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This is the Queens Theatre - home of Les Miserables on Shaftesbury Avenue and the corner with Wardour Street.

Les Miserables is the world's longest running musical.

The Queen's Theatre is Grade II listed.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER SHAFTESBURY AVENUE Wl TQ 2980 NE The Queen's Theatre 71/29 28-6-72 GV II Theatre. 1907 by W. G. R. Sprague, the facade and front of house rebuilt 1958-59 after partial destruction by wartime bombing, by Westwood Sons and Partners in collaboration with H. Casson. Steel and glass rebuild with brick and stone sides and rear to surviving auditorium and stage parts. Rectilinear curtain wall curving round corner on 4 storeys with canopy over ground floor. Sprague's front of house block was designed as a pair to the Globe in a symmetrical composition; his auditorium survives in a modified form with 2 tiers of cantilevered balconies and domed ceiling, with much of the original Italian Renaissance style plasterwork intact forward of the balcony fronts; some surviving wooden machinery below stage. Survey of London; vol XXXI The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson


We were heading to our theatre, and I must have taken another shot of this theatre on the way there.
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Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue - Les Miserables - at night

Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location51° 30′ 42.77″ N, 0° 07′ 57.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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