West End LIVE 2024 in pictures and numbers: over 70,000 theatre fans come together in Trafalgar Square for Europe’s biggest free musical theatre festival

Tanisha Spring/ Moulin Rouge. Lucy St Louis and Alexia Khadime/ Wicked – Courtesy of Danny Kaan

Over 70,000 people flocked to London’s Trafalgar Square this weekend (Sat 22 & Sun 23 June) for West End LIVE, Europe’s biggest free theatre festival which has been hailed as ‘Glastonbury for theatre lovers’. Theatre fans travelled from all over the UK and even further afield for this unique and hotly anticipated event, presented on the Saturday by theatre stars Bradley Jaden and Mazz Murray, and on the Sunday by Cedric Neal and Zizi Strallen.

Six the Musical/ Courtesy of Danny Kaan

The weekend was packed with 11 hours of performances from an impressive line-up of over 50 of London’s top shows.

Musicals on the bill included West End LIVE favourites Back To The Future The Musical, The Book Of Mormon, Cabaret, The Choir Of Man, Disney’s Frozen, Hamilton, Heathers The

Cabaret/ Courtesy of Danny Kaan

Musical, Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, RSC’s Matilda The Musical, Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Phantom Of The Opera, Tina – The Tina Turner Musicaland Wicked.

Hadestown/ Courtesy of Danny Kaan

These shows were joined by new hit productions making their West End LIVE debuts, including The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Fangirls, Hadestown, Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder!, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Mrs Doubtfire, Standing At The Sky’s Edge, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Why Am I So Single?and Your Lie In April.

Why Am I So Single?/ Courtesy of Danny Kaan

There were also special performances from West End stars Carrie Hope Fletcher, Mazz Murray (who also presented Saturday’s showcase) and John Owen-Jones, with Westway Music hosting a special slot featuring stars from their exciting roster of theatre performers including Christine Allado, Luke Bayer and Rachel Tucker, alongside recent Britain’s Got Talentwinner Sydnie Christmas.

Videos of the performances posted to the Official London Theatre YouTube channel have already accumulated over 2.1 million views, with that figure growing by the minute. Overall, the West End LIVE and Official London Theatre social channels had a reach of 1.8 million across the weekend.

Britain’s Got Talent’s 2024 winner Sydnie Christmas/ Courtesy of Pamela Raith

Tina the Musical/ Courtesy of Danny Kaan

West End LIVE would not be possible without the on going partnership between Westminster City Council and Society of London Theatre, or the support of TikTok, London Heritage Quarter, Art of London, ATG, ASDA, The Crown Estate, Disney On Stage, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, FM Conway, Fujifilm, Heart of London Business Alliance, New West End Company, Nimax Theatres, Regent Street and St James’s, LW Theatres, Shaftesbury Capital, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Trafalgar Entertainment, Veolia and Ontix.

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