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Great West End Theatres (2012)

Great West End Theatres poster
Directed by
Marc Sinden
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Rated
B-15
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series explores the history, architecture, and stories of London's West End theaters. Each episode focuses on a different theater, with ten episodes completed before the host's death.

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What happens

Great West End Theatres is a documentary series planned and intended to detail the history, architecture, and theatrical anecdotes of all forty West End Theatres of London (as covered by the monthly Society of London Theatre list). The ten episodes completed before the death of the series' host are available individually as All-Region DVDs and also as digital downloads and were broadcast in 2013 in the UK on Sky Arts 2 and were chosen as "Pick of the Day" by the London edition of Time Out magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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