Savoy Theatre Schedule

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Nonetheless, the advertised opening date had to be put back several times while the innovative electrical work was completed. The Savoy finally opened on 10 October 1881.Rollins and Witts, p.

Wontner continued as chairman of the theatre until his death in 1992.The Times, obituary of Hugh Wontner, 27 November 1992While the theatre was being renovated in February 1990, a fire gutted the building, except for the stage and backstage areas.

Donald Sutherland then starred in Enigmatic Variations, followed by a second D'Oyly Carte season, playing The Pirates of Penzance, and then Antarctica by David Young. Information from the Ambassador Theatre Group's website In 2002, a season of Return to the Forbidden Planet was followed by the D'Oyly Carte productions of Iolanthe, The Yeomen of the Guard and The Mikado, and then a revival of Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.

Tom Stoppard's Travesties, with Anthony Sher was next, and in 1994 the musical She Loves Me played, with Ruthie Henshall and John Gordon Sinclair.

The incandescent lamps consume no oxygen, and cause no perceptible heat." "Richard D'Oyly Carte", at the Lyric Opera San Diego website, June 2009 The first generator proved too small to power the whole building, and though the entire front-of-house was electrically lit, the stage was lit by gas until 28 December 1881.

In 2003, the company revived Pinafore, followed by Bea Arthur at The Savoy, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Peter Pan and Pirates.

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