14-403: Empire Palace may refer to A number of cinemas run by Moss Empires with this name SS Empire Palace , a British coaster in service 1945-49 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Empire Palace . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
28-645: A separate business. The first Royal Command Variety Performance was planned for Sir Edward Moss's Edinburgh Empire in the Coronation year 1911 but it burned down and instead was held at the London Palace Theatre in 1912, owned then by Sir Alfred Butt , a competitor of Moss, who later joined its alliance; with many subsequent performances being given at the London Palladium . In 1932, impresario and producer George Black oversaw
42-497: The London Borough of Camden , built in 1929–30 for Bertie Meyer on an "irregular triangular site". It was designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie ; interior partly by Serge Chermayeff , with interior bronze friezes by sculptor Anthony Gibbons Grinling. The theatre is built in steel and concrete and is known for its elegant and clean lines of design. The theatre was refurbished in 1950—the original gold and silver décor
56-681: The Cambridge Theatre have been characterised by relatively short runs interspersed with several dark periods and the theatre was used for trade film shows in the late 1930s and again in 1969 as a cinema. Productions have included Joan Sims in Breath of Spring by Peter Coke in 1958, Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in Little Me in 1964 (334 performances), The Black Mikado (1975–76), and in
70-614: The Cambridge Theatre is a rare, complete and early example of a London theatre adopting the moderne, expressionist style pioneered in Germany during the 1920s. It marked a conscious reaction to the design excesses of the music hall and contemporary cinemas. Theatres looked for a new style appropriate to the greater sophistication of their entertainment and found it in the Germanic moderne forms of simple shapes enlivened by concealed lighting, shiny steelwork and touches of bright colour; this
84-460: The Moss and Stoll companies reunited. The company ended its promotion of music halls during the 1960s, due to increasing competition from other entertainment media. In 1964, Stoll Moss was acquired by Lew Grade ; it later became part of his Associated Communications Corporation . ACC was acquired by Robert Holmes à Court in 1982. The company continues as Really Useful Theatres , formed from
98-738: The late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago ran for 590 performances. Later, the rock and roll musical Return to the Forbidden Planet , which was based on the film Forbidden Planet and Shakespeare 's The Tempest using 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and ran until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—instead of the favourite, Miss Saigon . The show Jerry Springer: The Opera ran from 14 October 2003 – 19 February 2005. This
112-486: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empire_Palace&oldid=932815534 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Moss Empires Moss Empires was a company formed in Edinburgh in 1899, from
126-552: The merger of the theatre companies owned by Sir Edward Moss , Richard Thornton and Sir Oswald Stoll . This created the largest chain of variety theatres and music halls in the United Kingdom. The business was successful, with major variety theatres in almost every city in the UK and Ireland, and was advertised as the largest group in the world. The group had grown to over 50 theatres when Stoll withdrew his in 1910 to run them as
140-490: The merging of GTC (General Theatre Corporation) with Moss Empires variety circuit. Black became in charge of the new company Moss Empires Group and controlled a chain of 53 theatres all over the UK. In 1938, Black became the joint managing director of Moss Empires making him one of London's most powerful producers before his death in 1945. In 1945 Val Parnell became managing director of Moss Empires until 1958. Prince Littler became chairman in 1947 and after some 30 years
154-737: The sale of the Stoll Moss theatres by Janet Holmes à Court to RUG Theatres, during January 2000. They continue to manage six theatres, the London Palladium , Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , the Gillian Lynne Theatre , the Adelphi , His Majesty's and the Cambridge Theatre . Cambridge Theatre The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre , on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials , in
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182-533: Was not taken up by cinema designers until 1935. The theatre was Grade II listed in January 1999. An early production staged on October 19, 1930, by Ninette De Valois future creator and for many years central figure of the Royal Ballet . She both choreographed (Danse sacree et danse profane, Debussy ), and danced (Nicholas Legat's Variations and Coda, Glinka, partnered by Anton Dolin ). Productions at
196-434: Was painted over in red, and candelabras and chandeliers were added. In 1987, to restore the original décor, the theatre was once again refurbished, this time by Carl Toms . The theatre has a circular entrance foyer, with Grinling's bronze frieze depicting nude figures in exercise poses, the theme continues into the main foyer, with dancing nudes, marble pilaster up lighters and concealed lighting. English Heritage observes:
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