London School of Musical Theatre Adam Bayjou the alternate Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" and Danny Walters playing Tiger in the ITV series "Benidorm". London School of Musical Theatre The London School of Musical Theatre (LSMT) is an academy of performing arts that has provided training since 1995. It was originally housed at The Old Vic Theatre and then Her Majesty's Theatre, before moving to premises on Borough Road where it currently operates. In 2015 the school was based at Price Studios in Clapham but later returned to Borough Road following a full building refurbishment in the summer of 2016. London School of Musical Theatre
Musical theatre hall, pantomime and burletta dominated the London musical stage into the 1870s. In America, mid-18th century musical theatre entertainments included crude variety revue, which eventually developed into vaudeville, minstrel shows, which soon crossed the Atlantic to Britain, and Victorian burlesque, first popularized in the US by British troupes. A hugely successful musical that premiered in New York in 1866, "The Black Crook", was an original musical theatre piece that conformed to many of the modern definitions of a musical, including dance and original music that helped to tell the story. The spectacular production, famous for its skimpy costumes, ran for