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The auditorium's capacity of 1449 is made up of 677 stalls, 341 circle, 413 balcony and 18 box seats. A founding director, and soon managing director was Rich Waldon of the city`s Royal Princess`s Theatre. [2] Pavilion Theatre shown in a postcard of around 1912 of Renfield Street, Glasgow, at the corner of Renfrew Street
The King's Theatre was commissioned by the theatre company Howard & Wyndham at a cost of over £50,000 and opened on 12 September 1904.. In the 1930s like many city theatres, it had been policy to close during the summer while many city residents headed to the coast for their holidays, but this all changed in 1933 when the then managing director of Howard & Wyndham, A. Stewart Cruikshank ...
The Metropole Theatre started as the Scotia and was built in 1862 at 116, Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Scotland.Built to the designs of architect Robert Black [1] for James Baylis, who later built the Theatre Royal [2] [3] in the Cowcaddens area of the city, it opened as the Scotia Hall, [4] holding over 3000 people, with stalls and two galleries, reputed to be the first purpose built commercial ...
Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow auditorium about 1930. The theatre was opened in 1867 as the Royal Colosseum and Opera House by James Baylis.Baylis also ran the Milton Colosseum Music Hall [1] at Cowcaddens Cross, and had opened the Scotia Music Hall, [2] later known as the Metropole, [2] in Stockwell Street in 1862.
The original building opened in 1934 in a mercantile area east of Glasgow's city centre, built by Maggie McIver, the "Barras Queen". [1] [2] [3] The area and the ballroom are named after the Glasgow Barrowland market. The building was completely rebuilt after being largely destroyed by fire in 1958, and reopened on 24 December 1960.
In the 1960s Glasgow Corporation decided to plan the construction of a new Theatre and Concert Hall in the city centre. [23] This eventually emerged in the late 1980s as the Glasgow International Concert Hall, at the top of Buchanan Street, but without the envisaged theatre. [24] The Citizens remain in its Gorbals site.
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The SECC hosted the Girls' Day Out Show in 2009, 2010 and 2012. [14] It staged The Scottish Golf Show in 2009 and 2010. [15] The venue annually stages the popular BBC Good Food Show. [16] On 15 November 2015, it played host to Insane Championship Wrestling's biggest show of the year, Fear & Loathing VIII. [17]