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2 unusual facts about Adelphi Theatre


Alun Owen

The show ran for a respectable 501 performances at London's Adelphi Theatre.

Mellerstain House

The Adelphi Building, in London, was a speculative neoclassical terraced housing development by the Adam brothers but is now largely demolished, leaving Mellerstain House as an important record of Robert Adam's work.


Harry Brodribb Irving

The production, which was a popular success, was presented at the Adelphi Theatre, with Oscar Asche as Claudius, Walter Hampden as Laertes and Lily Brayton as Ophelia.

J. Comyns Carr

Carr's Tristram and Iseult (1906), a pseudo-medieval drama, was produced at the Adelphi Theatre starring Matheson Lang, Lily Brayton and Oscar Asche.

Jan Hunt

Her later career included playing Ellie May in Show Boat (Adelphi Theatre London 1971) in which she first performed her trademark "spoons" routine.

Tim Hatley

In May 2013, the hit musical, The Bodyguard, was staged at London’s Adelphi Theatre, the theme adapted from the 1992 Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner starer celebrated movie, Bodyguard into a stage musical with a cast of Heather Headley as the superstar singer Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer, an ex-Secret Service agent turned bodyguard.

Walter Shaw Sparrow

Very soon after their marriage, in May and June 1891, the magazine Theatre commended her performance as Alida in The Streets of London by Dion Boucicault at the Royal Adelphi Theatre in London.


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Lorna Want

She played the role of Ariel Moore in Footloose at London's Novello Theatre until May 2006, and in the 2006/2007 season played Peron's Mistress to critical acclaim in a London revival of Evita at the Adelphi Theatre on West End.