Wicked!

After dark, London provides many photo opportunities.

Nearly every day, I walk past the London theater (um, sorry, theatre) housing a production of the blockbuster Broadway show, Wicked. It’s after dark, when the show is running, that it truly shines. Literally. The bright-green neon lights of the Apollo Victoria theatre’s marquee illuminates the street and, what I love most, the queue of taxis waiting out front.

Lights from the marquee for "Wicked" shine on Victoria Square, London.
Lights from the marquee for “Wicked” shine on Victoria Square, London.
Lights from the marquee for "Wicked" reflect on the queue of taxis - Victoria Square, London.
Lights from the marquee for “Wicked” reflect on the queue of taxis – Victoria Square, London.

Update:

After posting the above photos, I continue to be entranced by the scene. One night I saw a driver washing his windshield – which appears, from my perspective, as if he was washing off the reflections.

Lights of the marquee for “Wicked” reflect on taxi windows – and no, they don’t wash off!

Just before Christmas, the marquee changed to alternating green and red.

Lights of the marquee for “Wicked” reflect on taxis in the queue – Victoria, London.

Full-res in the gallery.

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Author: dfkotz

David Kotz is an outdoor enthusiast, traveller, husband, and father of three. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.

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