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Sorry, this video asset has been removed. If walls could talk - how the big names have trodden the boards at the Marlowe More than a 100 members of the public went to the Guildhall to see the council vote in favour of the redevelopment. Mr Everett said: 'I would be very surprised if when the new Marlowe opens, there aren't quite a few familiar faces.' A core management team will remain, although it is thought likely that some of the staff will apply for jobs at the new theatre. The closure has meant redundancies among the seventy staff, some casuals and part-time. The Friends of the Marlowe is the biggest theatre friends organisation in the country РІР‚вЂњ tickets for Night of a Thousand Stars, the theatreРІР‚в„ўs final gala performance sold out in two days.

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Mr Everett said professional advice was that despite the economic crisis the money would be raised. There will be bars and foyers on three floors and even a piazza for outdoor events. The new venue will have a 1,200 seat auditiorium and also a 150-seater smaller space. Productions will continue in alternative venues. This leaves around Р’Р€6million to be raised from private and public campaigns. Р’Р€19.5million is coming in grants from Canterbury City Council, Kent County Council and SEEDA. 'The Marlowe memorial will be able to stay where it is, but the mask sculpture at the front of the building will have to taken down and stored.' He said: 'A lot of the lighting and that sort of equipment will stay and has to be very carefully stored. Mr Everett said storing equipment was a major exercise that was like moving house hundreds of times over. In 1593, after a day of drinking with three friends, Marlowe was stabbed in the eye, with his own dagger. The 19th century statue in front of the building is in honour of Marlowe and features a muse, or inspiration, surrounded by small effigies of characters from Marlowe plays.

Like its successor, the theatre was named after the playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was born and educated in Canterbury in the 1500s. 'He pointed at the step we were standing on, at the front of the theatre and said he had been standing on that very step after coming out of the theatre, when a Messerschmitt went right down the High Street. 'Like the elderly chap who was leaving a performance and he said to me he had always lived in the Canterbury area. We do have customers who go back for a long time and I love to hear them talk about the past. He said: 'I have heard quite a few tales of the past, all of them fascinating. Memories have been laid thick and fast at the door of theatre director Mark Everett. The popular coffee shop, created from the space beneath audience seating, was low-ceilinged and windowless. The building simply struggled to adapt to the demands of theatrical productions. In 1944, the Marlowe, rather than LondonРІР‚в„ўs Leicester Square, was the scene of the glitzy world premiere of the film the Canterbury Tales, as the film makers wanted to thank local people for their help during filming.Р”В«ut the existing 1,000 seat auditorium is considered too small to attract large ambitious productions, such as international ballet and opera. The Odeon Cinema was then converted by owners Canterbury City Council into a theatre in 1984. The Marlowe Theatre, in the Friars, Canterbury, was originally built as a cinema called The Friars in 1933, but was renamed the Odeon Cinema in 1946.

This funny old relic just doesn't top the bill any more. Those steps РІР‚вЂњ too tricky for the elderly and the disabled РІР‚вЂњ and the heavy wooden doors are just part of the problem.

It survived the war in tact, but it is bulldozers that will be coming to flatten it this summer, in preparation for a modern, purpose-built building due to open in late summer 2011. The boy is now an old man and, standing on the steps again in 2009, he has said goodbye to the building. It was wartime, and a young boy stood on the cinema steps as he left the 1939 film Gone With the Wind with his mother.Р”Р„s he stepped outside into the night air and stood on the top of the flight of stone steps a Messerschmitt fighter swept the length of Canterbury High Street.