Lyric Theatre

The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It was built for the producer Henry Leslie, who financed it from the profits of the light opera hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from its original venue to open the new theatre on 17 December 1888.

Under Leslie and his early successors the house specialised in musical theatre, and that tradition has continued intermittently throughout the theatre's existence. Musical productions in the theatre's first four decades included The Mountebanks, His Excellency, The Duchess of Dantzig, The Chocolate Soldier and Lilac Time. Later musical shows included Irma La Douce, Robert and Elizabeth, John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert, Blood Brothers, Five Guys Named Moe and Thriller – Live.