Aldwych Theater
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| Address: | 49 Aldwych |
| City: | Westminster , London |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 30 '47 " N , 0 ° 7' 7" W |
| Architecture and history | |
| Construction time: | -1905 |
| Opened: | December 23, 1905 |
| Spectator: | 1,200 seats |
| Architect: | WGR Sprague |
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| Website: | www.aldwychtheatre.com |
The Aldwych Theater is a West End theater and is located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster . The venue was opened over 100 years ago in 1905 and placed under monument protection on July 20, 1971.
history
The Aldwych Theater was built on the bottom corner of Drury Lane . It is part of a large building complex, consisting of the "Aldwych Theater" itself, the "Waldorf Hotel" in the middle and at the end the "Waldorf Theater", now the "Novello Theater". Both theaters were designed by WGRSprague.
Key data
The Aldwych Theater has space for 1,236 spectators, 590 in the stalls , 341 on the 1st tier and 305 on the 2nd tier.
Notable productions
The theater opened on December 23, 1905 with a production of Blue Bell , a new version of Hicks Bluebell in Fairyland .
The Beauty of Bath (1906), The Gay Gordons (1907), It Pays to Advertise (1923), A Cuckoo in the Nest (1925), Rookery Nook (1926), Thark (1927), Plunder (1928), A Cup of Kindness (1929), A Night Like This (1930)
From the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, under the direction of Prince Littler, the theater was owned by the Abrahams family. Well-known productions were Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine , Gertrude Lawrence in Daphne du Maurier's September Tide , Vivien Leigh in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire , Christopher Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough , Peter Sellers in Brouhaha and Watch It Sailor .
The Collection (1962) by Harold Pinter , The Homecoming (1965) by Pinter, Old Times (1971) by Pinter, The Balcony (1971) by Jean Genet , Travesties (1974) by Tom Stoppard , An Inspector Calls (1993–1995) , Indian Ink (1995-1996) to Stoppard
Since 1998 a mixture of plays, comedies and purchased music theater productions has been played. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Whistle Down the Wind played until 2001 and Fame was played from 2002 to 2006. From 2006 to 2011 the theater was home to the British musical version of Dirty Dancing .
Stephen Ward (2013–2014), Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about the Profumo affair
Web links
- Theater website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aldwych Theater , at theatres.tv, (English)
- ↑ Aldwych Theater seating plan , for musicals in London.de
- ↑ Much drunkenness, the Count said Shocking , DER SPIEGEL 46/1949, November 10, 1949
- ↑ Andrew Lloyd Webber brings musical about sex scandal on stage , nmz - new music newspaper, November 29, 2013 - London