
Photo: Gregory Heisler

The Black Queen, Checkmate - Sadler's Wells Ballet, Covent Garden 1950
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections

With Errol Flynn in The Master of Ballantrae 1952
Photo: Lynne & Land Collection
As Sherlock Holmes in To Kill A Canary

With Tommy Steele in Half-a-Sixpence 1967

Gillian receiving the DBE at Buckingham Palace in 2014
Photo: Lynne & Land Collection

Photo: Greg Gorman

Waiting underneath the stage at the Royal Opera House to go on as The Fairy Winter in Cinderella
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections

Captain Hook in Peter Pan

Wayne Sleep, Michael Ball and Elaine Paige celebrating Gillian's 90th birthday - 2006
Photo: Joanne Davidson

Augustus Snodgrass in Pickwick

Meeting Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Command Performance

Choreographing Cats

Cabaret act - 1950s
Photo: Roy Round

Sherlock Holmes in To Kill A Canary

My Fair Lady - Adelphi Theatre - 1978

Ballet days at Sadler's Wells, Covent Garden - 1950
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections


Caricature of Gillian by renowned artist Al Hirschfeld

Queen of the Wilis in Giselle - Sadler's Wells Ballet, Covent Garden 1947
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections

Cabaret - Strand Theatre 1986

Photo: Roy Round

As Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady - 1978

Photo: Lynne & Land Collection

The Black Queen in Checkmate - Sadler's Wells Ballet, Covent Garden 1950
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections

A Simple Man - Northern Ballet Theatre 1987

South Pacific

Rehearsal at Sadler's Wells Ballet
Photo: Roger Wood © ROH Collections


Monsieur Andre in Phantom of the Opera

The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd on Broadway - 1964

Phantom of the Opera - rehearsals with Sarah Brightman and Steve Barton

As Berald in The Imaginary Invalid - Washington 2008

As Sylvia St. Croix in Ruthless! The Musical in New York

Celebrating Phantom of the Opera's 9,000th show on Broadway with Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber

On 22nd June 2018, Andrew Lloyd Webber officially renamed The New London Theatre as the Gillian Lynne Theatre in honour of the world renowned Choreographer & Director, Dame Gillian Lynne

Man of La Mancha - 1972 - Choreographing - and also acting as Sophia Loren's stand-in

Choreographing Cats - 1981


Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona - RSC

Frou-Frou, The Merry Widow - 1959


Directing Morte D'Arthur for BBC TV - 1984

Gillian's own story of growing up and dancing during the war years - 2011

A break in rehearsals - Half-a-Sixpence 1967

On stage at Washington Theatre - The Imaginary Invalid 2008

With Cameron Mackintosh in Los Angeles
Photo: © Lee Salem

Gillie with Noel Coward, Gary Bond and Millicent Martin - Tonight At 8 - 1971

Gillian rehearsing with Natalie Gregory and Sammy Davis Jr - Alice in Wonderland 1986

Gillian with Leslie and Evie Bricusse

Cats creative team outside the Winter Garden, New York - John Napier, Trevor Nunn, GL, Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd-Webber - 1982
Photo: © Alan Davidson

Gillian and Wendy Edmead rehearsing in New York - Cats 1992
Photo: © Shubert Archive

Gillian with Margot Fonteyn


Working with Dudley Moore on the show Collages in 1963

Gillian rehearsing The Look of Love with Juliet Prowse and Ute Lemper - BBC TV 1989






















































