Sunday, March 7 - 3:00PM EST (8:00PM UK Time)
Join your host, Neil Maxfield, as you take a virtual tour of London’s West End Theatre District! Discover fascinating architecture, anecdotes and historical figures from the 1700’s to today. Explore stories on failed assassinations to ghosts, scandals and more that still echo the walls and halls of these classic theatres. Also hear fun facts on contemporary musicals that transport audiences to “Grecian island weddings”, watch “cubs turn into King’s” and more! Audiences are in for sixty (60) fast-paced minutes of fun, all from the comfort of your home!
This Top Hat Tour Explores: The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The Fortune, The Novello and The Lyceum Theatres.
Instructor Bio:
Neil Maxfield has been performing from a young age and has performed on the two largest stages in the West End; Theatre Royal Drury Lane (Sweet Charity) and The London Palladium (Solo Artist). He has won first prize in two National singing competitions for Musical Theatre and has spent many years as a professional solo artist and actor, toured a musical show around the North and performed shows off West End.
Neil has performed as an actor on a Literary Pub Crawl and created his own walking tour https://musicaltheatrewalkingt... - a performance-based tour charting history of 14 West End theatres with anecdotes about stars and composers with songs. The tour had its 5th anniversary in June 2020. Neil also performs cabaret in the West End his latest was Rodgers & Hammerstein Collaborations which he also performed online last year along with his sell out West End cabaret Pret a Porter.
THIS IS A LIVE EVENT AND WON’T BE RECORDED FOR REPLAY, JUST LIKE A LIVE SHOW. Brief segments may be recorded for marketing purposes only. If you are invited “on stage”, you, your likeness, and/or your comments may be used in upcoming advertising for Playbill Experiences on Playbill.com and affiliated social media channels.