The Gaiety Theatre | |
Address: | Argyle StAnderston Cross |
City: | Glasgow |
Opened: | 1899 |
Yearsactive: | 66 |
Rebuilt: | 1904 |
Closed: | 1965 |
Othernames: | Tivoli Variety Theatre |
The Glasgow Gaiety Theatre was a cine-theatre in Anderston Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. Originally known as the Victoria Music Hall, then the Tivoli Variety Theatre, and co-founded by a grandson of James Baylis of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow it opened in 1899 presenting Musicals, variety shows and pantomimes. When it was rebuilt in 1904 it changed to operate as a cine-variety under the name of Gaiety Theatre, becoming a full cinema in 1935. The Beatles appeared there in 1963. The cinema closed in 1965.[1] [2] It is not to be confused with the Gaiety Theatre, Sauchiehall Street, which became the Empire Theatre.