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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
The first West End theatre named after a woman who was not royalty, and the room Cats was built into.
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Paul Tvrtkovic designed it with the stage designer Sean Kenny and it opened in January 1973, which makes it the modern one on the street: concrete, glass and a stage that can be reconfigured, rather than plasterwork and tiers. It seats 1,118 on two levels.
Cats opened here in May 1981 and ran until 2002, twenty-one years, using the flexible stage the building was designed around. In 2018 the theatre was renamed for Gillian Lynne, who choreographed it - the first West End house named after a woman outside the royal family, eighty-five years after the Duchess was named for one inside it.
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