libseries.num37 - KU ScholarWorks
... with a new and characteristically ridiculous twist. Here are a lot of cardboard cutouts of characters (as suitable for a "tuppeny-coloured" theatre) which at first caused Sullivan to despair. ("It is impossible to feel sympathy with a single person," he complained to his diary, feeling a little gran ...
... with a new and characteristically ridiculous twist. Here are a lot of cardboard cutouts of characters (as suitable for a "tuppeny-coloured" theatre) which at first caused Sullivan to despair. ("It is impossible to feel sympathy with a single person," he complained to his diary, feeling a little gran ...
Mr. D`Oyly Carte`s “B” Company 2 Jan. – 31 Dec. 1882
... MR D’OYLY CARTE’S OPERA COMPANY. On Saturday night last one of Mr D’Oyly Carte’s Opera Companies performed, for the second time in Falkirk, Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan’s nautical comic opera, “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The popularity of this opera is now so well known, and its merits so fully recognised, th ...
... MR D’OYLY CARTE’S OPERA COMPANY. On Saturday night last one of Mr D’Oyly Carte’s Opera Companies performed, for the second time in Falkirk, Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan’s nautical comic opera, “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The popularity of this opera is now so well known, and its merits so fully recognised, th ...
harry rickards` tivoli theatres ltd (1912-1929)
... 1. Interestingly McIntosh and the Tivoli organisation played no part in developing the Australian one-act musical comedy (aka revusical) that established itself as the country's most popular variety genre for more than a decade, beginning ca. 1915-1916. Although several leading revusical troupes, fo ...
... 1. Interestingly McIntosh and the Tivoli organisation played no part in developing the Australian one-act musical comedy (aka revusical) that established itself as the country's most popular variety genre for more than a decade, beginning ca. 1915-1916. Although several leading revusical troupes, fo ...
this PDF file - NOVA: The University of Newcastle
... York City (with a cast of 101 children) opened at Haverly’s Fourteenth Street Theatre (formerly the Lyceum). 19 William Collier, who joined the company when 11 years old, later noted that his salary for a place in the chorus was $3.50 per week and when the company went on tour he continued to receiv ...
... York City (with a cast of 101 children) opened at Haverly’s Fourteenth Street Theatre (formerly the Lyceum). 19 William Collier, who joined the company when 11 years old, later noted that his salary for a place in the chorus was $3.50 per week and when the company went on tour he continued to receiv ...
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... (Geoffrey Shovelton) waving out to the reader, with the programme for the evening including the names of all the principal artistes, Gentlemen of the Chorus, Ladies of the Chorus, ...
... (Geoffrey Shovelton) waving out to the reader, with the programme for the evening including the names of all the principal artistes, Gentlemen of the Chorus, Ladies of the Chorus, ...
Musical Theatre
... mythological spoof. Gilbert didn’t like it, but it impressed producer Richard D'Oyly Carte. 4 years later, he needed a one-act "curtain raiser" to share the bill with his production at London's Opera Comique. Carte convinced G&S to adapt one of Gilbert's satirical poems. Trial by Jury (1875) was a h ...
... mythological spoof. Gilbert didn’t like it, but it impressed producer Richard D'Oyly Carte. 4 years later, he needed a one-act "curtain raiser" to share the bill with his production at London's Opera Comique. Carte convinced G&S to adapt one of Gilbert's satirical poems. Trial by Jury (1875) was a h ...
J. C. Williamson
James Cassius Williamson (August 26, 1845 – July 6, 1913) was an American actor and later Australia's foremost theatrical manager, founding J. C. Williamson Ltd.Born in Pennsylvania, Williamson moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father died when he was eleven years old. He acted in amateur theatricals and joined a local theatre company as a call-boy at the age of 15, soon taking roles and eventually moving to New York where he played for several years at Wallack's Theatre and then other New York theatres. In 1871, he became the leading comedian at the California Theatre in San Francisco and the next year married comedienne Maggie Moore.The two found success touring in Australia, and then playing in London, the U.S. and elsewhere in a comedy called Struck Oil. In 1879, Williamson obtained the right to present H.M.S. Pinafore and then other Gilbert and Sullivan operas in Australia. He soon formed his Royal Comic Opera Company. In 1881, Williamson became the lessee of the Theatre Royal, and the next year he entered into a partnership with Arthur Garner and George Musgrove, expanding to own more theatres and bringing famous actors to Australia, such as Sarah Bernhardt, H. B. Irving and (Dame) Nellie Melba, and becoming known for spectacular, large-scale productions.After 1907, Williamson moved his family to Europe and, his old partners having left, he hired capable managers and changed the theatre company's name to J. C. Williamson Ltd. Williamson died in 1913, but he left a strong theatrical empire that became the largest theatrical firm in the world, with extensive film and property holdings. The company continued to produce seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, operetta, musical comedy, straight plays, pantomimes and occasional musical revues, and later grand opera, ballet seasons, and concert tours by visiting celebrity singers and musicians, at the many theatres that it owned or leased throughout Australia and New Zealand. It also toured and presented shows in London and elsewhere. In 1976, the company closed and leased out its name.