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The Palace Theatre was built for Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House to encourage the writing and production of English home-grown operas. Shortly after its construction, the Palace was sold to Augustus Harris in 1892 who renamed the building the Palace Theatre of Varieties.
The Palace Theatre located on Shaftesbury Avenue and facing Cambridge Circus was designed by C.H. Holloway and decorated by T.E. Colcutt. The impressive façade was made of terracotta and has three bays filled with dozens of tiny arched window. It is said that the interior veined marbles had been defaced by a coat of plum-coloured paint. In 1982, the Palace Theatre was acquired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Company and the plum coloured paint was removed to reveal its original marble and Mexican onyx panels.
During the Great War the Palace Theatre was the home for many music halls until musical comedies took over in 1925. From 1938 to 1945 married couple Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert occupied the Palace stage and amongst other things made way for two operettas.
The end of the Entertainer run paved the way for musical entertainment all the way. First with imports from Broadway, then followed by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar and Les Miserables brought by the Royal Shakespeare Company!
Today, home-grown Monty Pythons musical Spamalot has found in The Palace Theatre the perfect new home!
«t; The World's Greatest Artists Have Passed And Will Pass Through These Doors »t;
(Engraved in stone above the stage door)
Starring Adam Cooper and Scarlett Strallen this is a musical to lift your heart and set you singin' and dancin' - in any weather!
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