Theatre Heaven

Yesterday we spent exploring our neighbourhood. For people like us, we're in theatre heaven. Within a 15 minute walk from our place there are most of the west end theatres. I won't show you all of the pics that I took, but a few won't hurt.
We started off by walking down to the Leicester Square 1/2 price ticket place, but they didn't sell the show that we were interested in, War Horse, so we went over to the theatre on Drury Lane and the box office. We were able to get tickets for last night's show at very reasonable cost. From there we took the tube to Waterloo station and went over to the National Theatre and got tickets to The Pitman Painters for tonight. We also booked for a backstage tour of the theatre for this afternoon.
We walked back across the Golden Jubilee Bridge with its views of the Parliament buildings and the Eye. This bridge is always shown on the TV show MI 5, or Spooks as it's called here, so we did "Spooky" things. Upon leaving the bridge, we wandered through the streets along the Thames and came upon the Adelphi District which features the architectural work of Robert Adam and his brothers. In the 1770's they began developing the area and in the process, they built a meeting place for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce. Sheelagh, upon seeing this beautiful building, walks in and asks for a tour. They were surprised and delighted to assign their archivist to the task and we had a one hour tour. It was great. That girl of mine! We saw paintings by Gainsborough and Reynolds that are not seen by the public.
We wandered up The Strand. The Bow Street Magistrate's Court, where Bertie Wooster was sent for stealing a policeman's helmet, was right there. We watched a few buskers in the Piazza at Covent Gardens and then the skies opened. We were driven to go home for a while before supper. The cool thing was, we left our place a couple of miutes after 7, walked to the theatre and were in our seats by 7:16. The play, War Horse, is incredible. Google it. They used life sized horse puppets to tell the story of a farm boy who raised a colt to maturity, and then his father sells the horse to the army to be used in WW I. It had us (me) sobbing and gasping. The battle scenes were VERY real. These puppets each had 3 people working them, but you stopped seeing the people and just saw the horses. Wonderful.