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Hippodrome, LondonThe Hippodrome is a nightclub on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square, in London, UK. The name was in fact used for many different theatres and music halls, of which the London Hippodrome is one of only a few survivors. The name derived from the fact that animal acts were originally part of the show. Built as a circus in 1900, with a large water tank for aquatic spectacles, the Hippodrome was reconstructed as a music-hall in 1909, where Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake was first danced in England by the Russian Ballet (1910). Its reputation was for revue and musical comedy, among them Mr Cinders (1929) and Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream (1938); and from 1949 to 1951 it became the London equivalent of the Folies-Bergre. In 1958 it was reconstructed again, becoming a dinner-cabaret - the Talk of the Town - until it closed in 1982. Renovated yet again, the building was reopened as the current nightclub.
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