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Daly's Theatre

1893 establishments in EnglandBuildings and structures demolished in 1937Charles J. Phipps buildingsFormer buildings and structures in the City of WestminsterFormer theatres in London
Theatres completed in 1893Use British English from May 2015
Daly's Theatre and Leicester Square, London
Daly's Theatre and Leicester Square, London

Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937. The theatre was built for and named after the American impresario Augustin Daly, but he failed to make a success of it, and between 1895 and 1915 the British producer George Edwardes ran the house, where he presented a series of long-running musical comedies, including The Geisha (1896), and English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow (1907). After Edwardes died in 1915 Daly's had one more great hit, The Maid of the Mountains (1917), which ran for 1,352 productions, but after that the fortunes of the theatre declined; Noël Coward's play Sirocco (1927) was a notable failure. By the mid-1930s Leicester Square had become better known for cinemas. Daly's was sold to Warner Brothers who demolished it and erected a large cinema on the site.

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Daly's Theatre
Cranbourn Street, City of Westminster Covent Garden

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