Musical theatre fans, get ready for outdoor dancing and sing-a-longs with some of the West End's biggest stars: West End Live is back! It's the initiative that turns some of the most expensive forms of entertainment in London into the cheapest fun going. Each year, casts of some of London's best West End musicals emerge blinking into the open-air for a weekend of free alfresco performances in Trafalgar Square, accompanied by fun photo ops, merch stalls, and bags of showbiz atmosphere.
This year’s line-up is as follows (deep breath):
Sat 22
11am Frozen
11.05am A Chorus Line
11.15am Wicked
11.20am Operation Mincemeat
11.30am Babies the Musical
11.40am Kiss Me, Kate
11.45am Moulin Rouge, The Musical!
11.50am Mean Girls
12pm MJ the Musical
12.05pm Cabaret
12.10pm The Book of Mormon
12.15pm Sister Act
12.25pm Hamilton
12.40pm The Phantom of the Opera
12.55pm Les Misérables
1.05pm Back to the Future the Musical
1.15pm Matilda the Musical
1.20pm Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
1.25pm Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
1.35pm Next to Normal
1.45pm Mamma Mia!
1.55pm Emerald Storm
2.10pm The Choir of Man
2.20pm Six the Musical
2.35pm Why Am I So Single?
2.45pm Magic Mike Live
2.55pm Fangirls
3.05pm I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Musical
3.10pm 42 Balloons
3.25pm Your Lie In April
3.40pm Showstopper the Improvised Musical
4pm Queenz: Live in London!
4.10pm Roles We’ll Never Play
4.20pm Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
4.30pm Westway Music Presents
4.50pm Mazz Murray
5pm ENDS
SUNDAY 23 JUNE
12pm The Lion King
12.10pm Heathers the Musical
12.25pm Surprise Show
12.30pm Closer to Heaven
12.40pm Standing at the Sky’s Edge
12.50pm Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
1pm I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical
1.10pm The Wizard of Oz
1.15pm Hadestown
1.25pm The Baker’s Wife
1.30pm Mrs Doubtfire
1.35pm Marie Curie
1.40pm The Wild Party
1.50pm Why am I So Single?
2.05pm The Barricade Boys
2.15pm Magic Mike Live
2.20pm Dorian: The Musical
2.25pm 42 Balloons
2.40pm The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3pm Overtures Piano Bar
3.15pm Shantify: The Show
3.20pm You, Me & the Rest of the World
3.25pm Frankie Goes to Bollywood
3.30pm Dive: Live from Hell
3.40pm A Night with Janis Joplin the Musical
3.50pm Queenz: Live in London
4pm Shamrock Tenors
4.10pm John Owen-Jones
4.25pm Carrie Hope Fletcher
4.35pm Westway Music Presents
5pm ENDS
