The Glasgow Gaiety Theatre Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Glasgow Gaeity theatre. University of Glasgow. 29 March 2011.
  2. Web site: The Glasgow Gaiety. 10 July 2009.