Apollo Victoria Theatre, London
Running time: 2hr 45mins
Age Restrictions: Recommended for 7+. Under 5's will not be admitted. Under 16's must be seated next to an Adult
Tickets from £30.00
“One of the most successful musicals of all time” (BBC News), and thewinner of more than 100 global awards, Wicked is already the 11th longest-running production in West End history. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s must-see musical phenomenon isbased on the novel by Gregory Maguire and imagines a beguiling backstory andfuture possibilities to the lives of L. Frank Baum’s beloved characters from ‘TheWonderful Wizard of Oz’. Acclaimed as “London’s #1 show” (LBC), Wicked reveals the decisions andevents that shape the destinies of two unlikely university friends on their journeyto becoming ‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’.
Apollo Victoria Theatre
Apollo Victoria Theatre
17 Wilton Road
London
SW1V 1LL
THE APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE, LONDON
The Apollo Victoria Theatre is a theatre on Wilton Road near Victoria station in London. The building was designed as a "super-cinema" by E. Warmsley Lewis in 1930 in striking art deco style. The cinema however, closed in 1975, but it was to reopen six years later as a theatre, with a concert by Shirley Bassey providing the opening night.
The Apollo Victoria Theatre was home for eighteen years to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Starlight Express, for which the theatre was extensively redesigned to accommodate a multi-tier roller skating arena. On 12 January 2002, shortly before the show's 18th birthday, Lloyd Webber made the decision to stop the show, in order to open his new production of A. H. Rahman's Bombay Dreams at The Apollo Victoria, which received its world premiere on 19 June 2002. The original production, which starred Raza Jaffrey, ran for two years before closing on 13 June 2004 after over 1,500 successful performances.
The Apollo Victoria Theater is currently home to the broadway smash hit Wicked, which made its Apollo Victoria West End debut in 2006 and has broken box office records since. In January, 2011, the London, Broadway, and both North American touring productions of Wicked simultaneously broke the records they held for highest weekly gross. The Apollo Victoria London production of Wicked has been seen by over 2 million theatre-goers.
One of the largest theatres in the capital, London's Apollo Victoria Theatre has a staggering capacity of 2,208.
Apollo Victoria Theatre: Recent Productions
The Sound of Music (August 17, 1981 – September 18, 1982)
Camelot (November 23, 1982 – February 5, 1983)
Fiddler on the Roof (June 28, 1983 – October 29, 1983)
Starlight Express (March 27, 1984 – January 12, 2002)
Bombay Dreams (June 19, 2002 – June 13, 2004)
Saturday Night Fever (July 2, 2004 – February 18, 2006)
Movin'' Out (March 28, 2006 – July 17, 2006)
Apollo Victoria Theatre: Current Production
Wicked (September 2006 - )
Travel by train: Victoria. Nearest tube: Victoria
Fantastic show, beautifully performed by a superb cast
Posted anonymously on 31/12/2019
Wicked, Apollo Victoria Theatre, London - 29th December 2019
Wicked! Fast moving, funny, absorbing, colourful with a great cast who work very hard throughout the whole 3 hours. So glad to have seen it.
Posted by Barbara on 15/12/2019
Wicked, Apollo Victoria Theatre, London - 14th December 2019