Equipment

1971 (from The Stage Guide)
Electrics: Strand CD II board in FOH Upper Circle. Dimmers - 120 (750W to 5kW); 2 presets; groups - 14 pistons. Circuits - FOH 32; Flies 60; Stage dips 24. Socket type - 15A BESA. Total capacity available - 900A on 3 phases. 

The Theatres Trust

Lyric Theatre, London on the Theatres Trust Database

Links to information about equipment at Lyric Theatre, London over the years

• CD / System CD (Strand)

Documents

Lyric Theatre - Arthur Lloyd 
[External Website]
From Arthur Lloyd website

Past Productions

(partly from Wikipedia, partly from official website)

• Hadestown (10 February 2024 - )
• Peter Pan Goes Wrong (23 November 2023 - 14 January 2024)
• Aspects of Love (5 May 2023 - 20 August 2023)
• 2:22 A Ghost Story (21 January 2023 - 23 April 2023)
• Room on the Broom (21 July - 4 September 2022)
• Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (15 November 2021 - booking to 12 December 2022)
• Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (1 October 2021 - booking to 29 January 2023)
• Six (5 December 2020 - 15 December [closed due to Covid], 21 May 2021 - 22 August 2021)
• Gruffalos Child (22 November 2017 - 7 January 2019) morning / afternoon performances
• Thriller – Live (2009 -  March 2020)
• A Frisky and Mannish Christmas (2009)
• Eddie Izzard: Stripped (2008)
• Hairspray: The School Musical (2008)
• Flamenco Flamen'ka (2008)
• Cabaret (10 October 2006 - June 2008)
• Night of the Iguana (2006) starring Woody Harrelson, Clare Higgins and Jenny Seagrove. Bill Kenwright production.
• Smaller by Carmel Morgan (2006), starring Dawn French and Alison Moyet, and directed by Kathy Burke. Produced by Phil McIntyre.
• Grumpy Old Women (2006)
• Festen (2005) transferred from the Almeida Theatre. Bill Kenwright production.
• Death of a Salesman (2005) starring Brian Dennehy and Clare Higgins.
• Beautiful and Damned (2004), a new musical based on the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, presented by Gem Theatrical Productions Limited.
• Al Murray The Pub Landlord, Who Dares Wines? (2003)
• Dance of Death (2003) starring Sir Ian McKellen
• Hitchcock Blonde (2003) by Terry Johnson, transfer from the Royal Court
• Camut Band (2003)
• The Secret Rapture (2003)
• The Feast of Snails (2002) starring David Warner
• Daisy Pulls It Off (2002)
• Home and Beauty (2002)
• The Constant Wife (2002) transferred from the Apollo Theatre
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2001) starring Brendan Fraser, produced by Bill Kenwright
• Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (2001), produced by Bill Kenwright
• Semi-Monde (2001) the first full-scale production of Noël Coward’s 1926 play, produced by Thelma Holt
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2000) starring Jessica Lange.
• Brief Encounter (2000) with Jenny Seagrove
• A Busy Day (2000) with Stephanie Beacham and Sara Crowe
• 2000: The Lyric became a Really Useful Theatre when Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Really Useful Group and Bridgepoint Capital purchased Stoll Moss Theatres Ltd.
• Comic Potential (1999-2000) starring Janie Dee, Matthew Cottle, David Soul. Written & Directed by Alan Ayckbourn
• Animal Crackers (1999) from the Manchester Royal Exchange
• Tango Passion (1999, to July 31 1999) Argentinian Dance Musical
• Closer (1998) from the Royal National Theatre
• An Ideal Husband (1998)
• 1997: The theatre front of house areas were completely refurbished.
• Marlene (1997) directed by Sean Mathias, starring Siân Phillips as Dietrich
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1997) starring Antony Sher, RSC production
• By Jeeves (?October 1996 - February 1997) Transfer from Duke of Yorks Theatre
• Ain't Misbehavin' (1995)
• Hobson’s Choice (1995) starring Leo McKern, from Chichester Festival Theatre
• Tap Dogs (1995)
• 1990: Janet Holmes à Court took control of Stoll Moss following the death of her husband.
• Five Guys Named Moe (14 December 1990 - March 1995) produced by Cameron Mackintosh - a five year run
• Burn This (1990) starring John Malkovich
• Steel Magnolias (1989) by Robert Harling. Starring Rosemary Harris
• Look Back In Anger (1989) starring Kenneth Branagh
• Prin (1989) starring Sheila Hancock
• Gigi (1985) starring Siân Phillips and Beryl Reid
• Loot (1984) Joe Orton play, starring Leonard Rossiter, who sadly died during the run
• Blood Brothers (1983) the original production of the Willy Russell musical, starring Barbara Dickson
• Pack of Lies (1983) by Hugh Whitemore, starring Judi Dench and Michael Williams
• 1982: Robert Holmes à Court took control of Stoll Moss Theatres.
• Tonight at 8:30 (1981)
• Arms and the Man (1981)
• Taking Steps (2 September 1980 - 6 June 1981) by Alan Ayckbourn
• Filumena (1977) starred Joan Plowright.
• 1974: The Lyric became part of the Stoll Moss Theatres group.
• How the Other Half Loves (1972) by Alan Ayckbourn- ran for 869 performances
• Habeas Corpus (1972), starring Alec Guinness
• Plaza Suite (1969)
• Robert and Elizabeth (1964) starring Keith Michell as Robert Browning
• Irma La Douce (July 17 1958 - ?, running for 1,512 performances) French musical, starring Keith Michell and Elizabeth Seal
• South Sea Bubble (1955) by Noël Coward, starring Vivien Leigh
• Grab Me a Gondola (1954)
• Vortex (1950)
• The Little Hut (1950) starring Robert Morley - ran for 1,261 performances
• The Winslow Boy (1946)
• Love in Idleness (1944)
• 1943: Impressario Prince Littler took control of the building.
• The Nutmeg Tree (1941) starring Yvonne Arnaud
• Tovarich (1935) by Robert Sherwood
• Victoria Regina (1935)
• A Reunion in Vienna (1934) starring Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontane
• The Royal Family (1934) directed by Noël Coward, with Madge Titheradge, Marie Tempest and Laurence Olivier
• 1933: Thomas Bostock took over and the building was completely re-decorated.
• Dangerous Corner (1932) by J B Priestley.
• Strange Interlude (1931) by Eugene O’Neill
• Autumn Crocus (1931)
• Berkeley Square (1929) starring Leslie Howard
• The Gold Diggers (1926) starred Tallulah Bankhead
• The Street Singer (1924) Frederick Lonsdale musical
• Lilac Time (1922) play about the composer Franz Schubert employing his music
• Whirled into Happiness (1922)

• The Bird of Paradise (1919) which starred Henry Daniell as Hoheno
• 1916: F W Tibbets became lessee (until 1930)
• The Girl in the Taxi (1911) musical featuring Yvonne Arnaud
• 1911: Michael Faraday became sole controller of the theatre.
• The Chocolate Soldier (1910) the first of Bernard Shaw’s plays to be set to music when Oscar Strauss composed songs for an adaptation of Arms and the Man.
• Robin Hood (1906) starring Lewis Waller
• The Duchess of Dantzic (1903)
• Mice and Men (1902) Johnstone Forbes-Robertson produced and appeared with his wife Gertrude Elliott 
• Florodora (1899) music by Leslie Stuart, including ‘Tell Me Pretty Maiden’
• 1898: Sarah Bernhardt appeared in Frou-Frou, Phèdre, Julie and La Tosca.
• 1898 Tom B Davis took over the management.
• The Sign of the Cross (1896) written and produced by Wilson Barrett
• His Excellency (1894)
• La Dame aux Camellias (1893) the London debut of Eleanora Duse
• The Mountebanks (1892) a comic opera by W S Gilbert
• Doris and The Red Hussar (1889)
• Dorothy (1888), featuring Marie Tempest; transferred from Prince of Wales Theatre where it opened in 1887