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This is the Royal Opera House on the other side
of the street from Her Majesty's Theatre. |
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Her Majesty's Theatre. Home of Phantom since 1986.
Sold out every performance since then. |
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| The opening scene of Phantom |
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| Looking up from our seats. |
The weekend I have been waiting for, for so long. I'm going to Phantom of the Opera in London. I am so excitied beacuse we bought these tickets in NZ and it is my most favourite show. We found the theatre very easily and it is in an amazing area of London. Within a few blocks there are so many theatres, opera houses, china town and the westend. Her Majesty's Theatre is a small building first opened on 28th April 1897 and was the first theatre ever to have a flat stage. Previous theatres had a sloped floor. Also it has two levels of sub-stage machinery to move props and scene changes. So, if you see the theatre workings in the Phantom, they are very similar to the workings in HMT. It is a small theatre not even as big as our beautiful Hastings Opera House but designed in a similar style. The show itself was absolutely amazing. I was mesmerised from the start to finish. We had seats about 8 rows from the stage and to get to see the costumes up fairly close was amazing. They were stunning and the acoustics were incredible. It was breathtaking when the chandelier comes swinging down to crash on the stage and it swung very close to us. What an experience!!! Highly recommend to everybody to go to a live show. Must say though, the shows I have been to in NZ are of equal standard so I can be happy now that I have seen shows in London and they compare to ours in NZ. Next one to see is the sequel "Love Never Dies". Also, Michael Crawford is in Wizard of Oz here so need to see that, and there's The Lion King, The Jersey Boys, Billy Elliott and.... and... and... (you get the idea??)
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Ripley's Believe it or Not. This is Jack Sprat
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Ripleys
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| The Royal Opera House. |
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| The famous lights of The West End. |
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Chinatown
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