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Locations

England
USA
- Las Vegas
  - Treasure Island
  - Wynn Theatre
- New York
  - Broadway
    - Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Types of show

Ballet
Broadway musical
Classical music concert
Comedy gig
Dance/gymnastics
Jukebox musical
Music gig
Non-West End or Broadway musical
Opera
Play
West End musical

Show reviews

42nd Street
Aladdin
An American in Paris
Angels in America
Apologia
Bend it like Beckham
The Book of Mormon
The Boy Friend
Cabaret
La Cage aux Folles
Cats
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicago
A Chorus Line
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Don Juan in Soho
Dreamgirls
Elbow (Cast of Thousands)
Evita
Funny Girl
The Girls
Glee Live!
Grease
Groundhog Day
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
Half a Sixpence
Hamlet
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
In the Heights
Into the Woods
Kanye West (Glow in the Dark)
Katy Perry (Prismatic)
Kinky Boots
Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP Ball
The Last Five Years
Legally Blonde
Les Miserables
The Lion King
Love In Idleness
Love Never Dies
Mamma Mia!
Matilda the Musical
Miss Saigon
Mrs Henderson Presents
Much Ado about Nothing
Murder Ballad
Muse (Black Holes and Revelations)
Muse (Drones)
Music for Two Violas
My Fair Lady
Mystere
Nicki Minaj (Pink Friday: Reloaded)
The Nutcracker
Oliver!
One Man, Two Guvnors
The Pajama Game
The Phantom of the Opera
Pink (The Truth About Love)
The Planets concert
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rent
La Reve
Richard III
Rob Delaney (Meat)
Rock of Ages
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
School of Rock
The Scottsboro Boys
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4
Shakespeare in Love
Singin’ in the Rain
Speed the Plow
Stravinsky ballets concert
Swan Lake
Sweet Charity
The Tempest
Tosca
Vanities the Musical
West Side Story
Wicked
will.i.am
The Wizard of Oz

Composers

Richard Adler
Benny Andersson
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gary Barlow
Lionel Bart
Frantisek Benda
Nell Benjamin
Leonard Bernstein
Jason Robert Brown
Corin Buckeridge
Warren Casey
Simon Chamberlain
Churchill
Pippa Cleary
Cy Coleman
Adam Cork
Anthony Drewe
Fyodor Druzhinin
Al Dubin
Elbow
Estelle
George Fenton
Tim Firth
George Gershwin
Howard Goodall
Marvin Hamlisch
Imogen Heap
David Heneker
Nacio Herb Brown
Jerry Herman
Gustav Holst
Icona Pop
Gordon Jacob
Jim Jacobs
Elton John
John Kander
Aram Khatchaturian
David Kirshenbaum
Henry Krieger
Lady Gaga
Lady Starlight
Jonathan Larson
Cyndi Lauper
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Frank Loesser
Frederick Loewe
Longview
Robert Lopez
Martin Lowe
Alan Menken
Nicki Minaj
Tim Minchin
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Mr Hudson & The Library
Muse
Juliana Nash
The Noisettes
Laurence O’Keefe
Trey Parker
Katy Perry
Phantogram
Pink
Sergei Prokofiev
Giacomo Puccini
Sergey Rachmaninov
Jerry Ross
Edmund Rubbra
Santogold
Claude-Michel Schonberg
Franz Schubert
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Sondheim
George Stiles
Matt Stone
Igor Stravinsky
Jule Styne
Adrian Sutton
Syren
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tyga
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Richard Wagner
Walk the Moon
Harry Warren
Kanye West
will.i.am
Sandy Wilson
David Yazbek
Hans Zimmer

Lyricists

Richard Adler
Benny Andersson
Howard Ashman
Gary Barlow
Lionel Bart
Chad Beguelin
Nell Benjamin
Don Black
Alain Boublil
Jason Robert Brown
Jake Brunger
Warren Casey
Pippa Cleary
Anthony Drewe
Al Dubin
Fred Ebb
Elbow
T S Eliot
Tom Eyen
Dorothy Fields
Tim Firth
Arthur Freed
Ira Gershwin
Giuseppe Giacosa
Charles Hart
David Heneker
Jerry Herman
Luigi Illica
Jim Jacobs
Julia Jordan
David Kirshenbaum
Edward Kleban
Herbert Kretzmer
Jonathan Larson
Cyndi Lauper
Alan Jay Lerner
Frank Loesser
Robert Lopez
Richard Maltby Jr
Bob Merrill
Tim Minchin
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Muse
Juliana Nash
Laurence O’Keefe
Trey Parker
Katy Perry
Pink
Tim Rice
Jerry Ross
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Sondheim
Glenn Slater
George Stiles
Matt Stone
Julie Taymor
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Harry Warren
will.i.am
Sandy Wilson
Scott Wittman
David Yazbek

Writers

George Abbott
Roger Allers
Gary Barlow
L Frank Baum
Richard Bean
Chad Beguelin
Richard Bissell
Alain Boublil
Mark Bramble
Jason Robert Brown
Jake Brunger
Abe Burrows
John Caird
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Warren Casey
Gurinder Chadha
Betty Comden
Beverley Cross
Roald Dahl
Nicholas Dante
Chris D’Arienzo
Charles Dickens
Fred Ebb
T S Eliot
Ben Elton
Tom Eyen
Julian Fellowes
Harvey Fierstein
Tim Firth
Bob Fosse
Giuseppe Giacosa
Willie Gilbert
Carlo Goldoni
Adolph Green
David Greig
Heather Hach
Mark Haddon
Lee Hall
Jack Heifner
David Heneker
Winnie Holzman
Quiara Alegria Hudes
Victor Hugo
Luigi Illica
Christopher Isherwood
Jim Jacobs
Catherine Johnson
Terry Johnson
Julia Jordan
Dennis Kelly
James Kirkwood
Tony Kushner
Jeffrey Lane
James Lapine
Jonathan Larson
Arthur Laurents
Isobel Lennart
Alan Jay Lerner
Gaston Leroux
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Robert Lopez
Craig Lucas
David Mamet
Patrick Marber
Paul Mayeda Burges
Irene Mecchi
Ryan Murphy
Marc Norman
Trevor Nunn
Trey Parker
Harold Ramis
Terence Rattigan
Tim Rice
J K Rowling
Danny Rubin
Damon Runyon
Claude-Michel Schonberg
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Neil Simon
Simon Stephens
Michael Stewart
Matt Stone
Tom Stoppard
Joe Swerling
David Thompson
Jack Thorne
John Tiffany
Jack Weinstock
Sandy Wilson

Performers

Russ Abbot
Nick Afoa
Freema Agyeman
Madalena Alberto
Natalie Andreou
Florence Andrews
Jeremy Ang Jones
Stuart Angell
Hermeilio Miguel Aquino
Penelope Armstead-Williams
Nicholas Asbury
Jane Asher
Stephen Ashfield
Annaleigh Ashford
George Asprey
Lahaina Asumag
Gary Avis
Edward Baker-Duly
Jonathan Bailey
Nicholas Bailey
Annabel Baldwin
Asha Banks
Theo Barklem-Briggs
Samantha Barks
Natasha J Barnes
Desmond Barrit
John Barrowman
Neal Barry
Ian Bartholomew
Tom Bateman
Louisa Beadel
David Bedella
Michael Begley
Jaydah Bell-Ricketts
Leila Ben Harris
Tracie Bennett
Josh Benson
Paul Bentall
Adam J Bernard
Eve Best
David Birch
Bradley Bissett
David Blake
Kimberly Blake
Edward Bluemel
Sierra Boggess
Samantha Bond
Keith Bookman
Jonathan Bourne
Norman Bowman
Anthony Boyle
Jon Jon Briones
Sue Brodie
Kieran Brown
Alexandra Burns
David Burrows
Nick Butcher
Jack Butterworth
Emma Caffrey
Joe Caffrey
Laura Caldow
Claire Calvert
Darius Campbell
Jamie Campbell Bower
Giles Carden
Gerard Carey
Laura Carmichael
Bertie Carvel
Anna-Jane Casey
Bailey Cassell
Danielle Cato
Stockard Channing
Janique Charles
Presley Charman
Debbie Chazen
Cheryl
Oliver Chris
William Chubb
Javier Cid
Luke Cinque-White
Reece Clarke
Cirque du Soleil
City of London Choir
Jon-Scott Clark
Sam Clemmett
Jeremy Clyde
Gabrielle Cocca
Chris Colfer
Nicolas Colicos
Lizzy Connolly
John Conroy
Adam Cooper
Leanne Cope
James Corden
Jack Costello
Chris Cowley
Mathew Craig
Michael Crawford
Gavin Creel
Darren Criss
Frank Crocker
Daniel Crossby
Nadeem Crowe
Billy Cullum
Ed Curry
Niamh Cusack
Matthew Dale
Connor Davies
Rebecca Jayne Davies
Peter Davison
John Davitt
Ashley Day
Louise Dearman
Rob Delaney
Judi Dench
Lara Denning
Siobhan Dillon
Trevor Dion Nicholas
Brandon Victor Dixon
Zoe Doano
Colman Domingo
Michelle Dotrice
Soo Drouet
Gustavo Dudamel
Noma Dumezweni
Josie Dunn
Matthew Durkan
Tristan Dyer
Sheena Easton
Mark Ebulue
Elbow
Kerry Ellis
Craig Els
Jaye Juliette Elster
Cynthia Erivo
Estelle
Jade Ewen
Mark Extance
Ralph Fiennes
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Daniel Fletcher
Victoria Flint
Jamie Foreman
Ben Forster
Julian Forsyth
Richard Frame
Harry Francis
Michelle Francis
Edward Franklin
Lily Frazer
David Fynn
Josefina Gabrielle
James Gaddas
Don Gallagher
Lady Gaga
David Ganly
Andrew Garfield
Alex Gaumond
Jenny Gayner
Tarryn Gee
Jared Gertner
Angela Gheorghiu
Steve Giles
Julian Glover
Rachelle Ann Go
Jeff Goldblum
Denise Gough
Gawn Grainger
Claudia Grant
Tiffany Graves
Ashleigh Gray
Josie Griffiths
Jonathan Groff
David Haig
Clare Halse
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt
Patrick Harrison
Siubhan Harrison
Jobe Hart
Emma Hatton
Alyn Hawke
Anthony Head
Graeme Henderson
Ruthie Henshall
Rebecca Herszenhorn
Stephen Hewitt
Douglas Hodge
Tim Hodges
Shanay Holmes
Evie Hone
Alex Hope
Danielle Hope
John Hopkins
Rufus Hound
Jane How
Tim Howard
Christopher Howell
Will Howells
Bethany Huckle
Mr Hudson & The Library
Daisy Alice Hulbert
Ben Hunter
Ross Hunter
Tyrone Huntley
Maxwell Hutcheon
Christiana Hutchings
Rosanna Hyland
Damian Iorio
Irvine Iqbal
Kim Ismay
Jasna Ivir
Chuk Iwuji
Ibinabo Jack
Chloe May Jackson
Oliver Jackson
Barry James
Evan James
Orlando James
Shirley Jameson
Chris Jarman
Lois Jenkins
Dean John-Wilson
Devon-Elise Johnson
Wil Johnson
Gemma Jones
David Jonsson
Jennifer Louise Jones
Gary Jordan
Preeya Kalidas
Ramin Karimloo
Alex Katheberger
Paul Kaye
Paul Keating
Laura Michelle Kelly
Hannah Kenna Thomas
Alexia Khadime
Chulpan Khamatova
Katherine Kingsley
Beverley Knight
Paul Knight
Dina Korzun
Mimi Kroll
Matt Krzan
Liisi LaFontaine
Claire Lambert
James T Lane
Nathan Lane
David Langham
Amanda Lawrence
James Le Lacheur
Georgie Leatherland
Toby Lee
Emma Lee Clark
Elliott Levey
Leah Levman
Benjamin Lewis
Brian James Leys
Brown Lindiwe Mkhize
Robert Lindsay
Adam Linstead
Tom Lister
Sion Lloyd
Peter Lockyer
Longview
Rebecca Louis
Janet Lurie
Helena Lymbery
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Sam MacKay
Claire Machin
Sarah MacRae
Eric Mallett
Peter Mallinson
Philip Marriott
Ella Martine
Lara Martins
Riccardo Massi
Craig Mather
Terence Maynard
James McArdle
Barry McCarthy
Forrest McClendon
Cassandra McCowen
Sandy McDade
Susan McFadden
Leah McFall
Mark McGee
Joshua McGuire
Kevin McHale
Marc McKerracher
Marian McLoughlin
Adam McNamara
Nick Mercer
Isabelle Methven
Lea Michele
Poppy Miller
Tom Milligan
Joseph Millson
Nicki Minaj
Christina Modestou
Paul F Monaghan
Bruce Montague
Joel Montague
Cory Monteith
Claire Moore
Dominique Moore
Heather Morris
Harry Morrison
Lola Moxom
Jacinta Mulcahy
Aoife Mulholland
Luke Mullins
Muse
musicAeterna Orchestra
Nadim Naaman
Emma Naomi
Stuart Neal
Eva Noblezada
The Noisettes
Jack North
Lloyd Notice
Hollie O’Donoghue
Ryan O’Gorman
Ronan O’Hora
Sam O’Rourke
Anna Rose O’Sullivan
Theo Ogundipe
Marianne Oldham
Alice Orr-Ewing
Tamzin Outhwaite
Alexis Owen-Hobbs
Mark Oxtoby
Eviyne Oyedokun
Jamie Parker
Javar La’Trail Parker
Vivien Parry
John Partridge
Miria Parvin
Himesh Patel
Marti Pellow
Chris Peluso
Katy Perry
Niamh Perry
Clarke Peters
Phantogram
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sharan Phull
Dianne Pilkington
Pink
Hannah Pitt
Dominique Planter
Eve Polycarpou
Peter Polycarpou
Eve Ponsonby
Icona Pop
Billy Porter
Alex Price
Kelly Price
Lara Pulver
Jane Quinn
Daniel Radcliffe
Zoe Rainey
John Ramm
Ian Recordon
Vanessa Redgrave
Andy Rees
Joe Aaron Reid
Adrian Richards
Amy Ellen Richardson
Mark John Richardson
Clare Rickard
Joanna Riding
Amber Riley
Paul Ritter
Naya Rivera
Ashley Robinson
Jessica Robinson
Jemima Rooper
Nic Rouleau
Matt Rowle
Katie Rowley Jones
The Royal Ballet
Stephen Russell
Michelle Ryan
Lauren Samuels
Elena Sancho Pereg
Oliver Savile
Alex Sawyer
Adrian Scarborough
Celinde Schoenmaker
David Seadon-Young
Brian Sears
Jeremy Secomb
Katy Secombe
Cameron Sharp
Jordan Shaw
Nuno Silva
James Simmons
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Cherrelle Skeete
Esther Smith
Sheridan Smith
Gay Soper
Janet South
Kevin Spacey
Andrew Spillett
Gavin Spokes
William Spray
Dylan Standen
Lady Starlight
Evgenia Startseva
Imelda Staunton
Philippa Stefani
Charlie Stemp
Savannah Stevenson
Patrick Stewart
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Scarlett Strallen
Summer Strallen
Una Stubbs
Adithi Sujith
Noel Sullivan
Jacob Swann
Syren
Paul Ettore Tahore
Catherine Tate
Brian Temba
David Tennant
Sophie Thompson
Rebecca Thornhill
Paul Thornley
James Titchener
Liam Tobin
Russell Tovey
Callum Train
Luke Treadaway
Richard Trinder
Rachel Tucker
Tyga
Mark Umbers
Jenna Uschowitz
Tim van Eyken
Denise Van Outen
Lucy Vandi
Lauren Varnham
Danielle Vitalis
Hannah Waddingham
Andrew C Wadsworth
Walk the Moon
Nicola Walker
Marcquelle Ward
Annabel Watson
Annie Wensak
Kanye West
Stan West
Matthias Wiesner
Lewis Wilkins
will.i.am
Emma Williams
Layton Williams
Amir Wilson
Helena Wilson
John Wodja
Clive Wood
Hugo Max Woodhouse
Anna Woodside
Eleanor Wyld
Gwion Wyn Jones
Michael Xavier
Dora Yolland
Samuel Youn
Will Young

Producers and Directors

Joshua Andrews
Anthony Clare and David Ian Productions
Amy Anzel
Bob Avian
Michael Bennett
Walter Bobbie
Matthew Bourne
Mark Bramble
Jason Robert Brown
Giles Burden
John Caird
Gurinder Chadha
Matt Chisling
Jonathan Church
Laurence Connor
Mike Dixon
Declan Donnellan
Gregory Doran
Marianne Elliott
Richard Eyre
Tim Firth
Sonia Friedman
Roy Furman
Geoids Musical Theatre
David Gilmore
Rupert Gould
Michael Grade
Gordon Greenberg
Bruce Guthrie
Kristin Hanggi
Dr Johnny Hon
Nicholas Hytner
David Ian
Terry Johnson
Van Kaplan
Rachel Kavanaugh
Jonathan Kent
Bill Kenwright
Blake Klein
Baayork Lee
David Leveaux
Michael Linnit
Jamie Lloyd
Phyllida Lloyd
Cameron Mackintosh
Joe Mantello
Patrick Marber
Michael Mayer
Michael McCabe
Joey McKneely
Sam Mendes
Jerry Mitchell
Graeme Murphy
Paul Nicholas
Casey Nicholaw
Rufus Norris
Trevor Nunn
Stuart Oaken
Trey Parker
Daniel Penfold
Racky Plews
David Pugh
The Really Useful Theatre Company
Dafydd Rogers
Josie Rourke
Scott Rudin
Jeremy Sams
Timothy Sheader
Luke Sheppard
The Shubert Organization
Soundcheck Productions
Susan Strowman
David Taylor
Paul Taylor Mills
Julie Taymor
John Tiffany
Bob Tomson
Tower Theatre Company
Tulchin/Bartner Productions
Matthew Warchus
Christopher Wheeldon
Matthew White
Hilary A Williams
Sam Yates

Musical directors

Jae Alexander
Richard Beadle
Phil Cornwell
Teodor Currentzis
Mike Dixon
Gustavo Dudamel
Nicholas Finlow
Sean Green
Dominic Grier
Erika Gundesen
Colin Guthrie
Graham Hurman
Martin Lowe
John Rigby
Nicholas Skilbeck
Matt Smith
Gareth Valentine

Choreographers

Carlos Acosta
Bob Avian
Michael Bennett
Polly Bennett
Gower Champion
Peter Darling
Garth Fagan
Robby Graham
Steven Hoggett
Rachel Howell
JoAnn M Hunter
Baayork Lee
Gillian Lynne
Drew McOnie
Stephen Mear
Jerry Mitchell
Graeme Murphy
Casey Nicholaw
Lynne Page
Arlene Phillips
Racky Plews
Lee Proud
Lemington Ridley
Jerome Robbins
Randy Skinner
Janet South
Christopher Wheeldon
Andrew Wright
Peter Wright

Set designers

Beowulf Boritt
Paul Brown
Bunny Christie
Bob Crowley
Anna Fleischle
Soutra Gilmour
Rob Howell
Christine Jones
Robert Jones
Richard Kent
Anna Louizos
Ian MacNeil
Nick Ormerod
Tom Rogers
Douglas W Schmidt
Mark Thompson
John Winters

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