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                          EXTENSIONS

      BILLY ELLIOT   Victoria Palace  21 Dec '13 

       JERSEY BOYS  Prince Edward  8 April  

          LES MISERABLES  Queens  27 Oct

           MAMMA MIA  Novello  27 April '13

  PHANTOM OF THE OPERA  Her Majesty's  28 April               

               THE LION KING  Lyceum 1 April  

      THE MOUSETRAP  St Martin's 12 Dec '12

    THE WOMAN IN BLACK  Fortune  15 Dec '12

                THRILLER - LIVE  Lyric  23 Sept

          WAR HORSE  New London  26  Oct '13

         WE WILL ROCK YOU  Dominion  20 Oct  

               WICKED Apollo Victoria  28 April   

              STOMP  Ambassadors  15 Dec '12

               SHREK  Drury Lane  21 Oct '12

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS   Haymarket  31 Aug '13

          SINGIN' IN THE RAIN  Palace  23 Feb '13

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BILLY ELLIOT Revisited  (Victoria Palace):  Do Not Miss  !!!!!

SHREK  (Drury Lane): You May  !!!

MATILDA  (Cambridge Theatre)  Do Not Dare Miss  !!!!!

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN   (Palace Theatre)  Do Not Miss !!!!!

TOP HAT  (Aldwych Theatre)   Pretty Good  !!!!

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (Haymarket) Go See  !!!!

CABARET   (Savoy)  Pretty Good  !!!!

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  1  (1)    THE BOOK OF MORMON   102.6%

  2  (2)    WICKED  90.3%

  3  (3)    THE LION KING  89.8%

  4  (4)    SPIDER-MAN   74.6%

  5  (6)    ONCE   94%

  6  (8)    MANILOW ON BROADWAY  69.5%

  7  (5)    CINDERELLA  89.2%

- 8  (9)    JERSEY BOYS  79.3%

  9  (7)    ANNIE   62.2%

10 (11)   THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA   74.3%

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       Week Ending: 10/2/12

              %:  Capacity

   Brackets:  Previous Week

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       THE SIMPLY SENSATIONAL OPENING

                       TONY AWARDS 2011

                                        By

                      NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

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CLOSURES

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Adelphi Theatre

Aldwych Theatre

Almeida Theatre

Ambassadors Theatre

Apollo Theatre

Apollo Victoria

Arts Theatre

Cambridge Theatre

Comedy Theatre

Criterion Theatre

Dominion Theatre

Donmar Warehouse

Duchess Theatre

Duke of Yorks Theatre

Fortune Theatre

Garrick Theatre

Gielgud Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe

Her Majestys Theatre

Jermyn Street Theatre

King's Head Islington

London Coliseum

London Palladium

Lyceum Theatre

Menier Chocolate Factory

National Theatre

New Ambassadors

New London Theatre

New Wimbledon Theatre

Noel Coward Theatre

Novello Theatre

Old Vic Theatre

Open Air Regent's Park

Palace Theatre

Phoenix Theatre

Piccadilly Theatre

Playhouse Theatre

Prince Edward Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre

Queens Theatre

Richmond Theatre

Roundhouse

Royal Festival Hall

Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Royal Shakespeare Company

Sadlers Wells

Savoy Theatre

Shaftesbury Theatre

Soho Theatre

St Martins Theatre 

Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Trafalgar Studios

Vaudeville Theatre

Victoria Palace Theatre

Wiltons Music Hall

Wyndhams Theatre

Young Vic

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                      A MAGICAL MOMENT WITH

HUGH JACKMAN AND NEIL PATRICK HARRIS  2011

            DANIEL RADCLIFFE

SUCCEEDING IN BUSINESS 2011

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

11  (10)  NEWSIES   78.1%

12  (13)  MARY POPPINS   66.9%

13  (12)  CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF   57%

14  (14)  THE HEIRESS   96.7%

15  (15)  NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT   54.1%

16  (16)  MAMMA MIA   57.1%

17  (18)  ROCK OF AGES   87.2%

18  (17)  CHICAGO   56%

19  (19)  THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD 71.4%

20  (20)  THE OTHER PLACE  74.6%

ALDWYCH THEATRE

5 Oliviers

   1.   Before I Go to Sleep   S. J. Watson

   2.   Bring Up the Bodies   Hilary Mantel

   3.   Daughters-in-law   Joanna Trollope

   4.   11.22.63   Stephen King

   5.   Me Before You   Jojo Moyes

   6.   The Faithless   Martina Cole

   7.   Birthdays for the Dead   Stuart MacBride

   8.   Tick Tock  James Patterson

   9.   My Dear I Wanted to Tell You   Louisa Young

  10.   One Day   David Nicholls

   1.   The Life of Lee   Lee Evans

   2.   May I Have Your Attention Please?   James Corden

   3.   The World of Downton Abbey   Jessica Fellowes

   4.   Dare to Dream   One Direction

   5.   Onstage, Offstage   Michael Buble

   6.   Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music   Darren Henley, et al.

   7.   40 Years of Queen   Harry Doherty

   8.   Lady Gaga X    Terry Richardson

   9.   Small Man in a Book   Rob Brydon

  10.   Absolutely   Joanna Lumley

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OPENING NUMBER  2012  TONY AWARDS

                NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

MICHAEL GRANDAGE COMPANY

  NOEL COWARD THEATRE

  1 December - 15 February

                      A CHORUS LINE  Palladium  19 Feb

            BOOK OF MORMON  Prince Of Wales  21 March

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY  Drury Lane  June

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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

ROYAL

ALBERT  HALL.

FRI  SAT  8 & 9 MARCH

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GAY'S THE WORD

IVOR NOVELLO'S

  Fab 50s Musical

1Skyfall   £53.4M

2Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted   £17.6M

3Silent Hill: Revelation 3D   £1.04M

4Hotel Transylvania   £6.83M

5Taken 2   £22.3M

6Fun Size   £410K

7Paranormal Activity 4   £5.49M

8Rust and Bone   £252K

9Frankenweenie   £2.12M

10      Sinister   £6.35M

ANJIN: THE SHOGUN AND THE ENGLISH SAMURAI

                              31 Jan - 9 Feb

BILLY ELLIOT  I personally saw a matinee the other week

and I can honestly say that it was arguably the best performance I had seen since I saw Broadway's cast in West Side Story at Her Majesty's.