Lyric Theatre

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A 500-seater theatre in Durban, opened 19/12/1959 through the conversion of the Planet Cinema. Used as the home of the Lyric Rep.

In 1961 Desmond Morley was appointed Administrative Director; he presented numerous productions, including such major musicals as The King and I (1951), The Sound of Music (1959) and The Wizard of Oz (1963). Renamed the New Lyric Theatre in July 1974, the theatre promoted a number of indigenous works, i.a. Gibson Kente’s How Long? (1973) and Ipi -Tombi (1974) by Bertha Egnos. Lyric Theatre: In Durban. Des and Dawn Lindberg staged their production of the musical The Black Mikado here in 1976, which ran for a month. *Owned by Durban Christian Centre 1981-1986. Demolished 1987 (??*)

Sources

Percy Tucker, 1997 [McM]

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