The cast of Miss Saigon takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Video: Theatrical Ice Bucket challenge

First Published 26 August 2014, Last Updated 12 August 2024

As the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge floods social media with hordes of shivering fundraisers donating to Motor Neurone Disease charities, the West End’s finest have got in on the chilly act.

From entire casts to single performers, the lure of combining money-raising with water so cold it would make a penguin think twice about taking a dip has been too much for our stars to ignore.

To save you trawling through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else a video might lurk, we’ve brought together a few of our favourite dousings. If they move you to donate a little cash toward the vital research into this disease, you can do so via the Motor Neurone Disease Association’s Just Giving page or by texting ICED55 £5 (or any other amount) to 70070 (UK only).

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

 

Les Misérables

 

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Musical

 

War Horse

 

Miss Saigon

 

Shakespeare In Love

 

The Play That Goes Wrong

 

Former Wicked star Louise Dearman

 

Les Misérables‘ Carrie Hope Fletcher

 

Former Avenue Q & Rock Of Ages star Simon Lipkin

 

Ronan Keating, who joins Once this autumn

 

Lindsay Lohan, starring in Speed-The-Plow from September

 

Tom Hiddleston, last seen in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse

 

Benedict Cumberbatch, who will play Hamlet at the Barbican in 2015

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