ST MATTHEW 

PASSION 

On Sunday 7 April, The Bach Choir 

and conductor David Hill will perform 

Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal 

Festival Hall – an event that is a muchanticipated 

fixture in London’s musical 

calendar. The Choir’s conductor David 

Hill was recently made a Member of the 

Order of the British Empire in the New 

Year Honours for his services to music. 

The performance comes 125 years after 

the Choir first performed the St Matthew 

Passion. James Gilchrist returns to the 

role of the Evangelist and Matthew Rose 

sings Christ alongside Sophie Bevan, 

Hilary Summers, Ed Lyon, and Neal 

Davies. 

The annual performance now begins 

at 11.00, breaking for a long lunch at the 

moment where the congregants in Bach’s 

own Thomaskirche would have heard 

their Good Friday sermon, between the 

two parts. The Choir sings in English, 

conveying the directness and the drama 

as found in the German-texted original. 

Members of the Bach Choir now 

return to the work year on year with a 

sense of devotion and unbroken tradition 

that recalls the zeal of the amateur 

societies that first unearthed and began 

to perform Bach’s works nearly 200 

years ago. Tickets tel: 020 3879 9555. 

TALLULAH RENDALL COMES TO THE 

TABERNACLE 

Spirited rock singer turned sound 

therapist, Tallulah Rendall, will be 

playing at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill 

on Saturday 6 April, as part of a tour 

celebrating the launch of her landmark 

new album The Liminal. 

Launching on Thursday 4 April, The 

Liminal is Tallulah’s fourth album. 

Drawing on her life experience, the 

album’s collection of uplifting lyrical 

anthems were created to inspire and 

heal, abetted by the sonic reverberations 

of her gongs and singing bowls. Tallulah 

is now eager to initiate others into this 

this tranquil, creative dimension. To 

achieve this, she has cooked up an 

immersive, sensory experience for her 

concerts where she will transport her 

audience from deep stillness via an 

opening sound bath, into an enlivening 

live performance. 

AMATIS PIANO TRIO IN CONCERT 

The Amatis Trio won The Parkhouse 

Award in 2015, were then chosen for the 

BBC New Generation Artists scheme 

2016-18 and are now ECHO Rising 

Stars giving performances worldwide. 

They have always championed new 

music in addition to the well-loved 

repertoire and continue with a concert 

on 15 April at Southbank Centre. 

‘Moorlands’ by the young Swedish 

composer, Andrea Tarrodi, was 

commissioned by ECHO and adds the 

piano trio to the extensive range of 

ensembles she writes for. In 2010, 

Tarrodi’s piece Zephyros for orchestra 

received 1st prize in the Uppsala 

Composition Competition, which led to 

several performances of the piece by 

different orchestras around the world. 

During 2011-2013, she was Radio 

Sweden P2’s composer-in-residence and 

in Spring 2012 she was appointed 

‘Composer of the Spring Season’ in the 

Berwald Concert Hall. 

Performances of piano trios by 

Brahms and Mendelssohn follow, both 

second trios for these composers, the 

former in C major and the latter in C 

minor. Brahms’s was written in the 

1880s which was considered a most 

fruitful period for his chamber music 

and Mendelssohn, writing about his trio 

to sister Fanny, commented that it was 

‘a trifle nasty to play, but not really 

difficult’. He dedicated it to one of the 

great musicians of the age, the 

composer and violinist Louis Spohr, 

who is known to have taken part in at 

least one performance with 

Mendelssohn himself at the piano. 

For tickets, telephone 020 3879 9555. 

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The Amatis Trio. 


CELEBRATING MOZART’S WOMEN! 

This year the London Mozart Players 

and their former Artistic Director, Jane 

Glover, celebrate their 70th birthdays. 

To mark these milestones, they are 

reuniting for a concert at London’s 

fabulous St John’s Smith Square concert 

hall on 11 April at 19.30, with a very 

special programme that celebrates the 

women who touched Mozart’s life and 

inspired him to compose some of his 

greatest works. 

‘Mozart’s Women’ included piano 

virtuoso Victoire Jenamy, who would 

have performed his Piano Concerto No. 

9 in E flat K.271; his first love, soprano 

Aloysia Weber – inspiration for the 

ravishing aria ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio’ 

(which reaches top E); Aloysia’s sister 

Constanze – later Mozart’s wife, for 

whom he composed the soprano part of 

his Mass in C Minor; and English 

soprano Nancy Storace, the muse 

behind the aria ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’ 

(which includes a solo piano). Not 

forgetting the composer’s sister Maria 

Anna – ‘Nannerl’, and his mother, Maria, 

who accompanied Mozart through 

Europe in 1778, dying shortly after the 

performance of his ‘Paris’ Symphony No. 

31, K.297. 

It’s a line-up of top musicians, all 

Mozart experts. Alongside the London 

Mozart Players under the baton of 

conductor Jane Glover, coloratura 

Soprano Jennifer France will hold 

audiences spellbound with a couple of 

Mozart’s most beautiful arias, while 

hugely acclaimed 17-year-old pianist 

and current BBC Young Musician Lauren 

Zhang will breathe fresh life into 

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat. 

This will be a glorious evening of music 

that no Mozart aficionado should miss. 

St John’s Smith Square is a short 

walk from Westminster station, which is 

on the Jubilee Line. There is a restaurant 

which serves dinner as well as cakes 

and hot beverages. 

For more information visit 

www.sjss.org.uk/events/mozarts-women 

London Mozart Players. 

Photo: Kevin Day. 

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Kensington Palace © Historic Royal Palaces 

HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES MARK 

200TH ANNIVERSARY OF QUEEN 

VICTORIA’S BIRTH 

Historic Royal Palaces are to mark the 

200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s 

birth with major new exhibition at 

Kensington Palace. The new exhibition 

and re-presented visitor route will open 

on 24 May at the birthplace of the 

Victorian era. 

On 24 May 1819, Princess Victoria 

was born at Kensington Palace, an infant 

who as Queen would one day rule over 

the largest empire the world had ever 

known. To mark the bicentenary of this 

historic event, Historic Royal Palaces are 

presenting a major new exhibition at 

Kensington Palace, alongside a 

re-presentation of the rooms the young 

Victoria called home. 

As the birthplace of the Victorian era, 

Kensington Palace played a central role 

in the shaping of this important 

monarch. It was at the palace that 

Victoria spent her formative years under 

the gaze of her ever-present mother the 

Duchess of Kent, and it was in her 

apartment at Kensington that she went to 

bed a princess and woke up a queen. 

Now, using new research by curators at 

Historic Royal Palaces – the 

independent charity which cares for 

Kensington Palace – the suite of rooms 

Victoria and her mother occupied will be 

reimagined in an evocative and familyfriendly 

exploration of royal childhood. 

Through a display of remarkable 

objects relating to her early years – 

including a poignant scrapbook of 

mementos created by her German 

governess, Baroness Lehzen, which 

goes on public display for the first time - 

this newly presented route will reveal the 

story of the girl destined to be queen. 

From the rapid conversion of a dining 

room into a birthing room, visitors will 

follow the Princess’s journey to the 

crown, experiencing how an idyllic 

childhood became governed by the strict 

rules of the ‘Kensington System’, and 

how Victoria escaped isolation and 

family feuding into a fantasy world of 

story writing, doll making and drawing 

inspired by her love of opera and ballet. 

Meanwhile, in the palace’s Pigott 

Gallery, a new exhibition will consider 

the private woman behind the public 

monarch, and re-examine her later life 

and legacy. As head of an ever-growing 

family, Victoria had the unique challenge 

of balancing the role of wife and mother 

with that of Queen of an expanding 

empire. 

The exhibition will assess her power 

and influence following the death of her 

beloved Albert, and how she carefully 

curated her own public image. As the 

most famous woman in the world at the 

dawn of the photographic age, Victoria 

understood and consciously harnessed 

this new technology, using it both to 

project an image of Imperial power 

across continents and document the 

minutiae of family life. Similarly, the 

display will consider how her 

organisation of the marriages of her nine 

children – and those of her 42 

grandchildren – into the ruling families 

of Europe marked a deliberate exercise 

in shaping dynastic politics across the 

continent, and earned her the nickname 

‘the Grandmother of Europe’. 

Looking further afield, Victoria’s 

complex love affair with India will also 

be explored, from her Anglicisation of 

the deposed Maharajah Duleep Singh to 

the role played by her Indian servant 

Abdul Karim, on whom the Queen 

bestowed the title of ‘Munshi’ or 

‘teacher’. 

www.hrp.org.uk/Victoria2019 


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Vincent van Gogh – Self-portrait 1887. 

THE EY EXHIBITION: VAN GOGH 

AND BRITAIN 

Last week, Tate Britain opened a 

major exhibition about Vincent van Gogh 

(1853- 1890). The EY Exhibition: Van 

Gogh and Britain is the first exhibition to 

take a new look at the artist through his 

relationship with Britain. It explores both 

how Van Gogh was inspired by British 

art, literature and culture and how he, in 

turn, inspired British artists, from 

Vanessa Bell to Francis Bacon. 

Bringing together the largest group of 

Van Gogh paintings shown in the UK for 

nearly a decade, The EY Exhibition: Van 

Gogh and Britain includes over 50 works 

by the artist from public and private 

collections around the world. They 

include Self-Portrait 1889 from the 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, The 

Arlésienne 1890 from Museu de Arte de 

Säo Paolo, Starry Night 1888 from the 

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Shoes from the 

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the 

rarely loaned Sunflowers 1888 from the 

National Gallery, London. 

Van Gogh spent several crucial years 

in London between 1873 and 1876, 

writing to his brother Theo, 'I love 

London'. Arriving as a young trainee art 

dealer, the vast modern city prompted 

him to explore new avenues of life, art 

and love. The exhibition reveals Van 

Gogh's enthusiasm for British culture 

during his stay and his subsequent 

artistic career. It shows how he 

responded to the art he saw, including 

works by John Constable and John 

Everett Millais as well as his love of 

British writers from William Shakespeare 

to Christina Rossetti. Charles Dickens in 

particular influenced Van Gogh's style 

and subject matter throughout his career. 

The Arlésienne 1890, a portrait he 

created in the last year of his life in the 

south of France, features a favourite 

book by Dickens in the foreground. 

The exhibition also explores Van 

Gogh's passion for British graphic artists 

and prints. Despite his poverty, he 

searched out and collected around 2,000 

engravings, most from English magazines 

such as the Illustrated London News. 

Tracing Van Gogh from his obscure 

years in London to the extraordinary 

fame he achieved in Britain in the 1950s, 

the exhibition shows how his 

uncompromising art and life paved the 

way for modern British artists like 

Matthew Smith, Christopher Wood and 

David Bomberg. It concludes with an 

important group of portraits by Francis 

Bacon based on a Van Gogh self-portrait 

known only from photographs since its 

destruction during the Second World 

War. The exhibition provides an 

opportunity to look afresh at well-known 

works by Van Gogh, through the eyes of 

the British artists he so inspired, in a 

period when he epitomised the idea of 

the embattled, misunderstood artist, set 

apart from mainstream society. 

Van Gogh – Sunflowers 1888. 

NEW SEASON OF HIDDEN LONDON 

DISUSED STATION TOURS 

Hidden London is bringing some 

movie magic to its historic Aldwych 

disused station tours with a 

complimentary film screening of the 

award-winning film Darkest Hour (2017) 

starring Academy Award winning actor 

Gary Oldman and Dame Kristin Scott 

Thomas. After exploring one of London’s 

most secret spaces deep underground, 

guests can enjoy the war-time 

blockbuster in the comfortable Cubic 

Theatre at London Transport Museum. 

Film fans will also have the chance to 

walk in the footsteps of James Bond 

during the Charing Cross tour and 

complimentary Skyfall (2012) screening. 

Charing Cross disused station is one of 

the Bond filming locations. Guests can 

enjoy a martini – shaken not stirred – as 

they watch actor Daniel Craig as the 

famous spy in action in the Cubic Theatre. 

Visitors to the Clapham South – 

Subterranean shelter tour will hear about 

the extraordinary stories of Londoners 

seeking refuge in this labyrinth of 

underground passages during the 

Second World War as well as Caribbean 

migrants arriving on the Empire 

Windrush who, temporarily, made this 

deep-level underground shelter their 

home. 

The Down Street tour gives Churchill 

enthusiasts the opportunity to discover 

where this great war-time leader took 

refuge during the height of the Blitz, 

while art deco fans will love the 55 

Broadway tour. Opened in 1929, this 

Grade I listed building was London’s 

first skyscraper and celebrates its 90th 

birthday this year. Warmer weather 

means the green and wild area around 

Highgate station, and its disused 

platforms can be explored. Find out why 

the station now lies in a secluded vale. 

The Euston tour offers visitors a glimpse 

of quiet and spooky passageways below 

Euston’s bustling station. 

Organised by London Transport 

Museum, the new season runs from 

1 April to 27 September. 


Roie Galitz, Israel. Special mention, natural world. Svalbard, Norway. A mother Polar 

bear and her two young cubs are migrating north, as the sea ice melts quicker than 

previous years. 

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE 

YEAR FLIES INTO LONDON 

London gains a stunning open-air 

photography attraction when the latest 

winning images from the international 

Travel Photographer of the Year awards 

go on display this week at London 

Bridge City, adjacent to City Hall and the 

Scoop and opposite the Tower of 

London. This vibrant and evocative 

exhibition of world-class contemporary 

travel photography will be on view 

24 hours a day and run until 30 April. 

The exhibition is the first public 

showing of the winning shots from the 

2018 Travel Photographer of the Year 

competition. Amateur and professional 

photographers from 142 countries 

submitted over 20,000 images, and 

photographers from 22 countries feature 

amongst the winners. The 2019 awards 

open on 11 April. Shot on everything 

from high-end mobile phones to 

professional cameras, the images 

present a glorious, intriguing, at times 

poignant, thought-provoking view of this 

planet and its human and wild inhabitants. 

Exhibition visitors can vote for their 

favourite image at tpoty.photo, and 

everybody who votes will be entered 

into a draw for the chance to win a 

range of prizes. 

THE ART OF PERSUASION: WARTIME 

POSTERS BY ABRAM GAMES 

The art of persuasion: Wartime 

posters by Abram Games is a major 

retrospective of the pioneering work of 

graphic artist Abram Games, opening at 

the National Army Museum on 6 April. 

The show presents over 100 posters 

Games created during his employment 

as a poster artist for the Public Relations 

Department at the War Office from 1941 

until 1945. The exhibition explores how 

his Jewish refugee heritage, experiences 

as a soldier and the turbulent politics of 

wartime Britain shaped the career of a 

man who continues to influence design 

industry professionals today. 

At a time of immense social unrest, 

after the 'war to end all wars' had left 

hundreds of thousands of veterans and 

civilians on the poverty line, the country 

was to embark on a second world war 

with National Service an unthinkable 

necessity. Abram Games, a staunch 

socialist who had himself joined the Army 

in 1940, saw an opportunity to 

communicate ideas which might help win 

the war, as well as bring about social 

change in Britain. He did this by creating 

posters that recruited, educated, informed 

and influenced soldiers and civilians alike. 

The exhibition explores his masterful 

use of the airbrush, a limited colour 

palette, bold hand-rendered typography 

and often stark imagery, in covering 

difficult subjects like saving lives and 

censorship. Leading with a mantra of 

'maximum meaning, minimum means', 

Games was the master of reductive 

design. 

THE MASTER OF LIGHT SOROLLA AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY 

From the vivid seascapes, garden views, and bather scenes for which he is most 

renowned, to portraits, landscapes and genre scenes of Spanish life, the new exhibition 

at the National Gallery features 60 works spanning Joaquín Sorolla's career. 

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Joaquín Sorolla, Sewing the Sail, 1896 Oil on canvas, 222 × 300 cm 

Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro, Venice 2018 

© Photo Archive - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia 


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© Michael Brosilow. 

DOWNSTATE 

Dorfman 

The consequences of a crime can last 

a life time – and not just for the victim. 

In Bruce Norris’s provocative new play 

(a co-production between Steppenwolf 

and the National Theatre which 

premiered in Chicago last year) Tim 

Hopper’s Andy, who was sexually abused 

as a 12 year old, has come, 30 years 

later, to confront the man who ruined his 

childhood, and his life, hoping that a 

reconciliation statement will finally give 

him closure. Fred (Francis Guinan), his 

former piano teacher, is mild-mannered, 

seemingly harmless and now confined to 

a wheelchair. Yet there is something 

creepily, subtly coercive about this 

Chopin-playing old man. Like the three 

former prisoners with whom he shares a 

house in downstate Illinois, he has 

served his jail sentence, but still fails to 

acknowledge the wrongness – or the 

extent of the damage caused by – past 

behaviour. Ankle–tagged and on the sex 

offenders register, they are all banned 

from using smart phones or the internet, 

or crossing defined local boundaries. 

It’s a brave subject to tackle – audience 

sympathy is automatically with the 

victim. But Norris (who wrote the multi 

award-winning Clybourne Park) takes us 

inside the heads of these men who will 

probably be ostracised for life, making 

each one an individual, from Glenn 

Davis’s obnoxiously loudmouthed Gio 

(his ‘Level 1’ crime the statutory rape of 

a girl who lied about her age) to 

reclusive Felix (Eddie Torres) who 

breaks down in tears because he is 

forbidden to communicate with the 

daughter he abused yet professes to care 

about deeply. Then there’s the excellent 

K Todd Freeman’s elderly African 

American Dee, once a show biz 

performer who still maintains that his 

long-lasting sexual relationship with a 

14 year old boy on tour (when he 

himself was 37) was love. 

Pam MacKinnon’s first rate 

production grips (uncomfortably) from 

start to finish. It has its moments of 

humour, but, as Cecilia Noble’s weary, 

seen-it-all, gun-toting parole officer Ivy 

knows – there are no easy solutions to 

this disturbing and contentious matter. 

Louise Kingsley 

DAVID BLAINE TAKES HIS MAGIC 

ON THE ROAD 

Having revolutionised modern magic 

and mesmerised audiences unlike any 

performer in history, magician, 

illusionist and stunt artist, David Blaine 

is to embark on his first-ever UK and 

Ireland tour. 

Blaine’s one-man show brings his 

unique brand of entertainment, 

promising to be an unforgettable 

interactive experience that both shocks 

and amazes. An experiment in and of 

itself, his perfomance combines his 

world-famous sleight of hand with his 

death-defying endurance acts. 

Blaine was buried alive in a clear 

coffin in New York City for one week. 

The following year he stood inside a 

six-ton block of ice for 63 hours with no 

food or sleep. Blaine endured 44 days of 

starvation inside a glass box suspended 

by a crane near the River Thames in 

London. In 2006, he lived underwater for 

a week in a sphere shaped aquarium at 

thLincoln Centre in New York City. He 

then attempted to break the world record 

for breath holding, resulting in 

emergency divers pulling him out to 

save his life. 


THIS ‘ IS THE SHOW 

WE ALL NEED 

RIGHT NOW ’ 

nick Curtis , the Sunday Times 

THE NEW MUSICAL BASED ON 

A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY 

COME FROM AWAY. Book, Music and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. 

Musical Staging by Kelly Devine. Directed by Christopher Ashley. 

NOW PLAYING AT THE PHOENIX THEATRE 

COMEFROMAWAY.CO.UK

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JAC YARROW’S PROFESSIONAL 

STAGE DEBUT IN ROLE OF JOSEPH 

Jac Yarrow will take the lead role in 

the new production of Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the 

world famous London Palladium. Jac, 

who will be making his professional 

stage debut in the iconic role, will star 

alongside Jason Donovan and Sheridan 

Smith, as Pharaoh and The Narrator. 

Jac created a sensation at the 

beginning of the year when he starred in 

the production of Disney’s Newsies at 

the Arts Educational School. Jac, who is 

21 and from Cardiff, took the role of 

Jack Kelly and gave a breath-taking 

performance, marking himself out as an 

outstanding talent in the new generation 

of theatre stars and creating huge 

excitement in anticipation of embarking 

upon a professional stage career. 

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat will play a limited 11-week 

season from Thursday 27 June. 

Released as a concept album in 1969, 

the stage version of Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has 

become one of the world’s most beloved 

family musicals. The show features 

songs that have gone on to become pop 

and musical theatre standards, including 

Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door 

To Me, Jacob and Sons, There’s One 

More Angel In Heaven and Go Go Go 

Joseph. 

Told entirely through song with the 

help of the Narrator, Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat follows 

the story of Jacob’s favourite son Joseph 

and his eleven brothers. After being sold 

into slavery by the brothers, he 

ingratiates himself with Egyptian noble 

Potiphar, but ends up in jail after 

refusing the advances of Potiphar’s wife. 

While imprisoned, Joseph discovers his 

ability to interpret dreams, and he soon 

finds himself in front of the mighty but 

troubled showman, the Pharaoh. As 

Joseph strives to resolve Egypt’s famine, 

he becomes Pharaoh’s right-hand man 

and eventually reunites with his family. 

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat is produced by Michael 

Harrison. 

www.josephthemusical.com 

Alex Kingston (Sherri) and Sarah 

Hadland (Ginnie) in Admissions. 

Photo: Johan Persson. 

ADMISSIONS Trafalgar Studios 

Head of admissions, Sherri Rosen- 

Mason, has devoted the last 15 years of 

her career to increasing the intake ratio of 

students of colour to privileged white 

pupils at the elite New Hampshire school 

where her husband Bill is principal. We 

meet her first berating flustered longserving 

colleague Roberta (Margot 

Leicester) who repeatedly fails to grasp 

exactly who qualifies as, or looks 

sufficiently, black in the photos she’s 

selected for the new brochure. They don’t 

,in Sherri’s view, reflect the true ethnic and 

cultural diversity of the establishment. 

But when Charlie, her high-achieving 

17 year-old son fails to gain an immediate 

place at Yale, and Perry the unseen mixed 

race son of her (white) best friend does, 

her liberal principles are jettisoned as she 

pulls out all the stops in a determined 

effort to get her boy the Ivy league 

education she believes, probably correctly, 

will set him up for life. 

Having tackled the question of Jewish 

identity in Bad Jews, American playwright 

Josh Harman here now spreads his net 

further – though one can’t fail to notice that 

every onstage member of the cast is white, 

the black characters rendered (presumably 

deliberately) invisible. 

The production (directed by Daniel 

Aukin who was also responsible for the 

successful 2018 off-Broadway premiere) 

can’t quite disguise the sometimes 

repetitious nature of dialogue which doesn’t 

always sparkle. But in a provocative play 

which raises controversial issues, Alex 

Kingston (of ER fame) effectively conveys 

the unsettling injection of doubt into 

Sherri’s absolute certainty whilst Andrew 

Woodall’s unemotional Bill explodes into 

anger in their pristine kitchen. And, 

reprising the role he played in New York, 

Ben Edelman rants impressively as Charlie, 

initially furious that his privileged white 

background meant that he didn’t tick the 

right boxes but then causing even more 

disruption by taking the values which his 

parents brought him up on to what he 

decides is their logical conclusion. 

Louise Kingsley 


OSCAR WILDE’S THE HAPPY 

PRINCE AT THE PLACE 

A new musical based on Oscar 

Wilde’s classic fairy tale will be 

presented in three showcase 

performances at The Place from 3-4 

May. The Happy Prince stars Janie Dee 

as Mrs Bentley, Phil Daniels as The 

Mayor, Sophia Hurdley as The Swallow 

and Sam Archer as The Prince. This 

heart-rending story about a Swallow's 

faithful love for the golden statue of a 

Prince is told through a seamless fusion 

of dance and song. The rest of the cast 

includes David Burt, Louis Gaunt, 

Sammy Graham, Jessica Pardoe, Edwin 

Ray, Ronald Samm, Cilla Silvia, Gemma 

Wardle and Alfie Wickham. 

This modern musical adaptation is set 

in an unpleasant 1920's Laundry House 

from which the potent technicolour 

world of the fairy tale evolves. Dark 

humour, greed and corruption are at 

work as the malevolent designs of a 

despot Mayor drive a town into 

bankruptcy and ruin. Drawing parallels 

to the world today, walls are being built 

to divide societies, so the Statue of a 

Prince, trapped behind the walls of his 

own palace, must win over the heart of a 

Swallow to save his people. 

Although outwardly beautiful, the 

omniscient Prince is troubled by the 

poverty and suffering surrounding him. 

He persuades the Swallow to become 

his messenger and distribute his 

treasures to the townspeople who are 

most in need. In a race against time, and 

as the Swallow gradually removes his 

sapphire eyes and his gold leaf, 

outwardly the statue looks dull and 

shabby but the Prince is inwardly 

renewed and freed of his torment. 

The creative team includes Hal 

Cazalet (Direction, Music and Lyrics), 

Michael Barry (Book and Movement 

Director), David Howe (Lighting), Sophia 

Hurdley (Choreography) and Sam Archer 

(Choreography). The original workshop 

for the production was developed 

alongside Maria Friedman and Drew 

McOnie. 

GRINGOTTS WIZARDING BANK 

OPENS FOR SPRING 

Officially opening on 6 April, the 

16,500sqft Gringotts Wizarding Bank 

will be Warner Bros. Studio Tour’s 

biggest addition to date. Walking 

through the imposing marble columns, 

visitors will discover the costumes and 

prosthetics belonging to Bogrod, 

Griphook and many other goblin 

bankers as well as other new exhibits 

including the Sword of Gryffindor and 

Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup. 

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – 

The Making of Harry Potter offers 

visitors the chance to explore the 

behind-the-scenes secrets of the Harry 

Potter film series. 

MICHAEL LONGHURST ARTISTIC 

DIRECTOR OF DONMAR 

A revival of David Greig’s visionary 

early play Europe, directed by Michael 

Longhurst in his first production as 

Artistic Director of the Donmar opens on 

27 June. Written 25 years ago, it is 

prophetic in its vision of Europe today. 

Photo: Helen Maybanks. 

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PLAYS 

TWILIGHT ZONE 

Adapted by Anne Washburn and directed by 

Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, the 

acclaimed CBS Television production arrives 

in the West End fresh from a rapturously 

received, sell-out run at the Almeida. 

AMBASSADORS THEATRE 

West Street, WC2 (020 7395 5405) 

A GERMAN LIFE 

A new play by Christopher Hampton, drawn 

from the life and testimony of Brunhilde 

Pomsel, directed by Jonathan Kent. Maggie 

Smith, alone on stage, plays the title character. 

BRIDGE THEATRE 

One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846) 

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION 

The acclaimed production of Agatha Christie’s 

classic courtroom play has captured the 

imagination of audiences inside the unique 

setting of County Hall’s ornate Chamber on 

the South Bank. 

COUNTY HALL 

South Bank, SE1 (0844 815 7141) 

THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY 

One enormous diamond, eight incompetent 

crooks and a snoozing security guard. What 

could possibly go right? 

CRITERION THEATRE 

Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810) 

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG 

A Polytechnic amateur drama group are 

putting on a 1920s murder mystery and 

everything that can go wrong... does! 

DUCHESS THEATRE 

Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810) 

HOME, I’M DARLING 

The National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd’s 

critically acclaimed co-production of a new 

play by Laura Wade, directed by Tamara 

Harvey. 

DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE 

St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552) 

THE WOMAN IN BLACK 

An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural 

community, a gothic house and a misty marsh 

are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story. 

FORTUNE THEATRE 

Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626) 

BETRAYAL 

Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom 

Hiddleston stars in the Jamie Lloyd 

Company’s revival for a 12 week season. 

HAROLD PINTER THEATRE 

Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627) 

Royal National Theatre 

Plays in repertory 

OLIVIER THEATRE 

FOLLIES 

After a sold-out run, winner of the Olivier 

Award for Best Musical Revival returns to the 

National Theatre. Stephen Sondheim’s 

legendary musical includes such classic 

songs as Broadway Baby. 

LYTTELTON THEATRE 

TARTUFFE 

A ferocious new version of Molière’s comic 

masterpiece. A scalpel-sharp comedy looking 

at the lengths we go to find meaning – and 

what happens when we find chaos instead. 

TOP GIRLS 

For the first time, the National Theatre stages 

Caryl Churchill’s wildly innovative play about 

a country divided by its own ambitions. 

DORFMAN THEATRE 

DOWNSTATE 

Provocative new play focuses on the limits of 

our compassion and what happens when 

society deems anyone beyond forgiveness. 

NATIONAL THEATRE 

South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000) 

ALL ABOUT EVE 

Based on the 1950 Academy Award-winning 

film, Gillian Anderson stars as Margo 

Channing. Director Ivo van Hove explores our 

fascination with celebrity, youth and identity. 

NOEL COWARD THEATRE 

St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140) 

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED 

CHILD PARTS I & II 

Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise 

written by Jack Thorne, based on an original 

story by J.K Rowling. 

PALACE THEATRE 

Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813) 

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG 

IN THE NIGHT-TIME 

Acclaimed National Theatre production returns 

to the West End. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards, 

the play is based on Mark Haddon’s multiaward 

winning and best selling novel. 

PICCADILLY THEATRE 

Denman Street, W1 (020 7492 1566) 

FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE 

Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever 

comedy series, this 2 hour interactive 

production is set in a restaurant where you the 

audience are the diners. 

RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN 

Bloomsbury Street, (0845 1544 145) 

THE MOUSETRAP 

Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest 

running play of its kind in the history of 

British theatre. 

ST MARTIN’S THEATRE 

West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515) 

ADMISSIONS 

Alex Kingston stars in the award-winning new 

comedy from the writer of acclaimed hit Bad 

Jews, direct from New York's Lincoln Center 

Theater, producers of Oslo. 

TRAFALGAR STUDIOS 

Northumberland Ave WC2· (0844) 871 7631) 

EMILIA 

400 years ago Emilia Bassano wanted her 

voice to be heard. It wasn’t. Could she have 

been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s 

sonnets? 

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257) 

THE PRICE 

David Suchet delivers a comic tour de force 

as a silver-tongued 90 year old furniture 

dealer in Arthur Miller’s masterpiece. 

WYNDHAM’S THEATRE 

Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120) 

MUSICALS 

WAITRESS 

Hit Broadway musical brought to life by a 

ground breaking all-female creative team, 

featuring original music and lyrics by 6-time 

Grammy® nominee Sara Bareilles. 

ADELPHI THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060) 

TINA 

New stage musical reveals the untold story of 

Tina Turner, a woman who dared to defy the 

bounds of her age, gender and race. 

ALDWYCH THEATRE 

The Aldwych, WC2 (0845 2007981) 

WICKED 

Hit Broadway story of how a clever, 

misunderstood girl with emerald green skin 

and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn 

into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda 

the Good Witch in the Land of Oz. 

APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE 

Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000) 

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE 

New feel good musical – supported by his 

mum and friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, 

beats the bullies and steps into the spotlight. 

APOLLO THEATRE 

Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4809) 


SIX THE MUSICAL 

Tudor Queens meet Pop Princesses in a 

musical retelling of the six wives of Henry 

VIII. A celebration of sisterly sass-itude, 

powered by an all-female band. 

ARTS THEATRE 

Great Newport Street, WC2 (020 7836 8463) 

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MATILDA 

Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare 

Company production of Roald Dahl’s book, 

directed by Matthew Warchus. 

CAMBRIDGE THEATRE 

Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110) 

RIP IT UP 

Strictly Come Dancing’s champions are back, 

bringing the swinging sixties straight to the 

21st century. 

GARRICK THEATRE 


THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 

Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd 

Webber, set in Paris opera house where a 

deformed phantom stalks his prey. 

HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE 

Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707) 

THE LION KING 

Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated 

film is transformed into a spectacular stage 

musical, a superb evening of visual delight. 

LYCEUM THEATRE 

Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000) 

Damien Buhagiar as Pepper (centre) with the cast of MAMMA MIA! 

MAMMA MIA! CELEBRATES 20 YEARS IN LONDON 

The global smash hit musical Mamma Mia! celebrates its 20th anniversary in 

London’s West End at the Novello Theatre on Saturday 6 April. Since premiering in 

London in 1999, the irresistible feelgood musical has captured the hearts of millions 

around the globe. The sunny, funny tale of a mother, a daughter and three possible 

dads on a Greek island idyll, all unfolding to the magic of ABBA’s timeless pop 

masterpieces, has now been seen live on stage by 65 million people across the 

world, and turned into two record-breaking movies – Mamma Mia! The Movie and 

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. 

Photo: Brinkhoff & Mogenburg. 

THRILLER – LIVE 

Over two hours of the non-stop hit songs that 

marked Michael Jackson’s legendary live 

performances. 

LYRIC THEATRE 

Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812) 

SCHOOL OF ROCK 

Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical with 

lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian 

Fellowes, adapted from the film. 

GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE 

Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810) 

MAMMA MIA! 

Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set 

around the story of a mother and daughter on 

the eve of the daughter’s wedding. 

NOVELLO THEATRE 

Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170) 

COME FROM AWAY 

UK Premiere of the Tony Award-winning 

musical which tells the remarkable true story 

of 7,000 stranded air passengers in the wake 

of 9/11, and the small town in Newfoundland 

that welcomed them. 

PHOENIX THEATRE 


FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 

West End transfer of the revival played at the 

Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Trevor 

Nunn and starring Andy Nyman as Tevye and 

Judy Kuhn as Golde. 

PLAYHOUSE THEATRE 

Northumberland Ave WC2· (0844) 871 7631) 

ALADDIN 

The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling 

life onstage by Disney, featuring all the songs 

from the Academy Award winning score. 

PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE 

Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151) 

LES MISERABLES 

A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s 

epic novel about an escaped convict’s 

search for redemption in Revolutionary France. 

QUEEN’S THEATRE 


9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL 

Based on the much loved movie and making its 

West End debut, Dolly Parton’s musical comes 

to London for a strictly limited season. 

SAVOY THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810) 

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL 

Featuring all the much loved classics from 

Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5, 

the show tells the story behind the hits. 

SHAFTESBURY THEATRE 


ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES 

The landmark, record-breaking and top-rated 

television series written by the late, great John 

Sullivan, becomes a brand-new, home-grown 

British musical. 

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET 

Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800) 

HAMILTON 

Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning 

musical, based on one of America’s Founding 

Father, Alexander Hamilton. 

VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE 

Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000) 


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FUNICULAR’S ‘THE MURDÉR 

EXPRESS: JEWEL OF THE EMPIRE' 

Funicular is turning back the clock to 

1937 this Spring. After a successful 

second run of The Murdér Express, the 

immersive dining and experience experts 

have created a whole new adventure set 

on London’s favourite (and most crimeridden!) 

train. Ticket holders will join 

London’s wealthiest socialites for an 

evening of glitz, glamour, and fine 

dining, all in the company of the world’s 

largest cut diamond. What could 

possibly go wrong? 

The year is 1937 and Europe is in 

upheaval. Conflict continues to rage in 

Spain and another World War looms, but 

the beating of the war drums is not to be 

heard on the glamorous Murdér Express, 

where the wealthiest socialites and most 

successful celebrities converge for luxury 

travel and indulgent dining between 

London and the Southern French town of 

Murdér. When the largest cut diamond in 

the world is stolen and murder strikes, 

everyone becomes a suspect. Guests 

must pull up their velvet sleeves, find the 

culprit and recover the Jewel of the 

Empire before the train reaches its 

destination and they escape forever. 

Jewel of the culinary world, Laurence 

Henry crowned MasterChef: The 

Professionals 2018 champion is 

onboard to curate a special four-course 

meal for the evening, suitable for all 

dietary requirements. Having worked 

under some of the biggest names in 

food including the Michelin-starred 

Gordon Ramsay and Jason Atherton, his 

passion for Asian food informs his 

simple dishes that are packed with 

complex flavours and will keep hungrydetectives 

sharp throughout the evening. 

Funicular is a passionate collective of 

creators specialising in creating truly 

immersive experiences. Co-founded by 

entrepreneur, actor and scriptwriter Craig 

Wilkinson and production director Ed 

Borgnis, the Funicular team boasts years 

of experience bringing events and 

theatre to life all over the world. 

Previous themes include the original 

‘The Murdér Express’, the spooky 

mystery ‘Journey To The Underworld’ 

and the festive adventure ‘The Greatest 

Snowman’. ‘The Murdér Express: Jewel 

of the Empire' opens on Thursday 

2 May, and will run until 31 August. 

funicularproductions.com 

LIVE AT THE SAVOY MUSICIAN IN 

RESIDENCE JUDI JACKSON 

Live at The Savoy is the new evening 

entertainment series taking place at The 

Savoy’s Thames Foyer every night of the 

week. Highly-acclaimed jazz vocalist, 

Judi Jackson will launch the series as 

The Savoy’s Musician in Residence, 

playing on Wednesday 24 April and on 

three further dates. 

Having recently launched her debut 

album ‘Live in London’, the Virginiaborn 

jazz vocalist and performer will 

embark on her new residency at The 

Savoy with an exciting new repertoire. 

Frequently on the road, Jackson has 

sold out headline shows world-wide and 

has collaborated with the likes of Warner 

Music’s George Moore and Michael 

League, member of Grammy awardwinning 

band Snarky Puppy, for the 

creation of her 2017 EP ‘Blame it on my 

Youth.’ Bringing her soulful tones to the 

heart of The Savoy, Jackson hopes to 

inspire audiences in the same way the 

legendary Wynton Marsalis and Mavis 

Staples influenced her while growing up. 

Box office telephone 020 7420 2111. 

Judi Jackson.

This Is London 5 April 2019

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