The West End show is sold out until the end of July, with a small number of daily tickets available via a lottery system.

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The sum is higher than Westminster's West End Live show, which attracts more than 250, 000 people.

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The one-off show will take place at the West End venue on 2 June.

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The show first opened on Broadway in 1975, landing in the West End a year later.

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West End star Michael Ball has also been signed up to perform an evening of show tunes at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 August.

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The West End version will be choreographed by Bob Avian, who was a co-choreographer on the original Broadway show alongside Michael Bennett.

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The 55-year-old comedienne became a household name with her BBC sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and has gone on to create sitcom Dinner Ladies and West End Musical Acorn Antiques.

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Yet figures from CB Richard Ellis, a leading agent, now show only a 1.5% quarterly fall in the City in January-March, while West End rents actually rose, for the first time in three years.

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