musical.today Sheffield, United Kingdom
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
1,068 seats
The last Edwardian auditorium left in Sheffield, and the only theatre outside London still standing that W. G. R. Sprague designed. It closed in 1969, dodged a demolition application in 1975, and came back in 1990 after a £12 million restoration.
The building
There has been a theatre on this corner of Tudor Square since 1879, when a wooden building meant for a circus went up; Dan Leno's parents managed it, and it burned down in 1893. The Lyceum replaced its short-lived successor and opened in 1897 under a statue of Mercury, which is still on the roof.
By the 1960s it was taking bingo to stay open. Two Sheffield businessmen bought it in 1985 with the council's help, and the restoration that followed cost £12 million and gave the city back a 1,068-seat receiving house on three levels.
Opening dates, capacities and architects on this page come from the theatre's own history pages and from Wikipedia.