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The week in pictures: 19 November to 25 November

Trump takes on ”Hamilton”, Carrie Hope Fletcher makes a Christmas announcement, Drew McOnie gets a little excited and Lin-Manuel is breathless…

Alun Hood

| London |

25 November 2016

Soho was plunged into darkness

*inserts Black Friday pun* #Soho #blackout pic.twitter.com/haiPRmi0Ox

— Alexander Morgan (@alexjaymorgan) November 25, 2016

The newly elected president of the USA took to Twitter when his vice president Mike Pence attended the Broadway musical Hamilton

The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2016

Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Hamilton and In The Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has been suffering in his own way

Soooo when you have the option of the stairs or the elevator at the Covent Garden tube stop, WAIT FOR THE ELEVATOR.
Good prank, pic.twitter.com/3ocsrMSTlc

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) November 19, 2016

We got a first look at Scarlett Strallen and Katherine Kingsley in rehearsal for the Menier's She Loves Me

Audience favourite Carrie Hope Fletcher announces an exciting pre-Christmas appearance

On Monday 19th December I shall be playing Emily in Alan Menken’s A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum! https://t.co/JYvBhCSRLa pic.twitter.com/mL5aXa98Ly

— Carrie Hope Fletcher (@CarrieHFletcher) November 25, 2016

WhatsOnStage's very own Daisy and Emily took up Mark Rylance's dress-up challenge in order to get free tickets to Nice Fish

A shark and a fisherman walk in to a theatre..... — A shark and a fisherman walk in to a theatre…..

The great Joan Armatrading joined lead actress Jade Anouka in celebrating the opening of the Donmar's all female Shakespeare trilogy at King's Cross

Award winning director and choreographer Drew McOnie gets a little overexcited at the sitzprobe for Strictly Ballroom in Leeds (we can't wait either!)

Me in the @strictlystage #SitzProbe trying to keep myself together… Act cool act cool… pic.twitter.com/QEdnfaO7YM

— Drew McOnie (@DrewMcOnie) November 25, 2016