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THE show is finally set to go on at Richmond's Georgian Theatre Royal, which will open its doors for its first professional performance in 18 months.

Dame Fanny Waterman obituary Barry Millington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Simon Wilkinson/Rex/Shutterstock Virtually synonymous with the Leeds International Piano Competition, which she co-founded in 1961, Dame Fanny Waterman, who has died aged 100, was a music teacher who became one of the most prominent personalities in the musical world. “I dreamed it up one night,” she said of “the Leeds”, as it became known universally, “and I was so excited that I woke up my husband.” Unlike Waterman, who was born in Leeds, her husband, Geoffrey de Keyser, a doc...