UK – London – Saville Theatre

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Dates: 1931 – 1969

The building is now the Odeon Covent Garden. It was converted to a cinema in 1970. 

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Saville Theatre 
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From Arthur Lloyd website

 

 

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Selected Past Productions (some from Wikipedia)

  • The Dancing Years ()
  • Marcel Marceau ()
  • Lady Be Good () Musical
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream () Pop Theatre Production, transfer from Edinburgh Fringe
  • Geneva ()
  • Queen Passionella and the Sleeping Beauty () starring Danny La Rue
  • Spread It Abroad ()
  • Floodlight () starring Frances Day, John Mills, Hermione Baddeley, Lyle Evans
  • Enemy (1969) starring Dennis Waterman, Tony Selby and Neil Stacy, The last production at the Saville, which had been bought by EMI for conversion into a two-screen cinema.
    Design by Voytek, Lighting by Michael Saddington, directed by Ronald Eyre.
  • Anything Goes (1969) first musical produced by Cameron Mackintosh, failed and closed after 2 weeks
  • Beatles ‘Hello Goodbye’ promo video filmed at the Saville Theatre (10 November 1967) 
  • Reopened in 1966 under the management of Brian Epstein as a music venue
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac (1965)
  • Pickwick (1963) – musical
  • Semi-Detached (1962) – Play
  • Photo Finish (1962) – Play
  • The Lord Chamberlain Regets . . . ! (1961) – Revue
  • Progress to the Park (1960) – Play
  • Expresso Bongo (1960) – Musical
  • Valmouth (1959) – musical
  • Zuleika (1957) – musical
  • Keep In A Cool Place (1954) – comedy by William P Templeton
  • The White Countess (1954) – Play
  • Love From Judy (1952) – musical. The entire production was filmed with the original cast and aired on BBC on March 16, 1953.
  • Gay’s the Word (1951) Musical 
  • Belinda Fair (1949) starring Adele Dixon, John Battles, Jerry Verno, directed by Charles Goldner
  • Roundabout (1949) Musical starring Bobby Howes & Pat Kirkwood
  • Bob’s Your Uncle (1948) Musical Farce
  • Here Come the Boys (1946) starring Bobby Howes and Jack Hulbert
  • Big Boy (1945) starring Fred Emney & Richard Hearne 
  • Fine and Dandy (1942) starring Leslie Henson, Dorothy Dickson, Stanley Holloway, Douglas Byng
  • Over She Goes (1936) starring Stanley Lupino. Ran for 248 performances
  • Jill Darling! (1934-5)  Musical starring Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe, Louise Browne, John Mills
  • She Shall Have Music (1934)
  • He Wanted Adventure (1933) starring Bobby Howes, Marie Burke, Raymond Newell, Wylie Watson
  • Tell Her the Truth (1932) – musical
  • For the Love of Mike (1931) starring Arthur Riscoe, Viola Tree, Bobby Howes, Olga Lindo, Alfred Drayton