Saville Theatre, London
Dates: 1931 - 1969
The building is now the Odeon Covent Garden. It was converted to a cinema in 1970.
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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