The history of musicals
In the early 1980s, musicals such as The Sound of Music, Camelot, and Fiddler on the Roof were performed at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. In 1984, the theater was redesigned for the show Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which ran for 18 years with over 7,400 performances. After the theater's restoration, Bombay Dreams, also by Lloyd Webber, followed in 2002 and remained in the schedule until 2004. Afterwards, Saturday Night Fever returned, before the jukebox musical Movin' Out with music by Billy Joel was performed in 2006, and only ran for two months. Since September 2006, the musical Wicked has been shown at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, which continues to run successfully in the West End to this day.