West End Stage Shows - The Very Best Entertainment in London

The West End is very well regarded forthe Lord Chamberlain's Office. However, the
professional stage shows. Together with NewTheatres Act 1968 at long last abolished
York's Broadway, Westend entertainment iscensorship of the stage in the UK.
frequently considered to deliver many of theMost of the theatres in the West end are of late
very best shows in the world. Seeing a West EndVictorian or Edwardian construction and most are
production is exceptionally popular entertainmentprivately owned. The bulk of them have great
especially among visitors. Many stage shows andcharacter and the largest and best maintained
in particular hit musicals are staged in the greatinclude grand neo-classical, Romanesque or
venues of London's Theatreland. Large numbersVictorian facades and luxurious detailed interior
of people attend a West End theatre show eachdesign and decoration. Then again, leg space is
year. West End Theatre Breaks are alsooften cramped and audience amenities like bars
extremely common in the UK. Theatre Breaksand toilets are usually much smaller than in
are regularly booked as a short break luxury tomodern venues. The protected status of the
celebrate a special occasion. A Westend show isbuildings and their confined urban locations,
the focal entertainment but booked together withtogether with financial constraints, make it awfully
a hotel and often restaurant reservations for ahard to make extensive enhancements to the
special meal.furnishings, fixtures and fittings.
The main theatre region of London consists ofSome of the long running musicals performed in
around forty venues and was renamed bythe West End have profitably played to audiences
Westminster Council and the Society of Londonfor many years. A few of the most well-liked
Theatre as 'Theatreland'. It is located in the heartmusicals are We Will Rock You that is set in a
of the West End of Central London and isfuture world where rock music is banned, Les
traditionally defined by Oxford Street to theMiserables which is an international award winning
North, The Strand to the South, Regent Street tomusical about an epic story of passion and
the West and Kingsway to the East. Prominentdestruction, Chicago is about a young woman
theatre streets are Drury Lane, Shaftesburywho has killed her lover but is acquitted, The Lion
Avenue and The Strand. Most of the worksKing that is an adaptation of the Disney film, The
staged are musical theatre, classic plays andPhantom of the Opera that tells the tale of the
comedy performances.phantom that terrorises the Paris Opera, Billy Elliot
The Westend theatre neighborhood started to bewhich is the moving story of a boy who loves
established with the opening of numerous smallballet, Dirty Dancing which is the stage version of
theatres about 1806. The development of thethe classic film, Sister Act is another adaptation of
Westend entertainment region gained pace witha hit movie, Mamma Mia is about a mother and
the Theatres Act 1843 that relaxed the conditionsdaughter and three potential dads, and Stomp
for the performance of plays. In the followingwhich is a fast paced combination of music, tap
decades, countless new venues were opened.dance and percussion. The list is endless as there
That development continued until the 1st worldare so many West End stage productions to pick
war. For the duration of the 50s and 60s, lots offrom. There really is a show that could appeal to
plays were created in theatre clubs in order toeveryone. Attending a theatre show in the
dodge the censorship at that time exercised byWestend is truly rather special.