• Twenty to One
  ...ed performances at the [[Coliseum Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]]. Combined with provincial tours it ran for over a thousand shows.<ref>Sha [[Category:1935 musicals]]
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• Fred Yule
  ...n his stage career as a singer in pantomime, [[West End theatre|West End]] musicals and music hall. He first broadcast in 1925, as the vocalist with [[Herman D
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• Hy Hazell
  | spouse = {{Marriage|Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins|1950|June 1960|end=d.}} ...0 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[w:film actress|film actress]]
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• Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves
  ...ng his acting career as Peter Graves, he specialised in light comedies and musicals, often cast as dapper young men about town. His career peaked in the mid-to ...lso appeared alongside Neagle on stage in the 1953 [[West End theatre|West End]] musical ''[[The Glorious Days]]''.
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• Dick Vosburgh
  ...nd [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] classic musicals. He wrote three West End musicals: the pastiche ''[[A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine]]'' with compos ...ampstead, London and was an immediate hit. It soon transferred to the West End, running at the Mayfair Theater and was produced on Broadway the following
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• One Leg Too Few
  ...revue, ''Pop Goes Mrs Jessop''. It appeared on the [[West End theatre|West End]] stage for the first time in 1961 as part of ''One Over the Eight'', a rev [[Category:Plays and musicals about disability]]
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• Binnie Hale
  ...[[principal boy]] in [[pantomime]]. Her best-remembered roles were in the musicals ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' (1925) and ''[[Mr. Cinders]]'' (1929), in which she ...wn for her vivacity, and able to sing leading roles in operetta as well as musicals and [[revue]].<ref name=Green>Green, Stanley. [https://books.google.com/boo
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• Lionel Bart
  ...er an era when American musicals had dominated the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name="nyt"/> ...e use of authentic [[Cockney]] accents on the London stage and bringing an end to censorship of British theatre. ''[[Oliver!]]'' (1960), based on [[Charle
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• Dad's Army (stage show)
  ...ts and revisions, the show transferred to London's [[West End theatre|West End]] and opened at the [[Shaftesbury Theatre]] on 2 October 1975. On the openi The show ran in the West End from 4 October to 21 February 1976, where it was disrupted twice by bomb sc
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• Avis Bunnage
  ...ks?id=6-TvZ0O5NHQC&dq=avis+bunnage+fiddler+on+the+roof&pg=PA235|title=West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London|first=Adrian|las
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• Dilys Laye
  *{{marriage|[[Frank Maher (stuntman)|Frank Maher]]|1957|<!-- Unknown -->|end=div}} *{{marriage|[[Garfield Morgan]]|1963|<!-- Unknown -->|end=div}}
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...ning British troops during World War II, Webb pursued a career in West End musicals, becoming known for her vivaciousness in playing such roles as Lucy Willow ==West End success==
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• Leslie Henson
  ...the troops during [[World War I]]. After the war, he returned to the West End, playing in ''[[Kissing Time]]'' (1919) and a series of musical comedies an ...tage success continued in [[revue]]s, musicals and plays, including a West End adaptation of ''[[The Diary of a Nobody]]'' in 1955. Henson's film career w
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• Douglas Byng
  ...7) was an English comic singer and songwriter in [[w:West End theatre|West End theatre]], [[w:revue|revue]] and [[w:cabaret|cabaret]]. Billed as "Bawdy bu ...was the first cabaret artiste to have his name in neon lights in the West End.<ref name=morley/> By the 1930s, Byng's recordings of songs like "I'm Milli
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• Aimi MacDonald
  ...o Great Britain, appearing during the 1960s in musicals in [[London's West End]] and in [[cabaret]].<ref name="The Mating Game 1972"/> She played in the f MacDonald opened a lingerie shop in west London but sold it during a downturn in the economy in the early 1990s.<ref
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...he name "Jack Buchanan", he first appeared on the [[West End theatre|West End]] in September 1912 in the [[comic opera]] ''The Grass Widow''&nbsp;&nbsp;a ...tary service in the First World War. He appeared with some success in West End shows during the war, attracting favourable notices as a "knut"<ref>defined
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• Patsy Rowlands
  ...[[w:Players' Theatre|Players' Theatre]] in London, before making her West End debut in [[w:Sandy Wilson|Sandy Wilson]]'s musical ''[[w:Valmouth (musical) Other [[w:West End theatre|West End theatre]] credits included ''[[w:Semi-Detached (play)|Semi-Detached]]'' wit
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• Michael Aldridge
  ...ol]], [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]], [[Sheffield]], [[Bradford, West Yorkshire|Bradford]] and [[Amersham]]. In 1940, he joined the [[Royal Air F ...audeville Theatre]], where he remained until 1957. He played many roles in musicals throughout his career, usually in supporting roles in which he was highly r
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• Richard Murdoch
  ...inent roles in musical comedy and [[revue]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and on tour. He made his first radio broadcast for the [[BBC]] in 1932 an ...ref name=odnb/> During the 1930s he gained increasingly prominent roles in musicals and [[revue]]s, including the secondary romantic lead to [[Jack Buchanan]]'
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• Roy Barraclough
  ...ar Roy Barraclough returns to his roots|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/coronation-street-star-roy-barraclough-4975858|access-date=1 ...comebacks, Barraclough finally left ''Coronation Street'' for good at the end of 1998.<ref name="Roy Barraclough MBE"/>
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