Bedford Music-Hall

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 657 words | Copyright

Bedford Music-Hall, London, in Camden High Street. Built on part of the tea garden belonging to the Bedford Arms, this opened in 1861 and had a most successful career, its interior, which then had a seating capacity of 1,168 on three tiers, being the subject in 1890 of a painting by Walter Sickert. Among the variety stars who appeared there were George Leybourne, Little Tich, and Marie Lloyd. In 1949 it became a theatre for six months, housing revivals of such old favourites as Miss Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Jerrold's Black-Ey'd Susan, Leopold Lewis's The Bells, and Mrs Henry Wood's East Lynne. It then closed and was demolished in 1969.

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