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| | Stage is set for Lloyd Webber's empire of West End theatre to be broken up - Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Names being linked to the purchase of the playhouses, the smallest in the Lloyd Webber holding, include the Ambassador Theatre Group which, with 10 theatres, is one of the biggest players in the West End alongside Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who owns seven. |
 | | The other seven theatres in the chain - the Palladium, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Cambridge, Her Majesty's, The Palace, New London and Adelphi - are not thought to be part of the deal. |
 | | Oldest surviving theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, architect CJ Phipps' four-level house for operetta was completed in 1888 with a capacity of 967. |
| enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/news/article15512.ece (887 words) |
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