Lee Theatre

Once one of the premier performing venues in Hong Kong, the Beaux-Arts theatre was demolished in the 1990s and replaced with an office building and a shopping centre.

In order to save his mother, an avid Cantonese opera fan, from having to make frequent trips there, Lee decided to build a theatre in Causeway Bay.

[1] Upon its opening, Hong Kong Tramways began to run a special late night service from the theatre to Shek Tong Tsui.

[2] From 1973 until the late 1980s, the theatre hosted the annual Miss Hong Kong Pageant, organized by TVB (in which the Lee family held a stake).

By the 1980s, property prices in Hong Kong skyrocketed, and the Lee family began to consider demolishing the theatre to develop the prime land it sat on.

Lee Theatre reconstructed in Hong Kong History Museum.
Lee Theatre Plaza, built on the site of the Lee Theatre