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Baylis, Lilian
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Baylis, Lilian: see Old Vic Old Vic, London repertory company and theater. The Old Vic theater opened in 1818 as the Coburg, and was renamed the Royal Victoria in 1833, soon familiarized to the Old Vic.
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Baylis, Lilian (Mary)

(born May 9, 1874, London, Eng.—died Nov. 25, 1937, London) British theatrical manager and founder of the Old Vic. She assisted her aunt, Emma Cons, in the operation of the Royal Victoria Hall and Coffee Tavern, and on Cons's death in 1912 she converted the hall into the Old Vic, which became famous for its Shakespearean productions. Between 1914 and 1923 the theatre staged all of William Shakespeare's plays, a feat no other playhouse had attempted. In 1931 she took over the derelict Sadler's Wells Theatre and made it a centre of opera and ballet.



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At more or less the same time, she met Lilian Baylis, who was running with benevolent despotism the Old Vic Theatre and, later, the newly built Sadler's Wells Theatre.
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Her historic meeting with Lilian Baylis, manager of the Old Vic Theatre, resulted first in a job - teaching and arranging dances at the theater - and later in the fulfillment of her dream: the establishment of a ballet company and school at the newly opened Sadler's Wells Theatre.
 
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