Celebrate London Pride 2025 With A West End Show!

London Pride Parade 2025 is taking place on 5th July 2025. Whether you’re coming down to the West End to take part in the parade or supporting as a spectator, why not finish the day off with one of the many London shows which also represent the LGBTQIA+ community!

What is London Pride?

The event is also officially known as Pride in London. It is an annual event which initially started as a protest to fight for the rights for the LGBTQIA+ community. As the years have passed, the event has become both a rally for the community but also a celebration of it! Pride in London is now a non-for-profit organisation run by a volunteer-powered LGBTQ+ force which aims to “unite our voices, amplify our diversity and protest against inequality.” This year’s route runs from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall. There are also many stages along the route and in the West End which will have performances from music acts and speeches from activists throughout the day.

Musicals to Watch over the London Pride Weekend

Titanique – The Criterion Theatre

Reviewed by many as “a celebration of queer culture” and “a camp musical parody of Titanic”, Titanique is a really fun choice of musical to celebrate London Pride. Not only is it a beloved, Olivier-award-winning musical but it also plays on Sundays! That means you don’t have to cut your pride celebrations short and can catch a matinee or evening performance the day after the big event.

The musical features all Celine Dion music and is written by RuPaul’s Drag Race casting director, Tye Blue. It runs for an hour and a half with no interval and is part improvised. It uses many pop culture references which has the audiences loving every moment.

Titanique have just welcomed a new cast including Luke Bayer, Hiba Elchikhe, Richard Carson, Carl Mullaney and Tosh Wanogho-Maud. They joined existing cast members, Lauren Drew who plays diva, Celine Dion. Darren Bennett and Charlotte Wakefield also remain in the cast.

Book your tickets for Titanique, playing at The Criterion Theatre now.

Cabaret – The Kit Kat Club

This musical celebrates the queer community throughout history. It also is based on a book by Christopher Isherwood and his real experiences as a gay man around cabaret clubs in Germany at the rise of the Nazi party.

The musical is hugely popular in London and it’s also very close to the end of the London Pride parade on Embankment. With hit music written by Kander and Ebb, the musical tells the story of cabaret artists in a club in Berlin in the late 1920’s. This particular revival won 7 Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival when it opened.

The current cast of Cabaret is lead by Bridgerton star Hannah Dodd as Sally Bowles and TikTok sensation Rob Madge as the MC. They will lead the show until 20th September. You can read more details of the current cast here.

Step into The Kit Kat Club this pride and watch Cabaret.

The Devil Wears Prada – The Dominion Theatre

The Devil Wears Prada has music by the iconic, Elton John. It is based on the hit film starring Meryll Streep. It is about a girl who secures a job as a PA to the editor of a high end fashion magazine. The show follows her journey to survive and thrive in the cut throat fashion industry.

This fun movie musical has choreography full of catwalks and vogueing. It stars Vanessa Williams as the “devil”, Miranda Priestly. She will be appearing in this high fashion musical until October this year. Not only are the creative team on this show members of the LGBTQ+ community, but the storylines celebrate that community also. Particularly in a touching number sung by Matt Henry as Nigel in the shows 2nd act.

Watch The Devil Wears Prada this pride at The Dominion Theatre.

Six – The Vaudeville Theatre

This musical is celebrating all Queens this London Pride! Six the Musical is in a handy location for all pride-goers this year as it is on the Strand, close to the Trafalgar Stage and the Victoria Garden Stage. It also plays twice on both Saturdays and Sundays. Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, this fringe show has turn into a global sensation!

Six The Musical tells the story of the women who married the infamous King Henry VIII. It gives a voice to the women whose voices have been lost in history. The 90 minute musical rewrites herstory! Each queen is a nod to an iconic pop star and follows a concert format.

Your current Queens in Six the Musical are Jaz Robinson as Catherine of Aragon Thao Therese Nguyen as Anne Boleyn, Hana Stewart as Jane Seymour, Dionne Ward-Anderson as Anna of Cleves, Caitlin De Kuyper as Katherine Howard and Amelia Kinu Muus as Catherine Parr.

Rewrite herstory this pride at Six The Musical playing at The Vaudeville Theatre.

Moulin Rouge – The Piccadilly Theatre

London Pride is also a celebration of love and this musical does that! The movie famously has the quote “The greatest thing you can ever learn is to love and to be loved in return.” The story certainly embraces this ideal.

Based on the hit Baz Luhrmann film, this musical follows a doomed love story between a writer and a worker at the Moulin Rouge. The characters in Moulin Rouge have their own found family there and it also celebrates LGBTQ+ characters in the story’s subplots. It is a jukebox musical so it features some of your favourite pop songs. Not only that, it is a feast for the eyes! The attention to detail in the production transforms The Piccadilly Theatre into the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

The current cast includes Natalie Kassanga as Satine, Dom Simpson as Christian, Craig Ryder as Harold Zidler. Also there’s Dex Lee as Toulouse-Lautrec, Ben Richards as The Duke, Ivan De Freitas as Santiago and Charlotte Gooch as Nini Hannah. Lastly, Jay-Allan as Arabia Matteo Johnson as Baby Doll Bernadette Bangura as La Chocolat.

Celebrate Pride this year at The Moulin Rouge in The Picadilly Theatre.

The Lion King – The Lyceum Theatre

Celebrate this year’s London Pride in the pride lands! This is the second musical you can catch this pride weekend written by pop legend Elton John.

The Lion King is based on the hit Disney animated movie. It follows the story of lion cub, Simba in his journey to reclaim his throne. It uses beautiful puppetry to bring the pridelands and its animals to life. The show is now in its 26th year in the West End. Also, it plays on a Sunday afternoon so is another great choice if you don’t want to cut your pride celebration short on Saturday.

Leading the pack of this production are George Asprey as Scar, Shaun Escoffery as Mufasa, Thenjiwe Nofemele as Rafiki, Gary Jordan as Zazu, Alan McHale as Timon, Mark Roper as Pumbaa, Owen Chaponda as Simba and Merryl Ansah as Nala.

Book cheap tickets to watch The Lion King at The Lyceum Theatre this weekend.