Palace Theatre, London Theatre in 1957. In the 1960s, "The Sound of Music" ran for 2,385 performances, from 1961, and "Cabaret" followed in 1968. The Danny La Rue revue "Danny at the Palace" played for two years from 1970. Two more exceptional runs took place at The Palace during the last decades of the 20th century: "Jesus Christ Superstar" (3,358 performances from 1972 to 1980) and "Les Misérables", which played at the theatre for nineteen years after moving from the Barbican Centre on 4 December 1985. The production moved to the Queen's Theatre on April 2004 to continue its record-setting run. In between,
Palace Theatre, London Royal Variety Performance in Britain, commanded by King George V, and produced by Butt. During the First World War, the theatre presented revues, and Maurice Chevalier became known to British audiences. After the war, the theatre was used mostly for films for a few years, but the Marx Brothers appeared at the theatre in 1922, performing selections from their Broadway shows. On 11 March 1925, the musical comedy "No, No, Nanette" opened at the Palace Theatre starring Binnie Hale and George Grossmith, Jr. The run of 665 performances made it the third longest-running West End musical of the 1920s. "Princess