This week is your last chance to see three massive musicals in London’s West End

While most West End musicals aspire to run for as long as physically possible, this summer has seen London graced by an unusually large number of limited run musicals. And PSA: they all end this weekend.

Foremost among them is undoubtedly Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita, which is effortlessly the most talked about theatre production of 2025. If star Rachel Zegler stayed on board it could easily have run at the huge London Palladium for a year. But she’s a busy woman, and Lloyd rarely if ever recasts musicals: Evita will complete its scheduled run on Saturday.

As you might expect, it’s sold out: you could snag a return or one of the £29.50 standing that go on sale from its website at 10am each day. Or you could of course get down to the Palladium around 9pm (or 4pm Saturday afternoon) and catch one of Zegler’s final ever performances of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina to the assembled Argyll Street masses.

The spectacular musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby transferred to the West End from Broadway in unusually quick time, but it was always going to be a limited run as the London Coliseum is home to English National Opera for most of the year. It could come back, though it seems possible it got in fast to avoid clashing with Florence Welch’s imminent rival Gatsby musical. It ends its run on Sunday, and there’s decent availability.

Finally, a last chance to see the oddity that is Burlesque. An adaptation of the Christina Aguilera chickflick of the same name, it had a troubled production history and wildly divisive reviews, but seems to have sold well enough. However, the run was always limited by the fact that the imminent Paddington musical was already booked to go into the Savoy Theatre after it. It ends its run on Saturday and there is some availability throughout the week. 

Evita is sold out. Book tickets for The Great Gatsby here and Burlesque here.

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