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33-679: Originally billed as "The Hanlons," the group debuted in 1846 at London's Theatre Royal, Adelphi . At this time, the company consisted of George, William, and Alfred Hanlon, who were essentially wards of John Lees until his death in 1855. After his demise, the Hanlons returned to England and enlisted their younger brothers – Thomas, Edward, and Frederick – and rechristened themselves "The Hanlon-Lees" in honor of their fallen friend and instructor. The newly expanded troupe made its American debut in 1858 at Niblo's Garden in New York City, and spent

66-505: A New One In . In 1848, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 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

99-787: A cameo appearance in The Pickwick Papers The famous busker, Billy Waters often performed outside the Adelphi Theatre in the years before his death in 1823. The Adelphi came under the management of Madame Celeste and comedian Benjamin Webster , 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

132-588: A list beginning in 1979). A proposed redevelopment of Covent Garden by the GLC in 1968 saw the theatre under threat, together with the nearby Vaudeville , Garrick , Lyceum and Duchess theatres . An active campaign by Equity , the Musicians' Union , and theatre owners under the auspices of the Save London Theatres Campaign led to the abandonment of the scheme. On 27 February 1982,

165-534: 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 , a famous actress, and her husband, actor-manager Seymour Hicks 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

198-507: Is a West End theatre , located on the Strand 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. It was founded in 1806 as

231-538: Is grouped with Aldwych as the greater Strand district (a main street of London between the two areas and those immediately adjoining) which for many decades formed a parliamentary constituency and civil registration district. The district is named after the Adelphi Buildings , a block of 24 unified neoclassical terrace houses that occupied the land between The Strand and the River Thames in

264-680: 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 as William Leman Rede 's The Peregrinations of Pickwick ; or, Boz-i- a-na , a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Frederick Henry Yates 's production of Nicholas Nickleby ; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop ; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock (November and December 1840, January 1841). The theatre itself makes

297-645: The Sans Pareil ("Without Compare"), by merchant John Scott, and his daughter Jane (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 , and burletta . She wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas , pantomimes, farces , comic operettas , historical dramas, and adaptations, as well as translations. Jane Scott retired to Surrey in 1819, marrying John Davies Middleton (1790–1867). On 18 October 1819,

330-641: The Adelphi Theatre Company Limited, a partnership between Andrew Lloyd Webber's LW Theatres and Nederlander International . Adelphi, London Adelphi ( / ə ˈ d ɛ l f i / ; from the Greek ἀδελφοί adelphoi , meaning "brothers") is a district of the City of Westminster in London. The small district includes the streets of Adelphi Terrace , Robert Street and John Adam Street . Of rare use colloquially, Adelphi

363-566: The Adelphi from 10 March to 22 September 2012, transferring from the Chichester Festival Theatre, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. In March 2019, Waitress 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 COVID-19 pandemic ; the producers later announced the show would not re-open. The theatre is currently owned and managed by

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396-401: The Adelphi hosted the final night of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for a concert performance of songs from all thirteen Savoy Operas as well as Cox and Box and Thespis . In 1993, Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Group purchased the theatre and completely refurbished it prior to the opening of his adaptation of Sunset Boulevard . The 1998 video of Lloyd Webber's musical Cats

429-568: The Hanlon-Lees.". The Hanlon-Lees also patented several inventions, including the aerial safety net, a wooden brace used in the construction of scenery (which is to this day referred to as a " hanlon ") and improvements to the Lallement velocipede in 1868 and 1869 patents. Despite the death of Thomas in 1868, the group continued to perform regularly until the early 1900s, at which point George Hanlon's sons Will and Fred assumed control of

462-437: The book Benn W. Levy. Noël Coward 's Words and Music premièred at the theatre in 1932. The operetta Balalaika (a revised version of The Gay Hussars ) 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), Maggie May (1964), and A Little Night Music (1975), as well as dramas (see below for

495-480: The company's repertoire. They would carry the company successfully into the 20th Century, going so far as to appear on film for Thomas Edison in a production entitled Fantasma . The Hanlons would endure for another four decades, adapting their acts for vaudeville and finally appearing in the 1945 season of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus . In 1979, six American performers sought out

528-705: The final living descendant of the original Hanlon brothers and asked for her blessing upon their new company, dubbed the Hanlon-Lees Action Theater . This modern incarnation of the original troupe is best known for pioneering and refining a theatrical form of medieval jousting, an event which the company continues to perform at Renaissance festivals in the United States. The modern day Hanlon-Lees also perform Western-themed shows such as fantasy rodeos and cowboy exhibitions. Adelphi Theatre The Adelphi Theatre / ə ˈ d ɛ l f i /

561-586: The firm of Collcutt & Hamp . Buildings remaining from the old Adelphi include 11 Adelphi Terrace (formerly occupied by numismatic specialists A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd) and the Royal Society of Arts headquarters (which has expanded to incorporate two of the former houses). Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop was located here in the 1940s. The South Australian Colonization Commission (1834–1843) had their offices at 6 Adelphi Terrace in 1840. Rowland Hill

594-735: The first public performance of Arthur Sullivan 's first opera, Cox and Box . 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

627-605: The most successful of which included The Earl and the Girl (1904), The Dairymaids (1907), The Quaker Girl (1910), The Boy (1917), Clowns in Clover (1927), and Mr. Cinders (1929). The present Adelphi opened on 3 December 1930, redesigned in the Art Deco 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

660-415: The next four decades touring the United States and Europe. As their skills improved, their performances became more elaborate. When Jules Léotard introduced the trapeze in 1859, for instance, the Hanlon-Lees quickly adapted to the new device; their next production, Le Voyage en Suisse ( A Trip to Switzerland ) contained an aerial juggling sequence that stunned Émile Zola , who expressed utter astonishment at

693-686: The parish of St Martin in the Fields , which also included a headquarters building for the "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce" (now generally known as the Royal Society of Arts ). They were built between 1768 and 1772 by the Adam brothers (John, Robert, James and William Adam), to whom the buildings' Greek-derived name refers. The ruins of Durham House on the site were demolished for their construction. Robert Adam

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726-615: 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

759-462: The present Adelphi Theatre. An actor who performed regularly at the Adelphi in the latter half of the 19th century, William Terriss , 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,

792-693: The show, beginning previews on 2 June 2006 before completing a twelve-month run on 26 May 2007. Brian Wilson performed his album Pet Sounds 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, Lee Mead , was cast by winning the BBC television show Any Dream Will Do , and starred alongside Preeya Kalidas and Dean Collinson. 9 March 2010 saw

825-438: The surrounding neighbourhood and community. Adelphi has no formally defined boundaries, though they are generally agreed to be: Strand to the north, Lancaster Place to the east, Victoria Embankment to the south and Charing Cross station to the west. The small set of streets east of Northumberland Avenue are included here for convenience. Several streets are or were named using the words George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham after

858-483: The theatre reopened under its present name, which was adopted from the Adelphi Buildings opposite. In its early years, the theatre was known for melodrama , called Adelphi Screamers . Many stories by Charles Dickens were also adapted for the stage here, including John Baldwin Buckstone 's The Christening , a comic burletta, which opened on 13 October 1834, based on the story The Bloomsbury Christening . This

891-470: The third theatre was opened as the Century Theatre , although the name reverted in 1904 under the management of Otho Stuart . This theatre was built by Frank Kirk to the design of Ernest Runtz. George Edwardes , 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 ,

924-530: The vast number of airborne objects. There is a spectacular poster by Jules Chéret, the great pioneer of the classic era of French poster design, advertising their appearance at the Folies Bergère in 1878. In addition, the company is referred to in J.K. Huysmans chapter: "The Folies-Bergere in 1879" in his book Parisian Sketches, first published in France in 1880: "these side-splitting, yet funereal, clowns,

957-691: Was filmed at the theatre. In November 1997, the London production of the popular American musical Chicago 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 Cambridge Theatre (and later to the Garrick Theatre , where it closed in 2012.). Michael Grandage 's revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Evita replaced

990-764: 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 Grade II listed building . On 11 September 1901,

1023-596: Was influenced by his extensive visit to Diocletian's Palace in Split , Dalmatia (present day Croatia ), and he applied some of this influence to the design of the neoclassical Adelphi Buildings. The nearby Adelphi Theatre is named after the Adelphi Buildings. Many of the Adelphi Buildings were demolished in the early 1930s and replaced with the New Adelphi, a monumental Art Deco building designed by

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1056-407: 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 established his comedic reputation at the Adelphi. Also in the mid-19th century, the Adelphi hosted a number of French operettas , including La belle Hélène . In 1867, however, the Adelphi gave English comic opera a boost by hosting

1089-649: Was secretary to this body, and it was during this period that he devised his penny postage scheme. The London School of Economics (LSE) held its first classes in October 1895, in rooms at 9 John Street, Adelphi, before setting up more permanent operations in Number 10 Adelphi Terrace. By 1920, the LSE had moved a few blocks east, to its current Clare Market address. While in Adelphi, the LSE’s scholars and students were active in

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