Now that Discount Theatre has launched its World Cup Sale with loads of great offers throughout the duration of the football tournament, it’s hard to decide what to see. If you are a hard core theatre lover, now is the time to snap up bargains on many shows that don’t normally offer discounts.
For example, hit show Legally Blonde has top price tickets for £45.99 (normally £60) or you can also see the Tony award winning cast of Hair with tickets starting at only £22.99.
But if you look at the list and still can’t decide, why not attend West End Live in Leicester Square this weekend for a sampler of West End shows? 
West End Live is now in its 6th successful year and offers a great chance to see some excerpts from top West End Shows performed live in Leicester Square.
This year, loads of shows are taking part, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s follow up the Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, David Essex’s All The Fun Of The Fair, and classic musicals Sweet Charity and Billy Elliot.
Unfortunately, now that Discount Theatre towers has moved out of Leicester Square, we won’t be blessed with listening to the rehearsals and having a bird’s eye view of all the action on Saturday and Sunday. Too bad.
West End Live will be open from 11am to 6pm on Saturday the 19th June and from 12pm to 6pm on Sunday the 20th June. In addition to many musical performances, there will be exhibitions and demonstrations making it a great day out. And it’s FREE!
If you see something that you like, check out Discount Theatre’s World Cup Sale, where you will find many great tickets on West End shows.
Hair The Musical will now close on the 4th September, when the Broadway cast finishes its contract.
Despite a lot of positive press and numerous awards for the Broadway production, it seems that the show is unable to sustain a long run in London.
Hair will now close on the 4th September
Hair is such a great musical and this production is definitely worth seeing. However, I think the £65 face value on top price seats was overly ambitious. Yes, relocating the entire cast of a musical is an expensive business and consequently funds need to be raised, but Wicked, Les Miserables, The Lion King, Phantom Of the Opera and Chicago all have top price tickets with a face value hovering around the £60 mark.
Not that the above shows are worth any more or less than Hair, art is a very subjective business. But I do ask the question: is it a little strange that the ‘hippie musical’ is more expensive than most of the other West End shows?
Thankfully, you can buy a ticket for Hair at a discount price, before it is swept away in September. Discount Theatre has upper circle tickets midweek reduced to £22.99 and top price tickets for matinees reduced to £45.99, as well as some dinner and show packages from £42.50 per person.
It really is a superb show and would be a shame to miss it. Buy your Hair tickets here.
The Gielgud Theatre is now the location of a ‘be-in’ with hippies climbing over audience members every night and daisies being distributed in the aisles. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world of Hair. 
The iconic 60’s musical opened to great acclaim last week, which is no surprise, considering that entire Tony award winning Broadway production, including tribe members, have come to London. Hair depicts the world of a Hippie Tribe and their opposition to authority, primarily directed at the American involvement in the Vietnam War. The Guardian called it a “A vibrant, joyous piece of living theatre” and the Telegraph pronounced it “Theatrical bliss”.
The key to Hair is the music; many songs have crossed into popular culture throughout the generations. ‘Aquarius’ and ‘Let the Sunshine’ In are used in adverts and played on the radio. But there are other gems, such as ‘Ain’t Got No’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and ‘Donna’.
The Hippies bounce all over the stage and into the audience at many times provoking many laughs from their carefree and dopy actions. But Hair also offers an underlying darkness, precariously lurking about in the form of character hallucinations, ultimately portraying an American society grappling with the Vietnam war and the effects of political unrest.
Want some peace and free love? Hair is booking until 8th January 2011 at the Gielgud Theatre in London. Book your Hair tickets here.
