Opera House Manchester
Grand Edwardian theatre with Ionic columns, a chariot relief and a two-balcony, 1,920-seat auditorium.
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This guide to the Opera House in Manchester starts with four words on its front, set there when the theatre was built in nineteen twelve, and follows them to a November night in nineteen fifty-eight. That was when a new Broadway musical about rival New York street gangs crossed the Atlantic to open here before London. You'll hear about Jerome Robbins, the newspaper crime reports of the day, and the way he ran his rehearsal room. Best heard on Quay Street facing the columns, where you can read the frieze.
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