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Theatre is turned into great unopened shopping centre (5,4)

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I believe the answer is:

music hall

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'theatre' is the definition.
(music hall is a kind of theatre)

'is turned into great unopened shopping centre' is the wordplay.
'turned' is an anagram indicator.
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'great' becomes 'much' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'unopened' means to remove the first letter (without opening letter).
'shopping centre' becomes 'mall' (a mall is a large shopping complex).
'is' is an anagram of 'si'.
'si' placed within 'much' is 'musich'.
'mall' with its first letter taken off is 'all'.
'musich'+'all'='MUSIC-HALL'

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(Other definitions for music hall that I've seen before include "Vaudeville" , "Late 19th century entertainment, and the theatre it took place in" , "Form of variety" , "theatre of a sort" , "Mainly C 19 variety entertainment" .)

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