Apollo Victoria Theatre
17 Wilton Road,
London,
SW1V 1LL
17 Wilton Road,
London,
SW1V 1LL
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A close-up photo is here.
Here are new links for the photos posted on Aug 23, 2006.
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In 1982 met the late Australian soprano June Bronhill in her dressing room after a performance of ‘The Sound Of Music’ (The Petula Clark production). A wonderful experience. Recently visited this fabulous building to see ‘Wicked’. Always great to sit in this wonderful atmospheric auditorium.
Here is another exterior view.
2005 auditorium photos, 18th & 19th photos here:
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This theatre makes an unusual cameo appearance of sorts in “The Return of the Pink Panther” by clearly serving as the inspiration for the theatre setting for the opening animated credits sequence.
This is a recent close-up of the Apollo Victoria.
More photo’s here:–
Exterior:
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/269192729/
Foyer (after 2006 restoration):
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/269192728/
Auditorium:
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/269192727/
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/269192726/
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/269192725/
This is a recent photo of the Apollo Victoria and this is a close-up view.
Two vintage photographs oh the New Victoria Theatre:
The Wilton Road entrance in September 1949 playing the Gaumont release:
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The Vauxhall Bridge Road entrance seen undergoing restoration in the same week;September 1949:
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What a fabulous cinema this was! You really did feel that you had entered an underwater cavern especially with the blue/green lighting effects. I visited many times in the early 1970’s when it was showing double bills of mainly horror films. A couple I remember being ‘What’s The Matter With Helen?’(Debbie Reynolds & Shelly Winters) and ‘Blood and Lace’ (Gloria Grahame). The place was always virtually empty but how incredible it was just to sit in such splendour! There were many cinemas in the Victoria area even in the 70’s – The Metropole, The Classic, The Biograph, The News Theatre, now I guess this is the only survivor.
A night view of the Wiltern Road entrance as “Starlight Express” nears the buffers on its 20 years run at the Apollo Victoria:
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A view across the stalls of the New Victoria Theatre at opening in 1930:
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The Wiltern Road facade of the Apollo Victoria Theatre with “Saturday Night Fever” on stage in October 2005:
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The auditorium of the New Victoria Theatre from the circle in 1973 here:
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A vintage 1949 photograph of the Wilton Road entrance to the New Victoria Theatre here:
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More history and photographs of the Apollo Victoria here:
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The address listed for the Apollo Victoria is 17 Wilton Road.
Ian Grundy’s exterior view photo above, shows the slightly less ornate entrance on Vauxhall Bridge Road.
Two years ago I went a second time to the Apollo Victoria to see a musical. The building is now renovated, especially the wonderful auditorium. When they played Starlight Express, they painted a lot of the walls black. But now you can see the cinema in its former glory.
Albert Knapp, Frankfurt/Main, Germany