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The Adelphi Theatre is a
West End theatre West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1 ...
, located on the
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in the City of Westminster, central London. The present building is the fourth on the site. The theatre has specialised in comedy and musical theatre, and today it is a receiving house for a variety of productions, including many musicals. The theatre was Grade II listed for historical preservation on 1 December 1987.


History


19th century

It was founded in 1806 as the Sans Pareil ("Without Compare"), by merchant John Scott, and his daughter
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(1770–1839). Jane was a British theatre manager, performer, and playwright. Together, they gathered a theatrical company and by 1809 the theatre was licensed for musical entertainments,
pantomime Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking ...
, and
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. She wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas, pantomimes,
farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity o ...
s, comic operettas, historical dramas, and adaptations, as well as translations. Jane Scott retired to
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in 1819, marrying John Davies Middleton (1790–1867). On 18 October 1819, the theatre reopened under its present name, which was adopted from the
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opposite.Victorian Web – Victorian Theatres
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In its early years, the theatre was known for melodrama, called ''Adelphi Screamers''. Many stories by
Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
were also adapted for the stage here, including
John Baldwin Buckstone John Baldwin Buckstone (14 September 1802 – 31 October 1879) was an English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826. He starred as a comic actor during much of his career for various periods ...
's ''The Christening'', a comic burletta, which opened on 13 October 1834, based on the story ''The Bloomsbury Christening''. This is notable for being thought the first Dickens adaption performed. This was the first of many of Dickens's early works adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including ''
The Pickwick Papers ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'' (also known as ''The Pickwick Papers'') was Charles Dickens's first novel. Because of his success with ''Sketches by Boz'' published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to s ...
'' as
William Leman Rede William Leman Rede (31 January 1802 – 3 April 1847), often referred to as simply Leman Rede, was one of the many prolific and successful playwrights who composed farces, melodramas, burlettas (light musical and comedies) and travesties, primar ...
's ''The Peregrinations of Pickwick''; or, ''Boz-i- a-na'', a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837,
Frederick Henry Yates Frederick Henry Yates (4 February 1797 – 21 June 1842) was an English actor and theatre manager. Life Yates was born in London, the youngest son of Thomas Yates, a tobacco manufacturer, of Thames Street and Russell Square. Frederick was educ ...
's production of ''
Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...
''; or, ''Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall'' in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta ''
The Old Curiosity Shop ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' is one of two novels (the other being ''Barnaby Rudge'') which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial ''Master Humphrey's Clock'', from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York r ...
''; or, ''One Hour from Humphrey's Clock'' (November and December 1840, January 1841). The theatre itself makes a cameo appearance in ''The Pickwick Papers'' The Adelphi came under the management of Madame Celeste and comedian
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, in 1844, and Buckstone was appointed its resident dramatist. Dramatisations of Dickens continued to be performed, including '' A Christmas Carol''; or, ''Past, Present, and Future'' opening on 5 February; and Beckett's ''The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that rang an Old Year out and a New One In''. In 1848, ''
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain ''The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time'' (better known as ''The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain'' or simply as ''The Haunted Man'') is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and ...
'' was performed. The old theatre was demolished, and on 26 December 1858, ''The New Adelphi'' was opened and was considered an improvement on the cramped circumstances of the original, which had been described as a "hasty conversion from a tavern hall, permanently kept in its provisional state". The new theatre could seat 1,500 people, with standing room for another 500. The interior was lighted by a ''Stroud's Patent Sun Lamp'', a brilliant array of gas mantles passed through a chandelier of cut-glass. In the mid-19th century,
John Lawrence Toole John Lawrence (J. L.) Toole (12 March 1830 – 30 July 1906) was an English comic actor, actor-manager and theatrical producer. He was famous for his roles in farce and in serio-comic melodramas, in a career that spanned more than four decades, ...
established his comedic reputation at the Adelphi. Also in the mid-19th century, the Adelphi hosted a number of French operettas, including ''
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''. In 1867, however, the Adelphi gave English
comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...
a boost by hosting the first public performance of Arthur Sullivan's first opera, ''
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''. The building was renovated in 1879 and again in 1887 when the house next door, along with The Hampshire Hog in The Strand and the Nell Gwynne Tavern in Bull Inn Court, were bought by the Gattis in order to enlarge the theatre. They also built a new enlarged facade and part of this can still be seen today above the Crystal Rooms next door to the present Adelphi Theatre. An actor who performed regularly at the Adelphi in the latter half of the 19th century,
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, was stabbed to death during the run of 'Secret Service' on 16 December 1897 whilst entering the Theatre by the royal entrance in Maiden Lane which he used as a private entrance. This is now recorded on a plaque on the wall by the stage door. Outside a neighbouring pub, a sign says that the killer was one of the theatre's stage hands, but Richard Archer Prince committed the murder. It has been said that Terriss' ghost haunts the theatre. Terriss' daughter was
Ellaline Terriss Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (born Mary Ellaline Lewin, 13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular British actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. Sh ...
, a famous actress, and her husband, actor-manager
Seymour Hicks Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and p ...
managed the Adelphi for some years at the end of the 19th century. The stage door of the current Adelphi is in Maiden Lane but back then it was in Bull Inn Court. William Terriss would later have a Theatre named after him, the Terriss Theatre in Rotherhithe, later known as the Rotherhithe Hippodrome. The adjacent, numbers 409 and 410 Strand, were built in 1886–87 by the Gatti Brothers as the Adelphi Restaurant. The frontage remains essentially the same, but with plate glass windows, and, like the theatre, is a
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.


20th century

On 11 September 1901, the third theatre was opened as the ''Century Theatre'', although the name reverted in 1904 under the management of
Otho Stuart Otho Stuart (9 August 1863 – 1 May 1930) was a British actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who specialised in performing in the plays of Shakespeare. Stuart played the range of Shakespearean leading men, both with the Company of ...
. This theatre was built by ''Frank Kirk'' to the design of Ernest Runtz.
George Edwardes George Joseph Edwardes (né Edwards; 8 October 1855 – 4 October 1915) was an English theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond. Edwardes started out in theatre ma ...
, the dean of London musical theatre, took over management of the theatre from Stuart in 1908. In the early part of the 20th century, the Adelphi was home to a number of
musical comedies Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movemen ...
, the most successful of which included ''
The Earl and the Girl ''The Earl and the Girl'' is a musical comedy in two acts by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll. It was produced by William Greet and opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 10 December 1903. It transferre ...
'' (1904), ''The Dairymaids'' (1907), ''
The Quaker Girl ''The Quaker Girl'' is an Edwardian musical comedy in three acts with a book by James T. Tanner, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and music by Lionel Monckton. In its story, ''The Quaker Girl'' contrasts dour Quaker morality with Pa ...
'' (1910), '' The Boy'' (1917), ''Clowns in Clover'' (1927), and ''
Mr. Cinders ''Mr Cinders'' is a 1928 musical with music by Vivian Ellis and Richard Myers and a libretto by Clifford Grey and Greatrex Newman. The story is an inversion of the Cinderella fairy tale with the gender roles reversed. The Prince Charming char ...
'' (1929). The present Adelphi opened on 3 December 1930, redesigned in the
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style by Ernest Schaufelberg. It was named the 'Royal Adelphi Theatre' and re-opened with the hit musical ''Ever Green'', by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, based on the book Benn W. Levy.
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's '' Words and Music'' premièred at the theatre in 1932. The operetta ''Balalaika'' (a revised version of ''
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'') played at the theatre in 1936, and in 1940 the theatre's name again reverted to 'The Adelphi'. The theatre continued to host comedy and musicals, including '' Bless The Bride'' (1947), ''
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'' (1964), and ''
A Little Night Music ''A Little Night Music'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film ''Smiles of a Summer Night'', it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a ...
'' (1975), as well as dramas (see below for a list beginning in 1979). A proposed redevelopment of
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by the GLC in 1968 saw the theatre under threat, together with the nearby
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,
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,
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and
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s. An active campaign by
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, the Musicians' Union, and theatre owners under the auspices of the ''Save London Theatres Campaign'' led to the abandonment of the scheme.Vaudeville Theatre
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On 27 February 1982, the Adelphi hosted the final night of the
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for a concert performance of songs from all thirteen
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as well as ''
Cox and Box ''Cox and Box; or, The Long-Lost Brothers'', is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce '' Box and Cox'' by John Maddison Morton. It was Sullivan's first successful comic o ...
'' and ''
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''. In 1993, Andrew Lloyd Webber's
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purchased the theatre and completely refurbished it prior to the opening of his adaptation of ''
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''. The 1998 video of Lloyd Webber's musical '' Cats'' was filmed at the theatre.


21st century

In November 1997, the London production of the popular American musical ''
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'' premiered at the Adelphi, becoming the venue's longest-ever production during its eight-and-a-half-year run (which also made it the longest running American musical in West End history). In April 2006, ''Chicago'' transferred to the
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(and later to the
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, where it closed in 2012.).
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's revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''
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'' replaced the show, beginning previews on 2 June 2006 before completing a twelve-month run on 26 May 2007. Brian Wilson performed his album ''
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'' for the last time in the UK at the Adelphi in November 2006. From 6 July 2007, the Adelphi was home to another Lloyd Webber revival, '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. The actor playing Joseph,
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, was cast by winning the
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television show '' Any Dream Will Do'', and starred alongside Preeya Kalidas and Dean Collinson. 9 March 2010 saw the premiere of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, '' Love Never Dies'', which closed on Saturday 27 August 2011. The National Theatre transferred their show ''One Man, Two Guvnors'' to the theatre from 8 November 2011. This production moved out of the theatre on 25 February 2012, transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. ''Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' began a limited season at the Adelphi from 10 March to 22 September 2012, transferring from the Chichester Festival Theatre, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. In March 2019, ''
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'' opened at the Adelphi. It was set to close on 4 July 2020, but it closed on 16 March, when West End theatres shut down due to the
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; the producers later announced the show will not re-open. The theatre is currently owned and managed by the Adelphi Theatre Company Limited, a partnership between Andrew Lloyd Webber's
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and Nederlander International.


Productions

*''
My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion'', with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons f ...
'' (25 October 1979 – 31 October 1981) *The 1981–82
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Season (11 November 1981 – 27 February 1982) *'' The American Dream Machine'' (20 October 1982 – 1 December 1982) *''
Marilyn! the Musical ''Marilyn! The Musical'' is a musical written by Mort Garson about Marilyn Monroe that was originally produced in London in 1983 as a vehicle for Stephanie Lawrence. The show's book and lyrics were by Jacques Wilson and it opened at the Adelph ...
'' (17 March 1983 – 30 July 1983) *''
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'' (12 November 1983 – 4 February 1984) *'' Lena Horne – The Lady and Her Music'' (6 August 1984 – 29 September 1984) *''
The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, w ...
'' (4 December 1984 – 12 January 1985) *'' Me and My Girl'' (12 February 1985 – 16 January 1993) *''
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'' (12 July 1993 – April 1997) *''
Damn Yankees ''Damn Yankees'' is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., dur ...
'' (4 June 1997 – 9 August 1997) *''
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'' (19 November 1997 – 22 April 2006) *''
Evita Evita may refer to: Arts * Evita (1996 film), ''Evita'' (1996 film), a 1996 American musical drama film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name * Evita (2008 film), ''Evita'' (2008 film), a documentary about Eva Péron * Evita (album), ''E ...
'' (20 June 2006 – 26 May 2007) *'' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (6 July 2007 – 30 May 2009) *'' Derren Brown: Enigma'' (15 June 2009 – 23 July 2009) *'' The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas'' (24 September 2009 – 2 January 2010) *'' Love Never Dies'' (9 March 2010 – 27 August 2011) *''
One Man, Two Guvnors ''One Man, Two Guvnors'' is a play by Richard Bean, an English adaptation of ''Servant of Two Masters'' ( it, Il servitore di due padroni), a 1743 Commedia dell'arte style comedy play by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni. The play replaces ...
'' (21 November 2011 – 25 February 2012) *'' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (10 March 2012 – 22 September 2012) *'' The Bodyguard'' (6 November 2012 – 29 August 2014) *''
Made in Dagenham ''Made in Dagenham'' is a 2010 British comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays and Richard Schiff. ...
'' (5 November 2014 – 11 April 2015) *'' Kinky Boots'' (21 August 2015 – 12 January 2019) *'' Bumblescratch'' (4 September 2016) *''
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'' (6 March 2019 – 16 March 2020) *'' Back to the Future: The Musical'' (20 August 2021 – present)


References


Bibliography


Nelson, Alfred and Cross, Gilbert. ''The Adelphi Theatre 1806–1900: A Calendar of Performances''
*''Guide to British Theatres 1750–1950'', John Earl and Michael Sell pp. 96–7 (Theatres Trust, 2000)


External links


Official website at LW TheatresThe Adelphi Theatre 1806–1900: A Calendar of Performances
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