The Taming of the Shrew: Final Tableau at Augustin Daly's Theatre (1893).

“Mr. Daly’s charming theatre in Cranbourne Street as opened on Tuesday and the audience, which included Lord and Lady Salisbury, and filled every seat, expressed themselves delighted with the arrangements for their accommodation. The decorations were very effective, there is ample provision for the requirements of visitors during the intervals, and there are no fees for programmes or cloak room. It was wisely decided to commence the season with ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ and Miss Ada Reham, whose representation of the principal role is so well known and so intensely admired in London, was received with a burst of hearty applause when she appeared on stage as Katharine. The piece is admirably mounted.” From our London Correspondent, The Yorkshire Herald, July 1, 1893: 19th C British Library Newspapers.

This scene typifies Victorian elaborate staging. Later the theatre became a venue for popular musicals before being pulled down and replaced by a cinema (abutting Leicester Square). Courtesy of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection at http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html