Performance Theatres
Many of us have visited performance theatres to watch performances given by a comedian, dance troop or musician. A performance theatre also shows performing arts such as opera, drama and ballet as reasons we visit theatres for entertainment.
Since the beginning of time we have broadened our horizons for entertainment purposes. While there was no television, dvds and playstations in the early days for entertainment purposes, people have entertained the old fashioned way with live performances for the crowd in theatres with costumes and sets.
Whether it’s been through speech, gestures or dancing we have continued to entertain through the course of time. Today that entertainment can be found in performance theatres that have been built specifically for us to enjoy opera, classical music, ballet, dance, contemporary music and drama, to name but a few of the genres of theatre available.
The costumes and sets have no doubt improved through the ages with other effects such as lighting, adding to the experience of the story telling that we are about to see and hear in every performance theatre throughout the land.
Some of the best plays produced and written plays can be seen at performance theatres. Cats the award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber continues to be performed around the world being translated into more than 20 languages.
Cats first played in London's West End, at the New London Theatre, on May 11, 1982. It continued to run until its 21st birthday finishing with 8,949 performances. The show had similar success on Broadway where it made its debut at the Winter Garden Theatre before eventually becoming the longest running musical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances.
The Phantom of the Opera is another Andrew Lloyd Webber masterpiece. Opening at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on October 9, 1986 this classic is still running today and its success on Broadway is unparalleled. The Phantom of the Opera is the longest running Broadway musical of all time with attendance in excess of 80 million worldwide.
As we can see from the figures quoted, football, television, computer games and cinema, may all provide their own standard of entertainment to us all, but theatre remains a standard that can’t be surpassed.