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The present theatre's location is Edinburgh's longest continuous theatre site, for there has been a theatre in that location since 1830. From being Dunedin Hall, the Royal Amphitheatre, Alhambra Music Hall, the Queen's Theatre, Pablo Fanque's Amphitheatre, and Newsome's Circus, the site became the Empire Palace Theatre, the first of the famous Moss Empires’ chain, opening on 7 November 1892.
The group had grown to over 50 theatres when Stoll withdrew his in 1910 to run them as 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 ...
The first, on 9 October 1971 at the Edinburgh Empire Theatre, was cancelled after the PA system failed to arrive at the venue. [7] A newspaper story at the time reported that the equipment van, travelling to Scotland from the Royal Festival Hall from the previous evening's concert, broke down in Birmingham. [ 7 ]
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As at the beginning, most performances took place at the Empire Theatre, later to be refurbished to become the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. In addition to London's The Royal Ballet who came in 1960, there were a total of 16 visiting companies from abroad who came to the city, offering varied programmes for festival goers.
The King's became famous for being a venue belonging to the theatre empire Howard & Wyndham. The theatre was originally commissioned by the Edinburgh Building Company Ltd, chaired by Robert C. Buchanan. The King's was built as a rival to the successful Royal Lyceum Theatre, which had been established for over twenty years. Buchanan was ...
McMaster moved all of the Edinburgh International Festival staff from London to the Scottish capital and appointed Joanna Baker as director of marketing and public affairs. During his tenure, the Empire Theatre on the Southside was acquired and refurbished as the Festival Theatre, opening in 1994 with Scottish Opera's Tristan and Isolde. [2]
26 April: British actor Sid James died at 63 after collapsing on stage at the opening night performance of The Mating Season at the Sunderland Empire Theatre. [22] 10 September: Finnish magician Aimo Leikas accidentally shot himself in front of a crowd while performing his Russian roulette act. He had been performing the act for about a year ...