More shows open on Sunday
Sunday is the new Saturday as far as West End theatres are concerned, as an increasing number of London shows begin running performances on a Sunday.
With no congestion charge and easier transport and parking, increasing numbers of families are choosing to visit London on a Sunday and take in a show.
Current shows running on a Sunday include War Horse, The Lion King, Stomp, Thriller Live, The Shawshank Redemption and Arturo Brachetti – Change.
Hairspray, now open on Sundays
On 8 November Hairspray joined the Sunday brigade and started running matinee performances, now with a new cast including comedian Phill Jupitus and pop diva Belinda Carlisle. And West End big-hitter Jersey Boys will also have its first Sunday performance from 17 January 2010.
Discount Tickets on a Sunday
Enjoy the following shows at a discounted rate on a Sunday:
Stomp, Thriller Live, The Shawshank Redemption, Arturo Brachetti – Change and Hairspray.
Matt Lucas to star in Prick Up Your Ears
Little Britain’s MATT LUCAS is to go legit and star in a brand new adaptation of John Lahr’s biography PRICK UP YOUR EARS about 1960′s playwright Joe Orton.
Simon Bent’s new adaptation will see Matt Lucas play Orton’s lover Kenneth Halliwell opposite Chris New as Orton in the show, which takes its inspiration from John Lahr’s successful biography and Orton’s diaries rather than the 1987 film.
Directed by Daniel Kramer and produced by Sonia Friedman, Kim Poster and Lee Menzies, the play will open at the Comedy Theatre in September.
Save £10 on tickets to see Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre, London.
Prick Up Your Ears – Save £20
Save £20 on tickets to Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre in London
Matt Lucas (Little Britain) stars in a brand new adaptation of John Lahr’s hilarious and touching book PRICK UP YOUR EARS. westendtheatre.com readers can save £20 on tickets to see the show at the Comedy Theatre in London.
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Matt Lucas is to play Kenneth Halliwell alongside Chris New as playwright Joe Orton in Daniel Kramer’s production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent.
Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton – RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights, and sometime lovers – plot their rightful place at the centre of London’s literary scene whilst engaged in a secret crusade to “improve” the local library books, all in the worst possible taste of course, and acting out their own versions of popular radio dramas… with an extra dash of innuendo. But after a short interlude at Her Majesty’s pleasure, Joe is about to become the greatest, and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, whilst Ken stays indoors re-decorating, reduced to sharing Joe’s success with their neighbour, Mrs Corden, over tea and a slice of battenburg.
Prick Up Your Ears – a darkly funny and moving play imagines what really happened when, after years of creative collaboration, the door slammed shut and Kenneth was home alone. It tells the sensational story behind the domestic life of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in a tiny flat in Islington, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple.
