The Gracie Fields Theatre opened in which town in 1978?
"a fish and chip shop – I never thought I'd be singing in one!"" claimed Fields during the performance recorded by the BBC. In 1975, her album ""The Golden Years"" reached No. 48 in the UK Albums Chart. In 1978, she opened the Gracie Fields Theatre, next to Oulder Hill Community School in her native Rochdale, performing a concert there recorded by the BBC to open the show. Fields appeared in ten Royal Variety Performances from 1928 onwards, her last being in 1978 at the age of 80 when she appeared as a surprise guest in the finale, in which"
"Beginning in 1932, the theatre presented a series of risqué ""Folies""-style revues, including ""Voila! Les Dames"" (1935) and its last production, ""Encore les Dames"" (1937). These shows were so successful that they funded the rapid rebuilding of the theatre in 1937. After 50 years, the theatre's 800 seats were deemed insufficient for productions of the day, and it was demolished. On 17 June 1937, Gracie Fields sang to the workmen as she laid the foundation stone of the new Art Deco-decorated theatre, designed by Robert Cromie, and the theatre opened on 27 October that year. The new theatre's seating capacity"
"- Bristol RI 1978-06-02 Great Adventure Park, Jackson NJ 1978-07-01 Paramount Theatre - Asbury Park, NJ 1978-07-08 Soldier Field - Chicago IL - (opening for The Rolling Stones and Journey) 1978-08-01 Seatle WA - FM radio 1978-08-07 Central Park NYC 1978-08-22 Joe Pop's - Shipbottom NJ 1978-08-30 Agora Ballroom - Cleveland OH 1978-09-12 ""Tomorrow Club"" - Youngstown, OH 1978-10-01 Radio Interview Cleveland 1978-10-01 WLIR-FM Long Island NY 1978-11-08 Palladium NYC 1978-11-11 Seattle Washington 1978-12-01 Veteran's Memorial - Columbus, OH (opening for J. Geils Band) 1978-12-02 Bowling Green Univ. - Bowling Green, OH (opening for J. Geils Band) 1978-12-03 Richfield Coliseum"
"City, California, running from July 22, 1972 through October 1, 1972. It was directed by Prince and starred Dorothy Collins (Sally; replaced by Janet Blair), Alexis Smith (Phyllis), John McMartin (Ben; replaced by Edward Winter), Gene Nelson (Buddy), and Yvonne De Carlo (Carlotta) reprising their original roles. The production was the premiere attraction at the newly constructed 1,800-seat theatre, which, coincidentally, was itself razed thirty years later (in 2002, in order to build a new office building), thus mirroring the ""Follies"" plot line upon which the musical is based. A full production ran at the Forum Theatre, Wythenshawe, England, from"
"produced by the RSC in 1982. It initially ran for a week at The Other Place in Stratford before touring to the city in which it was set, Newcastle upon Tyne, and then playing at The Pit, a studio theatre in the Barbican Centre in London. In its original form, the story went up only to the 1979 general election and the coming to power of the new Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher. The play also contained a significant number of scenes set in Rhodesia, chronicling UDI, the oil embargo and the emergence of armed resistance to white supremacy. This"
"floor in the lobby is the original terrazzo tile. Through the years the theatre went through several name changes including the Jerry Lewis Theatre. In 1978, GCT (then called the Greenwood Little Theatre) was housed at the Village Theatre on Kirksey Drive. The old State Theatre building had fallen into disrepair and was even showing XXX rated movies. The GCT Board of Directors and Artistic Director Donald McKellar convinced the owners to sell the building. Support for much needed renovations came with the city’s decision in the early 2000s to anchor its downtown revival with historic properties. After being closed"
"the 1970s and the “in-yer-face” school of the 1990s. His early work as a playwright emerged from the Edinburgh Festival and smaller theatres in the south of England. He was a playwright-in-residence at the Oxford Playhouse in 1979 and 1980, and a visiting writer at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1981. Lucie broke through to a larger audience with ""Hard Feelings"" (1982) -- a play set in a gentrifying Brixton before and during its 1981 riots. The success of ""Hard Feelings"" began a run of work that included ""Progress"" (1984), ""Key to the World"" (1984), ""Fashion"" (1987), ""Grace"" (1992), ""Gaucho"""
"began in 1969. The theatre opened in February 1971 at the Bowen Hills site under the direction of Joan Whalley with two productions, ""A Flea in Her Ear"" by Georges Feydeau and ""The Rose and the Ring"" by William Makepeace Thackeray. The Johnstones were delighted, as Brian wrote to Sidney Nolan: The theatre is still functioning today under the directorship of Gail Wiltshire. Although the Johnstone Gallery closed in 1972, the artistic vision of Brian and Marjorie Johnstone lives on not only in the memories of those who knew them personally, the artists who held exhibitions at their gallery and"
"I'll attend – as long as they don't call Boris 'Buttons'."" Fields' health declined in July 1979, when she contracted pneumonia after performing an open-air concert on the Royal Yacht which was docked in Capri's harbour. After a spell in hospital, she seemed to be recovering, but died on 27 September 1979. The press reported she died holding her husband's hand, but in reality he was at their Anacapri home at the time, while Gracie was home with the housekeeper, Irena. She is buried in Capri's Protestant Cemetery in a white marble tomb. Her coffin was carried by staff from"
"House from the 18th century. Another old building is the Shepherds Cot, now part of a private residential property in The Compts in north Peacehaven. This tiny cabin dates from the 1880s when it was built on farmland to shelter shepherds during the lambing season. The popular singer and comedienne Gracie Fields bought a home in Peacehaven overlooking the sea, then established the Gracie Fields Home and Orphanage in Dorothy Avenue. In fact the children were not orphans; their parents were entertainers who placed their children there while they were on tour. It was administered by the Theatrical Ladies Guild."
"1978 for their work on the venue. In addition to professional productions, the Grand Theatre also hosts the High School Project, a program unique to North America that provides high school students an opportunity to work with professional directors, choreographers, musical directors, and stage managers. The Palace Theatre, in Old East Village, originally opened as a silent movie theatre in 1929 and was converted to a live theatre venue in 1991. It is currently the home of the London Community Players, and as of 2016 is undergoing extensive historical restoration. The Original Kids Theatre Company, a nonprofit charitable youth organisation,"
"the 1930s when they were struggling to pay fees and buy sports equipment. In 1933 she set up the Gracie Fields Children's Home and Orphanage at Peacehaven, Sussex, for children of those in the theatre profession who could not look after their children. She kept this until 1967, when the home was no longer needed. This was near her own home in Peacehaven, and Fields often visited, with the children all calling her 'Aunty Grace'. In 1939, Fields suffered a breakdown and went to Capri to recuperate. World War II was declared while she was recovering in Capri, and Fields"
"1980s which have since sold to other companies such as Wet 'n Wild, Frontier City, and Six Flags. White Water Branson, built in 1980, was the forerunner and is still owned by HFE; while the White Waters in Oklahoma City (1981), Grand Prairie, Texas (1982), Garland, Texas (1982) and Atlanta (1983) have been sold. The 4,000 seat Grand Palace Theatre opened in 1992 by the Herschends. The theatre was co-owned by singer Kenny Rogers. Along with Rogers headliners were Glen Campbell, Louise Mandrell and Barbara Mandrell. In 1994 HFE entered into a ten-year contract with Radio City Entertainment. The Grand"
"at Feethams for soldiers wounded during the First World War and soon became a regular at Darlington's Scala theatre on Eldon Street. Lawson took on other roles and in 1920 she had a part in a Babes in the Wood panto. At the age of twelve she led a performing group of young girls that toured County Durham for three years. In addition to her pure acting ability, Lawson developed into exceptional dancer. In her mid-teens she landed a role in a panto in Brighton and later performed in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, where she was spotted by comedian Gracie Fields."
"customers to play. The largest venue at the property is the 1,100-seat Tropicana Theater, which, since November 2017, features the Prince tribute show ""Purple Reign"". The venue opened in 1973 as the Superstar Theater. It was renamed as the Tiffany Theatre in 1975. In 2011, it became the Gladys Knight Theater when the singer began a residency at the venue. It was renamed as the Tropicana Theater later that year, after Knight's departure. Other productions at the theater have included magician Rick Thomas (1997-2005); magician Dirk Arthur (2005-10); singer Wayne Newton (2009-10); percussion group Recycled Percussion (2010-12); a live production"
"her restaurant. Her husband Boris died on 3 July 1983. Fields was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1938. In February 1979, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire seven months before her death at her home on Capri, aged 81. Gracie Fields was mentioned in the 1987 film ""Wish You Were Here"", the 1996 film ""Intimate Relations"", and the 2006 film ""The History Boys"". On 3 October 2009 the final train to run on the Oldham Loop before it closed to be converted to a tramway, a Class"
"of years, the STC staged plays and children's theatre workshops at Fraser Auditorium, Cambrian College and the Inco Club. Its success was largely due to the dedication of long-standing artistic director Tony Lloyd, who made it his mission to build a theatre for the people of Sudbury. In 1980, the city of Sudbury donated a parcel of municipal land on Shaughnessy Street near Civic Square to the STC for the construction of their own permanent 289-seat theatre. Construction began in July 1981, and the new facility was officially opened at the launch of the company's 1982 theatre season. In 2015,"
"accommodates a wide variety of events including local performances, church services, dance competitions, beauty pageants, Broadway touring productions, industrial conventions, symphony performances, and operas. It is the current home to the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. The theater is maintained and run by the Stagehand Department of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. In 1978 Richard Pryor's performance was filmed and recorded. was released to theaters in 1979. Source: film credits and imdb.com Terrace Theater The Terrace Theater is a full theatrical and performance venue located in Long Beach, California. The theater seats 3,051 patrons at its maximum configuration in"
"years. Restoration work is expected to begin during the summer of 2019. The Uptown Theatre opened its doors August 18, 1925, billed as ""An Acre of Seats in a Magic City."" The Grand Opening of the Uptown Theatre was accompanied by a ""Central Uptown Parade"" of over 200 floats and a grand ball at Harmon's Arcadia in Uptown. Over 12,000 people stood in line to be ticketholders in the very first audience. Several women collapsed because of exhaustion. The theater opened with a staff of more than 130 people, including a full-time 34 piece orchestra, a nurse, firemen and others."
"be started this spring. It should be completed in about 18 months. The Clark Tower Quartet was never built. The Highland opened later that year and operated until the fall of 2005. Friday, June 16, 1977, saw the opening of the Ridgeway Four theatre in East Memphis. The opening slate of films was ""A Bridge Too Far"", ""The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane"", ""The Other Side of Midnight"", and ""Final Chapter - Walking Tall"". The Ridgeway Four also became the location of Malco's corporate headquarters and continues to serve in that capacity. Malco Theatres, Inc. confirmed to the"
"Place, Warehouse & Aldwych, London 1978) 1978: ""Savage Amusement"" (Warehouse) 1978: ""Look Out! Here Comes Trouble"" (Warehouse) 1978: ""The Adventures of Awful Knawful"" (Warehouse) 1979: ""Merry Wives of Windsor"" (Stratford & Aldwych, 1980) 1979: ""Caucasian Chalk Circle"" (Touring & Warehouse Theatre) 1980: ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (Aldwych 1980-1) 1981: ""Naked Robots"" (Warehouse) 1981: ""The Twin Rivals"" (Other Place & The Pit Theatre, London, 1982) 1982: ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (Plymouth Theatre, Broadway) 1982: ""Song and Dance"" (Palace Theatre, London) 1982: ""Our Friends in the North"" (Other Place, The Pit Theatre, London) 1982: ""Peter Pan"" by JM Barrie (Barbican Theatre,"
"Theatre Memphis Theatre Memphis is a non-profit community theatre located in Memphis, Tennessee. As one of the oldest and most successful community theatres in the country, Theatre Memphis has offered an opportunity for people with every degree of talent to become part of the creative process. The building houses two separate stages - the Lohrey MainStage, which seats 400, and the smaller black-box theatre, the Next Stage, which seats 100. Theatre Memphis was founded in 1920 and presented three one-act plays as its first performance on May 20, 1921. In 1925, the theatre opened its doors to its first permanent"
"Stages Repertory Theatre Stages Repertory Theatre is a theatre company in the city of Houston, Texas. It generally produces more experimental plays in a more intimate setting than the city's Alley Theatre: the ""Houston Chronicle"" calls it ""the equivalent of off-Broadway in Houston"". Stages Repertory Theatre was launched in 1978 by Founding Artistic Director Ted Swindley in the damp basement of a downtown Houston brewery with a mission to ""produce new work, interpret established work in new ways, and nurture talent to invigorate culture for the good of the community."" Ted Swindley's vision brought success to the new theatre company"
"1998. The Follies held their last show in May 2014. Plaza Theatre (Palm Springs) The Plaza Theatre is a historic theater located at 128 South Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, California. From 1990 through 2014 the theatre housed The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies which was featured on ABC's ""20/20"", ""The Today Show"", the ""New York Times"", NPR and other media since its founding. It was December 12, 1936 that the historic Plaza Theatre opened with the Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor premiere ""Camille"". The theatre's owner at the time, Earle C. Strebe, sold the very first ticket to Annette"
"all three seats available, making it the least Conservative part of the parliamentary seat. The town has its own theatre. The building began life as a Salvation Army Citadel, with the first stones, now visible in the auditorium, being laid in 1888. It continued for some years as a furniture warehouse, before being discovered by two Royal Shakespeare Company actors, Tamara and John Malcolm in 1968. In 1973, fundraising for the new theatre began in earnest, and a pantomime, ""Beauty and the Beast"" was staged in the town hall. The Theatre was opened in 1975 by Tom Baker, the Doctor"
"that facility opened in 1977. Wilson also forged new collaborations with Houston’s Alley Theatre, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, the Dallas Theater Center, the Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. Source: IOBDB Arthur Miller's ""Incident at Vichy"", 2015 (Signature Theater Company) Horton Foote's ""The Old Friends"", 2013 (STC) Lanford Wilson's ""Talley's Folly"" 2013 (RTC) Christopher Shinn's ""Picked"" 2011 (Vineyard Theater) Tennessee Williams' ""The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"" 2011 (RTC) Wilson grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated a Morehead scholar in 1987. Since 2015,"
"North via Kennington, Brixton, Herne Hill, Crystal Palace, Penge and Beckenham; N199 (night journeys) - Trafalgar Square to St Mary Cray via London Bridge, Bermondsy, Surrey Quays, Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, Downham, Bromley, Petts Wood and Orpington; Bromley has a number of theatres, the most notable being the Churchill Theatre in the town centre and the Bromley Little Theatre close to Bromley North railway station. The Churchill Theatre was opened on 19 July 1977 by HRH Prince of Wales, and seats 785. It is run on a contract currently held by the Ambassador Theatre Group acting as both a receiving and"
"New London, CT 1977-02-22 State College - Framingham, MA 1977-02-23 Amherst University - Amherst MA 1977-02-25 Middlebury College Field House - Middlebury, VT 1977-02-26 Stoneleith Burnham Prep School - Greenfield MA 1977-03-05 Canterbury Odeon, Kent, UK (Opening Act For Graham Parker and the Rumour) 1977-03-06 Fairfield Hall, Croydon, UK (Opening Act For Graham Parker and the Rumour) 1977-03-07 Dome, Brighton, UK (Opening Act For Graham Parker and the Rumour) 1977-03-08 Colston Hall, Bristol, UK (Opening Act For Graham Parker and the Rumour) 1977-03-09 Guild Hall, Portsmouth, UK (Opening Act For Graham Parker and the Rumour) 1977-03-13 Rainbow Theatre, London, UK"
"New Wolsey Theatre The New Wolsey Theatre is a Suffolk producing theatre, located in the Westgate area of Ipswich. It is a midsized regional theatre, having a seating capacity of 400. Designed by the architect Roderick Ham, construction was completed in 1979 and the theatre was opened on 31 October 1979 by HRH Princess Alexandra. The theatre was designed by Roderick Ham for Ipswich & Suffolk New Theatre Trust. Construction was carried out between 1977 and 1979 by Haymills Contractors Ltd with Carr And Angier theatre consultants providing planning advice and design/installation of all technical systems and equipment. From 1979"
"""stables and out howses towards the water side"" behind Dorset House... to make a playhouse for the children of the revels."" The site for the new theatre, by Dorset Stairs in Whitefriars on the Thames, was slightly upstream from the outlet of the New Canal, part of the Fleet River. Its position on the Thames permitted the patrons to travel to the theatre by boat, avoiding the nearby crime-ridden neighbourhood of Alsatia. It opened on 9 November 1671 and was almost twice the size of the Duke's Company's former theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It became the principal playhouse in"
"Since the theatre did not have a playhouse to call home, between 1927 and 1961 the productions were presented in the auditoriums at Washington Junior High School (which is now the administration building for Bakersfield City School District), Standard Junior High School, Golden State Junior High School (now the Blair Learning Center), and the old auditorium at Bakersfield High School. In April 1961, BCT opened the new playhouse with a production of ""For The Love Of Maggie"", written by Barbara Gardener and Ann Agabashian (both of Bakersfield) and directed by Howard Miller. This production was presented between the 4th and"
"projects to raise funds, patrons, and awareness. Theatre Memphis Theatre Memphis is a non-profit community theatre located in Memphis, Tennessee. As one of the oldest and most successful community theatres in the country, Theatre Memphis has offered an opportunity for people with every degree of talent to become part of the creative process. The building houses two separate stages - the Lohrey MainStage, which seats 400, and the smaller black-box theatre, the Next Stage, which seats 100. Theatre Memphis was founded in 1920 and presented three one-act plays as its first performance on May 20, 1921. In 1925, the theatre"
"based on a series of popular short stories by George Helgesen Fitch. Fitch had written the stories, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, about a fictional college based on the real-life Knox College. The film was largely shot on location in Galesburg, and featured some three hundred Knox students as extras along with William Holden, Ezra Stone, and Judy Barrett. The Orpheum continued showing films through the 1980s. In 1974, Kerasotes Theaters leased the Orpheum from the Great States Theater of Chicago, and in 1978, bought the building. Under Kerasotes management the Orpheum showed first-run films. On November 18,"