Middlesex Music-Hall

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Middlesex Music-Hall, London, in Drury Lane, originally the Mogul Saloon, known as the ‘Old Mo’, a nickname it subsequently retained. At the end of 1847 it began to feature the new-style music-hall turns, becoming the Middlesex Music-Hall in 1851. Many famous music-hall stars made their débuts there, including, it is said, Dan Leno. Reconstructed in 1872, it was rebuilt in 1891 and again in 1911, when, as the New Middlesex Theatre of Varieties, it reopened with a capacity of 3,000, a far cry from its original 500. Music-hall turns continued to predominate in the programme, though interspersed with a series of sensational French revues, until the theatre closed in 1919, to reopen as the Winter Garden Theatre. The site is now occupied by the New London Theatre.

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