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.