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... really a question on agreeing on wording . ” The Hippodrome opened in 1900 as a circus , later becoming a music hall and variety theatre . In 1958 , after interior reconstruction , it opened as the Talk of the Town , where stars such as Judy Garland and Matt ...
... Maxwell, performed by the Grid Iron Theatre Company, directed by Ben Harrison. Variety chronicles the death throes of variety theatre in Scotland. Another Scottish | playwright, David Harrower, has collaborated with leading Norwegian Variety - Grid iron ...
... End's leading k^ ^^Ptheatre stands a chance to be ^Hjjj^^Frenovated and modernised. ^^^^Frank Matcham's Grade II* working Variety Theatre has attracted support from the Arts Council Lottery Fund towards the £15m total. We've still got a further £4. 5m to find ...
... enough from passing travellers in the great depot to support a show , has proposed to utilise a corner of a building as an variety theatre . ( Chit Chat , March 12 , 1903 ) 50 YEARS AGO : A William Poel Memorial Prize has been founded , to be awarded in alternate ...
... in 1897 and also a former owner of The Visitor. A report from our paper in the 1940 s explains further. “The largest variety theatre between Manchester and Glasgow, with the exception of Blackpool, Morecambe’s Winter Gardens has had a chequered and sometimes ...
... final tale to tell. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please put your hands together for the lost dreams of vaudeville and variety theatre. apologies about. “Anyone looking for historical accuracy will have to go somewhere else,” he says firmly. “I started ...
... studio purposely to see the statue . ( Chit Chat , July 27 , 1905 ) 50 years ago On the eve of its diamond jubilee as a variety theatre , the Chesterfield Hippodrome is to close on Saturday , July 30 . The 22 members of the resident staff have been given ...
... *Hourly until tipm Preter Wispeiwey _Tuesday Janéiek String Quartet Smetana. Jana’ek, Dvordk 120 pm Lunchtime Talk Scottish Variety Theatre Conversations Grid iron Theatre Company Lloyds TSB Scotiand Edinburgh Festival Foundation T 300 am hédtre-étévision David ...
... Festival offering at the King’s Theatre of Variety, a drama by Douglas Maxwell about the decline and death of Scottish variety theatre, I found it hard to register my critical assessment of the bellowing, boorish and banal production by sinking into ‘critical ...
... stage, and part of the old trapeze mechanisms still exists. Olympia once seated 3,750 on four levels and was the largest variety theatre in Britain, but over the years, it has seen its fortunes change. Since the mid-twenties it has housed cinema, variety ...
... d 5 £59 Where fear and fame shared the applause Glasgow variety theatres that fell by the wayside.. - - The most famous Glasgow the-. atre of them all was nick‘named the “gnveyard of ‘English comics”. It is said that a terrified Des O'Connor fainted on ...
... would appear to be a constructive scheme . ” The Hippodrome was built in 1900 as a circus theatre , was turned into a variety theatre in 1905 and was converted into a club in the fifties . Peter Stringfellow took it over in the seventies and it has been ...