Theatre Royal Glasgow
Victorian horseshoe-galleried theatre, long a pantomime house and now the home of national opera.
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This guide to the Theatre Royal on Hope Street in Glasgow opens in December 1892, on the opening weekend of a pantomime whose star is a celebrated music-hall performer. It follows the winters when this was a pantomime house, the managers James Howard and Fred Wyndham, and the comedians who came to rule the bill. Start in the Hope Street entrance, where the floor itself is part of the story.
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