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The Haymarket Theatre was opened by Sir Ralph Richardson and the opening season started with The Recruiting Officer on 17 October 1973, Economic Necessity on 24 October and Cabaret on 21 November. Leicester City Council purchased a 99-year lease of the theatre in 1974. Between 1974 and 2007 the theatre was operated by The Leicester Theatre Trust.
The 1980s ended at the Haymarket with Veterans' Day (Donald Freed) and A Life in the Theatre (David Mamet). [40] In 1990, the Haymarket revived London Assurance (Dion Boucicault) and presented An Evening with Peter Ustinov. The next year's plays included Jean Anouilh's Becket, starring Derek Jacobi and Robert Lindsay.
The theatre operated until 2007 when it was closed and replaced by the newly built Curve Theatre in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. The theatre was reopened in early 2018. Located on Belgrave Gate at the front of the entrance to the Haymarket Theatre is The Metal Tree sculpture by Hubert Dalwood ARA. It was unveiled in 1974 and used to be the ...
She played Mary in a 1992 British production at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre, where Sondheim and Furth were tinkering with the show away from the New York-London spotlight. She was later invited ...
In 1984, another revised production opened at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre with a revised script by Fry and contributions by director Mike Ockrent. It transferred to the Adelphi Theatre on 12 February 1985 and closed on 16 January 1993 after an eight-year run and 3,303 performances.
The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, [ 14 ] and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. [ 15 ]
The Donkey, 203 Welford Rd, Leicester (opened 2005) Firebug, Pocklington's Walk, Leicester; The Shed, Yeoman Street, Leicester. The SoundHouse, 28 Southampton St, Leicester LE1 1SJ; In March 2018, the Haymarket Theatre reopened pledging it will stage music events. One of Leicester's main live music venues, The Charlotte, closed in January 2009 ...
Strangers in the Night, New End Theatre, 1981) Hard Feelings (Oxford Playhouse tour, 1982, Bush Theatre, 1983) Progress (Bush Theatre, 1984) Key to the World (Paines Plough, Leicester Haymarket, and Lyric Theatre Studio, Hammersmith, 1984) [8] Fashion (RSC, 1987 and Leicester Haymarket and Tricycle, London, 1989) [9] Doing the Business (Royal ...