Trafalgar Square celebrates 350 years of theatre NEWS
West End Live, the annual festival of music and theatre - now in its ninth year, will be held in Trafalgar Square this year.
The festival will also be commemorating 350 years of theatre on the site of the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. Held this year on June 22nd and 23rd, the festival provides the public with a West End taster for free with performances from various shows and casts over the two day period.
'Jersey Boys' and 'Les Miserables' have been announced as shows performing free songs to the public along with the casts from 'Stomp' and Sir Tim Rice's new musical 'From Here to Eternity' will also be previewed at the show. Rice's show opens for the first time in the autumn, is set on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 1941, before and during the attack on Pearl Harbour.
The public will also have the opportunity to sample numbers from 'Billy Elliot The Musical', Disney's 'The Lion King', 'Mamma Mia!', and 'Matilda The Musical' in this year's festival line-up. Westminster City Councillor Robert Davis said:
'This will be the largest West End Live we have ever produced - with more shows taking part than ever before.'
Society of London Theatre chief Julian Bird said: 'West End Live is a chance to showcase the quality and range of shows the London stage has to offer, as well as putting on a great free event for the public to enjoy.'
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