 In the early 1950s , rock and roll , whose performers initially topped music hall bills , attracted a young audience who had little interest in the music hall acts while driving the older audience away . The final demise was competition from television , which grew very popular after the Queen 's coronation was televised . Some music halls tried to retain an audience by putting on striptease acts . In 1957 , the playwright John Osborne delivered this elegy : 
