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The Spice Girls were reunited on Tuesday for the launch of Viva Forever!, a West End musical inspired by the pop group's chart-topping hits of the late 1990s.

More than a hundred mop-topped musicians have flocked to a London theatre in the hope of being cast as Paul, John, George or Ringo in a new Beatles-inspired musical.

Fighting legend Mike Tyson hit the red carpet on Saturday as he swapped the boxing ring for the cabaret stage, in a revealing one-man show about his rollercoaster life.

London's West End theatre district is booming with new shows opening every month yet small state-funded venues in the capital are being squeezed from all sides.

Boxing legend Mike Tyson will debut a one-man show in Las Vegas next month, and could take it to Broadway and London's West End, according to the show's co-writer.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite some savage reviews when Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" opened in London, the British composer believes that "Love Never Dies" will still one day likely make it to The Great White Way.

LONDON (Reuters) - As London prepares to host the Olympic Games this summer, fashion designers in the British capital are turning to sport for inspiration, ushering in an era of sleek, figure-hugging dresses and coats which celebrate the female figure.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Petula Clark likes to think of herself as the Beatles' big sister.

LONDON (Reuters) - London's super-rich, their numbers swelled by fat cats from China, Russia and the Middle East, are spending more on luxuries than before the financial crisis, but there are signs that some may be cutting back on the cream.

Domenick Allen toured with Liberace as a teenager, starred as the nefarious Simon Prescott on "Days of Our Lives," fronted the rock band Foreigner for a time, has mastered just about any instrument you'd care to hear (he unleashes a blistering sax solo on "Urgent") and is known to pop awake in the dead of night to write music playing in his head.Leigh Zimmerman has performed in some of the greatest Broadway and London West End productions, including "Will Rogers Follies," "Chicago" and "The Producers." She was so great in the role of Ulla in the latter production that Mel Brooks himself preferred her to Uma Thurman in the film adaptation of the stage show, but Thurman was selected mostly because, hey, millions of film fans recognize the name Uma Thurman.

LONDON (Reuters) - Screenwriter Julian Fellowes will pen the book for a new musical based on the classic British children's novel "The Wind in the Willows," it was announced on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Oscars came to London on Sunday, when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honored British actress Vanessa Redgrave in the first such tribute made in Europe.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Oscars came to London on Sunday when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honored British actress Vanessa Redgrave in the first such tribute made in Europe.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bells will ring out across Britain on the morning of July 27 to mark the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London, part of a 12-week program of cultural events celebrating the arts alongside sport.

The world's biggest firms are increasingly setting up shop in Asia's booming economies, a survey said Wednesday, as Hong Kong topped a list of the world's most popular cities for global businesses.

Vienna has made it to Broadway, with the home-grown musical "Rebecca" due to open in New York's famed theatre district next year, producers announced Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The pavement outside a tapas bar in London's Old Brompton Road is a far cry from a bullring in Spain.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The long struggle to get a show from script to stage or screen may be getting a lot shorter -- via the Web.

Hong Kong's financial chief said Wednesday that overall property prices had passed their 1997 peak in February and would look at introducing more measures to cool the city's red-hot market.

Hong Kong became the world's most expensive place to rent office space last year, a study has found, despite government efforts to cool the surging property market and avoid a bubble.