MUSICALS THAT HAVE ENDED THEIR RUNS
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ACHTUNG KABARETT! - New End Theatre. Chanteuse Alexandra Valavelska sings the songs of Berlin and Paris of the 1920s. Autumn 2000.

ACORN ANTIQUES - Haymarket Theatre. Victoria Wood-penned musical based on TV sketches. Spring 2005

A SAINT SHE AIN'T - Apollo Theatre. Musical by Dick Vosburgh and Denis King, with characters based on W.C. Fields and others. Autumn 1999.

AN AUDIENCE WITH DANNY LA RUE - Pleasance Theatre. The veteran drag artiste performs and chats. Spring 2001

ALADDIN - Old Vic Theatre. Christmas panto with Sir Ian McKellen in drag. Winter 2004-2005; Winter 2005-2006

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company's family show. London & Stratford, Winter 2001-2002

ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR - Garrick Theatre. David Essex wrote and starred in musical built on his hits. Summer 2010

AMERICAN IDIOT - Hammersmith Apollo. Musical built on Green Day concept album. December 2012

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Young Vic Theatre. Jane Horrocks in classic musical. Winter 2009-2010

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE - Jermyn Street Theatre. Early Stephen Sondheim musical. Spring 2010

ANYTHING GOES - Drury Lane Theatre. Transfer of Trevor Nunn-directed Cole Porter revival from the National. 2003-2004

ASPECTS OF LOVE - Menier Chocolate Factory. Lloyd Webber on obsessive passions.  Summer-Autumn 2010

ASSASSINS - Union Theatre. Sondheim musical about American killings. Summer 2010

AVENUE Q - Noel Coward, Gielgud, Wyndhams Theatres. Puppets and people mix in New York slum. 2006-2010

BABES IN ARMS - Union Theatre. Rodgers-Hart musical. Spring 2012

BACKBEAT - Duke of York's Theatre. Musical of the early days of the Beatles. Winter 2011-2012

BAD GIRLS - Garrick Theatre. Musical based on TV soap set in women's prison. Autumn 2007

THE BAKER'S WIFE  - Union Theatre. Musical about straying wife and a town without bread. Autumn 2011

BAT BOY - Shaftsbury Theatre. Unlikely New York musical hit about a boy bat. Autumn-winter 2004

BEA ARTHUR AT THE SAVOY - Savoy Theatre. The Broadway actress and Golden Girl's solo show. Autumn 2003.

BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED - Lyric Theatre. Musical about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Spring-summer 2004

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME - Cambridge Theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton on football, romance and politics in Belfast in 1969. 2000-2001.

BED AND SOFA - Finborough Theatre. Romantic triangle musical based on Russian film. Spring 2011

BEEN SO LONG - Young Vic Theatre. Musical set in south London bar. Summer 2009

BELLS ARE RINGING - Union Theatre. 1956 Broadway musical about answering service. Autumn 2010

BETTY BLUE EYES - Novello Theatre. Musical based on film 'A Private Function' about postwar rationing. Summer 2011

BETWIXT!  - Trafalgar Studio Two. Mock-fairytale musical comedy. Summer 2011

THE BIG LIFE - Apollo Theatre. Musical AfroCarribean twist on Love's Labours Lost transfers from the fringe Summer 2005.

THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS - New Ambassadors Theatre. Rap version of Shakespeare. Spring 2003

BUDDY - Strand Theatre. Salute to pioneer rocker Buddy Holly . Strand October 1989 - March 2002; Duchess Theatre 2007-2009.

BURLESQUE- Arts Theatre. Mock burlesque show. Spring 2005

BURN THE FLOOR- Shaftsbury Theatre. Ballroom dance display. Summer 2010

BY JEEVES - Landor Theatre. Ayckbourn & Lloyd Webber set Wodehouse to music.Spring 2011

CABARET - Lyric Theatre. Sally Bowles and friends in revival of the Kander-Ebb look at 1930s Berlin. 2006-2008

CALAMITY JANE - Shaftsbury Theatre. Toyah Wilcox in stage version of Doris Day film about love in the Wild West. Spring-summer 2003.

CALL ME MERMAN - King's Head Theatre. Salute to the legendary Broadway star Ethel Merman. Winter 2003-2004

CAMELOT - Open Air Theatre. Lerner and Loewe in the Regents Park Shakespeare theatre. Summer 2004

CANDIDE - Royal National Theatre. The classic Leonard Bernstein musical, with a new book by director John Caird. Summer-Autumn 1999

THE CAR MAN - Old Vic Theatre. Matthew Bourne, who redefined Swan Lake, sets his choreographic eye on Bizet. Autumn-winter 2000

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE - Lyttelton Theatre. Musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori about the American South in the 1960s .Autumn 2006

CAROUSEL - Savoy Theatre. Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.2008-2009

CATS - New London Theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber set T. S. Eliot's light-hearted poems about cats to music. May 1981- May 2002

CHESS - Union Theatre. Rice-ABBA musical about the politics of championships. Winter 2013

CHICAGO - Adelphi, Cambridge & Garrick Theatres. The Kander-Ebb musical,  highlighting Bob Fosse's choreography. 1997-2012

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG - Palladium. Stage version of classic kiddy film 2002-2005

CINDERELLA - Old Vic Theatre. Traditional panto, written by Stephen Fry. Winter 2007-2008

CINDERELLA - Hackney Empire. Traditional panto. Winter 2011-2012

CLIFF: THE MUSICAL - Prince of Wales Theatre. Salute to pop perennial Cliff Richard. Spring-summer 2003

CLOSER THAN EVER - Bridewell Theatre. Maltby-Shire musical from Off-Broadway. Autumn 2006

CLOSER TO HEAVEN - Arts Theatre. New musical by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys on sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Summer-autumn 2001

COMPANY - Southwark Theatre. Sondheim musical dissecting marriage. Spring 2011

CONTACT - Queens Theatre The Broadway hit all-dance show. Autumn 2002 - Spring 2003

THE CRADLE WILL ROCK - Arcola Theatre. Marc Blitzstein's agitprop opera. Winter 2010

CRAZY FOR YOU - Novello Theatre. Gershwin musical mixed cowboys and chorus girls. 2011-2012

DA BOYZ - Theatre Royal Stratford East. Hip-hop version of Rodgers & Hart's Boys from Syracuse. Spring 2003

DADDY COOL - Shaftsbury Theatre. West Side Story-like musical built on the songs of Boney M and others 2006-2007

DAMES AT SEA - Union Theatre. Musical spoof of 1930s backstage movies. Summer 2011

DANCING IN THE STREETS - Playhouse Theatre. Compilation musical of Motown hits.2005-2007

DARLING OF THE DAY - Union Theatre. Styne-Harburg musical - celebrity disguises himself as common man. Spring 2013

DAYDREAM BELIEVER - Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Revue built on 50s and 60s pop music. Autumn 2001

DEBBIE REYNOLDS - ALIVE AND FABULOUS - Apollo Theatre. The 1950s star's show of song and anecdote. Spring 2010

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN - Novello Theatre. The 1985 Madonna film, set to the music of Blondie. November 2007

DIRTY DANCING - Aldwych Theatre. Stage version of film of summer romance. 2007-2011

DOROTHY FIELDS FOREVER - King's Head. Musical salute to the lyricist. Summer-Autumn 2002

DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS - Savoy,  Playhouse and Wyndhams Theatres. Musical built on 1960s hits. 2009-2013

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE - Novello Theatre. Spoof of 1920s musicals. Summer 2007

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS - Sadler's Wells Theatre. Matthew Bourne dance version of Tim Burton film. Winter 2005-2006

ELAINE STRITCH: AT LIBERTY - Old Vic Theatre. Elaine Stritch's Broadway hit solo show. Autumn 2002.

THE ENCHANTED PIG - Young Vic Theatre. Operatic fairy tale. Winter 2006-2007

EUROBEAT - Novello Theatre. Parody of the Eurovision Song Contest. Autumn 2008

EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR - Olivier Theatre. Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn on music and madness in the USSR. 2009

EVITA - Adelphi Theatre. Revival of the Webber-Rice musical on the rise and fall of Eva Peron.2006-2007

FAME - Shaftsbury Theatre. Return of touring stage version of high school film. Summer 2007

THE FANTASTICKS - Duchess Theatre. Whimsical musical that ran for 42 years in NY and two weeks in London. Spring 2010.

THE FAR PAVILIONS - Shaftsbury Theatre. Musical set in India. Summer 2005.

FASCINATING AIDA - The trio of musical comediennes in their latest show. 2000

FASCINATING AIDA - ONE LAST FLUTTER - Comedy Theatre Melodic comediennes' farewell tour. Autumn 2003

FEAST - Young Vic Theatre. Musical epic of the Yoruba Diaspora. February 2013

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF - Savoy Theatre. Henry Goodman was Tevye. 2007-2008

FINGS AIN'T WOT THEY USED T'BE - Union Theatre. Lionel Bart musical. Spring 2011

FLAHOOLEY - Sadler's Wells Baylis Studio. 1951 musical about dolls, genies and the American economy. Spring 2012

FLASHDANCE - Shaftsbury Theatre. Musical based on film about steelworker-dancer. Winter 2010-2011

FOOTLOOSE - Novello Theatre, then Playhouse. Stage version of hit movie of town that bans dancing. 2006-7

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY - Menier Chocolate Factory. Parodies and send-ups of current and classic musicals. Summer 2009

FOSSE - Prince of Wales. Anthology of Bob Fosse's choreography, recreated by Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon.2000-01

THE FULL MONTY - Prince of Wales Theatre. Broadway musical of the hit British film. 2002

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM - Olivier Theatre. Musical farce of romping in ancient Rome. Summer-autumn 2004

GAY'S THE WORD - Jermyn Street Theatre. Ivor Novello musical. February 2013

THE GENIUS OF RAY CHARLES - Haymarket Theatre. Compilation concert of songs associated with Ray Charles. Summer 2005

GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE - Duchess Theatre. Actor-musician Hershey Felder as the composer. Spring 2004

GHOST - Piccadilly Theatre. Musical of the 1990 romantic film. 2011-2012

GIGI - Open Air Theatre. Stage version of the Lerner-Loewe film musical. Summer 2008

THE GLORIOUS ONES - Landor Theatre. Ahrens-Flaherty musical about commedia dell-arte troupe. Spring 2012

GONDOLIERS - Apollo Theatre. Gilbert and Sullivan updated to rival Mafia families. Summer-autumn 2001

GONE WITH THE WIND - New London Theatre. Trevor Nunn developed a new musical version that lasted only two months. Spring 2008

GOODBYE BARCELONA - Arcola Theatre. Musical set in the Spanish Civil War. December 2011

GRAND HOTEL - Donmar Theatre. Revival of musical based on classic film. Winter 2004-2005

THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY FETE - Bush Theatre. Musical look at what's become of little England. Summer 2010

GREAT DAMES - Jermyn Street Theatre. Impressionist-singer Christine Pedi in cabaret. June 2009

GUYS AND DOLLS - Piccadilly Theatre. The classic Frank Loesser musical set in a mythical land called Times Square. 2005-2007

HAIR - Gielgud Theatre. Hit New York revival of the hippie-era rock musical. 2010

HAIRSPRAY - Shaftsbury Theatre. Broadway musical of John Waters film - chubby girl becomes cool. 2007-2010

HARD TIMES - Haymarket Theatre. One of Dickens' darkest novels turned into a musical comedy.Summer 2000

THE HARDER THEY COME - Barbican Theatre. Stage version of classic reggae film. Barbican Spring 2008; Playhouse Summer 2008

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH - Playhouse Theatre. Off-Broadway hit camp rock musical. Autumn 2000

HELLO AGAIN - Bridewell Theatre. Michael John LaChiusa's musical, an Off-Broadway hit in 1997, is a new take on Schnitzler's La Ronde.Spring 2001

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL - Hammersmith Apollo. Stage version of Disney TV musical. Summer 2008

HIGH SOCIETY - Shaftsbury Theatre. Musical version of The Philadephia Story.2005-2006

H.M.S. PINAFORE - Savoy Theatre. The D'Oyly Carte Company doing Gilbert and Sullivan at their original home, the Savoy.Spring 2000, autumn 2002

H.M.S. PINAFORE - Open Air Theatre. Gilbert and Sullivan al fresco in Regents Park Summer 2005

HONK! THE UGLY DUCKLING - OlivierTheatre. For the holiday season, a new musical of Hans Christian Andersen.Winter 1999-2000

THE HUMAN COMEDY - Young Vic Theatre. Galt MacDermot musical of William Saroyan novel. September 2010

THE HURLY BURLY SHOW - Garrick and Duchess Theatres. Decorous burlesque show. Garrick Spring 2011;  Duchess  Summer 2012

IMAGINE THIS - New London Theatre. Musical set in the Warsaw Ghetto. Autumn 2008

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Riverside Studios. New musical of Wilde classic. Winter 2011

INTO THE HOODS - Novello Theatre. All-dance show sets fairy tales to a hip-hop beat. Spring-summer 2008

INTO THE WOODS - Open Air Theatre. Sondheim musical deconstructs fairy tales. Summer 2010

IOLANTHE - Savoy Theatre. Gilbert and Sullivan, peries and peers. Spring 2002

IOLANTHE- Wilton's Music Hall. All-male Gilbert and Sullivan. Spring 2011

JAILHOUSE ROCK - Piccadilly Theatre. Stage version of Elvis Presley film. 2004-2005

JAZZ AT CAFE SOCIETY - Tricycle Theatre. Musical salute to the seminal New York nightclub. Summer 2012

JERRY SPRINGER- THE OPERA - National, then Cambridge Theatre. Musical parody of American TV show 2003-2005

JEST END - Jermyn Street Theatre. Musical parodies. Winter 2009

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT - New London Theatre. New version of the Lloyd Webber perennial. 2003-2005

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT - Adelphi Theatre. Revival of the Webber-Rice romp, its star chosen by TV competition. 2007-2009

KAT AND THE KINGS - Tricycle Theatre. Return of popular South African musical.Winter 2003-2004

THE KING AND I - Palladium. Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein. 2000-2002

THE KING AND I - Royal Albert Hall. Grand staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. June 2009

KISS ME KATE - Victoria Palace Theatre. Award-winning Broadway revival of the 1948 Cole Porter musical. 2001-2002

KISS ME KATE - Old Vic Theatre. Cole Porter backstage musical. Winter 2012-2013

KOOS SAS - Tricycle Theatre. Musical about South African outlaw. July 2009

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES - Menier Chocolate Factory. Musical of gay couple. Menier Winter 2007-2008; Playhouse Theatre 2008-2009

LA CAVA - Victoria Palace, then Piccadilly Theatre. Oliver Tobias starred in new musical set in 8th Century Spain. Autumn-winter 2000

THE LADY OR THE TIGER - Orange Tree Theatre. Musical version of Arabian Nights tale. Winter 2009-2010

THE LAST FIVE YEARS - Menier Chocolate Factory. Two-character musical traces doomed love affair. Summer 2006

LAUTREC - Shaftsbury Theatre. Can-cans, the Moulon Rouge and songs by Charles Aznavour. Spring 2000

LEGALLY BLONDE - Savoy Theatre. Musical of the film about airhead who blooms in law school. 2010-2012

LEND ME A TENOR - Gielgud Theatre. Musical based on backstage comedy. Summer 2011

LET'S KICK ARTS and LOVE SONGS - Bridewell Theatre. Musical and comic review skewering the arts. March 2002

LITTLE FISH - Finborough Theatre. LaChiusa musical about love, swimming and quitting cigarettes. Autumn 2009

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - Menier, then Garrick Theatre. Sondheim sending in the you-know-whos, directed by Trevor Nunn. Menier 2008, Garick 2009

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS -Ambassadors Theatre. Musical of the low-budget spoof horror movie transferred from the fringe. 2006-2007

THE LITTLE PRINCE - Hampstead Theatre. Saint-Exupery fable. Winter 2008-2009

LONDON ROAD - National Theatre. Verbatim musical about reactions to a serial killer. Spring-Summer 2011; Summer 2012

THE LORD OF THE RINGS - Drury Lane Theatre. Musical version of the sword-and-sorcery trilogy. 2007-2008

LOSERVILLE - Garrick Theatre. Musical about love among 1970s computer geeks. 2012-2013

LOVE - Lyric Hammersmith. Musical romance set in old people's home. Spring 2008

LOVE NEVER DIES - Adelphi Theatre. Long-awaited lloyd Webber sequel to Phantom of the Opera. 2010-2011

LOVE STORY - Duchess Theatre. Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl dies - musical based on the novel and film. Winter 2010-2011

LUCKY STIFF - Landor Theatre. Ahrens-Flaherty musical about taking a corpse on holiday. February 2012

MACK AND MABEL - Criterion Theatre. Cult Jerry Herman musical about early Hollywood. Spring 2006

MACK AND MABEL - Southwark Playhouse. Jerry Herman musical about early Hollywood. Summer 2012

DEAR WORLD - Charing Cross Theatre. Jerry Herman musical of The Madwoman of Chailot. Winter 2013

THE MAGIC FLUTE - Duke of York's Theatre. Transfer from Young Vic of African-flavoured adaptation of Mozart. Spring 2008

A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE - Arts Theatre. Musical about stagestruck bus conductor. February 2010

MARGUERITE - Haymarket Theatre. New musical based on Camille by the Les Miserables team. Summer 2008

MARIA FRIEDMAN - RE-ARRANGED - Menier Chocolate Factory. The West End star in concert. Menier Spring 2008; Trafalgar Studios Winter 2008

MARILYN - Apollo Theatre. All-dance tribute to Marilyn Monroe.June 2009

MARY POPPINS - Prince Edward Theatre. The magical nanny on stage.2004-2008

ME AND JULIET - Finborough Theatre. Rodgers and Hammerstein backstage musical. Autumn 2010

MENOPAUSE - THE MUSICAL - Shaw Theatre. Jolly songs about midlife crises. Summer 2007

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG - Donmar Warehouse. Cult Stephen Sondheim: success story told backwards. Winter 2000-2001

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG - Menier Chocolate Factory. Sondheim musical. Winter 2012-2013

MIDNIGHT TANGO - Aldwych and Phoenix Theatres. All-dance programme. Aldwych Winter-Spring 2012; Phoenix February 2013

THE MIKADO - Savoy Theatre. D'Oyly Carte in Gilbert & Sullivan - how much more English can you get? Autumn 2000

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - Noel Coward Theatre. Musical salute to Elvis, Carl, Johnny and Jerry Lee. 2011-2012

MOVING ON - Bridewell Theatre.Sondheim compilation show put together by David Kernan Summer 2000

MOVIN' OUT - Apollo Victoria Theatre. All-dance show from Twyla Tharp to Billy Joel music. Spring 2006

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (A MUSICAL) - Sound Theatre. Spoof of classic musicals. Spring 2006

MY FAIR LADY - National, then Drury LaneTheatre. National Theatre does Lerner & Loewe, Trevor Nunn directs.2001-2003

MY ONE AND ONLY - Piccadilly Theatre. Janie Dee and Tim Flavin in Gershwin musical transfer from Chichester. 2002

THE MYSTERIES (YIIMANGALISO) - Queens Theatre. South African interpretation of Chester Mystery Plays Fringe summer 2001; Queens spring 2002; revived Garrick Autumn 2009

NEVER FORGET - Savoy Theatre. Musical built on the songs of Take That. 2008

NEVERMORE - Barbican. Musical journey through the life of Edgar Allan Poe. July 2010

NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS - Dominion Theatre. It worked for Les Mis, so why not the Hunchback?.Closed October 2001

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR - Open Air Theatre. Classic musical satirises the First World War through the songs of British musical hall. Summer 2002

.OLIVER! - Drury Lane Theatre. Lionel Bart musical of Dickens. 2009-2011

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER - Bridewell. Alan Jay Lerner's 1965 musical about ESP and love across the centuries. Winter 1999-2000

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - Union Theatre. Cy Coleman musical of mad train journey. Winter 2010-2011

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND - Hackney Empire. Caribbean-flavoured musical. Summer 2009

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS - Landor Theatre. 1959 Mary Rogers-Marshall Barer musical sends up The Princess and the Pea. Spring 2003

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS - Union Theatre. Musical take-off on fairy tale. Winter 2012-2013

125th STREET - Shaftsbury Theatre. Imaginary recreation of amateur night at Harlem's fabled Apollo Theatre. Autumn 2002.

ONE TOUCH OF VENUS - Sadlers Wells Theatre. Short run of Kurt Weill musical.  Autumn 2005

ORPHEUS - BAC. Greek myth set in 1930s jazz club. Spring 2013

OUR HOUSE - Cambridge Theatre. Yet another musical built on a pop group's catalog, this time Madness. 2002-2003

PACIFIC OVERTURES - Donmar Warehouse. Revival of the Sondheim Japanese-themed musical Summer 2003

THE PAJAMA GAME - Apollo Victoria- Revival of 1950s musical about love and labour relations in a pajama factory. Autumn 1999.

PAPER DOLLS - Tricycle Theatre. Filipino drag queens in Israel. Winter-Spring 2013

PARADE - Donmar Theatre. Broadway musical of 1912 murder case. Autumn 2007

PARADISE FOUND - Menier Chocolate Factory. Musical based on Strauss melodies. Summer 2010

PASSION - Bridewell Theatre. Stephen Sondheim's musical of obsessive love. March 2004

PASSION - Donmar Warehouse. Sondheim musical of obsessive love. Autumn 2010

PATIENCE - Union Theatre. All-male Gilbert and Sullivan. Spring 2012