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Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre

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West End Open 18972025 on this page7 productionsLandmark

His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. The building, designed by Charles J. Phipps, was constructed in 1897 for the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century Tree produced spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premieres by such playwrights as Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge and, later, Noël Coward and J. B. Priestley. Since the First World War the wide stage has made the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and His Majesty's has accordingly specialised in ho…

By decade7 productions across 5 decades

  1. 1890s 1
  2. 1970s 3
  3. 2000s 1
  4. 2010s 1
  5. 2020s 1

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Everything that played here7 productions

1897 df=yes}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972 Company January 11, 2016 · Transfer
1973 Pippin October 30, 1973 · Transfer
1975 By Jeeves April 22, 1975 · Transfer
2002 Du Barry Was a Lady Opening date not recorded · Transfer
2012 [https //www youtube com/watch?v=i __Gs3nSoQ Video of the theatre and environs after a performance] Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2025 The Phantom of the Opera April 3, 2011 · Transfer

In the literature4 passages

  • From June 1985 until the show went into rehearsal on 18 August 1986 in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, Prince met in both London and New York with the authors and stage designer Maria Bjornson. He also visited Paris to study the opera house where the action of Phantom takes place. The theatre, built between 1861 and 1875 by architect Cha…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • A good deal of restoration was done on Her Majesty's Theatre, where Phantom was to open. It is one of the last theatres which still contains a subterranean machine room and it was restored to full operation for the show. In the machine room, according to Bjornson, "men actually crank up some of the scenery by hand, as they did a century a…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • The Phantom of the Opera opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 19 October 1986 and became a kind of theatrical phenomenon. Never before, said Theatre Week magazine, had a musical "so completely captivated the imaginations of theatergoers."31 The musical's success in London's West End proved to be just the kind of major reversal of…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • 7. Candida. Mystery (this subtitle was subsequently removed by Shaw), 3 acts. Written 1895. Published 1898. Produced Aberdeen, Her Majesty's Theatre, July 30, 1897; London, Strand Theatre, July 1, 1900. 8. The Man of Destiny. Trifle, 1 act. Written 1895. Published 1898. Produced Croydon, Grand Theatre, July 1, 1897; London, Comedy Theatre…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt

What this page does not know

  • What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
  • How long 7 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
  • When 7 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.

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