Palace Theatre Manchester
Victorian variety theatre with a marble-and-columned interior, staging touring musicals since 1891.
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This guide to the Palace Theatre in Manchester starts at the bar, with a question about what its first audiences could and could not order. It goes back to May eighteen ninety-one, to an opening night of ballet and marble staircases, to George Edwardes, a London impresario, and to the Manchester voices who opposed the place. Along the way it meets Little Tich and a troupe of performing elephants. Best heard on Oxford Street, facing the terracotta front.
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