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Lets go to the West End in London or the Broadway in New York for a nightout on Virtual-Tripping.
By Mark on February 7, 2010
Lets go to the west end in London, that is what I have decided to do, sometime this year I am going to see the show “Blood Brothers” at the assembly hall in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, South-East of England. The west end has got to be the place to visit when you feel like seeing a cracking show, many big shows have been at these mighty big theatre’s, and big name produces like, Tim Rice, who wrote some massive shows like, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and Willy Russell, who wrote some of these massive shows like, Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and Blood Brothers. However the non-musical Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap is the longest running show in the world, and has been showing since 1952. Finally you have the best musical musician of all time in Sir Andrew-Lloyd-Webber, he wrote many songs for these big shows like, “The Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” from Evita, “Any Dream Will Do” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and “Memory” from Cats. No wonder he has picked up so many awards locally and internationally.
Here is a list of some of the biggest well known West End shows:
If you have an opportunity to visit London, you should go to the West End, it is in Central London in England and this area contains plenty of major tourist attractions, as well as businesses, headquarters and the commercial West End theatres. The name West End actually comes from a early 19th century, phrase for describing what was then a very fashionable area to the western side of Charing Cross. And this area is also identified as one of two international centres in the London Plans.
This is a picture of Sir, Andrew- Lloyd-Webber.
This is a picture of Willy Russell.
For all you historians out there the West End used to be apart of the Roman and Mediaeval City of London, you would back then have noticed a difference, because it did not pick up the smokes from other parts of the city and the over-crowding of the city, alot of wealthier people would go and live there. It is located quite close to Westminster and is largely built into the City of Westminster, which is one of the London boroughs. As the West End grew and became more developed, during the
seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you would have noticed alot of palaces, expensive town houses, fashionable shops and places of entertainment. But has you find with rich areas, that somewhere close are poorer communities, and these were Holborn, Seven Dials and Covent Garden, in time they were cleared and then rebuilt into more fashionable areas.
The one thing that often fascinates me is that words can have many meaning’s, for example the “West End”, could actually mean, the entertainment district which is found in Leicester Square and Covent Garden or the shopping district, again which is found in Oxford Street, Regent Street, and Bond Street, or it could also mean, the whole of that part of Central London, this area does not really have boundaries so this is why it could be known as the West End, this area lies west of London and below are some pictures taken from Flickr of the Phanthom of the Opera and Mamma Mia.
- Learn about the West End on Wikipedia:
- Learn about the West End Theatre on Wikipedia:
- Learn about New York’s Broadway theatre on Wikipedia:
- Learn about West End Musicals on Wikipedia:
- Find the West End on Google Maps:
- Find the Broadway Theatre on Wikipedia:
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
9:16 am on February 18th, 2010
Mark,
Everyone paying a visit to Broadway, being it virtually or not, should first take a listen to the same song by Goo Goo Dolls. You can check it out here: http://www.songplaces.com/Broadway/Broadway_District_Buffalo_New_York
7:48 pm on February 23rd, 2010
This was a nice reminder of what I have been missing by avoiding London. Fortunately some of these shows are being shown here in Eastbourne so I shall be able to see them. Good work.