5 Responses to “Golden Dancer”

1. ToshaMarch 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

   There has been a theatre on this site since 1832, originally known as Moy’s Music Hall, well before the coming of the railways. This was then renamed in 1863 and became The Royal Standard Music Hall. In 1886, when Victoria Street and Victoria Station were built, the theatre was demolished and the rebuilt Royal Standard Music Hall became “the most comfortable Hall of entertainment in London… no expense has been spared.”

   The original statue was taken down for safety reasons in 1939 before the blitz and has completely disappeared. It is not known whether it is in someone’s garden or was turned to wartime military use, such as bullets.

   In 2006, a replica of the original statue of Pavlova was reinstated to its original place above the cupola of the Victoria Palace and her gold-leafed figure once again gleams above us.

2. Dil EgitimiApril 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 am

   does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?

3. ToshaApril 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm

   Victoria Palace Theatre
   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster. Situated opposite Victoria Station, it was designed by the prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham and opened in 1911 on the site of a former music hall[1]. The domed auditorium seats 1,550 people. A sliding roof helps ventilate the auditorium during the intervals, which was a novelty feature in the days of heavy smoking during performances.

4. ToshaApril 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm

   History

   Under impresario Alfred Butt, the Victoria Palace Theatre continued the musical theatre tradition of the place by presenting mainly varieties and revues. In 1934, the theatre presented Young England, a patriotic play written by the Rev. Walter Reynolds, then 83. The play received such amusingly bad reviews that it became a cult hit and played to full houses for 278 performances before transferring to two other West End theatres.

   Intended by its author as a serious work celebrating the triumph of good over evil and the virtues of the Boy Scout Movement, it was received as an uproarious comedy. Before long, audiences had learned the key lines and were joining in at all the choicest moments. The scoutmistress rarely said the line ‘I must go and attend to my girls’ water’ without at least fifty voices in good-humoured support.[2]

   Me and My Girl was a hit in its original production at the theatre, opening in 1937 starring Lupino Lane, and showing that London had not yet ceded clear leadership in musical comedy to Broadway. In 1939, songs from this show formed the first live broadcast of a performance by the BBC, listeners heard The Lambeth Walk[3]. Some of the notable performers of variety and musical revues at the theatre have included Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Stainless Stephen, and Victor Barna (world champion table tennis exhibition). From 1947 through 1962, Jack Hylton produced The Crazy Gang series of variety shows, with performers including Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold.

   The long-running Black and White Minstrel Show played throughout the 1960s up to 1972. In 1982, a production of The Little Foxes, saw Elizabeth Taylor making her London stage debut. Another unusually long-running show at the theatre was Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, that played for 13 years in London, beginning in 1989 (transferring to the Strand Theatre in 1995).

   The theatre has been owned by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen since 1991. At the opening, a gilded statue of ballerina Anna Pavlova had been installed above the cupola of the theatre. This was taken down for its safety during World War II, and was lost. In 2006, a replica of the original statue was restored to its place[4].

5. ToshaApril 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm

   For more information check out
   http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/V.....heatre.htm

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