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Tickets for TINA are currently on sale from 21 March – 16 June 2018. Unlike other stations designed by Leslie Green for the. Lloyd brings back a number of her collaborators, including choreographer Anthony van Laast, designer Mark Thompson and musical supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck, to lend their magical touch to TINA. The tunnel towards Covent Garden (at this point heading southwest) passes under the Aldwych tunnels. Let’s go inside As our small group enters for our tour we are greeted with the tinny sounds of Vaudeville music, a reference to the Royal Strand Theatre which stood here until 1831. These buses have proved to be a bit of a disaster for more reasons than simply reintroducing. The production will be directed by Phyllida Lloyd, whose last West End production was the still-running global success, Mamma Mia!. Aldwych closed to passengers in 1994 and though it was never a successful station, from its opening in 1907 until then it still played an important role in London’s history. Answer (1 of 8): A certain Al ‘Boris’ Johnson flogged them off while he was Mayor of London in order to implement one of his trademark expensive white-elephant vanity projects, the New Routemaster bus. TINA will tell of the singer’s life, from growing up in Nutbush, Tennessee, through her turbulent partnership with Ike Turner, to defying the bounds of age, gender and race as a successful recording artist with multi-platinum albums and a James Bond theme song to her name. Turner’s extensive songbook includes such classics as ‘ River Deep, Mountain High’, ‘ Simply The Best’ and ‘ Proud Mary’, which across her career won her 11 Grammy awards, sold over 180 million records and inducted her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in history. The original tunnel was built to carry the single deck cars then in use, but in 1930 the tunnel was closed. This promises to be a real highlight in the 2018 calendar, so book those tickets now! Top ways to experience Aldwych Area and nearby attractions LIKELY TO SELL OUT Classic London Tour 7 Bus Tours from 585. Opened in 1906, this tram underpass originally connected a subterranean station at Holborn, and ran the length of Kingsway via a station at Aldwych before rising to the surface under Waterloo Bridge. The underpass took over a section of the tram subway, and rises at its north end through the site of the former Holborn tramway station. In 1964, the Strand Underpass, a road tunnel, was opened to alleviate northbound traffic flow from Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway. There were a few back-lit signs similar to this in London.

Aldwych underpass series#

The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll is coming to the West End! Tina Turner is producing a musical, aptly named TINA, about her life – the multi-Grammy Award-winning singer, whose career spans seven decades, will open the show at the Aldwych Theatre in March 2018. The former Aldwych subway station was around here. I was watching the series 'Widows' from the 80s and spotted this in the Aldwych underpass.