Andrew Lloyd Webber Sells London’s Palace Theatre

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatres sold London’s Palace Theatre to Nimax Theatres Limited’s Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer. In 2005, Burns and Weitzenhoffer purchased the Lyric, Apollo, Garrick and Duchess theatrers from Lloyd Webber. The Palace Theatre is currently the home to the West End production of Singin’ in the Rain.

The Palace Theatre was the home of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s smash hit Jesus Chris Superstar in 1972. The musical theater titan purchased the theatre in 1983. He wrote much of Broadway’s longest-running hit Phantom of the Opera in the upstairs offices of the Palace.

The Palace Theatre opened in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House with a production Arthur Sullivan’s opera Ivanhoe. In 1925, No, No, Nanette was the first musical to play the renamed Palace Theatre. Famous productions include The Sound of Music, Song and Dance, Les Miserables (which played the theatre for 19 years!), The Woman in White, Spamalot and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.