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  2. Edinburgh Festival Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Edinburgh Festival Theatre (originally Empire Palace Theatre and later shortened to Empire Theatre) is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915.

  3. Moss Empires - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of entertainers who died during a performance - Wikipedia

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    1911: On 9 May: Sigmund Neuberger, a vaudeville performer known as "The Great Lafayette", died in Edinburgh's Empire Palace Theatre while performing his "Lion's Bride" illusion after a stage lamp sparked a fire that killed Neuberger, his double, the lion, and ten other performers.

  5. List of Yes concert tours (1960s–70s) - Wikipedia

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    Edinburgh: Usher Hall: 21 April 1975 23 April 1975: Preston: England: Preston Guild Hall: 24 April 1975: Leicester: De Montfort Hall: 25 April 1975 27 April 1975: Liverpool: Empire Theatre: 28 April 1975 29 April 1975: Manchester: Palace Theatre: 30 April 1975 2 May 1975: Cardiff: Wales: Capitol Theatre 3 May 1975 5 May 1975: Bristol: England ...

  6. Empire Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Empire Cinemas multiplex cinema chain with 14 locations and 131 screens; Empire Palace Theatre, later simply the Empire Theatre and now the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

  7. Sigmund Neuberger - Wikipedia

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    Beauty had her own suite of rooms, ate five-course meals, and wore a diamond-studded collar. Beauty died four days before the opening of a show at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh. After initial resistance from Edinburgh City Council, Neuberger arranged for the dog to be buried in Piershill Cemetery. The Council agreed to provide a plot ...

  8. Timeline of Edinburgh history - Wikipedia

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    1911: Empire Palace Theatre, now Festival Theatre, partially burns down during The Great Lafayette's final act. 10 people die, including The Great Lafayette, and the theatre is closed while the stage is rebuilt and reopened in 1913; 'Cooke's Circus', East Fountainbridge converted to the Palladium Cinema

  9. 1911 in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    9 May – a fire at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh kills eleven people, including illusionist Sigmund Neuberger ("The Great Lafayette") and also his lion and horse; he is buried in Piershill Cemetery with his dog Beauty. [1] 19 July – Thistle Chapel, designed by Robert Lorimer, dedicated in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. [5]

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