Adelphi Theatre

The Adelphi Theatre on the beach in London's West End theater district is now a musical theater with 1500 seats. It was opened in 1806 and rebuilt in the same place three times.

History

The first theater on the site of the Adelphi was called Sans Pareil. It was founded by businessman John Scott and performed by his daughter Jane Scott, who was a gifted theater writer and wrote about fifty stage pieces. After Scott's departure in 1819, it was renamed in Adelphi Theatre (after the Adelphi Buildings opposite, which gave the district its name ).

The Adelphi was the popular repertoire dedicated ( ie: not a tragedy and not a ballet ) and had a license for pantomimes, comic operas and melodramas. The pantomimes were not dumb, but large pieces of equipment with lots of music, dance and burlesque jokes. In the center was usually a comic figure like the harlequin. One of the most important authors was James Planché. The melodramas were usually detective stories, as she had done in Paris Pixérécourt popular. They had the nickname " Adelphi Screamers " (roughly: " Adelphi Shocker "). The stage versions of many tales of Charles Dickens ( which at that time had similar status as now, the fictional works ) experienced in this theater premiered.

1858, the theater was rebuilt by the actor, playwright and manager Benjamin Nottingham Webster, already had gas lighting and now could accommodate around 2000 spectators. Here are the modern suddenly become operettas were given as Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène. The first operetta by Arthur Sullivan ( Cox and Box, 1867) came to the premiere.

1901, the theater in Century Theatre was renamed. As before, it was devoted mainly musical pieces, that variants of the operetta, the vaudeville and earlier forms of the musical. Rare speech pieces were placed, in which about Mrs. Patrick Campbell shone. The present building was built in 1930 in Art Deco style and was in turn Adelphi. It was opened with the musical comedy Evergreen by Richard Rodgers.

In 1968 the theater to be saved along with neighboring homes from the threat of closure. 1975 Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music was performed.

1993 bought Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, the Adelphi and arranged it for the premiere of Sunset Boulevard. Here in 1998, the video version of the musical Cats was filmed. Today the theater jointly by the company and the Nederlander Organization Lloyd Webber is out.

Current Bespielung

Since 2012 the musical The Bodyguard is listed.

Former productions (selection)

Strand (London) West End of London 1806 in literature Mime artist Comédie en vaudeville Sunset Boulevard (Musical) Chicago (Musical) Evita (Musical) Love Never Dies (musical) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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