All About The Queen's Theatre In London's West End

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Many famous names have been on stage at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End. The theatre put on its first performance in October 1907, and since then it has been fortunate enough to put on many plays and musicals to packed audiences. Not every show has been a huge hit of course, but the Queen's Theatre has certainly seen its fair share of successes. It has contributed a great deal in making London Theatre famous all over the world.

The theatre has enough seats for just fewer than one thousand people, although there are plans to expand it to cater for more people in the future. As you might expect the theatre has had a dramatic history. The theatre you will see today is rather different to the one you would have seen many years ago.

Perhaps the biggest change to the theatre was one that occurred during the Second World War. The stage version of Daphne Du Maurier's famous novel Rebecca was playing to packed houses in 1940 when a bombing raid almost wiped out the theatre altogether. This brought the curtain down on the production - and indeed very nearly the theatre itself - prematurely. It would be another ...
... twenty years before the next performance would be staged at the Queen's Theatre.

Thankfully the damage done during the raids was eventually repaired, although the subsequent building would never be the same as it was before. John Gielgud was the first actor to step back onto the stage at the Queen's, performing in a one man play as he did so. Many said there could not have been a better opening performance after such a huge change and event in the life of the theatre.

The show on at the Queen's Theatre at the moment is none other than the famous musical Les Miserables. It has been playing at the theatre since 2004 and looks set to continue there for a long time to come as well. It is arguably the world's best loved and most successful musical and millions of theatregoers have seen it over the years it has been on stage. The Queen's Theatre is just the next step in the journey it takes around London and indeed the world.

The seating plan at the theatre is on three levels. At the front on the ground level you have the stalls and above this there is the Dress Circle. The third level is the Upper Circle, which is the farthest away from the stage. Generally speaking the closer you are to the front the more expensive the tickets will be, but it does depend on exactly what seat you want to sit in.

The Queen's Theatre has had a dramatic and long history thus far. Till now the Queen's theatre has been an integral part of London Theatre and let us hope this history continues to develop for a long time to come.

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