Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket,
in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by
Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert
Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the
theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century, Tree produced
spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and
the theatre hosted premières by major playwrights such as George
Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge, Noel Coward and J. B. Priestley. Since World
War I, the wide flat stage has made the theatre suitable for
large-scale musical productions, and the theatre has specialised in
hosting musicals. The theatre has been home to record-setting musical
theatre runs, notably the World War I sensation Chu Chin Chow and the
current production, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera,
which has played continuously at Her Majesty's since 1986. The
theatre's capacity is 1,216 seats, and the building was Grade II*
listed by English Heritage in January 1970. Really Useful Group
Theatres has owned the theatre since 2000.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1759:
Although General James Wolfe was fatally wounded at the Battle of the
Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France , his British forces
defeated the French in a decisive battle in the French and Indian War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham>
1814:
War of 1812: Fort McHenry was attacked by British forces during the
Battle of Baltimore, later inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "The
Star-Spangled Banner," which later became the national anthem of the
United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore>
1848:
American railroad worker Phineas Gage survived an accident in which a
large iron rod was driven completely through his head and destroyed
areas of his brain's frontal lobes.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage>
1987:
A radioactive item was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia,
Brazil, resulting in four deaths and serious contamination in 249
others.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident>
1993:
After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, PLO leader Yasser Arafat
and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin formally signed the Oslo Peace
Accords.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
corkscrew (v):
To wind or twist in the path of a corkscrew; to move with much
horizontal and vertical shifting
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely
places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
--Roald Dahl
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