Theatre Royal Drury Lane refurb

At least they (probably) won't be those dreadful steel bowls with two strips of wood screwed to the top. "Quiet, comfortable, hygienic, convenient, welcoming, easy to clean, pleasant to use. Our new design is none of these. We've aimed to make our toilets a worse choice than voiding in your underpants and by God I think we're pretty much there."

I knew it!  You are, in fact, that great lyricist Georgious Kyriacos Panayiotou and I claim my £5!

I find it's always best to take statements made in planning applications with a pinch of state, but RUT claim that one of the reasons Aladdin is playing at the Prince Edward Theatre is because Disney looked at Drury Lane and decided that, despite the larger seating capacity, the stage house was too decrepit and ancient.

Thinking about this recently. I really feel there should be some sort of documenting of this process. Ala Grand Designs, but this could make a 4/6 part series in itself.
I can imagine 'behind the scenes' there's bound to be countless dramas and incidents that make some interesting television.
It would be an incredible opportunity missed not to capture the before, during and after states.

Alternatively a book like the recently published 'London Theatres' would be amazing.

Stalls seats are now all removed from the venue.

Given the size of the theatre, would think it’d be unlikely any show would go for it unless they cut capacity to do so

Love that she says 'Not a seat left' and you can blatantly see 6 seats in the Royal Box.
Alot of the theatres pull out their stalls seating for fit ups and get outs to make it easier for production.

Is this a permanent feature? and on a new theatre ?

Holy sea shells. LW Theatres are putting a lot of the furnishings on eBay over the next month.
The temptation to buy stuff I don't need and cant afford now is going through the roof.
Yes I do need that Louis XV Style Antique Mirror.

No sign yet, but you can buy one of the chandeliers from the foyer, maybe that would fit.

There's a video of it on Facebook (the theatre tour page). I've been meaning to post about it but kept being too lazy, glad someone else did.

Theres a rumour on here that some of it will be relocated to a relevant museum in Manchester (presumably Museum of Science and Industry). However, after that rumour popped up on here, LW Theatres posted on twitter that a location was still to be found.
It sounds like parts of it will just be broken down and not stored, but the oldest parts of interest will be kept in storage for the time being. Really hope some of it lands in MOSI.