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WHAT’S OPENING IN THE WEST END DURING 2017?
With so many new shows opening in London’s West End this year, we’ve rounded up the best musicals and plays that you simply won’t want to miss…
Hamilton
Victoria Palace Theatre – from November 2017
(Tickets available from 30th January 2017)
The show that needs no introduction arrives in London from November 2017.
Winner of multiple awards (including more than one Tony award), the show is written by the Oscar nominated Lin-Manuel Miranda (whose previous work, In the Heights, has just finished a successful run at the King’s Cross Theatre). It has a unique blend of musical styles such as R&B, rap, blues, and our firm favourite, musical theatre.
The show follows the turbulent life of America’s previously unsung hero, Alexander Hamilton: the creator of the Coast Guard, founder of the New York Post, writer of 51 of the Federalist Papers, and most notably, the first American Treasury Secretary.
Tickets are strictly only available from ticketmaster.co.uk from 30th January 2017 at midday. So, cancel your meetings and set an alarm! Trust us: you do not want to miss this phenomenal show.
The Glass Menagerie:
Duke of York’s Theatre – from 26th January 2017
After the roaring success of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic and St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York, we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.
Following a multi-Tony Award-nominated run on Broadway, and a sold-out season at the Edinburgh International Festival, this highly anticipated play is coming to the stages of London.
Olivier and Tony Award-winning director John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, Let the Right One In, Black Watch) revives his visionary staging of this heart-rendering masterpiece about a family struggling to survive on hopes and dreams.
 BOOK HERE from just £24
 Travesties:
Apollo Theatre – from 3rd February 2017
Tom Stoppard’s comedy of art, love and revolution features James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin as remembered (and misremembered) by Henry Carr, a minor British Diplomat in Zurich in 1917.
When Gwendolen and Cecily wander in from ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Henry’s mind wanders too. He was Algernon in a production in Zurich, but who was the other one?
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The Boys in the Band
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY
Vaudeville Theatre – from 7th February 2017
Mark Gatiss stars in this strictly limited West End transfer of the first major revival of this iconic play in two decades.
Razor sharp and packed with wit, The Boys in the Band is fresh, startling and brilliantly entertaining. We guarantee that you will not regret seeing this.
BOOK HERE from £24
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Harold Pinter Theatre – from 22nd February 2017
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf stars British acting legend of both stage and screen, Imelda Staunton, along with Conleth Hill, Luke Treadaway and Imogen Poots in her West End debut.
With James Macdonald directing a new version of playwright Edward Albee’s Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning work, this ferocious play is sure to be a hit.
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 Stepping Out:
 Vaudeville Theatre – from 1st March 2017
Amanda Holden leads a stellar cast (including Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite, Natalie Casey and Nicola Stephenson) in this funny and heart-warming comedy that follows the lives of seven women and one man who are brought together at a weekly dance class.
BOOK HERE from just £21Â
42nd Street:
Theatre Royal Drury Lane – from 20th March 2017
This is the classic musical that we’ve been waiting for. 42nd Street is the song and dance, American dream fable of Broadway and with a cast of over 50 high-kicking talents, this is a show not to miss.
Young Peggy Sawyer is fresh off the bus from small-town America and just another face in the chorus line on Broadway’s newest show. But, when the leading lady gets injured, Peggy might just have that shot at stardom that she’s always dreamed of…
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  The Miser
Garrick Theatre – from 1st March 2017
Griff Rhys Jones stars alongside Lee Mack in this classic comedy.
Fanatical about protecting his wealth, the paranoid Harpagon suspects everyone of trying to flinch his fortune goes to any length to protect it. However, as true feelings and identities are revealed, will Harpagon allow his children to follow their heart, or will his love of gold prove all-consuming? This revival is directed by the fantastic Sean Foley (The Painkiller, The Ladykillers, Jeeves and Wooster).
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Don Juan in Soho
Wyndham’s Theatre – from 17th March 2017
David Tennant stars in the West End premiere of Don Juan in Soho – the savagely filthy and funny play, written and directed by Patrick Marber.
Loosely based on Moliere’s tragicomedy ‘Don Juan’, this modern update transports the action to contemporary London and follows the final adventures of the debauched protagonist – a cruel seducer who lives only for pleasure. Please Note: this is strictly aged 16+
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The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Haymarket Theatre – from 24th March 2017
Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo are joined by Jason Hughes and newcomer Archie Medekwe in this Tony Award-winning, dark comedic masterpiece.
Martin is at the pinnacle of life: he has a loving wife and son, a hugely successful career as an architect and the commission of a lifetime. But, when he embarks upon an improbable and impossible love affair from which there is no return, he must face the dizzying, explosive consequences.
