West End Quotes

“Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.”
― Barbara Isenberg, Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

“When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn’t find a whore in all of Paris. They were too busy paying their respects. That was a man – and he still has a show on in the West End.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

“I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob. LIke most battle experiences, my own view was limited by my vantage point at the back of the stalls. There was an inescapable tension in the house. The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“To the west are the residential streets, wide, treey, high cambered and in genteel disrepair. There are few tenements and further out only the large square sandstone houses of the doctors and lawyers and owners and inheritors, of the clergy and the architects and the retired wealthy. There are no shops and few cars and children play faintly in back gardens. There is quiet and the regular grid of the streets beats a slow drum, the tempo of security. Here the prosperous have always lived and had the message boys come cycling out on big basketed bikes, have walked their dogs and trimmed their privets and the reiteration of these events has given to the place a distinctive brooding aura.”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde