Photography by Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba Seconds from the grinding bike gears and beeping horns of Oxford Circus, you’ll find a plush, red-velvet hush. A gilded auditorium of old-school glamour, built with spectacle in mind. At its heart, a stage – one known through history to terrify and thrill those who step on it in equal measure. As Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Liza Minelli would all testify: this is a room, and a crowd, that doesn’t just require charisma, it insists on command.