1970 – Diana Dors in Three Months Gone. 1971 – The Dirtiest Show in Town. 1973 – Rattigan's In Praise of Love. 1974 – Oh! Calcutta! transferred from the Royalty and remained in residence until 1980 with a total of 3,918 performances. 1980 – Maria Aitken and Michael Jayston in a revival of Coward's Private Lives. 1984 – Snoopy!!! The Musical with Teddy Kempner and Susie Blake. 1985 – Dorothy Tutin and Colin Blakeley in a trio of Pinter plays called collectively Other Places. 1986 – The freehold of the theatre was acquired by Stoll Moss Theatres Ltd, presenting George Cole in A Month of Sundays, followed by a transfer from the Garrick of the long-running comedy No Sex Please, We're British. 1987 – The Players' Theatre took up residence for two and a half years while their new theatre in Villiers Street was under construction. 1990 – Ray Cooney's long-running farce Run for Your Wife transferred to the Duchess to complete its nine-year West End run. 1991 – An Evening with Gary Lineker. 1992 – Don't Dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti transferred from the Apollo and kept audiences happy for a further four and a half years. 1997 – Maureen Lipman's one-woman show Live and Kidding was followed by the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Peter Whelan's The Herbal Bed and the comedy whodunnit Scissor Happy. 1998 – Michael Williams starred as John Aubrey in the one-man play Brief Lives, Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon played for ten weeks in the RSC's The Unexpected Man and Michael Codron and Lee Dean transferred their production of Alan Ayckbourn's Things We Do for Love from the Gielgud. 1999 – The National Theatre's production of Copenhagen by Michael Frayn opened with its original cast of Sara Kestelman, David Burke and Matthew Marsh. 2000 – In January the Duchess became a Useful Theatre when Lord Lloyd-Webber's Really Useful Group and Bridgepoint Capital purchased Stoll Moss Theatres Ltd. 2001 – The auditorium was transformed to recreate the Cottesloe in the round layout for Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall, with Bill Nighy and the original National Theatre cast. This was followed by the Irish comedy Alone it Stands. 2002 – Life After George with Stephen Dillane. The Glee Club and David Hare returned to the West End with Via Dolorosa before the opening of Alan Ayckbourn's Damsels in Distress. 2003 – The year started with