 Goldberg died prior to the North Manchester Amateur Operatic Society's production of ""The Quaker Girl"", May–June 1971, (music by Lionel Monckton, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank), the theatre then lay dark.After a brief unsuccessful attempt to run the venue as a bingo hall in 1973 the theatre closed again.It then remained dark until the 1980s when a second attempt was successful and the bingo hall remained open until 2008.