See these West End shows to celebrate Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' album

Taylor Swift's latest album The Life of a Showgirl is out now! Playing "The Fate of Ophelia" and "Elizabeth Taylor" on repeat? Then check out these plays and musicals in the West End that have maximum showgirl energy.

Olivia Rook
Written byOlivia Rook

Taylor Swift is everywhere right now. Whether you’re celebrating her engagement to Travis Kelce, singing along to her songs while watching The Summer I Turned Pretty, or devouring her new studio album The Life of a Showgirl, the singer-songwriter is dominating popular culture.

She has also captured the imagination of musical theatre lovers by dropping Easter eggs about a potential musical project in a new podcast, which comes off the back of Swift trademarking the term “Female Rage: the Musical” during her Eras Tour last year. Plus, she’s teamed up with & Juliet songwriter Max Martin on her new album, which landed on 3 October. For Swifties celebrating her proposal, or loving the theatre links in The Life of a Showgirl like the Hamlet-inspired track "The Fate of Ophelia", there are plenty of West End productions to scratch that itch. Check out our picks below.

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Oh, Mary!

Hamlet

Kinky Boots

Sabrage

The Producers

Mamma Mia!

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Jukebox musical
Screen to stage

Courtesan and Parisian nightclub performer Satine is the ultimate showgirl in this jukebox musical based on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film. Taylor Swift may be missing from the list, but the musical is jam-packed with pop chart-toppers by other fierce singer-songwriters like Tina Turner, Adele, Katy Perry, and Sia. Just prepare yourself for as much heartbreak as you’ll find in The Tortured Poets Department.

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Mamma Mia!

ABBA
Musical
West End

Donna and her Dynamos emanate showgirl energy in the ABBA-scored, sun-soaked musical Mamma Mia!. Their flared trousers and platform boots are just as fierce as the looks being served by Taylor Swift for her new album, and with hits like “Dancing Queen”, “Does Your Mother Know”, and “Money, Money, Money”, you’ll be dancing the night away with the other powerhouse women in your life.

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The Producers

West End
Musical
Must see

Swedish bombshell Ulla has producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom tied up in knots when she is hired first as their secretary, then as the star of Springtime for Hitler — the musical destined to be a flop in The Producers. As this showgirl teaches us, when you got it, flaunt it.

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Sabrage

Burlesque
Cabaret
Circus

This slick and saucy show created by Madonna collaborator Scott Maidment combines the worlds of circus, burlesque, and cabaret at King’s Cross music venue Lafayette, which has previously hosted the likes of Charli XCX and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Rhinestones? Check. Feathers? Check. Time to book tickets? Check.

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Kinky Boots

Musical
West End

Strictly Come Dancing professional performer Johannes Radebe will make his West End debut as dazzling drag queen Lola when Kinky Boots returns to London next year. We can’t wait to see him strut his stuff in those knee-high, red leather boots!

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Hamlet

Shakespeare
Must see
Popular

Hamlet is not your obvious choice for an article about showgirls, but how can we ignore Swift's track "The Fate of Ophelia", which has set all of our Shakespeare's fans aquiver? Hiran Abeysekera leads a cast that includes Alistair Petrie (Sex Education), Tom Glenister, and Francesca Mills (in the role of Ophelia). Like Swift's album, the return of Hamlet to the National Theatre has been eagerly anticipated — it has been 15 years since Shakespeare's play about the mad prince graced its stage.

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Oh, Mary!

Broadway
Historical
Comedy

First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is reimagined as a frustrated cabaret star in Cole Escola's madcap comedy Oh, Mary! which crosses the pond at the end of the year and sees Mason Alexander Park (The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Cabaret) take on the lead role of the sad and repressed wife of Abraham Lincoln. She would definitely be a Swiftie.

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