London Closures ... Dance Lessons, Rock 'n' Roll and More!

It has been announced that the West End productions of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll will close within the next two months.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the American comedy following the unlikely acquaintance between a sprightly retiree and her young dance teacher, has brought forward its closing date again, now five weeks ahead of its original planned closing. It finishes on January 27th at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. A UK tour is planned for this Autumn, although without its current two star leads - Claire Bloom and Billy Zane.

Rock 'n' Roll is Tom Stoppard's newest play which spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia, between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution but from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock 'n' roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and the British left, represented by a Communist philosopher at Cambridge. After two extensions to its original run, the production has announced that it will play its final performance on February 25th at the Duke of York's Theatre. This is prior to a planned transfer to Broadway in the Autumn.

Other upcoming closures include The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane - closes 6th January), Much Ado About Nothing (Novello Theatre - closing 6th January), Alice In Wonderland (London Coliseum - closing 7th January), Giselle (London Coliseum - closing 13th January), Watership Down (Lyric Hammersmith - closing 13th January), Cinderella (Hackney Empire - closing 13th January), The Nutcracker (Royal Opera House - closing 13th January), The Wind in the Willows (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House - closing 13th January), The Snow Queen (Theatre Royal Stratford East - closing 14th January), Rapunzel (Battersea Arts Centre - closing 14th January) and Peter Pan and The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), both at The King's Head - closing 14th January.

For more information on the Theatre Royal Haymrket, visit www.trh.co.uk

For more information on the Duke of York's Theatre, visit www.theambassadors.com/dukeofyorks

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