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 Charming" ran for 362 performances beginning in 1926. The Palace Theatre was also the venue for Rodgers and Hart's "The Girl Friend" (1927) and Fred Astaire's final stage musical "Gay Divorce" (1933). In 1939–1940, Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert appeared at the theatre in "Under Your Hat", a spy story co-written by Hulbert, with music and lyrics by Vivian Ellis. Later musical theatre works that played with success at the theatre included "Song of Norway", "King's Rhapsody", "Anything Goes", "Flower Drum Song" and "Where's Charley?", among others. "The Entertainer", starring Laurence Olivier, transferred to the theatre from the Royal Court