The Empire Theatre in Sunderland has hosted some wonderful occasions and we have memories of them from 2004 to 2012.
But this isn’t a look at the stage stars. We are concentrating on the very people who went along to watch it all. The audience.
Here they are having a great time at Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Starlight Express, The Producers and White Christmas.
Cue the Echo archive memories.
1. Curtain up. It's time for memories
11 great scenes from the Empire., But it's the fans we got in the picture in photos from 2004 to 2010. | se
2. Express memories
Friends having fun at the spectacular opening night of Starlight Express in 2003. | se
3. Sparkling times in 2003
Starlight Express was on the bill when these fans posed for a photo 21 years ago. | se
4. Truly scrumptious memories
Ready for a night of fun at Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in December 2005. | se