Collection includes more than 10,000 records, posters and scores dating back to the 1950sIn 1950 a small boy was taken by his parents to see the musical Annie Get Your Gun, at the Gaumont theatre in Southampton. The production transformed the fortunes of the theatre, now called the Mayflower, and also led to the creation of the largest private collection of musicals memorabilia, by the spellbound boy, who grew to be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PM on December 15, 2010