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Commercial as they come, the Dominion Theatre relies on populist, accessible shows to fill its whopping 2,000-seat capacity. And grumpy critics aside, it’s done a pretty good job of pleasing the masses, with crowd-pullers such as ‘Grease’, Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ and, most famously, Queen and Ben Elton’s tribute musical, ‘We Will Rock You’. That finally closed after almost 12 years in 2014; since then it's still largely hosted musicals, with Meatloaf extravaganza ‘Bat Out of Hell’ the most obvious successor to to ‘WWRY’.

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  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Musicals

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  • Musicals

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