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
East London Theatre Archive East London Theatre Archive The East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) is a digital theatre archive based at the University of East London, in London, England. The ELTA contains 15,000 digitised objects including images, papers, photographs and artefacts. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) provided £500,000 funding to support the ELTA digitisation project. The ELTA was funded by JISC to address the lack of digital resources that covered the history of theatre and music halls in East London, UK. The digitisation project undertaken by ELTA began on 24 March 2007 and was completed on 27 February 2009. The ELTA currently (2011)