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14 unusual facts about West End of London


Angela Wynter

Wynter also appeared in the Walt Disney West End production of The Lion King as leading role Raffiki in 2001, and in the autumn of 2008 played the title character in Catalysta at the Oval House Theatre in Kennington, directed by Robert Icke and written by Allister Bain.

Edna O'Brien

In 1981, she wrote a play, Virginia, about Virginia Woolf and it was staged originally in Canada and subsequently in the West End of London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Maggie Smith and directed by Robin Phillips.

Johnsontown, Berkeley County, West Virginia

The town was originally named Soho by settlers after Soho in London's West End.

Kanose

After the war, NHK Japan broadcast a drama called Christmas in Kanose, based on the Christmas 1944 concert run by the prisoners and directed by POW Frank Smith, from the West End of London .

Melissa Suffield

Suffield helped raise money for Children in Need in 2007 by appearing in a special Beatles medley featuring cast from EastEnders and in Children In Need 2008 doing a West End when Melissa did Mary Poppins.

New York State Theatre Institute

NYSTI also has represented its state and nation in cultural exchanges with Canada, England, France, Israel, Italy, Sweden and Jordan, including a month-long performance run in London's West End.

Pritchard Englefield

Pritchard Englefield was based in the City from the date of its foundation in 1848 by HD Pritchard, primarily at Painters Hall where Mr Pritchard and his partner Mr Englefield became Joint Clerks to the Painter Stainers Company, and finally in Bishopsgate, where the merged firm remains as the London office of Thomas Eggar LLP, although it did spend 21 years in the West End of London (1971-1992).

Sand Hill Road

The annual rent in the area around Sand Hill Road peaked at around $144 (USD) per square foot ($1550 per m2) in mid-2000; at the time, this was higher than rates in Manhattan and London's West End.

Service in Informatics and Analysis

Its head office was located at Lower Belgrave Street, close to Victoria Station in London, and the company had branch offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, the West End, Paris and (much later) in Hong Kong.

Shirley Bassey at the Pigalle

Shirley Bassey at the Pigalle is Shirley Bassey's first live album, recorded on the opening night of an eight week engagement at the Pigalle, a nightclub in the West End of London.

Simon Gleeson

Simon Gleeson (born 13 January 1977) is an Australian actor in the United Kingdom who has performed in plays at The Royal National Theatre and in the West End of London.

Strand Lighting

Strand Lighting is an international theatre and television lighting company founded in 1914 in London's West End that supplies lighting fixtures and controls for the entertainment industry.

The Unvarnished Truth

A comedy drama, The Unvarnished Truth opened in London's West End at the Phoenix Theatre in 1978, starring Royce Ryton, Jo Kendall, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

West End of London

The West End of London (more commonly referred to as simply the West End) is an area of central London containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings, and entertainment venues (including the commercial :West End theatres).


Amancio D'Silva

He worked as a cleaner, and also as a musician at the "Prospect of Whitby" pub and at the Spanish Garden Club in the West End, and began living in Ealing.

Christine McKenna

Upon graduating, she appeared in productions for the National Theatre and in the West End of London, including Stephen Sondheim´s A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Great Expectations, and played "Polly" in The Boy Friend with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.

John Greenway

He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life.

Polly Frame

A graduate of Bristol University and the Old Vic Theatre there, Ms. Frame is currently appearing in a modernized version of William Shakespere's Macbeth that was a hit on the West End of London that recently made an appearance in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in 2008.

Rodney Diak

He was well known for a string of hit performances on the West End, including Goodnight Mrs. Puffin and Busybody.

Royal Over-Seas League

The London clubhouse is at the end of Park Place, a cul-de-sac off St James's Street in the West End backing onto Green Park and has its own private garden; the Edinburgh clubhouse at 100 Princes Street overlooks Princes Street Gardens and has unrestricted views of Edinburgh Castle.

Shan Lloyd

She met Hugh Lloyd in 1978, at Allen's, a famous restaurant in London's West End, while he was performing in No Sex Please, We're British.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

According to production designer Ken Adam, producer Irving Allen set up four editing rooms for the production, working in parallel during principal photography; the setup permitted the film on the screen in the West End seven weeks after they had started filming.

Vicky de Lambray

He regularly hired a Rolls Royce with the funds he received from prostituting himself in Shepherd Market in London's West End.