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The Opera House Theatre is a theatre in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. [2] It is located within the Winter Gardens, a large entertainment complex in the town centre and originally opened in 1889, although it has been rebuilt twice, in 1910 and 1939. [3] As part of the Winter Gardens, the theatre is a Grade II* Listed Building. [4]
It is located within the Winter Gardens, a large entertainment complex in the town centre. [1] As part of the Winter Gardens, the ballroom is a Grade II* Listed Building. [2] It is operated by Crown Leisure Ltd, on behalf of Blackpool Council, who purchased the property from Leisure Parcs Ltd as part of a £40 million deal in 2010. [3]
William Henry Broadhead became a leading figure in Blackpool, where he "made his name as one of the men responsible for making the town into a hot spot for entertainment and variety". [5] A member of the Liberal Party, he was mayor of Blackpool in 1905/06 and 1910/11, [6] and was later elected as an alderman and a freeman of the borough. [1] [4]
The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which includes a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. Opened in 1878, it is a Grade II* listed building, [1] operated by Blackpool Entertainment Company Limited [2] on behalf of Blackpool Council, which purchased the property from Leisure Parcs Ltd as part of a £40 million deal in 2010.
Since reopening in 1981, the board of directors of Blackpool Grand Theatre Trust Limited, theatre proprietors, has been led by chairmen John Hodgson (to 1981), W Geoffrey Thompson OBE (1982 to 1993), Samuel G Lee (1993 to 2003), David Coupe (2003 to 2009) and Anthony P Stone (2009 to present).
The cinema served as a meeting hall for Labour Party events in the 1930s. [2] The theatre was modernised in 1939 which saw its capacity increase to between 1,094 and 1,194 seats. [1] During the early 1940s the science fiction writer John Russell Fearn served as the cinema's chief projectionist. [3]
The Grand Theatre. At its peak in the 1930s Blackpool's numerous theatres and cinemas could seat more than 60,000 people. [7] The Theatre Royal on Clifton Street first opened as the Assembly Rooms and Arcade in 1868. It later became the Tivoli Electric Theatre and eventually Yates's Wine Lodge before it was destroyed by fire in 2009. [172] [173]
In a theatre, a box, loge, [1] or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event. The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above