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Queen's Park Hippodrome Theatre, Manchester

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The Queen's Park Hippodrome, Manchester was built in 1904 by J. J. Alley who also built several other Theatres in Manchester, including the Metropole, the Royal Osborne, the Hulme Hippodrome and the Playhouse, along with the Pavilion Theatre in Liverpool, and several others in the Broadhead Circuit.

Right - Poster for a Variety show at the Queen's Park Hippodrome, Manchester for November the 29th 1920 - Courtesy Stephen Wischhusen.

The Queen's Park Hippodrome was eventually demolished in 1966.

Left - Programme extract with details of forthcoming attractions at this Theatre from a Music Hall Bill at the King's Theatre, Manchester for Monday the 10th of December 1906 - Courtesy Anthony Scott.

Running pantomimes in the fifties was a great deal different economically than it is today. A typical touring show going around number three theatres for five weeks at such dates as the Palace Attercliffe, Theatre Royal Bilston, and Queen's Park Hippodrome Manchester would cost around £300 per week. There would be no name to top the bill but an established comic from the touring revue circuit at a salary of not more than £30 a week, a supporting cast averaging £12 to £15 per week, a troupe of eight dancers on five pounds a week and a musical director on around £15 a week.

From Pantomime Economics of fifty years ago by Donald Auty

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