Donald Sinden played the TV host with a wandering eye.ġ974 The first of a number of Alan Ayckbourn plays to be premiered at the theatre opened on 1 August.
The painting used in the play when it first opened in Dublin caused such a sensation that it had to be replaced for the London run.ġ960 Robert Bolt scored a double triumph with his play A Man for All Seasons starring Paul Scofield as Thomas More, showing at the Gielgud, and another play he had written, The Tiger and the Horse, starring Michael Redgrave and his daughter, Vanessa, playing next door at the Queen's.ġ966 There's a Girl in My Soup became the theatre's longest-running production, opening on 15 June and transferring to the Comedy Theatre more than three years later. Three of his plays were presented at the Globe in the 1920s - The Truth About Blayds (1921), Mr Pym Passes By (1922) and Belinda (1922).ġ956 Nude with Violin, a comedy written by Noël Coward and directed by him and John Gielgud, enjoyed successful runs at the Gielgud, on Broadway and in Australia. Read more about the theatre and its history.ġ921 Before A A Milne became best known for Winnie-the-Pooh he was a popular playwright. Needless to say it closed after 13 performances. It reopened with His Borrowed Plumes written by Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill.ġ913 The Clock Goes Round challenged theatrical superstition when it opened on Friday 13th with 13 characters. 1906 Opened as the Hicks Theatre on 27 December with The Beauty of Bath, a musical play by Seymour Hicks (after whom the theatre was named) and Cosmo Hamilton.ġ907 Brewster's Millions, a comedy about a man trying to spend a fortune in 30 days in order to gain an inheritance, was the theatre's first big success, starring Gerald du Maurier.ġ909 The American impresario Charles Frohman became sole manager of the theatre and changed its name to the Globe.