A point I have not seen made yet is that in its heyday the Hippodrome was an important Jazz venue. Many of Britain’s biggest stars played there, including Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Kenny Baker, Sir John Dankworth and Humphrey Lyttleton (whose band accompanied the great Jimmy Rushing on one occasion). If it is ever restored as a theatre, I hope that that tradition will resume.
A point I have not seen made yet is that in its heyday the Hippodrome was an important Jazz venue. Many of Britain’s biggest stars played there, including Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Kenny Baker, Sir John Dankworth and Humphrey Lyttleton (whose band accompanied the great Jimmy Rushing on one occasion). If it is ever restored as a theatre, I hope that that tradition will resume.