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Current List of Cancelled Performances Correct As at Monday 6Th April 1:00Pm Current list of cancelled performances Correct as at Monday 6th April 1:00pm Please note: Where the dates are blank, this means we are waiting for an update from the venue. Dates are correct as at the time of publishing. Cancelled Performances Show Venue From To & Juliet Shaftesbury 16-Mar 31-May 101 Dalmatians Open Air Theatre 16-May Postponed 4000 Miles Old Vic 04-Jun Postponed 9 to 5 Savoy Theatre 16-Mar 23-May Adam Kay Lyric 04-Jun 04-Jun Alexander Whitley: Overflow Sadlers Wells 17-Apr 18-Apr Armistead Maupin National Theatre 19-Mar 19-Mar Ballet Revolucion Peacock Theatre 05-May 13-May BalletBoyz Sadlers Wells 23-Mar 27-Mar Be More Chill Other Palace 16-Mar 31-May Black Waters -PDT Peacock Theatre 26-Mar 27-Mar Blithe Spirit Duke of York s Theatre 16-Mar 11-Apr Book of Mormon Prince of Wales Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Breakin’ Convention Sadlers Wells 05-Feb 05-Mar Burial in Thebs Lyric Hammersmith 18-Apr 16-May Cirque Du Soleil - Corteo Leeds Arena Cirque Du Soleil - Corteo London O2 Arena City of Angels Garrick Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Come From Away Phoenix Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Comedy About a Bank Robbery Criterion 16-Mar 03-May Covent Garden Comedy Club Heaven De Keersmaeker / Rosas:The Six Branderburg Sadlers Wells 05-Jun 05-Jul Dear Evan Hansen Noel Coward Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival Birmingham 30-Apr 03-May Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival Cardiff 22-Apr 26-Apr Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival Glasgow 16-Apr 19-Apr Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival Leeds 04-Sep 12-Apr Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival Liverpool 26-Mar 29-Mar Disney on Ice - Magical Ice Festival London 04-Feb 05-Apr Drag London Coliseum 04-May 04-May ENB - Creature Sadlers Wells 04-Jan 04-Aug End Game Old Vic 16-Mar 28-Mar Enter Achilles Sadlers Wells 26-May 06-Jun Everybody's Talking About Jamie Apollo Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Evita Barbican Theatre Cancelled Faulty Towers Radisson Blu Edwardian 19-Mar 30-Jun Giraffes cant Dance Rose Theatre Kingston Hairspray London Coliseum 23-Apr 19-Jul Hamilton Victoria Palace Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Palace Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Honest Amy Turbine Theatre clx Cancelled I Think We Are Alone Stratford East 17-Mar 21-Mar Identity Turbine Theatre Indecent Menier Chocolate Factory 13-Mar 04-Dec Judi Dench Bridge 20-Mar Cancelled Leopoldstadt Wyndham s Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Les Miserables Sondheim Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Lorent Sadlers Wells 04-Oct 04-Nov Love, Loss & Chianti Riverside Studios 16-Mar 17-May Love, Love, Love Lyric Hammersmith now 17-Apr Madame Butterfly London Coliseum 16-Mar 31-Mar Magic Goes Wrong Vaudeville Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Magic Mike Live Hippodrome Casino 18-Mar 31-May Mamma Mia The Party Mamma Mia The Party 18-Mar 31-May Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Marriage of Figaro London Coliseum 16-Mar 31-Mar Mary Poppins Prince Edward Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Matilda Cambridge 16-Mar 31-May Message In A Bottle Peacock 16-Mar 21-Mar Michael Parkinson National Theatre 18-Mar 18-Mar Monday Favourites JOhn Owen Jones The Other Palace 30-Mar 30-Mar Monsoon Wedding Roundhouse My First Ballet: Cinderella Peacock Theatre 04-Sep 18-Apr Nico Muhly’s Drawn Lines Sadlers Wells 19-Mar 21-Mar Nora - A Doll's House Young Vic 14-Mar 21-Mar Northern Ballet: Geisha Sadlers Wells 21-Apr 25-Apr On Blueberry Hill Trafalgar Studio One 16-Mar 16-May One Jewish Boy Trafalgar Studio Two 16-Mar 04-Apr Only Fools The Musical Haymarket 16-Mar 31-May Pass Over Kiln Theatre 16-Mar 21-Mar Peace at Last London Coliseum Peppa Pig Queen Elizabeth Hall 14-Apr 15-Apr Petula Clark Theatre Royal Haymarket 19-Apr 19-Apr Phantom Her Majestys 16-Mar 31-May Pina Bausch: Common Ground Sadlers Wells 17-May 18-May Pretty Woman Piccadilly Theatre 16-Mar 31-May Remembering the Oscars Peacock Theatre 30-Mar 04-Apr Rusalka London Coliseum 16-Mar 31-Mar Sarah Brightman Old Royal Naval College N/A N/A Shit Faced Shakespeare Leicester Square Theatre Shook Trafalgar Studio Two 04-Aug 09-May Six Arts 16-Mar 31-May Troubadour Theatre - Sleepless Wembley 05-Mar 26-Jun Stupid fucking Bird Pleasance Theatre Sucker Punch Stratford East 19-Jun 25-Jul Tango After Dark Peacock Theatre 26-May 13-Jun The Great Gatsby Gatsby Mansion 16-Mar 28-Jun The Lion King Lyceum Theatre 17-Mar 31-May The Mousetrap St Martins 16-Mar 30-Jun The Play That Goes Wrong Duchess Theatre 16-Mar 31-May The Prince of Egypt Dominion 16-Mar 31-May The Seagull Playhouse Theatre 16-Mar 31-May The Southbury Child Bridge Theatre 22-Apr 27-Jun The Visit or the old Lady Come National Theatre,Olivier now 04-Dec Thriller Lyric Theatre 16-Mar 26-Apr Tina Aldwych 16-Mar 31-May Uncle Vanya Harold Pinter Theatre 16-Mar 02-May Upstart Crow Gielgud Theatre 16-Mar 25-Apr Vanya and Sonia Charing Cross Theatre 21-Mar 16-May Waitress Adelphi 16-Mar 04-Jul Welcome to Iran Stratford East 18-Apr 16-May When you Believe London Coliseum 16-Mar 31-Mar Wicked Apollo Victoria 16-Mar 31-May Witness for the Prosecution London County Hall 18-Mar 31-May Woman In Black Fortune Theatre 16-Mar 31-May .
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