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Wyndham's Theatre is one of
two theatres opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham
(cp Criterion Theatre). Located in Charing Cross Road,
London, England, it was designed by W.G.R. Sprague, the
designer of six other London theatres between then and
1916. It is designed to seat 759 patrons on three
levels.
Wyndham had always dreamed of building a theatre of his
own and through the admiration of a patron and the
financial confidence of friends, he was able to realise
his dream when Wyndham's Theatre opened on 16 November
1899, in the presence of the Prince Of Wales. The first
play ever performed here was a revival of
T.W.Robertson's David Garrick.
In 1910 Gerald du Maurier began an association with the
theatre which was to last fifteen years and to include
the stage debut of the screen goddess Tallulah Bankhead.
Du Maurier's small daughter, Daphne, often watched her
father's performance from the wings and, thirty years
later, she would present her own play, The Years
Between, on the same stage.
In January 1954 a small-scale musical pastiche, Sandy
Wilson's The Boy Friend, which had begun life at the
much smaller Players Theatre, was moved to the Wyndham
stage: it ran for 2078 performances, before eventually
transferring to Broadway. During the sixties and early
seventies the theatre continued to provide a setting for
stars such as Alec Guinness, Vanessa Redgrave and Diana
Rigg.
The blockbuster of the decade - Godspell - came to
Wyndham's in January 1972 and lasted to October 1974.
The original cast included David Essex, Marti Webb and
Jeremy Irons.
More recent times have seen, amongst many distinguished
productions, the world premiere of The Ride Down Mount
Morgan by Arthur Miller and the British premiere of
Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, starring Maggie Smith.
Twenty-five years after making her debut here, Diana
Rigg returned to play a hugely successful season as
Medea. The critically acclaimed comedy, Art, by Yasmina
Reza, began its record-breaking run at Wyndham's in 1996
with Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Ken Stott in the
cast. It opened in October 1996, and transferred to the
Whitehall Theatre in October 2001.
Since then, Madonna made her West End debut here in
2002, performing in a sell-out production of Up For
Grabs. This has been followed by many other dramatic
productions including "Dinner" and the National
Theatre's "Democracy" during 2004, Holly Hunter in "By
The Bog Of Cats", American TV star Ruby Wax in a
children's stage version of "The Witches" which ran
during March of 2005, followed by a controversial
limited season of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues"
which ran without the stars - Sharon & Aimee Osborne who
dropped out the night before the production opened.
Since then, the theatre has seen Sienna Miller star
alongside Helen McClory, Reece Sheersmith and Clive Rowe
in a new production of Shakespreare's "As You Like It"
and most recently Richard Griffiths in Tom Stoppard's
new production of "Heroes". In September 2005, the
theatre was taken-over by Cameron Mackintosh's Delfont-Mackintosh
Ltd. who will run the theatre from October 2005 onwards |
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