th birthday year. So Monday's grand birthday celebration, originally planned for March 29 - the actual birthdate - has taken on an extra significance.
It also marked the day when by welcoming in a full audience, the hall could come back to life and begin to restore its finances.
It will be a long haul. It has lost £70 million in unsold and refunded tickets. But there’s no sign of gloom at the hall, in fact the heartening thing was how everyone had a spring in their step. “I just love this place,” said one suntanned patron to me, “and I’ve been dying to get back. ”One usher told me how sad the last 17 months have been, with those endless circular corridors empty and silent.
Read more on msn.com