Royalty Theatre

History

The theater went back to the idea of the actress Frances Maria Kelly (1790-1882) to found a theater academy. On the opening night on May 25, 1840 three plays were performed: Summer and Winter by Morris Barnett, a melodrama, The Sergeant 's Wife, as well as a farce, The Midnight Hour. The theater was closed after one week, which is probably partly due to the high ticket prices of five or six shillings. On February 22, 1841, the theater was reopened to lower ticket prices and used briefly by Kelly for their own monologues. With her ​​illness, however provisionally ended the use of the theater.

The theater was reopened in 1850 as the ( Royal) Soho Theatre and carried from 5 November 1850 called New English Opera House. The building was mainly leased by amateur actors. 1861 took over Albina di Rhona the theater and changed the name to New Royalty Theatre. The reopening proved to be unsuccessful.

In the early 1870s the theater of Henrietta Hodson was conducted mainly comedies and farces aufführte there, including WS Gilbert's The Realm of Joy and Ought We to Visit from? 1872, the building was renamed in Royalty Theatre and kept that name since at. On March 25, 1875 had the theater, then under the direction of Selina Dolaro, a great success with the performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Trial by Jury. From 1877 the theater of Kate Santley was conducted. Another success was the performance of Brandon Thomas ' play Charley 's Aunt.

After alterations and renovations, in which the number of seats was increased to 657, the theater on January 4, 1906 re-opened. The last performance took place on 25 November 1938 and 1953 the building was demolished.