Adelphi Theatre
The Strand, London, WC2E 7NA

Nearest underground:
Charing Cross (Northern Line, Bakerloo Line)

Nearest rail:
Charing Cross

A theatre of some longevity, the Adelphi in its current incarnation went up in 1930. However the first theatre on the site, the Sans Pareil, was built back in 1806, by a self-made entrepreneur for his stagestruck daughter. It became the Adelphi as long ago as 1819 and its moniker became so beloved, when it was altered to the Century in 1901 public pressure caused its owners to revert back.

The 1,480-seat Adelphi still looks as it did in 1930, an example of modernist, art deco style, designed by Ernest Schaufelberg. On opening, it struck visitors by its completely linear design, with a total absence of curves. It survived an attempt by developers to demolish the row that it stood on in the 1960s and was restored to its 1930s splendour in 1993 by owners composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and American impresario James Nederlander. Since November 1997 the Adelphi has been showing the revival Chicago the Musical, which holds the record for the theatre’s longest running show.

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