How very, very sad – but thank you for the pictures, nontheless. I suddenly feel rather old [well, almost 60] and a long, long way from the 16 year old Management Trainee of 1965. John Fisher was the Manager and David Riby his Assistant.
How very sad. My late, Great Uncle Harold Cundall was a Director of the company that built the Theatre. It opened with Korda’s ‘Henry VIII’ with, of course, Charles Laughton [almost a local boy] and Merle Oberon attended the event [Laughton did not].
My very first job was as a Trainee Manager, in 1965/6 [My Fair Lady was playing]and I remember many pop shows – indeed, I recall queuing all night to purchase tickets for the Beatles concerts in ‘63 or '64.
I also vividly recall all of those 2553 seats being sold out, with queues around the block, for popular films such as ‘The Family Way’ – as well as most of them being left empty for ‘Stop the World….’!
How very, very sad – but thank you for the pictures, nontheless. I suddenly feel rather old [well, almost 60] and a long, long way from the 16 year old Management Trainee of 1965. John Fisher was the Manager and David Riby his Assistant.
What a sentimental old fool I have become.
How very sad. My late, Great Uncle Harold Cundall was a Director of the company that built the Theatre. It opened with Korda’s ‘Henry VIII’ with, of course, Charles Laughton [almost a local boy] and Merle Oberon attended the event [Laughton did not].
My very first job was as a Trainee Manager, in 1965/6 [My Fair Lady was playing]and I remember many pop shows – indeed, I recall queuing all night to purchase tickets for the Beatles concerts in ‘63 or '64.
I also vividly recall all of those 2553 seats being sold out, with queues around the block, for popular films such as ‘The Family Way’ – as well as most of them being left empty for ‘Stop the World….’!