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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Savoy_Theatre_on_The_Strand_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2196272.jpg/375px-The_Savoy_Theatre_on_The_Strand_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2196272.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Savoy_Theatre_on_The_Strand_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2196272.jpg/500px-The_Savoy_Theatre_on_The_Strand_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2196272.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Savoy Theatre on the Strand</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Open_street_map_central_london.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Savoy Theatre is located in Central London"><img alt="Savoy Theatre is located in Central London" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Open_street_map_central_london.svg/250px-Open_street_map_central_london.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Open_street_map_central_london.svg/375px-Open_street_map_central_london.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Open_street_map_central_london.svg/500px-Open_street_map_central_london.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1193" data-file-height="754" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:53.28%;left:60.015%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Savoy Theatre"><img alt="Savoy Theatre" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Savoy Theatre</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within Central London</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Address</th><td class="infobox-data label">Savoy Court, <a href="/wiki/Strand,_London" title="Strand, London">Strand</a><br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/WC_postcode_area" title="WC postcode area">WC2</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Savoy_Theatre&params=51.5101_N_0.1209_W_type:landmark"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°30′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°07′15″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.5101°N 0.1209°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.5101; -0.1209</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Public transit</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground"><img alt="London Underground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/10px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/15px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Underground_%28no_text%29.svg/20px-Underground_%28no_text%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="406" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross_tube_station" title="Charing Cross tube station">Charing Cross</a>; <a href="/wiki/Embankment_tube_station" title="Embankment tube station">Embankment</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/National_Rail" title="National Rail"><img alt="National Rail" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/12px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/18px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Rail_logo.svg/24px-National_Rail_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="39" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross_railway_station" title="Charing Cross railway station">Charing Cross</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/ATG_Entertainment" title="ATG Entertainment">ATG Entertainment</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data agent">ATG Entertainment</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End theatre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Seating_capacity" title="Seating capacity">Capacity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">c. 1,150 on 3 levels</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Production</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Mean_Girls_(musical)" title="Mean Girls (musical)">Mean Girls</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ccc">Construction</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opened</th><td class="infobox-data">10 October 1881<span class="noprint">; 143 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1881-10-10</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rebuilt</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>1929 (Frank A. Tugwell)</li> <li>1993 (William Whitfield)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architect</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Phipps" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles J. Phipps">C. J. Phipps</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ccc">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thesavoytheatre.com/">www<wbr />.thesavoytheatre<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Savoy Theatre</b> is a <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End theatre</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Strand,_London" title="Strand, London">Strand</a> in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a>, London, England. The theatre was designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Phipps" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles J. Phipps">C. J. Phipps</a> for <a href="/wiki/Richard_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Richard D'Oyly Carte">Richard D'Oyly Carte</a> and opened on 10 October 1881 on a site previously occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Palace" title="Savoy Palace">Savoy Palace</a>. Its intended purpose was to showcase the popular series of <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic operas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>, which became known as the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_opera" title="Savoy opera">Savoy operas</a>. </p><p>The theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity. For many years, the Savoy Theatre was the home of the <a href="/wiki/D%27Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company" title="D'Oyly Carte Opera Company">D'Oyly Carte Opera Company</a>, which continued to be run by the Carte family for over a century. Richard's son <a href="/wiki/Rupert_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Rupert D'Oyly Carte">Rupert D'Oyly Carte</a> rebuilt and modernised the theatre in 1929, and it was rebuilt again in 1993 following a fire. It is a Grade II* <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>. </p><p>In addition to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i> and other famous Gilbert and Sullivan premières, the theatre has hosted such premières as the first public performance in England of <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Salome_(play)" title="Salome (play)">Salome</a></i> (1931) and <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Blithe_Spirit_(play)" title="Blithe Spirit (play)">Blithe Spirit</a></i> (1941). In recent years it has presented opera, <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and other non-musical plays, and <a href="/wiki/Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musicals</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_site">History of the site</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savoy_Theatre&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of the site"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Savoy" title="House of Savoy">House of Savoy</a> was the ruling family of <a href="/wiki/Savoy" title="Savoy">Savoy</a> descended from <a href="/wiki/Humbert_I,_Count_of_Savoy" title="Humbert I, Count of Savoy">Humbert I, Count of Sabaudia</a> (or "Maurienne"), who became count in 1032. The name Sabaudia evolved into "Savoy" (or "Savoie"). <a href="/wiki/Peter_II,_Count_of_Savoy" title="Peter II, Count of Savoy">Count Peter</a> (or <i>Piers</i> or <i>Piero</i>) of Savoy (d. 1268) was the maternal uncle of <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Provence" title="Eleanor of Provence">Eleanor of Provence</a>, queen-consort of <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III of England</a>, and came with her to London.<sup id="cite_ref-bho_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bho-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Savoy_Palace.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Savoy_Palace.jpg/220px-Savoy_Palace.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Savoy_Palace.jpg/330px-Savoy_Palace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Savoy_Palace.jpg/440px-Savoy_Palace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="273" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Palace" title="Savoy Palace">Savoy Palace</a>, as it appeared in the 14th century (19th c. engraving)</figcaption></figure> <p>King Henry made Peter <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Richmond" title="Earl of Richmond">Earl of Richmond</a> and, in 1246, gave him the land between <a href="/wiki/Strand,_London" title="Strand, London">The Strand</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Thames" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames">Thames</a> where Peter built the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Palace" title="Savoy Palace">Savoy Palace</a> in 1263. On Peter's death, the Savoy was given to <a href="/wiki/Edmund,_1st_Earl_of_Lancaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster">Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster</a>, by his mother, Queen Eleanor. Edmund's great-granddaughter, Blanche, inherited the site. Her husband, <a href="/wiki/John_of_Gaunt,_1st_Duke_of_Lancaster" class="mw-redirect" title="John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster">John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster</a>, built a magnificent palace that was burned down by <a href="/wiki/Wat_Tyler" title="Wat Tyler">Wat Tyler</a>'s followers in the <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">Peasants' Revolt</a> of 1381. King <a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">Richard II</a> was still a child, and his uncle John of Gaunt was the power behind the throne and so a main target of the rebels.<sup id="cite_ref-bho_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bho-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In about 1505 <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a> planned a great hospital for "pouer, nedie people", leaving money and instructions for it in his will. The hospital was built in the palace ruins and was licensed in 1512. Drawings show that it was a magnificent building, with a dormitory, dining hall and three chapels. Henry VII's hospital lasted for two centuries but suffered from poor management. The sixteenth-century historian <a href="/wiki/John_Stow" title="John Stow">John Stow</a> noted that the hospital was being misused by "loiterers, vagabonds and strumpets". In 1702 the hospital was dissolved, and the hospital buildings were used for other purposes. Part of the old palace was used for a military prison in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the old hospital buildings were demolished and new buildings erected.<sup id="cite_ref-bho_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bho-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1864 a fire burned everything except the stone walls and the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Chapel" title="Savoy Chapel">Savoy Chapel</a>, and the property sat empty until <a href="/wiki/Richard_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Richard D'Oyly Carte">Richard D'Oyly Carte</a> bought it in 1880 to build the Savoy Theatre specifically for the production of the <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> operas that he was producing.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new theatre was built speedily, and accounts noted that it "was situated on a site which, though rich in historical associations, was also rich in the olfactory sense, Mr Rimmel's scent factory being close by as was Burgess's Noted Fish-Sauce Shop."<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Richard_D'Oyly_Carte's_theatre"><span id="Richard_D.27Oyly_Carte.27s_theatre"></span>Richard D'Oyly Carte's theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savoy_Theatre&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Richard D'Oyly Carte's theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Savoy_pre-1920.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Savoy_pre-1920.JPG/220px-Savoy_pre-1920.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Savoy_pre-1920.JPG/330px-Savoy_pre-1920.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Savoy_pre-1920.JPG/440px-Savoy_pre-1920.JPG 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="521" /></a><figcaption>Original interior of Savoy Theatre, 1881</figcaption></figure> <p>Carte bought the freehold of the site, then known as "Beaufort Buildings", early in 1880 for £11,000, but had begun planning his theatre several years before. In 1877 he engaged <a href="/wiki/Walter_Emden" title="Walter Emden">Walter Emden</a>, an architect whose work includes the <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Theatre" title="Garrick Theatre">Garrick</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Theatre" title="Duke of York's Theatre">Duke of York's</a> theatres.<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before completing the site purchase, city officials had assured Carte that they would open a new street on the south side of the plot, provided he paid half the cost. He paid his half in March 1880, but the officials caused lengthy delays. Carte told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, "I am struggling in the meshes of red tape".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He finally received the necessary agreement in June. At the same time he ran into another obstacle: Emden suddenly revised his estimate of building costs upward from £12,000 to £18,000. Carte dismissed Emden, who successfully sued for £1,790 for services to date and £3,000 for wrongful dismissal.<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg/170px-1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg/255px-1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg/340px-1881_Savoy_Theatre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1721" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>Original façade of the Savoy Theatre, 1881</figcaption></figure> <p>Design of the theatre was given to <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Phipps" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles J. Phipps">C. J. Phipps</a>. The builders were Patman and Fotheringham. Plans were drawn up and executed with speed and efficiency. Nonetheless, the advertised opening date had to be put back several times while the innovative electrical work was completed.<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Savoy finally opened on 10 October 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carte had at one time intended to call it the Beaufort Theatre,<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he announced in a letter to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> in 1881, "On the Savoy Manor there was formerly a theatre. I have used the ancient name as an appropriate title for the present one."<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exterior of the building was made from red brick and Portland stone.<sup id="cite_ref-Oost,_p._59_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oost,_p._59-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interior decoration, by Collinson and Locke, was "in the manner of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance" title="Italian Renaissance">Italian Renaissance</a>", with white, pale yellow and gold predominating, including a gold satin curtain (instead of the usual printed act-drop), red boxes and dark blue seats.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were none of the cherubs, deities and mythical creatures familiar from the décor of rival theatres. Carte wanted nothing that would appear too garish or gaudy to his target, middle-class audience.<sup id="cite_ref-Oost,_p._59_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oost,_p._59-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the opening night Phipps took curtain calls along with <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">Gilbert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Sullivan</a> and Carte.<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> commented, "A perfect view of the stage can be had from every seat in the house."<sup id="cite_ref-Times_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exits on all four sides of the theatre were provided, and fireproof materials were used to ensure maximum safety.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were three tiers with four levels: stalls and pit, balcony, circle, and amphitheatre and gallery at the top. The total <a href="/wiki/Seating_capacity" title="Seating capacity">seating capacity</a> was 1,292.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Proscenium" title="Proscenium">proscenium</a> arch was 30 feet (9.1 m) high by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and the stage was 27 feet (8.2 m) deep from the proscenium to the back wall.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The theatre originally had its main entrance on the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Embankment" title="Thames Embankment">Embankment</a>. The parcel on which it was built is steep, stretching from the Strand down to the Embankment along Beaufort Street. After Carte built the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Hotel" title="Savoy Hotel">Savoy Hotel</a> in 1889, the theatre entrance was moved to its present location at the hotel's courtyard off the Strand.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Savoy_Theatre_(Westminster_City_Council).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg/170px-Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg/255px-Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg/340px-Savoy_Theatre_%28Westminster_City_Council%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Plaque noting the Savoy as the first public building to be lit entirely by electricity</figcaption></figure> <p>The Savoy was a state-of-the-art theatre and the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Burgess_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burgess-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1881, <a href="/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Swan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Joseph Swan">Sir Joseph Swan</a>, inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb" title="Incandescent light bulb">incandescent light bulb</a>, supplied about 1,200 Swan incandescent lamps, and the lights were powered by a 120-horsepower (89 kW) generator on open land near the theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carte explained why he had introduced electric light: "The greatest drawbacks to the enjoyment of the theatrical performances are, undoubtedly, the foul air and heat which pervade all theatres. As everyone knows, each <a href="/wiki/Gas_lighting" title="Gas lighting">gas-burner</a> consumes as much oxygen as many people, and causes great heat beside. The incandescent lamps consume no oxygen, and cause no perceptible heat."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first generator proved too small to power the whole building, and though the entire front-of-house was electrically lit, the stage was lit by gas until 28 December 1881. At that performance, Carte stepped onstage and broke a glowing lightbulb before the audience to demonstrate the safety of the new technology. <i>The Times</i> described the electric lighting as superior, visually, to gaslight.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gaslights were installed as a backup, but they rarely had to be used.<sup id="cite_ref-savoyard_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Times</i> concluded that the theatre "is admirably adapted for its purpose, its acoustic qualities are excellent, and all reasonable demands of comfort and taste are complied with."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carte and his manager, <a href="/wiki/George_Edwardes" title="George Edwardes">George Edwardes</a> (later famous as manager of the <a href="/wiki/Gaiety_Theatre,_London" title="Gaiety Theatre, London">Gaiety Theatre</a>), introduced several innovations including numbered seating, free programme booklets, good quality whisky in the bars, the "queue" system for the pit and gallery (an American idea) and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daily expenses at the theatre were about half the possible takings from ticket sales.<sup id="cite_ref-Burgess_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burgess-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1881_Patience.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1881_Patience.jpg/170px-1881_Patience.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1881_Patience.jpg/255px-1881_Patience.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1881_Patience.jpg/340px-1881_Patience.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="1033" /></a><figcaption>1881 Programme for <i><a href="/wiki/Patience_(opera)" title="Patience (opera)">Patience</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>The work that opened the new theatre was Gilbert and Sullivan's <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Patience_(opera)" title="Patience (opera)">Patience</a></i>, which had been running since April 1881 at the smaller <a href="/wiki/Opera_Comique" title="Opera Comique">Opera Comique</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premièred at the Savoy: <i><a href="/wiki/Iolanthe" title="Iolanthe">Iolanthe</a></i> (1882), <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i> (1884), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i> (1885), <i><a href="/wiki/Ruddigore" title="Ruddigore">Ruddigore</a></i> (1887), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yeomen_of_the_Guard" title="The Yeomen of the Guard">The Yeomen of the Guard</a></i> (1888) <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gondoliers" title="The Gondoliers">The Gondoliers</a></i> (1889), <i><a href="/wiki/Utopia,_Limited" title="Utopia, Limited">Utopia, Limited</a></i> (1893), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Grand_Duke" title="The Grand Duke">The Grand Duke</a></i> (1896), and the term <a href="/wiki/Savoy_opera" title="Savoy opera">Savoy opera</a> has come to be associated with all their joint works. After the end of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, Carte, and later his widow, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Carte" title="Helen Carte">Helen</a> (and her manager from 1901 to 1903, <a href="/wiki/William_Greet" title="William Greet">William Greet</a>), staged other comic operas at the theatre by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> and others, notably <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Caryll" title="Ivan Caryll">Ivan Caryll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Grundy" title="Sydney Grundy">Sydney Grundy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basil_Hood" title="Basil Hood">Basil Hood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_German" title="Edward German">Edward German</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Savoy Operas of the 1890s, however, were far less successful than those of the Gilbert and Sullivan heyday. After Carte's production of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chieftain" title="The Chieftain">The Chieftain</a></i> ended in March 1895, the Theatre briefly hosted the <a href="/wiki/Carl_Rosa_Opera_Company" title="Carl Rosa Opera Company">Carl Rosa Opera Company</a> and then closed until late 1895, when Carte resumed productions at the theatre. Sullivan died in 1900, and Richard D'Oyly Carte died in 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Savoy Theatre closed in 1903, and was reopened under the management of John Leigh and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Laurillard" title="Edward Laurillard">Edward Laurillard</a> from February 1904 (beginning with a musical, <i>The Love Birds</i>) to December 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company returned to the Savoy for repertory seasons between 1906 and 1909, in which year <a href="/wiki/C._H._Workman" class="mw-redirect" title="C. H. Workman">C. H. Workman</a> took over the management of the theatre. He produced, among other works, Gilbert's final opera, with music by German, <i><a href="/wiki/Fallen_Fairies" title="Fallen Fairies">Fallen Fairies</a></i> in 1909–10, which ran for only 51 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also produced <i><a href="/wiki/Two_Merry_Monarchs" title="Two Merry Monarchs">Two Merry Monarchs</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Orfeo_ed_Euridice" title="Orfeo ed Euridice">Orpheus and Eurydice</a></i> in 1910, the latter of which starred <a href="/wiki/Marie_Brema" title="Marie Brema">Marie Brema</a> and <a href="/wiki/Viola_Tree" title="Viola Tree">Viola Tree</a> in the title roles.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company did not play in the theatre from 1909 until 1929,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> instead touring throughout Britain and playing London seasons in other theatres; other works held the stage of the Savoy. George Augustus Richardson managed the theatre from November 1911 to February 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Mikado's</i> record as the Savoy's longest-running production was broken by the comedy <i>Paddy the Next Best Thing</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Page" title="Gertrude Page">Gertrude Page</a>, which played for 867 performances from April 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rupert_D'Oyly_Carte's_theatre"><span id="Rupert_D.27Oyly_Carte.27s_theatre"></span>Rupert D'Oyly Carte's theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savoy_Theatre&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rupert D'Oyly Carte's theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1915 Richard D'Oyly Carte's son, <a href="/wiki/Rupert_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Rupert D'Oyly Carte">Rupert D'Oyly Carte</a>, took over management of the theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After serving in the navy in World War I, Carte decided to bring the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company back to London in first-rate style. He began to mount seasons of updated and refreshed Gilbert and Sullivan productions at first at the <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Theatre" title="Shaftesbury Theatre">Prince's Theatre</a> in 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/J._B._Fagan" title="J. B. Fagan">J. B. Fagan</a>'s adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Treasure_Island" title="Treasure Island">Treasure Island</a></i> first played in December 1922 at the Savoy Theatre with <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Bourchier" title="Arthur Bourchier">Arthur Bourchier</a> as Long John Silver.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was so popular that it was revived every Christmas until the outbreak of World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikado_Ricketts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mikado_Ricketts.jpg/230px-Mikado_Ricketts.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mikado_Ricketts.jpg/345px-Mikado_Ricketts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mikado_Ricketts.jpg/460px-Mikado_Ricketts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="847" /></a><figcaption>1926 costume for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>On 3 June 1929 Carte closed the Savoy Theatre, and the interior was completely rebuilt to designs by Frank A. Tugwell with elaborate décor by <a href="/wiki/Basil_Ionides" title="Basil Ionides">Basil Ionides</a>. The ceiling was painted to resemble an April sky; the walls, translucent gold on silver; the rows of stalls were all richly upholstered in different colours, and the curtain repeated the tones of the seating. Ionides said that he took the colour scheme from a bed of zinnias in <a href="/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London" title="Hyde Park, London">Hyde Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The entire floor space had been replanned: the old cloakrooms and bar at the back of the theatre were relocated to the side, and instead of 18 boxes there was now only one. The new auditorium had two tiers leaving three levels: stalls, dress, and upper circle. The capacity of the old house, originally 1,292, had been reduced to 986 by 1912,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the new theatre restored the capacity almost completely, with 1,200 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new stage was 29.3 feet wide, by 29.5 feet deep.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The theatre reopened on 21 October 1929 with a new production of <i>The Gondoliers</i> designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ricketts" title="Charles Ricketts">Charles Ricketts</a> and conducted by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Sargent" title="Malcolm Sargent">Malcolm Sargent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the only box sat Lady Gilbert, the librettist's widow.<sup id="cite_ref-bettany_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were Gilbert and Sullivan seasons at the Savoy Theatre in 1929–30, 1932–33, 1951, 1954, 1961–62, 1975, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. Other famous works presented at the Savoy included <a href="/wiki/Robert_Morley" title="Robert Morley">Robert Morley</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_to_Dinner" title="The Man Who Came to Dinner">The Man Who Came to Dinner</a></i>, and several comedies by <a href="/wiki/William_Douglas-Home" class="mw-redirect" title="William Douglas-Home">William Douglas-Home</a> starring, among others, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Richardson" title="Ralph Richardson">Ralph Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ashcroft" title="Peggy Ashcroft">Peggy Ashcroft</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Mills" title="John Mills">John Mills</a>. The long-delayed first public performance in England of <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Salome_(play)" title="Salome (play)">Salome</a></i> played at the theatre in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1951 Noël Coward's <i><a href="/wiki/Relative_Values_(play)" title="Relative Values (play)">Relative Values</a></i> premièred at the theatre and ran for 477 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Rupert D'Oyly Carte died in 1948 his daughter, <a href="/wiki/Bridget_D%27Oyly_Carte" title="Bridget D'Oyly Carte">Bridget D'Oyly Carte</a>, succeeded to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and became a director and later president of the Savoy Hotel group, which controlled the theatre. Management of the theatre was assumed in 1948 by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Wontner" title="Hugh Wontner">Sir Hugh Wontner</a>, chairman of the Savoy hotel group.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The theatre was designated a Grade II* <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a> in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company closed in 1982, and Dame Bridget died childless in 1985, bringing the family line to an end. Wontner continued as chairman of the theatre until his death in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-times_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1990_fire_and_restored_theatre">1990 fire and restored theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savoy_Theatre&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1990 fire and restored theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Savoy_theatre_london.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Savoy_theatre_london.jpg/220px-Savoy_theatre_london.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Savoy_theatre_london.jpg/330px-Savoy_theatre_london.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Savoy_theatre_london.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>The Savoy Theatre and hotel entrance in 2003</figcaption></figure> <p>While the theatre was being renovated in February 1990, a fire gutted the building, except for the stage and backstage areas. A proposal to build a new theatre in late 20th-century style was overruled by the Savoy's insurers and by English Heritage, the government body that had oversight of listed buildings. It was decided to restore the building as faithfully as possible to the 1929 designs.<sup id="cite_ref-gala_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gala-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tugwell's and Ionides's working designs had been preserved, allowing accurate restoration of the theatre under the direction of the architect Sir William Whitfield, Sir Hugh Wontner and the theatre's manager, Kevin Chapple.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It reopened on 19 July 1993, with a royal gala that included a specially commissioned ballet, <i>Savoy Suite</i>, by choreographer <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Sleep" title="Wayne Sleep">Wayne Sleep</a> to a score arranged by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Davis" title="Carl Davis">Carl Davis</a> based on Sullivan's music.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The present theatre has a capacity of 1,158. During the renovation, an extra storey was added above the theatre that includes a health club for the hotel and a swimming pool above the stage. The reopened theatre was the venue for the <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship" title="World Chess Championship">World Chess Championship</a> in 1993, won by <a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1993 Coward's <i>Relative Values</i> was revived.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Travesties" title="Travesties">Travesties</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> was next, and from 1994 to 1995 the musical <i><a href="/wiki/She_Loves_Me" title="She Loves Me">She Loves Me</a></i> played, with <a href="/wiki/Ruthie_Henshall" title="Ruthie Henshall">Ruthie Henshall</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Gordon_Sinclair" title="John Gordon Sinclair">John Gordon Sinclair</a>. These were followed by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Johnson_(dramatist)" title="Terry Johnson (dramatist)">Terry Johnson</a>'s <i>Dead Funny</i>; <a href="/wiki/Alan_Ayckbourn" title="Alan Ayckbourn">Alan Ayckbourn</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Communicating_Doors" title="Communicating Doors">Communicating Doors</a></i> (which transferred to the theatre in 1996), with <a href="/wiki/Angela_Thorne" title="Angela Thorne">Angela Thorne</a>; <a href="/wiki/J._B._Priestley" title="J. B. Priestley">J. B. Priestley</a>'s <i>When We Are Married</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Dawn_French" title="Dawn French">Dawn French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alison_Steadman" title="Alison Steadman">Alison Steadman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Leo_McKern" title="Leo McKern">Leo McKern</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Travers" title="Ben Travers">Ben Travers</a>' <i>Plunder</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Griff_Rhys_Jones" title="Griff Rhys Jones">Griff Rhys Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McNally" title="Kevin McNally">Kevin McNally</a>. In 1997 a group led by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Waley-Cohen" title="Stephen Waley-Cohen">Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen</a> was given management of the theatre by The Savoy Group. Productions that followed included <a href="/wiki/Simon_Callow" title="Simon Callow">Simon Callow</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Oscar" title="The Importance of Being Oscar">The Importance of Being Oscar</a></i>; <a href="/wiki/Pet_Shop_Boys" title="Pet Shop Boys">Pet Shop Boys</a> in concert; <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero" title="Arthur Wing Pinero">Pinero</a>'s <i>The Magistrate</i>; <a href="/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a> in <i>A Letter of Resignation</i>; the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>'s production of <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lindsay_(actor)" title="Robert Lindsay (actor)">Robert Lindsay</a>; and Coward's <i><a href="/wiki/Hay_Fever_(play)" title="Hay Fever (play)">Hay Fever</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_McEwan" title="Geraldine McEwan">Geraldine McEwan</a> in 1999. </p><p>In 2000 the briefly reconstituted D'Oyly Carte Opera Company produced <i><a href="/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" title="H.M.S. Pinafore">H.M.S. Pinafore</a></i> at the theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sutherland" title="Donald Sutherland">Donald Sutherland</a> next starred at the theatre in <i>Enigmatic Variations</i>, followed by a further D'Oyly Carte seasons, playing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance" title="The Pirates of Penzance">The Pirates of Penzance</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ambass_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ambass-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2002, a season of <i><a href="/wiki/Return_to_the_Forbidden_Planet" title="Return to the Forbidden Planet">Return to the Forbidden Planet</a></i> was followed by the D'Oyly Carte productions of <i><a href="/wiki/Iolanthe" title="Iolanthe">Iolanthe</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yeomen_of_the_Guard" title="The Yeomen of the Guard">The Yeomen of the Guard</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/The_Mikado" title="The Mikado">The Mikado</a>, and then a revival of <a href="/wiki/Yasmina_Reza" title="Yasmina Reza">Yasmina Reza</a>'s <i>Life x 3</i>. In 2003, the company revived <i>Pinafore</i>, followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Bea_Arthur" title="Bea Arthur">Bea Arthur</a> at The Savoy</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>'s <i>Of Mice and Men</i>, <i>Peter Pan</i> and <i>Pirates</i>. These were followed by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Figaro" title="The Marriage of Figaro">The Marriage of Figaro</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville" title="The Barber of Seville">The Barber of Seville</a></i> performed by The Savoy Opera Company in 2004. Next were seasons of <a href="/wiki/Lorna_Luft" title="Lorna Luft">Lorna Luft</a> starring in <i>Songs My Mother Taught Me</i> and the new salsa musical <i>Murderous Instincts</i>. Coward's <i>Blithe Spirit</i> was revived in 2004–05.<sup id="cite_ref-Ambass_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ambass-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Savoy Hotel group, including the theatre, was sold in 2004 to Quinlan Private which, in turn, sold the theatre in 2005 to the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) and the Tulbart Group (selling the Savoy Hotel to Prince <a href="/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Waleed bin Talal">Al-Waleed bin Talal</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Productions since then have been mostly revivals and transfers of modern musicals; major productions have included <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rat_Pack:_Live_from_Las_Vegas" title="The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas">The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas</a></i> and a new musical theatre version of <i><a href="/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess" title="Porgy and Bess">Porgy and Bess</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a> (both in 2006), <i><a href="/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof" title="Fiddler on the Roof">Fiddler on the Roof</a></i> (2007–08),<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Carousel_(musical)" title="Carousel (musical)">Carousel</a></i> (2008–09),<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Legally_Blonde_(musical)" title="Legally Blonde (musical)">Legally Blonde</a></i> (2010–12)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Let_It_Be_(musical)" title="Let It Be (musical)">Let It Be</a></i> (2013–14).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2013, ATG acquired sole ownership of the Savoy.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first new production after this was <i><a href="/wiki/Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels_(musical)" title="Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical)">Dirty Rotten Scoundrels</a></i> (2014–15),<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Gypsy_(musical)" title="Gypsy (musical)">Gypsy</a></i> (2015),<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Funny_Girl_(musical)" title="Funny Girl (musical)">Funny Girl</a></i> (2016),<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Dreamgirls_(musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreamgirls (musical)">Dreamgirls</a></i> (2016–19),<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/9_to_5_(musical)" title="9 to 5 (musical)">9 to 5: The Musical</a></i> (2019–March 2020),<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when UK theatres closed due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The theatre reopened in July 2021 with <i><a href="/wiki/Pretty_Woman:_The_Musical" class="mw-redirect" title="Pretty Woman: The Musical">Pretty Woman: The Musical</a></i>, which had been playing at the <a href="/wiki/Piccadilly_Theatre" title="Piccadilly Theatre">Piccadilly Theatre</a> before the closure.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production closed in June 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(musical)" title="Sunset Boulevard (musical)">Sunset Boulevard</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Nicole_Scherzinger" title="Nicole Scherzinger">Nicole Scherzinger</a> played a limited 16-week run from September 2023 to January 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Broadway transfer of <i><a href="/wiki/Plaza_Suite" title="Plaza Suite">Plaza Suite</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Jessica_Parker" title="Sarah Jessica Parker">Sarah Jessica Parker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Broderick" title="Matthew Broderick">Matthew Broderick</a>, had a limited run from January to April 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The West End premiere of <i><a href="/wiki/Mean_Girls_(musical)" title="Mean Girls (musical)">Mean Girls</a></i> began previews on 5 June 2024 with an opening night on 26 June.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savoy_Theatre&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-bho-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bho_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bho_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bho_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol3/pp95-100">"The Savoy"</a>, British History Online, University of London, retrieved 15 April 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ainger, p. 193</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bettany-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bettany_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bettany, unnumbered page (there are no page numbers in the book)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-savoyard-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-savoyard_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"100 Electrifying Years", <i>The Savoyard</i>, Volume XX no. 2, D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust, September 1981, pp. 4–6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carte, Richard D'Oyly. "Building Difficulties", <i>The Times</i>, 22 May 1880, p. 6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rollins and Witts, p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Howard-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Howard_7-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Howard, p. 214</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Oost,_p._59-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oost,_p._59_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oost,_p._59_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Oost, p. 59</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Times-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Times_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Times_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Times_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Times_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Times_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Savoy Theatre", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, 3 October 1881</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">18 private boxes (72 seats); 150 stalls, 250 pit, 160 balcony, 160 circle, and 500 (maximum) amphitheatre and gallery. 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Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-514769-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-514769-8"><bdi>978-0-19-514769-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gilbert+and+Sullivan+%E2%80%93+A+Dual+Biography&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-19-514769-8&rft.aulast=Ainger&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllen1975" class="citation book cs1">Allen, Reginald (1975). <i>The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan</i> (centennial ed.). London: Chappell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-903443-10-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-903443-10-4"><bdi>978-0-903443-10-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+First+Night+Gilbert+and+Sullivan&rft.place=London&rft.edition=centennial&rft.pub=Chappell&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=978-0-903443-10-4&rft.aulast=Allen&rft.aufirst=Reginald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaily1956" class="citation book cs1">Baily, Leslie (1956). <i>The Gilbert and Sullivan Book</i> (fourth ed.). London: Cassell. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/21934871">21934871</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Gilbert+and+Sullivan+Book&rft.place=London&rft.edition=fourth&rft.pub=Cassell&rft.date=1956&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F21934871&rft.aulast=Baily&rft.aufirst=Leslie&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBettany1975" class="citation book cs1">Bettany, Clemence (1975). <i>D'Oyly Carte Centenary 1875–1975</i>. London: D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/3511414">3511414</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=D%27Oyly+Carte+Centenary+1875%E2%80%931975&rft.place=London&rft.pub=D%27Oyly+Carte+Opera+Trust&rft.date=1975&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F3511414&rft.aulast=Bettany&rft.aufirst=Clemence&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBradley2005" class="citation book cs1">Bradley, Ian (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ohjoyohraptureen00brad"><i>Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan</i></a>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-516700-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-516700-9"><bdi>978-0-19-516700-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oh+Joy%21+Oh+Rapture%21+The+Enduring+Phenomenon+of+Gilbert+and+Sullivan&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-19-516700-9&rft.aulast=Bradley&rft.aufirst=Ian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fohjoyohraptureen00brad&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChapman2009" class="citation book cs1">Chapman, Don (2009). <i>Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City</i>. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-902806-86-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-902806-86-0"><bdi>978-1-902806-86-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Oxford+Playhouse%3A+High+and+Low+Drama+in+a+University+City&rft.place=Hatfield&rft.pub=University+of+Hertfordshire+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-902806-86-0&rft.aulast=Chapman&rft.aufirst=Don&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChappleJane_Thorne1993" class="citation book cs1">Chapple, Kevin; Jane Thorne (1993). <i>Reflected Light: The Story of the Savoy Theatre</i>. London: Dewynters. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/80573775">80573775</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reflected+Light%3A+The+Story+of+the+Savoy+Theatre&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Dewynters&rft.date=1993&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F80573775&rft.aulast=Chapple&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft.au=Jane+Thorne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDarkRowland_Grey1923" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Dark" title="Sidney Dark">Dark, Sidney</a>; Rowland Grey (1923). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/wsgilberthislife0000dark"><i>W. S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters</i></a>. London: Methuen. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/3389751">3389751</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=W.+S.+Gilbert%3A+His+Life+and+Letters&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Methuen&rft.date=1923&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F3389751&rft.aulast=Dark&rft.aufirst=Sidney&rft.au=Rowland+Grey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwsgilberthislife0000dark&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEarlMichael_Sell2000" class="citation book cs1">Earl, John; Michael Sell (2000). <i>Guide to British Theatres 1750–1950</i>. London: Theatres Trust. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7136-5688-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7136-5688-6"><bdi>978-0-7136-5688-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Guide+to+British+Theatres+1750%E2%80%931950&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Theatres+Trust&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-7136-5688-6&rft.aulast=Earl&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Michael+Sell&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGaye1967" class="citation book cs1">Gaye, Freda (1967). <i>Who's Who in the Theatre</i> (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/5997224">5997224</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Who%27s+Who+in+the+Theatre&rft.place=London&rft.edition=fourteenth&rft.pub=Sir+Isaac+Pitman+and+Sons&rft.date=1967&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F5997224&rft.aulast=Gaye&rft.aufirst=Freda&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoodman1988" class="citation book cs1">Goodman, Andrew (1988). <i>Gilbert and Sullivan's London</i>. Tunbridge Wells and New York: Spellmount (UK) and Hippocrene (US). <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87052-441-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87052-441-7"><bdi>978-0-87052-441-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gilbert+and+Sullivan%27s+London&rft.place=Tunbridge+Wells+and+New+York&rft.pub=Spellmount+%28UK%29+and+Hippocrene+%28US%29&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-87052-441-7&rft.aulast=Goodman&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASavoy+Theatre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoward1970" class="citation book cs1">Howard, Diana (1970). <i>London Theatres and Music Halls 1850–1950</i>. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/ATG_Entertainment" title="ATG Entertainment">ATG Entertainment</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)" title="Ambassadors Theatre (London)">Ambassadors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Victoria_Theatre" title="Apollo Victoria Theatre">Apollo Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Theatre" title="Duke of York's Theatre">Duke of York's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortune_Theatre" title="Fortune 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left;background-color: #eee;">Independent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arts_Theatre" title="Arts Theatre">Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criterion_Theatre" title="Criterion Theatre">Criterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal_Haymarket" title="Theatre Royal Haymarket">Haymarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Theatre" title="St Martin's Theatre">St Martin's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Theatre" title="Shaftesbury Theatre">Shaftesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trafalgar_Theatre" title="Trafalgar Theatre">Trafalgar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left;">Other major<br />theatres</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbican_Centre" 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