Palace Theatre, Manchester notable shows to have played successful seasons at the Palace Theatre include, amongst others, the regional premiere of "Les Misérables" which ran for 13 months from 1992–93, regional premiere of "Miss Saigon" in 2001, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in 2006 and "Mamma Mia!" over the 2006/07 Christmas season. Broadway musical "The Wedding Singer" had its UK premiere at the theatre in 2008 and in December 2008 to March 2009 the theatre hosted a season of the UK tour of "Mary Poppins", one of only six theatres in the country to accommodate the tour, both events further cementing the theatre's reputation
Gielgud Theatre and other seats have been removed. The theatre is a pair with the Queen's Theatre, which opened in 1907 on the adjacent street corner. The first play at the theatre was a musical called "The Beauty of Bath" by Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton. "My Darling", another Hicks musical, followed in 1907, followed by the original London production of "Brewster's Millions", and the next year, the long-running London premiere production of the Straus operetta, "A Waltz Dream" . An astonishing event occurred midway through the run of the theatre's next major work, a musical titled "The Dashing Little Duke" (1909), which