A snapshot of what was playing in the West End in September 1994, including Sunset Boulevard, Crazy for You, Copacabana, Design for Living starring Clive Owen, Imogen Stubbs in Saint Joan and Ruthie Henshall in She Loves Me.
Ticket prices in 1994: Average top price tickets were £30 for a musical and £20 for a play.
Adelphi: Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd-Webber
Albery: Lady Windermere’s Fan, starring Francesca Annis
Aldwych: An Inspector Calls, directed by Stephen Daldry
Ambassadors: 900 Oneonta, written and directed by David Beaird
Apollo: Neville’s Island, starring Tony Slattery
Apollo Victoria: Starlight Express, directed by Trevor Nunn
Coliseum: Tosca, The Mikado
Comedy: The Official Tribute to the Blues Brothers
Dominion: Grease, starring Shane Ritchie and Sonia
Donmar Warehouse: Design for Living, starring Clive Owen, Paul Rhys and Rachel Weisz
Drury Lane: Miss Saigon, directed by Nicholas Hytner
Duchess: Don’t Dress for Dinner starring Royce Mills
Duke of York’s: Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
Fortune: The Woman in Black, starring Mark Curry and Jeffry Wickham
Globe: The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan
Haymarket: Arcadia, starring Joanne Pearce and Roger Allam
Her Majesty’s: The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince
Island Theatre at the Royalty: Once on this Island
London Palladium: Oliver!, starring Jonathan Pryce
Lyric: Five Guys Named Moe by Clarke Peters
National Theatre: Racing Demon, The Devil’s Disciple, The Seagull, The Children’s Hour, Sweet Bird of Youth, Broken Glass, Two Weeks with the Queen, Le Cid, Rutherford & Son
New London: Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Old Vic: The Sisters Rosensweig, starring Maureen Lipman, Janet Suzman and Lynda Bellingham
Palace: Les Miserables, directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird
Phoenix: Blood Brothers, starring Stephanie Lawrence
Piccadilly: Only the Lonely
Prince Edward: Crazy for You
Prince of Wales: Copacabana, starring Gary Wilmot
Queen’s: What a Performance, starring David Suchet
Royal Court: Babies by Jonathan Harvey
Royal Opera House: Turandot, Le Cenerentola
RSC at the Barbican Theatre: The Tempest, The Hostage, The Venetian Twins, The Country Wife, Moby Dick
Sadler’s Wells: Cumbre Flamenca
St Martin’s: The Mousetrap, now in its 42nd year
Savoy: She Loves Me, starring Ruthie Henshall and John Gordon Sinclair
Shaftesbury: Out of the Blue
Strand: Saint Joan, starring Imogen Stubbs
Vaudeville: Dead Funny, starring Zoe Wanamaker
Victoria Palace: Buddy
Wyndham’s: The Miracle Worker, starring Jenny Seagrove