Disney musicals in London

[Cyrano]

I always buy my tickets at the booths in Leceister Square. You need to get there late morning, early afternoon, you do not need to go to the official one which always has the longest line, the others all sell real tickets.

The Lion King is really really really great!

Are you planning on doing anything else such as Madam Tussards? If you are i'd recommend paying the little bit extra for the Planetarium as there normally isn't a long line for this and you can go straight into Madam Ts which has a huge line most days.

Thanks for info.

Not planning much else apart from chilling with my brother since I'm not a great lover of being a tourist in London. I might end up spending most of the time on the balcony at his flat reading a book

 

[SammieG]

http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/tkts/today

The half price ticket booth in Leicester Square is called Tkts and if you follow the above link, it will tell you what has been on sale today.

They dont sell either the Lion King or Mary Poppins though and as both shows are still pretty sold out, you are unlikely to get any offers on them at present.
Sometimes you can get good seats by going for a restricted view ticket, or many shows do "student standby's" if you are a student and have student ID with you.

Good luck! Let me know if there are any speciific shows you want to see other than the two mentioned, and I will see if I can find some offers for you. I am a musical theatre nut!

 

[lmhall2000]

(ooopS! Thought I was posting a new thread...will move this to a new thread!) But I highly liked Lion King and look forward to seeing MP!


Hi all!!

What? No Disney in England? How will my kids survive? Well, actually they're all excited about our first abroad trip. They are 11, 8 & 7....we homeschool them so we've had the luxury of being able to really highlight some great books and projects to help bring this trip some education but fun, too. They have absolutely LOVED Robin Hood (Howard Pyle), Adam of the Road, Door in the Wall, Otto of the Silver Hand, Chronicles of Narnia...we even did a geography fair with England as our country. We've spent 4 years studying world history and the English parts were some of their faves. I think it will be a lot of fun!

We will be in London for 5 nights and Chipping Norton/Oxfordshire for 5 nights. So far I plan on doing the museums in London (Natural History, British Museum, Imperial War/Cabinet Rooms, Tower of London and we've got tickets for Mary Poppins)....I would like to hit Cadbury World and Warwick castle while in Oxfordshire. Other than those I'm considering taking them to Chessington on our last day in London before we head over to CN. Would this be worth it? With all the education going on I wanted to throw in some fun unexpected days.

I would love any suggestions on what your kids would like to do in those parts of England..I hope to visit Bath/Bristol to get some Roman Britain history...our Latin program is based in Roman Britain and the kids would get a kick out of seeing those sites.

Also, my ds (11) is an AVID AVID bird enthusiast, especially hawks...we're going to miss the great birds of prey exhibit at Warwick by a day...but am looking for other wildlife areas where we might get some good birding days in.

Thanks! We'll have a car the last 5 days and using tube/buses in London. Thanks!
Tara

 

[Cyrano]

Good luck! Let me know if there are any speciific shows you want to see other than the two mentioned, and I will see if I can find some offers for you. I am a musical theatre nut!

Thanks for the link and offer As these are the only 2 I'm keen to go to on my own, looks like I'll be chilling with a book and going out for supper with brother in the evening.

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions

 

[SammieG]

I would THOROUGHLY recommend Avenue Q which is on at the Novello theatre.

It is totally hilarious... like Muppets for adults..
Not for the prudes amongst us, but hilarious if youre not offended easily!

Audiences are going crazy for it right now...

www.avenueqthemusical.co.uk