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A year or two ago I decided to try to make a list of all of the theatre that I've seen in London. I combed my records, as well as lists of shows produced by various west end theatres. At present count I'm up to 49, but I can't actually swear that this list is accurate. I probably missed something that I've seen, or included something that I think I saw but actually didn't. There are a few regrettable and forgettable shows on the list, things like Fame, Witches of Eastwick, Loserville, and god help me Love Never Dies which I saw primarily for the trainwreck aspects, but also to put a checkmark on it. There are also some underrated ones like The Beautiful Game. In all honesty, I left Bog of Cats at intermission because it was slow and done in a barely-understandable brogue, and I was falling asleep. Also, I was looking at lists of west end theatres last night trying to figure out which ones I'd been to and how many times. There was one that seemed like I should have been there, and I couldn't figure out why. "Oh, right. It's been running the Lion King for 15 years, and I've never been that desperate." 39 Steps All That Fall Eat, Pray, Laugh, the Barry Humphries Farewell Tour Beautiful Game Billy Elliott Blood Brothers Bog of Cats (the Holly Hunter Irish thing) Broken Glass Cabaret Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Constellations Copenhagen Crazy For You Driving Miss Daisy Fame Full Monty Glorious (Florence Foster Jenkins show) Guys and Dolls Hairspray In The Next Room (The Vibrator Play) Jerry Springer the Opera Loserville Love Never Dies Magistrate Mamma Mia Mojo Mousetrap Priscilla Queen of the Desert Proof Resistable Rise of of Arturo Ui Rocky Horror Show Saturday Night Fever Scottsboro Boys Spamalot Starlight Express Streetcar Named Desire Sweeney Todd Swimming With Sharks Tell Me On a Sunday Twelfth Night Uncle Vanya Waiting For Godot War Horse We Will Rock You Whistle Down the Wind Wicked Witches of Eastwick Woman In White (September 2016) Groundhog Day In the Heights Kinky Boots (May 2018) Chess Everybody's Talking About Jamie An Ideal Husband (September 2018) School of Rock Company (genderbent, Patti LuPone) King Lear (Sir Ian McKellen) | ||||||||||
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