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Aberdeen has been the host of several theatres and concert halls through history. Some of them have been converted or destroyed over the years.

Theatres[edit]

Theatre Royal[edit]

The Theatre Royal was located on Theatre lane, in Aberdeen. It was built in 1789 and demolished in 1877 when replaced by the Tivoli.^[1]

Tivoli[edit]

The Tivoli is located on Guild Street. 'It was built in 1872 as Her Majesty's Theatre by C. J. Phipps and James Matthews. The auditorium was later rebuilt by Frank Matcham in 1897 and again in 1909.'^[1][2][3] In 2009 it was bought by a trust, with the intention of renovating it. Work on the exterior work started November 2010, and while it was scheduled to last six months^[4][5][6] it took until 2013 until it reopened.

HMT[edit]

His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating 1,470. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the city's Union Terrace Gardens. It was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1906.^[7]The theatre is managed by Aberdeen Performing Arts which also runs The Music Hall, Aberdeen Box Office and the Lemon Tree.

Aberdeen Arts Centre[edit]

Aberdeen Arts Centre is a theatre on King Street in Aberdeen, Scotland.The 350-seater auditorium regularly plays host to music and drama events and is the focus for much of Aberdeen's amateur dramatic activities.The theatre is on two levels, with an upper and a lower gallery for audiences. There is a small orchestra pit and behind the stage there are dressing and rehearsal rooms for the shows and other projects such as local drama groups.

The Lemon Tree[edit]

The Lemon Tree is a studio theatre that hosts touring companies and occasionally generates in-house productions. Operation was transferred from a local trust to Aberdeen Performing Arts in 2008.

Aberdeen Cinemas Theatre[edit]

The Belmont[edit]

Belmont Cinema is in Belmont Street. The Belmont is now an arts cinema which shows films that generally would not be shown in a chain cinema. It is part of the Picturehouse Cinemas network of arthouse cinemas.

Capitol Theatre[edit]

The Capitol Theatre is located on Union Street. It has also been known as the Capitol Super Cinema or the Electric Theatre. The building is Category B statutory listed.^[8]

The Capitol Cinema opened in February 1933, on the site of the earlier Electric Cinema, seating 2,100 to the plans of architects AGR Mackenzie and Clement George. In 1933, the Capitol was the most luxurious cinema, with full stage facilities and a Compton Organ.The Capitol closed for regular film showings in the 1960s, but it was used also for occasional rock concerts until the late 1990s; it was largely moth-balled since 1998, except for the use of the restaurant as a bar called 'Oscars'. The B-listed Art deco interior was extremely well preserved at that point.^[9] Permission was granted in 2002–03 for conversion to nightclubs, which saw the auditorium split horizontally to form two large bar-clubs, and the rear stage wall cut open to create a large glass wall and additional entrances. The original restaurant is now out of use. Plans to restore and return the Compton pipe organ to the building have never taken place.^[10][11][12]

In 2011, Aberdeen City Council has consulted The Theatres Trust on the partial demolition of the Capitol Theatre in order to create a hotel accommodation with an associated access and parking. ^[13][14] The plan, submitted by 'Prime Properties Aberdeen c/o A B Robb Ltd', proposes 'a change of use of bar/nightclub to Class 7 Hotel with associated part demolition of the existing auditorium and development of hotel accommodation and refurbishment of internal features and associated access and parking' ^[15] The conditions set by the council however included the approval of:^[16]

• the conservation methods for the restoration of the art deco interior and exterior of the building
• specification, location and dimensions for dismantling, relocating and reassembling the original organ pipe screen, organ niches, Compton organ and proscenium arch within the proposed conference room
• details of the restoration and refurbishment of the external canopy and entrance doors, new shop front, entrance lobby and stair and the first floor tea room to recreate the original character and appearance of the building

Also, that the restored art deco café/tea room shown on drawings should not be used unless fully open to the general public, unless the planning authority has given written consent for a variation.

The Palace Theatre[edit]

The Palace Theatre, located on Bridge Street, was built following destruction by fire in 1896 of the People’s Palace on the same site. The interior of the new Palace, originally with two tiers, was completely gutted to the shell walls in 1929 and rebuilt, re-opening as a cinema with one balcony in 1931. The four-storey asymmetrical granite front survives largely intact, but this is a crude design of industrial quality - plain with a pediment over the three central bays and three large doorways with thin broken segmental pediments.^[1]

Concerts and reception halls[edit]

Music Hall[edit]

The Music Hall is a concert hall in Aberdeen, Scotland, formerly the city's Assembly Rooms, located on Union Street in the city centre. It was designed by architectArchibald Simpson, costing £11,500 when it was originally constructed in 1822, opened to the public as a concert hall in 1859, and was extensively renovated in the 1980s.^[17]

Beach Ballroom[edit]

The Beach Ballroom is an art deco building on the sea front of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is home to one of Scotland's finest dance floors - famous for its bounce - which floats on fixed steel springs.

Elphinstone Hall[edit]

Elphinstone Hall is the hall of the University of Aberdeen. It is located on their Kings College Campus.

Aberdeen Art Gallery[edit]

The Aberdeen Art Gallery is mostly known for its art exhibitions. However, they also have receptions areas available for custom events.

Other theatres, halls and cinema[edit]

• The Alhambra Theatre
• Empire Music Hall, later Kings, 1907
• Dove Paterson's Palladium, Shiprow, 1908
• The Torry Picture Palace, 1910
• The Woodside Picture Palace (The Rinkie), 1910
• Star Picture Palace
• The Globe
• Savoy, 1012
• The Queen's Cinema (formerly The Queen's Rooms), 1912–1981
• La Scala, 1914
• The Picture House, 1914
• The West End (The Playhouse)
• Casino, Wales Street, 1916–1959
• Picturedrome (Cinema House), 1924–1971
• Pooles Palace (Aberdeen's first full-time talkie house), 1931–1959
• Grand Central, 1929
• Regent (Odeon), 1932–2002
• The Astoria
• The Victoria (Inverurie), 1935
• The City Cinema, 1935–1963
• The Picture House (Stonehaven), 1936–82
• The News Cinema, 1936
• The Curzon, 1959
• The Cosmo 2, 1964–1977
• The Majestic (replaced La Scala), 1936–1973
• The Kingsway, 1936 (survived then as a bingo hall)
• The Regal (building started before the war), opened 1954

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4. ^http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/11/09/aberdeen-s-tivoli-theatre-set-for-new-lease-of-life-after-500k-boost-86908-22703481/
5. ^http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/2232-tivoli-aberdeen
6. ^http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/Planning/greentown/pla_tivoli_theatre.asp^{[permanent dead link]}
7. ^Edi Swan: His Majesty's Theatre – One Hundred Years of Glorious Damnation (Black & White Publishing) (2006) ISBN978-1-84502-102-3
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The Majestic is a Grade II listed building on City Square, Leeds, occupying the corner of Quebec Street and Wellington Street.^[3][4]

Constructed as a cinema in the early 1920s during a boom in the building of picture palaces, it was closed in 1969, after which the Majestic was used as a bingo hall and later as a nightclub. The building was listed at Grade II in 1993 as the Top Rank Bingo Hall and, in 2014, was badly damaged in a fire, resulting in the loss of all original interior and roof. Subsequently, it has been redeveloped into offices by Rushbond, serving as the national headquarters of Channel 4.

Architecture[edit]

The Majestic is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building as a nationally important example of an early twentieth-century cinema, having been designated on 14 June 1993.^[3]

The Majestic is a two-storey building in the Beaux-Arts style clad in Marmo artificial marble, a glazed terracotta which was made by the Leeds Fireclay Co at Burmantofts. Until restoration, this white material was blackened for many years by the polluted environment of Leeds.^[4] It is sited on the corner of Wellington Street and Quebec Street, with a curved and decorative entrance facade facing City Square. It originally had steep slate mansard roofs with dormers and a 10 m (33 ft) dome, but these were lost to the fire of 2014. Though stripped in appearance relative to previous Edwardian or Victorian buildings, there are many subtle external decorative features. These principally include the Greek key patterned panels on both side elevations, the cornice with modillions, vase balustrade and two sets of triple bull's-eye windows at the attic storey. On the first floor, there are moulded faience swags above windows and detailed panels illustrating musical instruments.^[3]

A further three glazed storeys were added to the building in its redevelopment by Rushbond, which follow a contemporary style, as well as a new lightwell topped by a glass dome to allow light into the offices, given its deep floor plan, and new openings on the ground floor in place of the former billboard panels.^[5]

Interior[edit]

The original interior of the Majestic was characterised by the fine decoration and embellishments of early 20th century cinemas and theatres. The generously-sized, fan-shaped auditorium could seat 2,800 (1,600 in the stalls and 1,200 in the balcony),^[3] was covered by a coffered dome with a diameter of nearly 26 m (85 ft)^[6] and had many decorative features, such as a circular Classical frieze of repeated groups of horses and chariots, moulded cornices and wall motifs, and flutedIonic columns surrounding the walls. Additionally, there was a grand organ of three manuals and 33 stops built by HS Vincent of Sunderland, and space for a small orchestra^[7] to perform live alongside the silent films which were shown during the 1920s when the Majestic opened.^[8]

The wedge shape of the Majestic's plot had a great influence on its interior layout; it provided an opportunity for a large curved auditorium, fanning as the building widens, facing a screen at the east of the building. Historically, the primary entrance to the cinema was therefore via the side entrances with a rear circulation space and crush hall being provided there.^[5]

The interior of the building was subject to repeated intervention during the 20th century, in association with its use for a bingo hall and nightclub. This included the insertion of dropped ceilings, staircases, partitioning, the cutting back of the balcony structure, and the painting of historic features in camouflage style paint.^[5]

Basement[edit]

The building's other rooms included a restaurant and a ballroom with a sprung dancefloor, both in the basement.^[3] These could be accessed directly from City Square using the main eastern entrance and were originally decorated in a Classical style. The rear of the basement included a circular kitchen and other servicing spaces.^[5]

History[edit]

Majestic Cinema[edit]

The site of the Majestic was occupied at the end of the 19th century by a timber yard and a row of small buildings named Eye Bright Place; the western end survives as 34–38 Wellington Street. At the construction of City Square in 1896–1903,^[9] the corner site was cleared and left as an open space. It was the location of a recruitment office during the First World War, which was demolished at its conclusion in 1918.^[6]

Leeds Picture Playhouses Ltd bought the land, occupying a prime position beside Leeds railway station, from Leeds City Council for £80,000 (equivalent to £3,642,000 in 2019) and made plans for a cinema,^[10] which were described in a Yorkshire Evening News article on 16 January 1920; it claimed 'the decorations and appointments will be of a most sumptuous character'.^[6] Its architect was Pascal J Stienlet of Newcastle upon Tyne, with his partner Joseph C Maxwell. Stienlet was an established cinema architect who continued to practise until the 1930s.^[3] The chosen Beaux-Arts style was characteristic of many of the large and grand 'supercinemas' or picture palaces of the time, which is considered a golden age of cinema building.^[5]

The Majestic Cinema was opened on 5 June 1922 by the Lord Mayor William Hodgson, the first film being Way Down East which was attended by 50,000 people in its first week. In December 1925, it was taken over by Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, who in turn were bought by Gaumont-British in February 1929,^[7] and after that by The Rank Organisation in 1941.^[11] During the Second World War, the building was used as a base for soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk and as an air raid shelter. The Sound of Music, which ran at the Majestic from April 1965 to September 1967, was the longest movie run ever in Leeds, though South Pacific had a 38-week run from September 1958.^[5]

From 1961 afternoon bingo started in the basement ballroom, becoming a full-time bingo hall in 1967. The cinema closed on 10 July 1969, with the final screening being The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.^[10]

After closure[edit]

Immediately following closure of the cinema, it was converted into a bingo hall named Top Rank by its owner, The Rank Organisation, to go with the one in the basement ballroom.^[7] The bingo functions closed in 1996 and the building was sold to Luminar Leisure,^[12] becoming the Majestyk nightclub in 1997. This in turn closed in 2006, but a smaller live venue named Jumpin' Jacks remained open downstairs and the upper room continued to be used as a concert venue until 2008.^[7]

The whole building was granted consent for a change of use to casino with function room restaurant and sports betting area in 2005. However, the licence was refused by the local magistrates and a high court appeal was dismissed, therefore the casino use was never taken up. It was at this point, after a lengthy and ultimately fruitless legal process, that Luminar Leisure decided to sell the now empty building.^[12]

Fire and redevelopment[edit]

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The new owner, the Leeds-based property firm Rushbond, began work with the contractor Sir Robert McAlpine from 2012 to restore and convert it into mixed leisure and retail use, including punching large new windows into the ground floor in the former billboard spaces, which was largely complete and ready for opening.^[5] However, on 30 September 2014 a large fire gutted the building, both the roof and most of the interior being destroyed. The incident closed off much of the city centre for over twelve hours. The outer walls were considered to be safe and not in danger of collapse.^[13]

Arson was established as the cause of the fire by the investigation, with evidence showing a naked flame had been deliberately placed against the seats. A 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with his suspicious behaviour at the scene, but he was cleared of all charges after a three-day trial in March 2015.^[14]

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Work began in 2018 to convert it into office space and extend upwards,^[15] followed by the announcement in April 2019 that Channel 4 was in advanced talks to site its new national headquarters – containing creative and digital departments, alongside new creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol^[16] – in the Majestic;^[17] it was confirmed in December 2019 that Channel 4 would occupy the third, fourth and fifth floors,^[1] followed by the law firm Knights plc taking the first and second floors in July 2020. This leaves only the lower ground and ground still to let. Channel 4 and Knights are expected to occupy their offices in January 2021 following the completion of all works.^[2]

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12. ^ ^abPlanning Services (October 2012). Report of the Chief Planning Officer (Report). Leeds City Council. Application 12/03112/FU.
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