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The West End Festival is an annual festival in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.

The West End Festival in Glasgow was started in 1996 by Michael Dale as a small local festival centred on Byres Road.

It has since become the biggest festival in Glasgow's calendar [1] with events running for 16 days in June. It has been used as a model for other festival start-ups, as with minimal local authority or Scottish Arts Council funding, and has grown with each festival. Its centrepiece carnival parade is the largest carnival event in the UK after Notting Hill in London. In 2006 the parade day ran congruently with the Glasgow Mela; organisers billed it as "Scotland's Mardi Gras" and an estimated 100,000 people took to the streets and parks.[2].

During the festival a wide range of activities and events take place. Prominent is a programme of live music, outdoor theatre, comedy, drama, guided walks, talks, film, children's events, various local street celebrations and markets, and a well-known Carnival Parade and Street Party on the opening Sunday. It has also hosted a series of events such as The Longest Day (1998/99), The Ideal Hut Show (in conjunction with Glasgow's Year of Architecture) and in 2004 a free outdoor concert led by Belle & Sebastian in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens and in 2006 an outdoor production with a cast of sixty actors based on the life of Jesus. In 2008 the Globe Theatre from London performed "Romeo and Juliet" in the hallowed quarters of the University of Glasgow quadrangle, underneath the iconic George Gilbert Scott tower. Regular features include the Bard in the Botanics (founded 1999), a Children's Author series featuring authors such as Julia Donaldson, and the Gibson Street Gala, started in 2004. In 2010 this attracted over 15,000 people. An innovation for 2010 was a West End Highland Games at Hughenden Sport Fields.

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London.

Total attendances first surpassed 12 million in 2002 and 13 million in 2007, setting a new record for the West End. Since the late 1990s there has been an increase in the number of famous screen actors on the London stage.

The Theatre in London flourished after the English Reformation. The first permanent public playhouse, known simply as The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 in Shoreditch by James Burbage. It was soon joined by The Curtain. Both are known to have been used by William Shakespeare's company. In 1599, the timber from The Theatre was moved to Southwark, where it was used in building the Globe Theatre in a new theatre district formed, beyond the controls of the City corporation. These theatres were closed in 1642 during the interregnum.

Katie Beatrice Hall (April 3, 1938 – February 20, 2012), served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1982 to 1985.

She was born Katie Beatrice Green in Mound Bayou, Bolivar County, Mississippi. She attended the public schools of Mound Bayou. Hall received a B.S. from Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1960 and an M.S. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana in 1968.

Hall served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives 1974–1976 and a member of the Indiana Senate 1976–1982. She was a delegate to the Democratic Mini Convention in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1978. Hall chaired the Indiana State Democratic convention in 1980. Following the sudden death of Congressman Adam Benjamin in September 1982, Hall won a special election to fill the vacancy. She was appointed the Democratic nominee over more experienced candidates by the black mayor of Gary, Indiana who was also serving as the head of the 1st District's Democratic committee. She would go on to defeat the Republican candidate (who spent just $10,000 in his campaign) in the 1982 general election by only 56% to 43% despite it being an overwhelmingly Democratic district. In her first primary, 1984, the white Democrats ran two candidates, former Benjamin aide Peter Visclosky and Lake County prosecutor Jack Crawford. Many thought the two candidates would split the anti-Hall vote, but Visclosky prevailed with 34% to Hall's 33% and Crawford's 31%. Hall ultimately served as a Democrat in the last months the 97th Congress and the entire term of the 98th Congress.

Sabrina Aloueche (born 1986) is an English musical theatre actress. She is best known for playing the character 'Scaramouche' in the Queen musical We Will Rock You.

Sabrina Aloueche trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School, then went on to further her training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Sabrina’s television career began as a child. By her teens she had appeared on shows such as Billy Elliot, 999 Reconstruction, Casualty, The Bill and Grange Hill.

Aloueche’s training and personal vocation took her further away from television as she began to delve deeper into theatre. Aloueche has played two characters in two London productions of Les Misérables, firstly Young Cosette at the Palace Theatre and then, and to critical acclaim and fan response, she played the part of Eponine at the Queen’s Theatre where she was also cast to play the same part in the 21st anniversary show that was recorded for a BBC radio broadcast.  

In 2008, Aloueche began her run as Scaramouche in Ben Elton and Brian May’s We Will Rock You. This is a role that she is best known for playing. The Stage newspaper described Sabrina’s performance as vital by saying, ‘'Sabrina’s Aloueche’s Scaramouche provides the lynchpin to the whole show. She is far stronger than her male lead, Ricardo Afonso’s Galileo’'.