* Venue for hire: Odeon Leicester Square Auditorium Pictures

The ICONS in London which ran at The Venue at Leicester Square January 4 – February 28, 2007, starring notable, American-born English reared impressionist Greg London, is the first original musical that deals with impressions in depth.

In 2005, Tozer toured with the musical Love Shack, which also featured former pop singers Jon Lee and Noel Sullivan, and performed in a production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens at The Venue Leicester Square.

The Players ' group is now once more delighting audiences in the West End, putting on shows at the Arts Theatre, and, shortly at the renamed Venue Theatre ( in future, the Leicester Square Theatre ).

The venues in which the festival normally takes place are the Big Club ( formerly known as the Concert Tent ), the Ceilidh ( or Dance ) Tent, the Market Square ( formerly known as the Arena ), the Village Hall and Venue 65 ( formerly known as the Festival Dance House, and before that as the Arts Centre ) with occasional impromptu performances in the beer tent ( normally called " The Headless Horseman ") and in the Three Horseshoes public house.

Appropriately, the comedy drama had a sellout run at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London's West End at The Venue, in 2006, in a version starring Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett and Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller.

* In The Venue ( formerly known as " Bricks ") – 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City

There are also other Performing Arts Venues including the Xiqu Centre ( main theatre and Tea House ), a Freespace with an outdoor stage, a Lyric Theatre, a Centre for Contemporary Performance, Medium Theatre I, a Music Centre with a Concert and Recital Hall, a Musical Theatre, a Mega Performance Venue and an Exhibition Centre.

Ian Anderson plays balalaika on two songs from the 1969 Jethro Tull album Stand Up: " Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square " and " Fat Man ".

Statue of Chaplin as the Tramp by John Doubleday in Leicester Square, London

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Lineker was made a freeman of the City of Leicester ( which entitles him to graze his sheep — should he have any — on Town Hall Square ) in 1995 and he is often referred to as " Leicester's favourite son ".

In 1760 Reynolds moved into a large house, with space to show his works and accommodate his assistants, on the west side of Leicester Fields ( now Leicester Square ).

Orton's legacy stands to live on in his hometown, Leicester ; the development of the " cultural quarter " of the city, a former industrial area, continues apace and the new Theatre, Curve, the central development in the area, has a new pedestrian concourse outside the theatre's main entrance named " Orton Square.

* Shortest distance between stations –, between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line.

In 1986, a location was opened in London on Coventry Street ( between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus ) followed by a second location in Earls Court near the Earl's Court tube station.

The nearest London Underground stations are Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.

The section from Leicester Square tube station to Cambridge Circus is home to specialist bookshops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops such as Quinto Bookshop, Henry Pordes and Any Amount of Books.

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

Speaking to his agent from a telephone box in Leicester Square, London, he looked around for inspiration, noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema in 1954, and decided to change his name to " Michael Caine ".

( This quip is obviously tongue-in-cheek as the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not made until seven years later in 1961 and thus the title would not have been seen by him on a Leicester Square cinema marquee in 1954.

Michael Caine's handprints in Leicester Square, London

Speaking to his agent from a telephone box in Leicester Square in London, Micklewhite looked around for inspiration, noted that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema, and thus changed his name to " Michael Caine ", which he has retained since.

It may refer to the entertainment district around Leicester Square and Covent Garden ; to the shopping district centred on Oxford Street, Regent Street, and Bond Street ; or, less commonly, to the whole of that part of central London ( itself an area with no generally agreed boundaries ) which lies to the west of the City of London.

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In 1793 Barker moved his panoramas to the first purpose-built panorama building in the world, in Leicester Square, and made a fortune.

Despite the success of Barker's first panorama in Leicester Square, it was neither his first attempt at the craft nor his first exhibition.

Two scenes could be exhibited in the rotunda simultaneously, however the rotunda at Leicester Square was the only one to do so.

Because the Leicester Square rotunda housed two panoramas, Barker needed a mechanism to clear the minds of the audience as they moved from one panorama to the other.

Sometime before his eighteenth birthday in 1787 Lawrence arrived in London, taking lodgings in Leicester Square, near to Joshua Reynolds ' studio.

London Underground provide Hounslow West tube station, Hounslow Central and Hounslow East which are on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow, Osterley, Hammersmith, Knightsbridge, stations for Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Cockfosters.

The largest branches are found in Glasgow, Leicester, London and the West Midlands conurbation ( largely Birmingham ).

Other accents include a range of accents spoken in the West Midlands ( In the major towns and conurbations ( The Black Country, Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton ) and in rural accents ( such as in Herefordshire and south Worcestershire )); the accents of the counties comprising the East Midlands ( Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, and Nottingham ) and East Anglia ( Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex and Cambridgeshire ).

In 1564 Dudley became Earl of Leicester and from 1563 one of the greatest landowners in North Wales and the English West Midlands by royal grants.

All in all, Leicester and his elder brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick came to preside over the greatest aristocratic interest in the West Midlands and North Wales.

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London.

Worcester is bordered by the towns of Auburn, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Paxton, Shrewsbury, and West Boylston.

In 1802, Northampton was divided into Leicester, Batavia, Southampton, Northampton, and East and West Pultney-after Sir William Pultney.

There is also a bust of him in Leicester Square in London's West End and in the South West corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields.

In London they played in West End theatre orchestras, principally that of the Empire, Leicester Square.

The Fosse Way was a Roman road in England that linked Exeter ( Isca Dumnoniorum ) in South West England to Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia ) in Lincolnshire, via Ilchester ( Lindinis ), Bath ( Aquae Sulis ), Cirencester ( Corinium ) and Leicester ( Ratae Corieltauvorum ).

The Leicester branch from the GN & LNWR joint line at Marefield Junction opened on 1 January 1883, and in West Yorkshire, Thornton to Denholme opened on 1 January 1884 and on to Keighley on 1 November.

One of the most famous of these new palaces of pleasure in the West End was the Empire, Leicester Square, built as a theatre in 1884 but acquiring a music hall licence in 1887.

In 1997, she became the first female MP for Leicester West, a safe Labour seat, which she represented for thirteen years.

Hewitt was elected to the House of Commons as the first female MP for Leicester West at the 1997 General Election following the retirement of the veteran Labour MP Greville Janner.

Hewitt's constituency of Leicester West is considered a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 9, 070 votes in the 2005 General Election.

Janner represented Leicester North West and then Leicester West in the House of Commons from 1970 until his retirement in 1997.

* west of Leicester City Centre and east of Leicester's West End

* 1832 The Leicester and Swannington Railway opened from the Leicestershire coalfield to a wharf alongside the canal at West Bridge, Leicester.