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Gimme, gimme, gimme (the Globe) after midnight

  We said goodbye 2021 and hello 2022 with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Actor Giles Terera and the West End Musical Choir

by Charlotte Horobin

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Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!

A very happy new year from one globe to another! Did you catch our very own wooden ‘O’ at midnight on BBC One this New Year’s Eve 2021?

London’s New Year Celebrations saw Actor Giles Terera deliver Midnight Moment from Millenium Bridge, a poem telling the story of the most poignant moments of the year written by Tomfoolery, before the West End Musical Choir lifted the (metaphorical) roof of our Globe Theatre with an epic ABBA melody.

From all of us here at Shakespeare’s Globe, we wish you a bright and hopeful New Year, and cannot wait to welcome you back to our Bankside home in 2022 for the remainder of our Winter 2021/22 season, our soon to be announced Summer 2022 season (with King Lear), and our 25th Birthday!

A person stands on a wooden plinth in the Yard of the Globe Theatre, conducting a choir on stage. The Theatre is lit in a wash of blue and purple, with dotted spotlights.
A view from the Musicians Gallery of the Globe Theatre, looking behind and across the stage, as a group of choir singers stand on stage, bathed in blue light.
A close up of a row of choir singers, smiling.
A conductor stands with their hands behind their neck, text reading 'West End Musical Choir' on the back of their t-shirt.
Light beams radiate from St Paul's in a midnight sky.
A make-up artist applies power to the face of an actor.
Fireworks explode from Millennium Bridge before St Paul's Cathedral.
An actor stands on Millennium Bridge at night time, delivering a speech to a film camera.
A choir stand singing on the thrust wooden stage of the Globe Theatre. The Theatre is lit in a wash of blue and purple.
A close up of a row of choir singers, smiling.
A person stands on a wooden plinth in the Yard of the Globe Theatre, conducting a choir on stage. The Theatre is lit in a wash of blue and purple, with dotted spotlights.

FINIS.

Photography by Andrew Baker and Paul Cunningham.

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