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The Royal Standard was demolished in 1910, and in its place was built, at a cost of £12,000, the current theatre, The Victoria Palace. It was designed by prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, and opened 6 November 1911. The original design featured a sliding roof that helped cool the auditorium during intervals in the summer months.
The Victoria Theatre was a prominent American vaudeville house during the early years of the twentieth century. Theatre mogul Oscar Hammerstein I opened it in 1899 on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street , along New York City 's Longacre Square (now Times Square ). [ 3 ]
Victoria Palace Theatre: City of Westminster: Built by the variety magnate Alfred Butt in the baroque style. It was Matcham's last London theatre after which he shortly retired. It was built on the site formally occupied by the Royal Standard music hall, which itself had begun as the Royal Standard pub in the 1830s.
Audience watching a dinner theater show by the Actors' Theatre of South Carolina. Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. In the case of a theatrical performance, sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal.
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story is a musical in two acts written by Alan Janes, and featuring the music of Buddy Holly.It opened at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in September 1989 before It transferred to the Victoria Palace Theatre on 12 October 1989.
Matcham, c. 1900 Francis Matcham (22 November 1854 – 17 May 1920) [1] was an English architect who specialised in the design of theatres and music halls.He worked extensively in London, predominantly under Moss Empires for whom he designed the Hippodrome in 1900, Hackney Empire (1901), Shepherd's Bush Empire (1903), Coliseum (1904), and Palladium (1910).
Trip comes six months after riots in France forced state visit to be postponed
No. Date Venue Acts Royal(s) present Ref [a]1 July 1912 Palace Theatre: Pipifax and Penlo, Barclay Gammon, The Palace Girls, George H. Chirgwin, The Bogannys, Fanny Fields, Paul Cinquevalli, Harry Tate, Ida Crispi and Fred Farrn, Vesta Tilley, La Pia, Little Tich, Arthur Prince, Alfred Lester, Clarice Mayne, Charles Aldrich, George Robey, David Devant, Wilkie Bard, Harry Lauder, Cecilia Loftus