The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Regular Group Rate:
Monday - Friday evening & Wednesday matinee
8+ Best Available reduced to £29.50

School Group Rate:
Monday - Tuesday evening & Wednesday matinee
10+ Upper Circle reduced to £15

All rates and seats subject to availability and change

About The Event
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is coming back to the West End in an exciting new production to play introducing Diana Vickers (from X-Factor) as Little Voice.

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a savage black comedy-drama about painfully shy, diminutive Little Voice (LV), who lives alone in the north of England with her mother, Mari. Mari’s drunken, overbearing personality has driven LV into seclusion in her bedroom, where she listens to her late father’s records and has perfected faultless impersonations of the greatest divas, including Judy Garland and Dame Shirley Bassey. When Mari’s latest boyfriend, small-time working men’s club impresario Ray Say, overhears LV singing, he puts in place a tragic sequence of events as he pushes her towards stardom she doesn’t want and is literally terrified of.

The first major West End revival since it premiered at the National Theatre and the Aldwych Theatre where it won the 1992 Evening Standard and 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy

Written by multi-award winning playwright Jim Cartwright (Road, Bed, Two) and directed by Terry Johnson (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, The Graduate, Entertaining Mr Sloane).

What the Papers say...

**** - Daily Telegraph

**** - Evening Standard

**** - London Lite

**** - Daily Express

LITTLE VOICE MASSIVE HEART – Absolute Radio

POPULAR THEATRE DOESN’T COME BETTER THAN THIS – Daily Telegraph

JUST WHAT THE WEST END NEEDS – A CRACKLING COMEDY WITH STELLA PERFORMANCES – LBC97.3

TERRY JOHNSONS PRODUCTION HITS THE TOP NOTES – Evening Standard

ITS NIGHTS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE MY JOB BOTH A PRIVALEGE AND A PLEASURE – Daily Telegraph

IMPRESSIVE – The Times

DIANA
BRAVO DIANA…FIVE STAR SCHORCHER – Daily Mail
SHE CAPTURES THE GLEE OF GARLAND…THE BOOM OF BASSEY…AND THE ROLLING CONSANANTS OF PIAF – Guardian

LESLEY
AN ABSOLUTELY BARNSTORMING PERFORMANCE – The Times
LESLEY SHARP…THE BIGGEST BLAST ON THE WEST END STAGE, AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE – Whatsonstage
BRILLANTLY UNINHIBITED PERFORMANCE – Evening Standard
OUTSTANDING – Daily Telegraph

MARC
MARC WARREN…TERRIFIC – Daily Telegraph
MARC WARREN IS BRILLIANTLY FUNNY – The Times

RACHEL
RACHEL LUMBERG…SUPERB – Daily Express

JAMES
JAMES CARTWRIGHT IS TOUCHINGLY IMPRESSIVE – Daily Express

The Theatre
The Vaudeville Theatre is the third such building on the site, having been opened in 1870, substantially redesigned in 1891 and extensively improved in 1926. This tradition of attention to customer comfort means that today, while retaining its Victorian elegance, it is one of the few air-conditioned theatres in the West End.

Travel
Nearest Underground: Charing Cross (Northern/Bakerloo lines)
Exit Charing Cross via Strand exit (Villiers Street exit from Embankment). Head right (east) up the Strand. The theatre is 150m on the left.

Rail:
Charing Cross - See above
Kings Cross/St Pancras - Piccadilly line west to Leicester Square, Northern line south to Charing Cross
Paddington - Bakerloo line south/east to Charing Cross
Victoria - Circle/District line east to Embankment
Liverpool Street - Central line west to Tottenham Court Road, Northern line south to Charing Cross
Marylebone - Bakerloo line south/east to Charing Cross
Waterloo - Northern line north to Charing Cross

Parking: Westminster City Council Car Parks Trafalgar Square. NCP Drury Lane. Parking in central London can be difficult and expensive. Please use public transport.

Access
Wheelchairs: Transfer seating only. No motorised wheelchairs. Wheelchair users should be accompanied by a non-wheelchair using companion.

Hearing Impaired: No facilities

Admittance Policy
Regrettably babies and toddlers will not be admitted to the theatre. Children aged 5 years and over will be admitted and, more specific age limits may apply depending on the production. Children should be able to sit, unaided, in their own seat and be attentive to the performance so as not to distract other paying members of the audience.

Admittance to the auditorium is always at the discretion of theatre management.