Pantomimes, or "pantos," are plays performed around Christmastime in the UK.
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Elsewhere, Alexander Hamilton pantomimes committing suicide during an Oval Office photo opportunity.
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We are all corrupted, acting out various pantomimes to get what we want.
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She has enjoyed singing since she performed in pantomimes at Windsor during the war.
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All his successful shows have been fables and fairy tales and pageants and pantomimes.
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Chepo pantomimes a right counter to the solar plexus followed by a left hook.
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There are still some prohibitions, including anything that pantomimes the use of a weapon.
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The meanings of Johns's art are pantomimes of meaning: cerebral hooks baited with visual seduction.
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As if to prove a point, following our conversation, Rohrssen comes back into the office, pantomimes see?
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Those pantomimes of concern for victims were transparently aimed at intimidating them and reducing the institution's liability.
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He can't talk or make any sound, but his pantomimes can actually generate real, invisible walls and effects.
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During their first meal out, she pantomimes peeling and eating tangerines for so long it looks almost believable.
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Over the years, the dance form has drawn inspiration from fashion poses in Vogue magazine, pantomimes, and even gymnastics.
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Using a different sculpted mask for each of the miniatures, Ms. Hirano accompanied Ms. Buechner with gracefully stylized pantomimes.
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On the video, Trudeau pantomimes his own jaw dropping, as he describes how people reacted to something Trump said.
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In his show, Lithgow pantomimes the actions of a barber in meticulous detail, and he had some questions for Ralph.
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The evil demon kings of English pantomimes fired Stoker's imagination as a child, as Irving did later with his melodramatic turns.
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Sullivan, one of the beatboxers, waves wanly at the culture toward which the show feebly points: sometimes he pantomimes a d.j.
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Every Christmas, Brits love to watch pantomimes, eat Yorkshire puddings and mince pies, and meet their school friends down the pub.
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From time to time, all of us want a dining room where we can speak and be heard without resorting to pantomimes.
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When they reach the center line Larry pantomimes extreme labor pains and Dennis ejects the basketball from his gown by slapping it downward.
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In his modern renditions, Desom brings new life to the optical theater while paying homage to Reynaud's famous moving picture shows such as Pantomimes Lumineuses.
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From pantomimes to Christmas pudding and the Queen&aposs speech, there are some small but notable differences in how Brits celebrate Christmas compared to Americans.
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By 2100, Americans could pay for a mechanical "radiovision" kit from inventor Charles Jenkins, and tune in for thrice-weekly "radiomovie" pantomimes on his broadcast network.
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In his rant, Jones accuses Mueller of covering up sex crimes, challenges the special counsel to an imaginary gunfight and pantomimes shooting the former FBI director.
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In his rant, Jones accuses Mueller of covering up sex crimes, challenges the special counsel to an imaginary gunfight and pantomimes shooting the former FBI director.
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And when she gets really dirty, Ms. Schumer pairs jokes with pantomimes of tap dancing or a tip of a cap accompanied by a high-step.
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The wireless headphones translate languages on the go and offer an easier way to order food or ask for directions instead of half-hearted pantomimes. 10.
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She was looking forward to returning to her home in southwest England, to writing, to giving speeches on cruise ships and to getting involved in pantomimes.
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You may want to pay particular attention to Brazil's Neymar, one of the world's best soccer players who is also known for over-the-top pantomimes of pain.
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Imagine that you're eating something that's your favorite, and you've just discovered that someone makes it better than you ever thought, and you're just like … [pantomimes opera singing].
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Indeed, when she performed pantomimes in her youth, in England, she was expected to be able to play anything—maybe a rat, if the scene was a kitchen.
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"Do you want me to," Jay pantomimes dinging something against a glass, to signal a speech, though his version is more like he is feeding a little bird with tweezers.
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The music was considered a success, but it was criticised for its strange plot and seemingly unconnected scenes "recalling the latest pantomimes", its reliance on spectacle and the dominance of children's roles.
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But Medvedeva has said that the program is a contemplation on "clinical death" and the moment the spirit leaves the body: At a couple different points in the program, Medvedeva even pantomimes last breaths.
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When Bertie panics over a big presentation at her job at Condé Nest, her devoted boyfriend Speckle (voiced by Steven Yeun) pantomimes lightly massaging her with a "worry vacuum" to suck her anxiety away.
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The dresses line up alongside the costumes the then-Princess Elizabeth wore as she and her sister Princess Margaret took part in traditional Christmas holiday pantomimes of Aladdin and other shows during the WWII years.
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And for those in need of retrogressing even further, a host of family entertainments spring up every summer in the West End, cartoon-colored affairs that speak the jolly and exaggerated language of Christmas pantomimes.
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He filled huge soundstages with gigantic mobile sets and props to achieve wondrous transformations; he unfolded grand melodramas and sly sex comedies in jazz-dance pantomimes that relied on space-bending and eye-tricking editing.
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That isn't to say that Sex Education somehow avoids silliness or gross-out humor, because there are at least two instances of handjob pantomimes and a fellatio-related vomit anecdote in the first couple of episodes alone.
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There were creepy pantomimes and pure-movement works with thrilling displays of petit allegro — sequences of small jumps — often performed at breakneck speed (and barefoot, no less), but his movement was never disjointed: It didn't stop at the feet.
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Click here to view original GIFDemocratic Congressman Brad Sherman pantomimes the 9-11 attacks at a House hearing in Washington, D.C. on July 17, 2019GIF: YouTubeFacebook's new digital currency, Libra, has the potential to be worse than the September 11th attacks.
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Yet it was there, amid the alkali flats, whistling winds and triple-digit heat of the Mojave Desert, that Ms. Becket and her husband resettled and built the Amargosa Opera House, where she performed her ballets and pantomimes for the next 20053 years.
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An arch and antic reworking of "The Princess and the Pea," one of the folk tales that Hans Christian Andersen made his own, "Mattress" has always been close kin to British pantomimes, those grab-bag holiday entertainments that fracture classic fairy tales for family audiences.
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He pantomimes shooting a gun, professes his love for the Second Amendment, imagines more and more absurd methods of punishing Mr. Bergdahl like throwing him out of a plane without a parachute (or, O.K., maybe with a parachute) and bombing his landing zone immediately afterward.
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"The brand adds, "As far as the mixed age of our customers and readers is concerned, we take the same line as UK pantomimes and many children's films – where a laugh can be inserted that adults will understand but will go unnoticed by the young and innocent.
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READ: This is the youth movement pushing for a second Brexit referendum The letter, signed by a group of of prominent Germans from politics, business and the arts, praised Britain's embrace of Germany after World War II, and cited Germans' affection for British pubs, Christmas pantomimes and humor.
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The lengthy vignette in the middle, where Macklemore pantomimes a conversation with a white mom who stops him for an autograph before trashing hip-hop culture at large and praising him as One of the Good Ones as someone plunks out a variation on "Chopsticks" on piano underfoot, makes for a somewhat forbidding listen.
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Call it 'going native' advertising; faux tweets intended to pass off lies as truth, inflated and amplified by bot armies (fake accounts) operating in plain sight (often gaming Twitter's trending topics) as a parallel 'unofficial' advertising infrastructure whose mission is to generate attention-grabbing pantomimes of public opinion to try and sway the real thing.
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It is not unsurprising, then, that the latest entertainment option on the boulevard is the Hologram USA theater, a place where one can eat CBD oil-infused concessions in an overstuffed leather recliner while watching a three-dimensional projection of a woman pretending to be Billie Holiday lip sync "Strange Fruit" as a man pantomimes whipping a dancing woman behind her.
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Christmas pantomimes are performed yearly at the Hudson Village Theatre in Quebec. Since 1996, Ross Petty Productions has staged pantomimes at Toronto's Elgin Theatre each Christmas season. Pantomimes imported from England were produced at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in the 1980s."Mum's not the word with theatre genie's pantomimes", National Post, accessed 24 November 2014.
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30 During Leno's long association with the Drury Lane pantomimes, he appeared chiefly as the dame.Disher, p. 56 After Harris died in 1896, Arthur Collins became the manager of the theatre and oversaw (and often helped to write) the pantomimes. In their pantomimes, the diminutive Leno and the massive Campbell were a visually comic duo.
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The Marlowe Theatre's pantomime is produced with Evolution Pantomimes, who produce number of pantomimes across the country. Past stars in The Marlowe Theatre pantomimes have included Natalie Imbruglia, Martine McCutcheon, Danniella Westbrook, Shelia Ferguson, Shaun Williamson, Daniel MacPherson, Robert Powell, Lewis Collins, Emma Barton, Adrian Edmonson, John Thompson, John Partridge, Toyah Willcox, Samantha Womack, Rita Simons and Gareth Gates.
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He refers to some of his compositions as "sonic pantomimes".
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The programme usually includes pantomimes and patters, dances, music and fireworks.
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Pantomime horses and cows feature in Christmas pantomimes, mainly in the United Kingdom.
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He appeared in many stage productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and pantomimes.
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The Kings Theatre is well known in Hampshire for its very traditional family pantomimes.
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The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes have clean passed out of my head.
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To revive the classical pantomime [i.e., the pantomimes of the Deburaux > and their successors]. > 2\.
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Many local and international theatre groups have used the Forum for their productions, plays and pantomimes.
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Bunn, p. 59Dibdin, p. 20 Astley ordered Dibdin to produce twelve burlettas, twelve pantomimes and twelve harlequinades a year. In 1799, Dibdin was offered a contract by the Sadler's Wells manager Richard Hughes to write pantomimes and harlequinades for the following year's season,McConnell Stott, p.
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The repertoire consists of a mixture of traditional pantomimes, ballet performances and contemporary and more experimental performances.
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Since 2003 the programme has also involved more contemporary genre like jazz dance and hip hop pantomimes.
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Dorothy Ward (26 April 1890 – 30 March 1987) was an English actress who specialised in pantomimes, playing the principal boy roles, while her husband Shaun Glenville would play the dame roles. She had a successful 52 year career and played in over 40 pantomimes between 1905 and 1957.
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Wilmot has also appeared in many pantomimes since 1986. Most recently he has appeared as the dame in the London Palladium pantomimes for Qdos Entertainment such as Dick Whittington (2017) Snow White (2018) and Goldilocks and the Three Bears (2019) co-starring Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin and Nigel Havers.
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Clockwise from top left: Augustus Harris, Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd and Herbert Campbell The year 1891 signalled a new era in the career of Little Tich. The Drury Lane pantomimes were known for their extravagance and splendour and featured lavish sets and big budgets."Victorian Pantomime: Pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London", Victoria and Albert Museum (online). Retrieved 23 September 2013 The first of the Drury Lane pantomimes in which Little Tich appeared was Humpty Dumpty in 1891MacQueen-Pope, p.
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Samuel Lazar (1838 – 14 November 1883) was an Australian theatre manager, producer of pantomimes and operas, and occasional actor.
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Feast also appeared in pantomimes, and on television chat shows during his two-year return in the public eye.
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Pantomimes are written by resident writer Warren McWilliams, whose work is published by Lazy Bee Scripts and StageScripts Ltd.
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Subsequently, he wrote fourteen pantomimes, one of his burlesques, the Siege of Troy, running for sixty nights. In 1870, he returned to England, and wrote pantomimes for Astley's, the Pavilion, and the Elephant and Castle Theatres. He died on board the Patriarch, on the return voyage to Sydney, on 7 June 1878.
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Kirkwood at GeorgeFormby.co.uk accessed 28 December 2007 Over the next two years, she worked in cabaret, variety shows, and pantomimes.
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Blanchard's most successful position was writing the Drury Lane pantomimes. He contributed pantomimes for that theatre for 37 years. He was applauded for his skill in writing on a variety of different topics, including dramas, farces and burlesques. His work was often praised for good taste and moral themes, in addition to its imaginative qualities.
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Campbell had appeared in the theatre's previous five pantomimes and was a favourite of the writer of those productions, E. L. Blanchard. Blanchard left the theatre when Leno was hired, believing that music hall performers were unsuitable for his Christmas pantomimes. This was not a view shared by audiences or the critics, one of whom wrote: Harry Nicholls and Herbert Campbell, Leno's co- stars in many pantomimes Babes in the Wood was a triumph: the theatre reported record attendance, and the run was extended until 27 April 1889.Brandreth, p.
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"Nudity Featured in Film 'QUICKIES': Cheap, Plotless Pantomimes May Be Beginning Trend". Murray Schumach. New York Times. 15 June 1961: 51.
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During the 1940s the Tiller Girls were popular, appearing in summer seasons, pantomimes, variety tours, London West End shows, and cabaret.
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The series screened in Nordic territories in Spring, 2020. He has also written for radio, for pantomimes, and has authored published books.
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25-26 He continued to feature in pantomimes in London, as a pantomime dame. Will Evans died in London in 1931, aged 64.
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George was also an acrobat and pantomimist and produced nearly 50 pantomimes in collaboration with Henry Spry. The theatre was rebuilt in 1858.
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The story is also used as a basis for pantomimes. However, for various reasons including both the brevity of the original and the target pantomime audience of young children, modern pantomimes by this name usually combine this story with parts of the modern Robin Hood story (employing the supporting characters from it, such as Maid Marian, rather than Robin himself) to lengthen it.
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This started a popular tradition in which the annual Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane was the foremost entertainment of this kind. The thirty seven pantomimes in the years 1852 to 1888 were all written by E.L. Blanchard. From 1893 to 1923, most of the music for the Drury Lane pantomimes was arranged by Jimmy Glover (1861–1931), Director of Music .Peter Gammond, ed.
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Retrieved 3 May 2009 Irchester Players is an amateur dramatic society. It puts on plays, shows, musicals and pantomimes, at Parsons Hall in the village.
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This was previously produced by UK Productions, Pelé Productions and currently Imagine Theatre. Recent pantomimes have included Peter Pan, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella.
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In recent years he has performed in 2 pantomimes in Woking, 7 pantomimes in Reading and returns in 2018 for the panto Aladdin again at the Hexagon. In 2019 Fletcher will star as Buttons in Cinderella which he also wrote. He also attends festivals such as Camp Bestival in Dorset to entertain children. Justin is a patron for Bournemouth-based performing arts school Stagewise.
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37 She was playing in pantomimes at the Old Chapel, Dukinfield, and in productions during the years of her study the town's Lakes Road Secondary School.
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In 1772, he presented grand pantomimes which made his fortune. He authored Le Tonnelier, an opéra comique presented with success (music by Gossec, Philidor and Trial).
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During the tour, a picture of a youthful Frederickson can be seen in a display in which the article informs of her television dialogs and pantomimes. Grace Voss was in fact one of the first women to act on television and Frederson has stated that the experimental media of the time seemed more like a hobby than anything groundbreaking. Her television acts consisted of monologues and pantomimes; performed through 1931.
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McHugh has writing credits with I Dreamed a Dream and numerous pantomimes among them. He starred in the Scottish soap opera Take the High Road as local policeman Tony Piacentini. His theatre work includes Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Cinderella. As well as writing pantomimes, McHugh also plays characters in them and has become a part of a double act with his friend and fellow actor Jordan Young.
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She was then commissioned to write three pantomimes for the theatre. In total Annemarie has written the music to seven pantomimes, and has written 16 full-length musicals – all of which have been performed by major companies. Regularly commissioned by YMT:UK most recently she has been writing with award-winning book writer Nick Stimson. Together they have now written six musicals, all of which have obtained great critical reviews.
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Quinten has had a long career in pantomimes. In 2010 he played Abanazar in the Consett Empire's production of Aladdin,Pantoni Pantomimes and Ramsbottom in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre in 2011. He appeared in Peter Kay's Sit Down for Comic Relief sketch alongside Rustie Lee & Bob Carolgees. In 2016 it was reported that Quinten now works at Stringfellows erotic nightclub in London.
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Byng made a large number of recordings, many of which have been transferred to CD. Byng was also a noted pantomime dame and appeared in over 30 pantomimes.
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198 "In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean", a choreographed number from Ruddigore, Act I (1887) In 1880, D'Auban choreographed and appeared with his wife and sister in E. L. Blanchard's pantomime of Mother Goose at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Thereafter, until at least 1909, he was ballet-master and director at Drury Lane, especially of the pantomimes, where he also continued to perform in the Christmas pantomimes. His son, Ernest Henry D'Auban (1874–1941), became the stage manager at Drury Lane for many years. In 1881, D'Auban appeared in and arranged the dances for Robinson Crusoe, followed in subsequent years by such Drury Lane pantomimes as Sinbad The Sailor, Cinderella and Aladdin.
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The harlequinade lost popularity towards the end of the 19th century and disappeared altogether in the 1930s, although Christmas pantomimes continue to be presented in Britain without the harlequinade.
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206, Cambridge University Press, 2009 was a pantomime written by W. S. Gilbert. As with many pantomimes of the Victorian era, the piece consisted of a story involving evil spirits, young lovers and "transformation" scenes, followed by a harlequinade. The piece premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 26 December 1867. It was the only pantomime written by Gilbert alone, although before and afterwards he collaborated with other authors on pantomimes for the London stage.
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The annual pantomime is a big event for the theatre, produced by Coventry-based production company Imagine Theatre and written by the creative team behind The Tweenies. Recent pantomimes include Snow White, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. Since 2009 the pantomimes have been headlined by actor, Neil Hurst. who has gone on to achieve notability in Halifax, West Yorkshire due to his involvement with these shows.
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Some of the most lavish and expensive ice shows ever produced were shown at Harringay Arena and the Wembley Arena. Harringay Arena was also home to his circus productions from 1947 to 1958. Dubbed the King of Pantomime, it is perhaps his staging of pantomimes for which he is best remembered. In the year he died he was responsible for the production of fifteen pantomimes with a total cost of half a million pounds.
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Tavern Bilkers, by John Weaver, the dancing master at Drury Lane, is cited as the first pantomime produced on the English stage.Broadbent, chapter 14. Broadbent spends the first half of his book tracing the ancient and European origins of pantomime. This production was not a success, and Weaver waited until 1716 to produce his next pantomimes, including The Loves of Mars and Venus – a new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes.
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In 1717 at Lincoln's Inn, actor and manager John Rich introduced Harlequin into the theatres' pantomimes under the name of "Lun" (for "lunatic").Dircks, Phyllis T. "Rich, John (1692–1761)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2011, accessed 21 October 2011Chaffee and Crick, p. 278 He gained great popularity for his pantomimes, especially beginning with his 1724 production of The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus.Broadbent, chapter 15.
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Overall they have written and produced ten albums and twenty-four videos, and conceived and performed jingles for commercial radio, theme and title music for TV and songs for pantomimes.
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Thorne wrote several pantomimes, some burlesques, two comic operas, and adaptations of several of Charles Dickens's novels for the stage. He also wrote a volume of reminiscences, entitled Jots (1897).
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The first to create much longer sequences seems to have been Charles-Émile Reynaud, who between 1892 and 1900 had much success with his 10- to 15-minute-long Pantomimes Lumineuses.
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He claimed to have staged 400 pantomimes in his lifetime. He left a widow Helen and a son Tom who became a Conservative Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove (1974-1997).
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Pantomimes in Australia at Christmas were once very popular, but the genre has declined greatly since the middle of the 20th century. Several later professional productions did not recover their costs.
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Following her husband's death in 1872, Lane managed the theatre until her own death at the age of 77. During the 1880s and 1890s, she regularly appeared in the theatre's pantomimes.
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Born in Rome, Delpini was a pupil of Nicolini. About 1774 he was engaged by David Garrick for the Drury Lane Theatre. There, at Covent Garden Theatre, and at the Haymarket Theatre, he supplied the mechanical arrangements for many pantomimes in which he acted. Among Delpini's well-known pantomimes were Robinson Crusoe, in which he played the hero to the Man Friday of "Signor" Giuseppe (father of Joseph Grimaldi), Don Juan, and The Deserter of Naples.
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She has appeared in pantomimes such as Snow White playing the Wicked Queen at Stoke- on-Trent in 2005, alongside Ken Morley and Sooty, having said that she "thoroughly enjoyed the experience".
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She directed further pantomimes, namely Snow White at Grimsby Auditorium, and Cinderella at Southport's Floral Hall Theatre in 2012. Jenkins made her debut in Emmerdale on 25 August 2008 as Bonnie Drinkwater.
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His stage acting debut was as Pike in The Perils of the Pond at the Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare in 1991. O'Connor has also done summer stock theatre, cabaret tours and pantomimes.
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The gens Abronia was a Roman family during the time of the emperor Augustus. The gens is known primarily by two persons, the poet Abronius Silo, and his son, who wrote for pantomimes.
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Ultimately, they wrote more than 2000 songs including 75 skits, pantomimes, and sketches.Halliwell, Leslie. Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 15th edition, HarperCollins, 2003. They worked together in Weston's house in Twickenham, Middlesex.
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Other pantomimes are sometimes produced during the rest of the year. Pantomime Theatre is a family-friendly genre of stage performance that includes cross dressing actors performing songs, dances, skits, and slapstick comedy.
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Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Adolf Meyer and László Moholy-Nagy were among his teachers. In the stage department led by Oskar Schlemmer Schawinsky developed skits and pantomimes, and created his first stage work.
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The organisation of the event was managed by Mr R. Constantine. The gathering included some 30 wounded soldiers. All the artists gave their services. She also played the "principal boy" in many pantomimes.
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The Lyceum presents one of Sheffield's annual Christmas pantomimes. For many years the pantomime attracted prominent actors and variety turns and visiting producers in the months between Christmas Eve and Easter. In the 1940s, the Lyceum began to produce its own pantomime and was soon bringing in stars of radio such as Morecambe and Wise, Harry Secombe and Frankie Howerd. However, closure of the Lyceum meant that after the final pantomime performance in March 1969, Sheffield's pantomimes took place in the neighbouring Crucible.
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She often performed in male roles in pantomimes such as Beauty and the Beast and Sinbad the Sailor, and occasionally played female parts, such as the Queen of Hearts at the Theatre Royal, Brighton.
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Cecil Sheridan (21 December 1910 – 4 January 1980) was an Irish comedian and actor who performed in variety shows and pantomimes in Ireland and Great Britain during a versatile career spanning over forty years.
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He was perhaps best known for starring in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's annual Christmas pantomimes, alongside Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell and as the author of long-running musicals at the Gaiety Theatre.
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The Gorleston Pavilion (Gorleston) is an original Edwardian building with a seating capacity of 300, situated on the Norfolk coast. The theatre stages plays, pantomimes, musicals and concerts as well as a 26-week summer season.
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David Legge (1947 – 16 January 2012), known as Dave Lee, was a British comedian known for his work in pantomimes around Kent and his work on television. Lee also founded his own charity to help disadvantaged children.
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Paul and Victor Margueritte, Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910). His novel La Garçonne (1922) was considered so shocking it caused the author to lose his Légion d'honneur.
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He also assisted Thomas Dibdin in the composition of Harlequin and Mother Goose, the show which boosted Grimaldi to stardom. From 1806 to 1834 the Covent Garden pantomimes owed much of their success to Farley's inventive mind and diligent superintendence. As a theatrical machinist he was in his time without a rival, and he was the originator of many of the incidents and tricks introduced into the dramas and pantomimes at this house. His acting was in the old-fashioned noisy manner, with much gesture, a popular style with the contemporary audience.
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From a young age, Livermore demonstrated an interest in the performing arts. Regular outings to see pantomimes at the Tivoli Theatre Sydney indicated the sort of productions he enjoyed, and hinted at the direction his career would eventually take. At the age of 13 he started hiring local halls to stage performances of his own pantomimes in aid of local charities, his casts made up of coerced neighbourhood children and school friends. He hired the Mosman Town Hall in 1955 and again in 1956 to stage Snow White, and then Mother Goose.
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Since the show, the duo have appeared publicly and in pantomimes, as well as publishing a book, Kate and Gin, about dog training. In 2011, Nicholas joined the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, training dogs for the British military.
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After the show closed, portions of the work were re-used in productions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Otway's Venice Preserved. The moving panoramas of Stanfield and other artists became highlights of the traditional Christmas pantomimes.
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About 1754, Papavoine married a musician and composer surnamed Pellecier, who became known as Mme Papavoine. They may have been the parents of Jean-Noël Papavoine, a maître des pantomimes et répétiteur active in Lille and The Hague.
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Kanna began his stage career in pantomimes for The Little Theatre from 2009 to 2012. He continued performing for several years. The Madras Mag published his short story AnnaParavai. In 2015, he performed in The Hindu Theatre fest.
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His West End career includes the comedy Up'n'Under, Roald Dahl's Matilda, Its Ralph and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He appeared in rep in many cities around Britain, and wrote for and appeared in pantomimes with various other actors.
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His wife became well known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the theatre. Soutar also directed plays and wrote pantomimes and other pieces. His son was the actor and singer Joseph Farren Soutar.
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Arthur Pelham Collins (1864–1932) was an English playwright and theatre manager. He was perhaps best known for his many Christmas pantomimes produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which he managed during the late Victorian and Edwardian era.
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Cant's theatre credits include Still Playing Away, The Railway Children, An Ideal Husband, Habeas Corpus, Gaslight, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Canterbury Tales, Oh, Coward!, There's No Place Like a Home and many more, as well as pantomimes.
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Upstairs and Downstairs, in vol. lxvii. Mudborough Election. Kenilworth, a comic extravaganza, by A. Halliday and F. Lawrence, and Checkmate, a comedy, were also printed. In a publication called Mixed Sweets, 1867, Halliday wrote About Pantomimes, pp. 43–54.
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Clifton has starred in several pantomimes, playing the father of Cinderella at the Hull New Theatre in 2018 and at Northampton's Royal & Derngate in 2019. He has also presented various shows on BBC Radio Sheffield, and BBC Radio 4.
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Anthony, p. 191 The poor, unkempt and generally ugly Mother Goose eventually became a rich and beautiful but tasteless parvenu, searching for a suitor. The production was one of Drury Lane's most successful pantomimes, running until 28 March 1903.
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For the next half-century, the Tivoli was Melbourne's home of variety, presenting both local and international performers. During the 1950s there were various pantomimes in the summer holidays including Goodie Two Shoes with Max Reddy as the Dame.
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In recent years, her television appearances have become less regular. She has appeared in Heartbeat, Emmerdale Farm and My Hero. Since then, Heywood has continued to perform frequently in regional and West End theatre productions, including plays, musicals and pantomimes.
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"Letitia Dean hopes to get over break-up", Digital spy. URL last accessed on 23 September 2007. Her older brother, Stephen J. Dean, is also a performer; they have appeared together on stage in several pantomimes."Performance Diary", www.its-behind-you.com.
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Actor Russell Dykstra grew up in the suburb, frequently entertaining commuters on the local 141 bus with his self-styled pantomimes while taking the long commute into St Laurence's College in South Brisbane as a schoolboy from 1979 to 1981.
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NODA has a membership of 2500 amateur theatre groups and 1000 individual enthusiasts throughout the UK, staging musicals, operas, plays, concerts and pantomimes in a wide variety of performing venues, ranging from the country's leading professional theatres to tiny village halls.
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After prize fighting for a while, he toured with the Albert and Edmunds troupe of acrobats, the Brother Luck and other vaude units.Billboard 6/20/1942 In 1910 he appeared in Dick Whittington, and 4 years later was signed by his brother, Barry, for a role in Sleeping Beauty. He first became known as a music hall performer and played in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In 1917 he played Rono in Arlette by Austen Hurgon and George Arthurs at the Shaftesbury Theatre. In 1920 and 1921 he appeared in Wylie & Tate pantomimes at Sheffield and Cardiff with Daisy Burrell.
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O'Connell is best-known as a performer in pantomime, having made his debut in the Cork pantomime back in 1947. Billa went on to become a regular cast member of the pantomimes produced at the Cork Opera House, as well as Summer Revels, an annual variety show which ran for over two decades. Speaking in The Irish Times, Billa recalls a time when there were "seven or eight" pantomimes operating in Cork, and it was one of the city's most popular forms of entertainment. Also regarded as an accomplished singer, O'Connell recorded a number or records for local charitable organisations.
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Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (18 March 1852 – 22 June 1896) was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist, a dominant figure in the West End theatre of the 1880s and 1890s. Born into a theatrical family, Harris briefly pursued a commercial career before becoming an actor and subsequently a stage-manager. At the age of 27 he became the lessee of the large Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where he mounted popular melodramas and annual pantomimes on a grand and spectacular scale. The pantomimes featured leading music hall stars such as Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd, Little Tich and Vesta Tilley.
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The end of Harris's television show coincided with a period when television was "turning away from variety acts". He entered a period of depression, drank heavily and was arrested for drunk driving; his third marriage collapsed during this period. He also opened clubs in Blackpool and Portugal which failed, leading him to declare bankruptcy twice. However, he recovered and began performing in clubs, in pantomimes and at holiday camps, touring the United Kingdom; he wrote 17 of his own pantomimes and had his own pantomime company, Keith Harris Productions, which he sold in 2009 to Richard Jordan.
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Paul Margueritte Paul Margueritte (20 February 1860 - 29 December 1918) was a French amateur mime who wrote several pantomimes, most notably Pierrot assassin de sa femme (Théâtre de Valvins, 1881) and, in collaboration with Fernand Beissier, Colombine pardonnée (Cercle Funambulesque, 1888).Paul and Victor Margueritte, Nos Tréteaux: Charades de Victor Margueritte, pantomimes de Paul Margueritte (Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910). Paul Margueritte was born in French Algeria, the son of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823–1870), who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sedan. An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884; enlarged ed.
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Having seen Bologna in a performance of Oscar and Malvina in 1807, the actor John Philip Kemble said of him: "If that man could speak as well as he acts [in] pantomimes, I would never again appear on the stage".Disher, p.
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On Boxing Day 1959 they appeared in BBC TV's The Good Old Days at Christmas. After the team separated in 1960, Smoothey continued his solo career performing in variety theatre, Summer shows, and pantomimes, and at such venues as the London Palladium.
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This led to performances as a principal boy in countless pantomimes across the country and further recordings, including "One of the Bhoys" (1910), "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" (1914), "Here We Are Again" (1914) and "I'd Like to Shake Shakespeare" (1915).
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Besides acting in serious and non-York based roles, Barrass is famous for being the sidekick of Berwick Kaler in the Pantomimes performed at York's Theatre Royal since 1985. Barrass also takes part in productions run by the Hull Truck Theatre Company.
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He was also interested in drama, taking part in various performances until late in his life, and directing several, including the domestic pantomimes he wrote for the Harpic Players (because they were 'clean round the bend'), a group of friends and neighbours.
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Since leaving Emmerdale, Deena has returned to the stage, appearing in Calendar Girls and various pantomimes. Most recently, she featured on the television show True Crime as the character Irene. Payne is married to musician Steve Grant who toured with The Sweet.
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The ITV Panto is a series of televised pantomimes originally broadcast on ITV in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and have regularly seen Re-runs in the years since. All written by Simon Nye, they included an array of celebrities playing the lead roles.
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Among a range of other works, Hill wrote four symphonies, four symphonic poems, two orchestral pantomimes, two orchestral suites, two piano concertos, one violin concerto, one cor anglais concerto, chamber music, jazz studies for two pianos, one choral ode, and one cantata.
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She has appeared in various pantomimes. On 5 February 2013 it was confirmed that Bissix would reprise her role as villain Clare Devine, and made her final appearance in the soap on 16 October 2013, after the character of Clare was killed off.
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Caricature of Morton, 1876 John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox (1847). He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces.
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She has played the principal girl or boy in over ten pantomimes throughout the UK, including Babes in the Wood, Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose, The Bells of Notre Dame, and a record-breaking run of Snow White.
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The building has been damaged by bombs on several occasions, usually when the nearby Europa Hotel had been targeted. It was badly damaged by bomb blasts in 1991 and 1993. The theatre continued, however, to host musicals, plays, pantomimes and live music.
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McConnell Stott, p. 10 His first London appearance was at the King's Theatre. He was later engaged by David Garrick to play Pantaloon in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, earning high praise,Arundell, p. 31 and eventually became the ballet master there.
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Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. He was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. His son was also a poet, but degraded himself by writing plays for pantomimes.
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Over more than half a century of performing her craft resulted in her simple, but brilliantly timed acts making her renowned wherever she went. Such was her comic timing that she also appeared in pantomimes in the winter and concert parties in the summer.
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In 1716 John Weaver, the dancing master at Drury Lane, presented "The Loves of Mars and Venus – a new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes". At Lincoln's Inn, John Rich presented and performed as Harlequin in similar productions.Dircks, Phyllis T. "Rich, John (1692–1761)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2011, accessed 21 October 2011 The theatre historian David Mayer explains the use of the "batte" or slapstick and the "transformation scene": Rich's productions were a hit, and other producers, like David Garrick, began producing their own pantomimes."The Development of Pantomime", Its-Behind-You.
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Aside from his music hall appearances, he was also a popular performer in Christmas pantomimes and appeared in them annually at theatres throughout the English provinces. He repeated this success in London, where he appeared in three pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1891 and 1893 alongside Dan Leno and Marie Lloyd. Born in Cudham, Kent, Little Tich began performing aged ten when he developed a dance and tin-whistle act which he showcased at public houses in Sevenoaks. In the early 1880s he formed a blackface act and gained popularity with performances at the nearby Rosherville Pleasure Gardens and Barnard's Music Hall in Chatham.
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129, quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary. The majority of these early pantomimes were re-tellings of a story from ancient Greek or Roman literature, with a break between the two acts during which the harlequinade's zany comic business was performed. The theatre historian David Mayer explains the use of the "batte" or slapstick and the transformation scene that led to the harlequinade: Playbill of an English circus and pantomime performance, 1803 Pantomime gradually became more topical and comic, often involving spectacular and elaborate theatrical effects as far as possible. Colley Cibber, David Garrick and others competed with Rich and produced their own pantomimes, and pantomime continued to grow in popularity.
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Runners at the 2009 Pantomime Horse Grand National in London, England. The costumes here are designed for only a single person. Pantomime horses and pantomime cows feature in Christmas pantomimes, mainly in the United Kingdom. A skilled pair of performers can dance as a pantomime horse.
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Wilhelm's 1882 design for the title role in Iolanthe William John Charles Pitcher (21 March 1858 – 2 March 1925), known as Wilhelm or C. Wilhelm, was an English artist, costume and scenery designer, best known for his designs for ballets, pantomimes, comic operas, and Edwardian musical comedies.
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He has also directed productions in drama schools and staged numerous pantomimes. The CD Nicholls co-produced for The Amazons was nominated for a Grammy Award. Nicholls has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of The British Musical. In 2016 Nicholls was named a Variety Club Celebrity Ambassador.
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Rodney A.M. Dale (1933-2020) was an English author, editor, publisher, and a co-founder and former member of Cambridge Consultants Ltd. He wrote principally on non-fiction topics (biography, technology, computing, jazz, illustration, and folklore), as well as three novels, a number of poems, and pantomimes.
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Towards the end of the 1790s, Grimaldi starred in Robinson Crusoe, which confirmed him as a key Christmas pantomime performer. Many pantomimes followed, but his career at Drury Lane became turbulent, and he left the theatre for good in 1806.Grimaldi (Boz edition), pp. 117–119.
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Noel McDonald, another producer of note, gave much of his time to REPS theatre. He inspired many young people to tread the boards and produced pantomimes, adult and children's shows. His wife Mary produced numerous costumes for the shows and, despite sanctions, always managed to come up trumps.
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Players' pantomimes had to communicate "tough sayings, or titles of books, plays, songs—things like 'The Dreadful Dragon of Hungry Hill,' 'Neurotic You and Psychopathic Me,' or 'As fluffy as a fleecy cloud.'" Teams competed against the clock, with the team that used less time being the winner.
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Interior of the Royal Victoria Theatre The Royal Victoria Theatre was a theatre in Sydney, Australia, the first large theatre in the city. It opened in 1838; operas, plays, pantomimes and other events were held, and leading entertainers performed at the theatre. It was destroyed by fire in 1880.
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Pauvre Pierrot is also believed to be the first known usage of film perforations. The combined performance of all three films was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses. These were the first animated pictures publicly exhibited by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the entire presentation himself by manipulating the images.
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Uniquely in Hungary, they play musical puppet shows, including the puppet-pantomimes staged for adults, such as Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, Bolero by Ravel and Carmina Burana by Orff.Klára, Dobos, and Gábor, Mikita, and Béla, GYarmati. Csodamalom Bábszínház, Miskolc 2007.... Miskolc, Redon4color ltd. 2007. p4-5.
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The Era, 26 December 1858, 2 January 1859. Keene’s range went well beyond comedy. He was involved in several ambitious archaeological reconstructions of scenery and costumes, such as the Egyptian drama Nitocris staged at Drury Lane in 1855, but they never brought him the success of the pantomimes.
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Numerous West End Concert Performances including Living On An Island at The Talk Of London. She appeared in various regional theatre pantomimes. In the summer of 2009 she appeared in Oklahoma! at the Chichester Festival Theatre as Aunt Eller, and the following autumn in Manchester in White Christmas.
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Between 1751 and 1756 Woodward produced and probably acted in several unprinted pantomimes of his own. These all displayed gifts of construction and invention, and were highly popular. Some of them had previously been seen in Dublin. Marplot in Lisbon was produced at Drury Lane in March 1754.
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During the German occupation it was used as a repair depot and parking area for tanks. In 1939 the hall was taken over as a first aid post. Following the Liberation in 1945, the hall regularly hosted trade exhibitions, plays, pantomimes, shows, the Jersey Eisteddfod and other attractions.
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The North Wales Theatre, Arena and Conference Centre, built in 1994, and extended in 2006 and renamed "Venue Cymru", is located near the centre of the promenade on Penrhyn Crescent. It is noted for its productions of opera, orchestral concerts, ballet, musical theatre, drama, circus, ice shows and pantomimes.
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In 2015, he joined the cast of the soap opera Hollyoaks and finished filming the following year. He then returned to stage roles in the West End. Richards has also starred in many pantomimes including Beauty and the Beast, playing the Beast, at the Royal Theatre, Nottingham, in 2017.
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Evolution Productions In 2005, Hendy set up Evolution Productions with his wife, Emily Wood. They produce films, large-scale theatrical productions and national theatre tours in the UK and abroad In 2017/18, their production of Peter Pan at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury was seen by over a record breaking 100,000 people. The British Theatre Guide called the show ‘one of the best productions in the country’ Evolution Productions currently produce 8 pantomimes each year around the country, and have performed with some notable performers including: Stephen Mulhern, Phil Gallagher, Rita Simons, Scott Maslen, Gareth Gates and even George Takei. Producing new and original pantomimes each year, complete with new sets and costumes.
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"Top ten pantomimes for Christmas", The Daily Telegraph, 17 December 2010, accessed January 8, 2016. Other traditional stories include Mother Goose, Beauty and the Beast, Robinson Crusoe, The Wizard of Oz, Babes in the Wood (combined with elements of Robin Hood), Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Sinbad, St. George and the Dragon, Bluebeard, The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina.Broadbent, chapter 19 Prior to about 1870, many other stories were made into pantomimes. While the familiarity of the audience with the original children's story is generally assumed, plot lines are almost always adapted for comic or satirical effect, and characters and situations from other stories are often interpolated into the plot.
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He quickly won the approval of Zola and began to stage Naturalistic works and other foreign realistic pieces.Brockett and Hildy (2003, 362–363). In Britain, melodramas, light comedies, operas, Shakespeare and classic English drama, Victorian burlesque, pantomimes, translations of French farces and, from the 1860s, French operettas, continued to be popular.
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Besides his work Penman also used to write humorous and satirical sketches. As a person he had a keen intellect and questioning temperament, but a fine sense of humour which showed itself in many ways, such as at the Christmas pantomimes at Rothamsted where he wrote some of the satirical sketches.
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Hendry was a teacher for 23 years and wrote plays and pantomimes for the Nairn Drama Club. She submitted a story to the first BBC "Quest for a Kelpie" writing competition and won first prize — the book took its name from the competition."Publisher of the Month: Floris Books". March 2007.
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Embsay Village Hall events include film nights, pantomimes, bowls, and jumble sales. The village has a newsagents on the main road. The dedicated post office closed; a counter in a newspaper shop now serves as a post office. Other businesses in Embsay are a hairdresser and an arts and crafts store.
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Caroline Flack at edp24 . Retrieved 6 December 2014 She developed an interest in dancing and performed in village pantomimes while at school. While at school she was given medical treatment for being "very underweight". Between 1996 and 1999 she studied dancing and musical theatre at the Bodywork Company in Cambridge.
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Addison became interested in acting whilst studying for a B.A. in English at the University of Cambridge. During this time she appeared in numerous student productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Singin' in the Rain and Footlights revue pantomimes. She has a sister named Fiona and a brother named Stuart.
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From 2016 to 2019, he directed the Christmas pantomimes Aladdin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan (starring Cannon and Ball and Chico Slimani), performed at Crewe Lyceum Theatre. In 2018 he was nominated by the Manchester Theatre Awards as best supporting actor for his role as Uncle Vanya.
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Meagher regularly travels to the United Kingdom to take part in the traditional Christmas pantomimes. In December 2008, he played Abanazar in a production of Aladdin at the Anvil Theatre in Basingstoke and in 2009 he performed as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells.
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Numerous sporting and entertainment events have been held there over the years, ranging from basketball to pantomimes on ice. From 1959, and especially from the late 1960s onwards, The SSE Arena has become increasingly associated with popular music, hosting every major artist from the Beatles to the Stones, Bowie to Madonna.
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The story follows the traditional Cinderella fairytale, with some additional characters. Buttons is the Butler to Wicked Step-Mother and is Cinderella’s best friend. As in most pantomimes, the 4th wall is broken by the cast, who encourage the audience to cheer for Cinderella and boo the Wicked Step- Sisters.
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But what the Goby collection represents is not so much Jean-Gaspard's pantomimes as Charles's own (or sometimes Charles's versions of the former). As Champfleury notes in his preface to the volume, it reproduces only "a repertoire easy to perform in the course of many peregrinations through the provinces."Goby, p.
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The pantomime returned to the Lyceum in 1990s, as touring production companies were now using the venue. In 2007, Sheffield Theatres replaced the touring companies by starting co-production with Evolution Pantomimes. Their first show Cinderella was followed by Aladdin in 2008 and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 2009.
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In 2018 the Angles Theatre celebrated the 40th Anniversary of its reopening with an extensive programme of events including a production of She Stoops to Conquer. The 2019 pantomime production was Cinderella – the Fairy Godmother of pantomimes by Tom Whalley. The theatre is fund raising for refurbishment of the existing seating.
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After another West End role, Burville toured America with Carte, finally playing Lady Angela in Patience with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the New York and then on tour in 1881–82. Over the next decade, she continued to star in operettas and pantomimes, primarily on tour in Britain.
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The Drama Group has been presenting plays, dramas, comedies, pantomimes and other productions since the mid fifties. The Drama Group meets on Tuesday and Friday evenings. The Drama Group enjoys a long and unbroken history of presenting plays at both the Hall, and further afield in the Leicester Drama Festivals.
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Albert Burdon (1900–1981) was a British actor and comedian, born in South Shields, County Durham. His stage work included starring in a series of pantomimes at the Lyceum Theatre, London in the 1930s; and in the original production of Rodgers and Hart's Ever Green at the Adelphi Theatre in 1930.
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"Christmas Pantomimes", Project Britain, 2013, accessed 21 April 2016 Precursors of pantomime also included the masque, which grew in pomp and spectacle from the 15th to the 17th centuries.Burden, Michael. "The English Pantomime Masque", Abstract of symposium paper for French and English Pantomime (2007), University of Oxford, accessed 21 April 2016.
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Milwaukee Repertory Theater. "Mark Clements" . Retrieved 13 January 2013. Musicals became an important part of the programme, starting with Grease, and including Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret and Assassins, while the pantomimes written by Mark Clements and Michael Vivian drew in record numbers at Christmas time.Powlson, Nigel (7 February 2012).
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After he learned that his performances were popular with the hearing-impaired because of his heavy use of pantomimes, Skelton hired a sign language interpreter to translate the non- pantomime portions of his act for all his shows. He continued performing live until 1993, when he celebrated his 80th birthday.
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The theatre started out as The Palladium, a premier venue for variety performances. Pantomimes were also featured there. In 1926, the pantomime starred Lennie Dean as Cinderella, footage of which remains to this day. The theatre is especially linked to the Royal Variety Performances, where many were, and still are, held.
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In 2007, Hunt appeared in an episode of Chucklevision entitled "Muscling In". She was the compere of a strong man contest, which pitted Barry Chuckle against the cheating man mountain Magnus Sorenson. She has also appeared in pantomimes. In 2007/2008 she played the lead role in Cinderella at the Palace Theatre, Mansfield.
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Over the inter-war period, Clarke became involved in the theatre and drama establishments of his postings. In 1923, he re-formed the Royal Artillery Officers Dramatic Club and was responsible for the Royal Artillery's display at the 1925 Royal Tournament. In 1933 and 1934, he wrote and directed two Christmas pantomimes.
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Patricia Kirkwood (24 February 1921 - 25 December 2007) was a British stage actress, singer and dancer who appeared in numerous performances of dramas, cabaret, revues, music hall, variety and pantomimes. She also performed on radio, television and films. She was the first woman to have her own television series on the BBC.
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Andy Lee is the middle child of Michael and Margaret Lee. Lee has a younger sister, Alex Miles, who writes pantomimes and stars in the comedy show Porky Pies. He also has an older brother, Cameron, with whom Lee started the band Zoophyte. Lee attended Balwyn Primary School and Camberwell Grammar School.
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Elizabeth Rudge, a West End actress professionally known as "Adelaide Astor" (1873–1951), married George Grossmith, Jr. in 1895. Lydia Rudge, professionally known as "Lydia Flopp" (1877–1963), appeared in pantomimes. The youngest Rudge Sister, Fanny Rudge, had a long and successful career in Australia under the name "Fanny Dango" (1878–1972).
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The story follows the traditional Snow White fairytale with some additional characters. Muddles is the court jester to the Queen and is Snow White's best friend. As in other pantomimes, the 4th wall is broken by the actors, who encourage the audience to cheer for Snow White and Boo the Wicked Queen.
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Stephenson played the part of Aladdin in the pantomime Aladdin at the Regent Theatre in Ipswich. The pantomime was shown on 13 December 2008 and performed again in January 2009. Because of this role, Stephenson appeared on the Celebrity Ding Dong Christmas special in which the theme was pantomimes and "goodies vs baddies".
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Georges Wague in one of the cantomimes (pantomimes performed to off-stage songs) of Xavier Privas. Poster by Charles Léandre, 1899. Legrand left the Funambules in 1853 for what was to become his chief venue, the Folies-Nouvelles, which attracted the fashionable and artistic set, unlike the Funambules’ working-class children of paradise.
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He also Germanised his surname to Koželuch.English, p. 4 After starting his musical education in Velvary, Koželuch moved to Prague where he studied with his cousin and František Xaver Dušek, the latter teaching him in the keyboard and composition. From 1771 to 1778 Koželuch wrote ballets and pantomimes which were performed in Prague.
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This took her to New York City where her unique vision of dance clashed with the popular pantomimes of theater companies.Duncan (1927), p. 31 In New York, Duncan took some classes with Marie Bonfanti but was quickly disappointed in ballet routine. Feeling unhappy and unappreciated in America, Duncan moved to London in 1898.
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Vaughan had already launched a successful career as an actor. His stage appearances include In Order of Appearance at the Chichester Festival Theatre, a tour of Calamity Jane with Barbara Windsor and the farces A Bedful of Foreigners and No Sex Please, We're British. He also appeared in a number of pantomimes.
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14 and played in pantomimes, including Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, or Harlequin Jack the Giant Killer in London in 1887."Boxing Night at the Theatres", The Daily News, 27 December 1887, p. 2 In 1892 she appeared in another of her husband's works, The Young Recruit, presented on tour by Augustus Harris.
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Barrett's son Oscar took over music for the dramas and pantomimes in 1870. Alterations in 1858 made it a 2500-seat theatre. In 1877 a new 4000-seat theatre was built on the site of the old ballroom. In 1882 the buildings were put up for auction, and bought by the Salvation Army.
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After working as a jobbing actor and director in provincial productions of plays and pantomimes, in 1990 Howells joined the Citizens Theatre Company in Glasgow, Scotland as an assistant director to Giles Havergal (one of the company's three pioneering directors, alongside Philip Prowse and the late Robert David MacDonald). Gardner, L. (2014).
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The play was a hit, and its songs were printed up and sold. However, when Gay wrote a sequel called Polly, Walpole had the play suppressed before performance (Winn 112–114). Playwrights were therefore in straits. On the one hand, the playhouses were doing without plays by turning out hack-written pantomimes.
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David Wallace is a Scottish actor and theatre director. He founded the Paisley-based PACE Theatre Company in 1988. Wallace and PACE Theatre Company started Paisley's annual Christmas pantomime, which has been running since PACE was founded. In the pantomimes, Wallace performs as a dame in a comedy double act with Alan Orr.
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There are two theatres in Carrick-on-Suir, the Brewery Lane Theatre and the Operatic Society. While the Operatic society tends to focus on musicals, operas and pantomimes, Brewery Lane usually does dramas which can be serious, or often black comedy. Many of these are Irish. The Old Bridge, built in 1447.
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After the extensive run of "For The Fun of It", Art did some ice shows and some Pantomimes and also led his own "Foulharmonic Orchestra" for the show "Ignorance Is Bliss". One of Art's fondest memories was the performance of "Cinderella" for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the Palladium in London.
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In 1860, Deburau was directly credited with inspiring such anguish, when, in a novella called Pierrot by Henri Rivière, the mime- protagonist blames his real-life murder of a treacherous Harlequin on Baptiste's "sinister" cruelties. Among the most celebrated of pantomimes in the latter part of the century would appear sensitive moon-mad souls duped into criminality—usually by love of a fickle Columbine—and so inevitably marked for destruction (Paul Margueritte's Pierrot, Murderer of His Wife [1881]; the mime Séverin's Poor Pierrot [1891]; Catulle Mendès’ Ol’ Clo's Man [1896], modeled on Gautier's "review").On these pantomimes and on late nineteenth-century French pantomime in general, see Storey, Pierrot: a critical history, pp. 115-33, and Pierrots on the stage, pp. 253-315.
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Rhydycroesau Village Hall, portions built 1850 Rhydycroesau is well known locally for its pantomimes, which are hosted every year in January and February at the Village Hall with the cast made up of people from the local area. The group in 2016 has performed for over 36 years, making a new show each year.
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These short performances, in English seaside resorts including Scarborough and Bournemouth, were designed chiefly to enhance his name among provincial audiences.Cotes, p. 47. For the 1895 and 1896 Christmas pantomimes, he appeared in Manchester and Birmingham, respectively, in the title role of Dick Whittington, for which he received favourable reviews and praise from audiences.
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Holding up to 200 seats, The Boxmoor Playhouse is said to be the largest theatre in Hemel Hempstead. Each year the Company produces a variety of productions from plays to musicals to pantomimes. Due to the flexibility of the space, the Company also holds social events such as quiz nights, creative workshops and cabaret evenings.
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Before diving, the jumper can give speeches, sing songs, and make pantomimes. The diver crosses his arms over his chest to help prevent injury to the arms. The head is tucked in so his shoulders can contact the ground. Therefore, the divers risk a number of injuries, such as a broken neck or a concussion.
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The Emperor dresses Cortés with flowers from his own gardens, the highest honour he could give. In turn, Cortés attempts to embrace him but is restrained by a courtier. Marina is at the same time inside and outside the picture. She pantomimes the translating of the conversation while her offstage voice describes the scene.
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Blakeman became involved in female morris dancing at age three. It was this dancing, combined with watching pantomimes and plays at Butlins, which led to her going into a career in theatre. She then joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at John Moores University. It was at university that she began to write.
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Brown has also been active in British theatre. She directed Pin Money by Malcolm Needs in London, and Double D by Matthew Westwood in Edinburgh and London. She played Mrs Danvers in a touring production of Rebecca. Other plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, and numerous pantomimes.
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Holding up to 200 seats, The Boxmoor Playhouse is said to be the largest theatre in Hemel Hempstead. Each year the Company produces a variety of productions from plays to musicals to pantomimes. Due to the flexibility of the space, the Company also holds social events such as quiz nights, creative workshops and cabaret evenings.
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The Recording Studio is hired externally and used for rock & pop and DJing workshops. Every year since opening, The Riverfront has also put on traditional pantomimes over Christmas and New Year. Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist Mark James performed throughout the Christmas period as Jack Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk 2007 and Aladdin 2010.
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She has a lengthy theatre CV, appearing in over 35 stage plays and musicals, as well as over 40 pantomimes. As a singer, she scored a UK No. 2 hit with the song "Starting Together" in 1986 and also released an album. She is also well known for her unusual and flamboyant dress sense.
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For thirty years from 1929 they produced two shows a year in Dublin, first in the Oympia, later in the Gaiety. He wrote many scripts for Radio Éireann. He also acted as business manager and stage manager for O'Dea and the rest of the cast, and acted in bit parts in plays, sketches and pantomimes.
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The opening proprietors were the Watford Palace of Varieties Co., the Managing Director: Mr. T.M. Sylvester. In early days it put on variety shows and plays, mostly imported from other theatres. Variety artists who appeared at the Palace included Marie Lloyd, Evie Greene and Lottie Lennox. The theatre also puts on regular Christmas pantomimes.
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Dowling has appeared in popular Irish Christmas pantomimes, at Dublin's Tivoli Theatre. In December 2008 – January 2009, he starred as the evil Captain Hook in Anthem Productions' presentation of Peter Pan. Since then, Dowling has had the new character "Bridie" created for him, appearing in 2009's Cinderella and 2010's Beauty and the Beast.
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From 1944 Caryl Jenner wrote Christmas pantomimes for small-time playhouses. During performances she would make note of the behaviour of the children, recording what scenes and sequences held their attention, and which did not. She began to formulate the principles that would guide her theatre and writing. In 1947 she founded the Mobile Theatre.
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The Lyceum Theatre in London. Johnson acted here from 1878 to 1899. From 1874 to 1878 Johnson was actor and stage manager with Mr. Warden's Company in Belfast, touring with the company to Edinburgh and Glasgow in a series of old comedies. With his daughter Isa Johnson he appeared in a number of Easter pantomimes.
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He has appeared in several pantomimes, including being in Aladdin at The Hazlitt in Maidstone in 2011. Then he appeared in Dick Whittington at The Harlington, in Fleet, Hampshire in 2013. From 2014 to 2018, he appeared in the CBBC series Millie Inbetween as Mike. He also appeared in the fifth series of Hacker Time.
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Between 2010 and 2013, Jedward performed in an annual pantomime over the Christmas and New Year period. Based at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, the pantomimes also starred Linda Martin. John and Edward played themselves and the shows featured Jedward songs. The twins' first show was Cinderella in 2010, where they played the fairy godbrothers.
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117–19 Grimaldi wrote to Thomas Harris, the manager of the Covent Garden Theatre, hoping to persuade him to stage Christmas pantomimes. Harris was already a supporter of the shows and had employed the writing talents of both Charles Dibdin and his co-writer Charles Farley.McConnell Stott, pp. 144–45 Grimaldi met with Harris and obtained a contract.
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From the late 1970s she appeared in pantomimes with Maureen Potter. In 1984 Bushnell starred in a musical based on the life of Édith Piaf, No regrets, written specially for her. She was lauded for capturing Piaf's stage presence and husky voice. The show suffered when it had to move from the Gaiety Theatre to the National Stadium.
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André's brother, Jacques, was a watchmaker who trained in Geneva. He became an assistant to Benjamin Vulliamy, who collaborated by including Derby porcelain in some of his clocks. James Planché, who was Jacques' son, became a playwright of pantomimes. James was given the title of Somerset Herald of the College of Arms of the Kings in London.
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Southern Illinois University Press. Astley's first competitor was equestrian Charles Hughes, who had previously worked with Astley. Together with Charles Dibdin, a famous author of pantomimes, Hughes opened a rival amphitheatre in London, which Dibdin called the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy. Astley and his wife put on the first circus show on Easter Monday, 4 April 1768.
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Cobham Rugby Football Club has four teams which play regularly, as well as youth and mini sections. There is Cobham Village Club and a branch of the Royal British Legion. Cobham Players regularly present plays, musicals, pantomimes and other entertainments in Cobham. Walton Firs Activity Centre lies just off the A3 in Cobham and covers 28 acres.
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Since 2009, he has also played the role of 'Mr Liker Biker' in Grandpa in My Pocket. Gallagher often performs in pantomimes. In 2006, he appeared as Wishee Washee in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal in Winchester. In 2007, he appeared as Silly Billy (Jack's brother) in Jack and the Beanstalk, again at the Theatre Royal in Winchester.
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The Town Hall main rooms have been restored, and some are available for hire. The Town hall theatre can seat 435 and plays host to the annual carnival concerts which brings the greatest number of local residents to its auditorium. The Town Hall throughout the year hosts various shows, such as, pantomimes, musicals, dance shows, tribute acts, etc.
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Booth now lives in Seattle, with her husband and children. Her father, John Booth, is an actor and acts alongside Owen Money in yearly pantomimes. Her sisters, Amy and Kristie, now run a dance school in South Wales. The dance school, KLA, featured on series 1 of The Greatest Dancer where they finished in 2nd place.
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She has directed and choreographed several pantomimes and musicals. In December 2006, Lawrence starred as Peter Pan (opposite Nigel Havers's Captain Hook) at the Wycombe Swan and in 2007 opposite David Essex again as Peter Pan at the Derngate in Northampton. She was also involved in the touring show, Simply Ballroom, as one of the presenters.
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Joseph Grimaldi was one of the greatest English pantomime clowns. His father was Giuseppi Grimaldi (died 1788), an Italian dancing master and pantomimist. Joseph's stage debut was at 3 years old in a dance at Sadler's Wells, London's famous variety theatre. Grimaldi never performed in a circus ring, but spent most of his life performing in full-length pantomimes.
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She enjoyed significant success in 1893 when she turned to female roles and sang "I'm One of the Girls" over 16 weeks in Camden Town. After that, Kendall performed at major venues in London, securing parts in pantomimes as well as singing Cockney songs in the best music halls. Her income dramatically increased. During the 1920s Kendall toured Australia.
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Mattis Hætta (born 15 March 1959 in Masi, Norway) is a Norwegian Sami singer and recording artist. In 1980, he and Sverre Kjelsberg won the 1980 Melodi Grand Prix with the entry Sámiid Ædnan and went on to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980. He has worked in pantomimes and yoiks in Alta, Kautokeino and Luleå.
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Mayne was born in London in 1886. She is best known for the song "A Broken Doll" written by her husband, the composer James W. Tate, and lyricist Frank Clifford Harris. Early in her career, Mayne often played the "principal girl" in pantomimes for Francis Laidler, among others.Information about "principal girls" in pantomime. its-behind-you.
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27; tr. Storey (1985), p. 290. Najac's ideal Pierrot, consequently, is innocent of all "indecent or funereal ideas," like those that motivate Pierrot sceptique. Such also had been the pure-hearted Pierrot of Legrand, a collection of whose pantomimes was published—in the same year as Najac's treatise—by two fraternal men of the theater, Eugène and Félix Larcher.
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Retrieved 2013-01-12. adapted theatre performances for children with autism disorders,"Autism and theatre: Ambassador Theatre holds autism inspiration day" , The National Autistic Society, 29 December 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-12.Nicola Merrifield, "ATG to pilot autism-friendly pantomimes", The Stage, 25 October 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-12. and the 'ATG Theatre Card' loyalty program.
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House events include a sports day, a pantomime, choir, netball, badminton, rounders, debating, public speaking, general knowledge and dance. House pantomimes and choirs have an important place in the school's calendar each year. House assemblies are held each term, where house captains inform pupils of news, plans and ideas surrounding house events, and encourage participation in activities.
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There is a football pavilion which is the headquarters of Ribchester Football Club. The playing fields also hold a large, well equipped, children's adventure play area. Ribchester and District Angling Club (RADAC) leases fishing on the rivers Ribble and Hodder in the surrounding area. Ribchester Amateur Theatre Society (RATS) performs plays and pantomimes in the Parochial Church Hall.
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John Knowles's speciality was pantomime, and he made pantomime at Christmas a regular occasion. These pantomimes were highly rehearsed and acclaimed for their charm. In 1866, Knowles was questioned by the Parliamentary select committee'Index to the report from the Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regulations', 1866, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, vol. XVI.1, p.
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A well-known brother-in-law was Frank McCrory who worked for many years as a playwright/songwriter of pantomimes at Omagh Town Hall. Frank's wife Eileen was Benedict Kiely's sister. Drumquin is often mentioned in his novels and stories as the source of his maternal family connections. His mother was from Claramore, a townland near Drumquin.
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Since 2019, he has starred in Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad, alongside his son Barney Walsh. In addition to his television career, Walsh often appears in theatre shows, particularly pantomimes. As a singer, he has released two albums, Chasing Dreams (2016) and When You're Smiling (2017), which both reached the top 15 in the UK Albums Chart.
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The Alex was sold to Apollo Leisure in the 1990s. Derek Salberg's autobiography "Much Ado About Theatre" had its foreword written by Laurence Olivier. Under Leon Salberg, the Alex was famous for its pantomimes such as "Mother Goose". The theatre currently seats 1,371 and hosts a busy programme of touring drama, West End shows and stand-up comedy.
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Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Clive Rowe grew up in Shaw, Lancashire, in the parish of East Crompton and attended St. James Primary School and Crompton House School. As a teenager he was a member of Crompton Stage Society. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Rowe has appeared in many pantomimes.
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Thereafter, until the end of the century, Pierrot appeared fairly regularly in English pantomimes (which were originally mute harlequinades but later evolved into the Christmas pantomimes of today; in the nineteenth century, the harlequinade was presented as a "play within a play" during the pantomime), finding his most notable interpreter in Carlo Delpini (1740–1828). His role was uncomplicated: Delpini, according to the popular theater historian, M. Willson Disher, "kept strictly to the idea of a creature so stupid as to think that if he raised his leg level with his shoulder he could use it as a gun." So conceived, Pierrot was easily and naturally displaced by the native English Clown when the latter found a suitably brilliant interpreter. It did so in 1800, when "Joey" Grimaldi made his celebrated debut in the role.
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Another contemporary pantomime tradition is the celebrity guest star, a practice that dates back to the late 19th century, when Augustus Harris, proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, hired well- known variety artists for his pantomimes. Many modern pantomimes use popular artists to promote the pantomime, and the play is often adapted to allow the star to showcase their well-known act, even when such a spot has little relation to the plot. As critic Michael Billington has explained, if the star enters into the spirit of the entertainment, he or she can add to its overall effect, while if it becomes a "showcase for a star" who "stands outside the action", the celebrity's presence can detract, notwithstanding the marketing advantage that the star brings to the piece.Billington, Michael.
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These claims would be accompanied by a frenzied voice and wild pantomimes of hair and trunk pulling. Rip also fought in 3 pro boxing matches in 1996 at 41 years old. His record stands at 1 win, 1 loss, 1 draw, with 1 TKO. He was trained by longtime friend Bobby 'Sweetpain' Duchi a veteran pro boxer, kickboxer, and champion weightlifter.
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278 JS finally returned home in 1827, when the Grimaldis were awakened one night to discover their son standing in the street, feverish, emaciated and dishevelled.McConnell Stott, p. 280 After appearing in a few Christmas pantomimes and benefits for his father, JS fell into unemployment and was incarcerated in a debtors' prison for a time; his alcoholism also further worsened.
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The > basement – in the French mode – offered the Café Ausant, where one could see > tableaux vivant, gymnastic exhibitions, pantomimes, and Punch and Judy > shows. There was also a bar, a bazaar, a Ladies' Cafe, and an oyster saloon. > All this – with the exception of Bryant's – was open from seven till > midnight for a combination price of fifty cents.Burrows & Wallace p.
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An annual Village Fete takes place every summer on the recreation ground, to raise money for the upkeep of the Village Hall. The Village Hall hosts annual pantomimes, and usually a play, put on by the amateur dramatics society the Roadwater Players. The village also hosts regular music events at the Hall. The Village Shop is next door to the Village Hall.
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Herbert De Pinna (1883–1936) was a composer and doctor. He was a medicine graduate from Cambridge University who trained at Middlesex Hospital. He opened a hospital in Queensland, but claimed he made more money from music. Herbert De Pinna is best remembered for Broadway-style numbers written for successful pantomimes The Bunyip and Robinson Crusoe, which toured major Australian cities.
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Not Tonight Henry is a 1960 American film. It was one of the first American "nudie cutie" films along with The Immoral Mr. Teas and Eve and the Handyman. It cost $71,000, was filmed over nine days and featured Hank Henry.NUDITY FEATURED IN FILM 'QUICKIES': Cheap, Plotless Pantomimes May Be Beginning Trend By MURRAY SCHUMACH New York Times 15 June 1961: 51.
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Initially their career was in Scotland in summer shows, pantomimes and variety weeks. Subsequently, they moved south of the border with seasons at Bridlington, Scarborough, Great Yarmouth, Bournemouth and Blackpool. The peak of their career was the Royal Variety Show in 1953 at the London Coliseum. It is only recently that old recordings have come to light including several of their radio shows.
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Unfortunately, once he left the Théâtre des Funambules, he did not have the resources to sustain public interest in the figure. The stage of the Funambules had been designed expressly for what Champfleury called "the largest and grandest" (and also the most popular) of the pantomimes in Jean- Gaspard's repertoire: the "pantomime-fairy play".Champfleury, Souvenirs des Funambules, p. 84.
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James William Tate (30 July 1875 – 5 February 1922) was a songwriter, accompanist, and composer and producer of revues and pantomimes in the early years of the 20th century. Tate was born in Wolverhampton, England and died in Stoke-on-Trent, suddenly at the age of 46, as a result of pneumonia caught while traveling the country with his touring revues.
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Her theatre roles included Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at Birmingham Rep, Madame Arcati and Mrs Malaprop in touring productions of Blithe Spirit and The Rivals respectively and a touring production of the comedy Sailor, Beware!, as well as two West End plays: the farce Two into One and comedy When We Are Married, and many pantomimes.
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Clown and Fred as Harlequin, c. 1875 Harry Payne (25 November 1833 – 27 September 1895) and Frederick Payne (January 1841 – 27 February 1880) were members of a popular Victorian era of British pantomime entertainers. They were billed as The Payne Brothers. Fred Payne became known for portraying Harlequin, and Harry became famous as Clown in the Harlequinade that followed Victorian pantomimes.
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He returned to England and took over the Surrey Theatre in Lambeth in 1881, staging melodramas and pantomimes as he had at the Grecian. The last production in which he appeared was Sinbad and the Little Old Man of the Sea &c.; with Dan Leno and wife in 1897. His son George took over the theatre on his father's death.
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In the 1970s Warriss was the resident compere at the Cala Gran club in Fleetwood, Lancashire. In 1988 he played the Emperor of China in the first of the newly reopened Hackney Empire pantomimes, Aladdin. He was still performing in pantomime in his eighties. The character Parker from the 1960s TV series of Thunderbirds is said to have been based upon Warriss's appearance.
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After Shield's return in 1792 Reeve became organist of St Martin Ludgate but continued as a freelance composer for London's patent and minor theatres. He also provided much rather facile music for the topical spectacles and pantomimes at Sadler's Wells. During Lent of 1794 he was engaged at the Lyceum Theatre for four nights a week, producing Mirth's Museum, a variety entertainment.
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Charles Millward (1830–1892) was an English musician, composer, actor, and journal proprietor. Millward was a prolific composer of pantomimes and comic opera. He collaborated with W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) on "Hush A Bye, Baby, on the Treetop; or, Harlequin Fortunia, King of Frog Island, and the Magic Top of Lowther Arcade" (1866). Charles Millward was a member of the Savage Club.
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Emile Reynaud 1844-1918 was the founding father of animation. The short-animated film Pantomimes Lumineuses exhibited during 1892 at the Musee Grevin was developed as a result of his invention, the Praxinoscope projector. This invention brought together color and hand-drawn drawings. Film Company was established as France's first film studio before Pathe Film Studio and founded by Gaumont (1864-1946).
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The contest for places was violent. Apprehensive of an interference on the part of the authorities, he gave the representation for the benefit of the London Hospital. At the close Palmer read an address by Arthur Murphy, and said that performances would be suspended for the present. On 3 July the theatre was reopened for the performance of pantomimes and irregular pieces.
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It is not, therefore, surprising that, during the ten years of the Cercle's existence, it produced only one "classical" pantomime (J.-G. Deburau's Pierrot Coiffeur)It appears as the opening pantomime in the Goby collection. Hugounet (1889) ascribes the authorship of the pantomime to J.-G. Deburau (p. 242), but Storey (1985) notes that the Goby collection represents Charles's pantomimes (i.e.
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Also in 2008, the pair's career continued as they appeared on television as the faces of Safestyle UK, a Bradford based double glazing firm. The pair have starred in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln including Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Cinderella and in 2014 appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk. They also made several appearances in the comedy Last of the Summer Wine.
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Preparations for the pantomime by set designer William Beverly. This illustration was drawn by Frederic Villiers and published in 1874. Drury Lane pantomime is a long tradition at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, dating from the early 18th century. In every Christmas season, a pantomime is produced which has a leading place among the many other pantomimes of the capital.
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Brown and Dean attempted to set up a production company together, but it did not come to fruition. Since leaving EastEnders, Dean's television credits have been few, although he has made guest appearances on Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta!, Banzai and Little Britain. He appeared in the Five television show Harry and Cosh in 2002 and regularly appears in pantomimes.
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Aberdeen has a thriving theatre scene with the largest theatrical events being held in His Majesty's Theatre. The smaller Aberdeen Arts Centre is a voluntary run theatre that normally caters for local events, often those held in the name of charity. The Lemon Tree is another small theatre that has small theatrical programmes such as pantomimes at Christmas and small charity events.
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Henri Franconi, full name Jean Gérard Henri Franconi, (4 November 1779 – 22 July 1849) was a French playwright and circus performer of the early 19th century. A son of Antonio Franconi, in 1807 he became with his brother Laurent director of the Cirque-Olympique (1807-1837). An actor, a mime, an esquire, nicknamed Minette, he authored pantomimes, dramas and vaudeville.
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It also Since 1996, Ross Petty Productions has staged pantomimes at the Elgin Theatre each Christmas season.Flowers, Ellen and Gordon Pim. "The evolution of the panto" , Heritage Matters, Ontario Heritage Trust, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2013, p. 6 From February 10 to 14, 2004, Conan O'Brien taped four episodes of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien from the Elgin Theatre.
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On stage Hamilton has compered shows by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Cassidy and many other pop acts. He has hosted shows at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium, and headlined in four major pantomimes. In 2016 he embarked on a 40-theatre tour, David Hamilton's Rock 'n' Roll Back The Years, with band The Fugitives, and singers.
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After the end of Are You Being Served?, Inman became one of the nation's best known pantomime dames and appeared in over 40 pantomimes across the United Kingdom. He also toured Australia, starring in a number of productions including Bedside Manners (2003) and a revival of Are You Being Served? (2001) as a stage show at Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane.
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Davies has written numerous articles for national magazines including Woman's Weekly, My Weekly and Babycare & Pregnancy. In 1999 and 1991, she appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in two special celebrity pantomimes for the Duchess of York's charity. She is the voice of the on-board bus announcements for Trent Barton's Indigo service. She recorded her voice for the service in 2008.
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However, in 1997, Coronation Street's new producer Brian Park axed a number of characters, including Maureen. Hewson's final episode was broadcast in October 1997. In December 2006, she returned as Maureen Webster for two episodes. Hewson returned to the theatre – appearing in Billy Liar and several pantomimes – and radio, notably as the lead character in a series entitled The Circle.
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"Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist." Harper 157, (1928): p. 771. After touring with Oriental America, Clough remained in London for about ten years. In those ten years she gave voice lessons, did solo shows, and was a member of The Drury Lane Pantomimes."Inez Clough: Popular Lafayette Player Had Successful Career", Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition) (1905-1966), April 3, 1920.
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Harvey Teasdale (1817-1904) was a Victorian performer best known for his success as the ‘man-monkey’ stage character. Teasdale was born in Sheffield to a family of cutlers. He performed several times as the clown in pantomimes and harlequinades before cultivating a reputation for playing the ‘man-monkey’. Teasdale toured the United Kingdom with this act with much success.
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John Peter Bologna (1775 –1846), known as Jack Bologna on stage, was an Italian actor and dancer, who spent much time in England popularising the role of Harlequin in Georgian pantomimes and harlequinades in the early part of the 1800s at the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden Theatres. After arriving in England with his performing family in 1787, Bologna made his London debut at the Covent Garden Theatre as Harlequin in the pantomime Niobe; or, Harlequin's Ordeal. After playing in his family's act throughout England, he starred in, and later choreographed, pantomimes and plays, including some notable successes at the Royal Circus, including The Cloud King, The Sorceress of Strozzi, Black Beard, and Edwin of the Green. In 1806, he, along with the famous Clown performer Joseph Grimaldi, performed in Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, the Golden Egg, Bologna's his biggest success.
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It was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple, originally known as the Promenades des Ramparts, in Paris by Nicolas-Médard Audinot, formerly a comedian of the Opéra-Comique, which he had left to become a puppet-master at the Paris fairs. Audinot had already been a success in one of the sites of the Saint-Germain Fair, where his large marionettes (called "bamboches") were in vogue. Under the name of his foundation, the "Comédiens de bois", the Opéra- Comique proposed pantomimes and "féeries" (spectacles), then he enlarged his repertoire to include marionettes, child-performers, and acrobats, in comedies, vaudeville shows, "opéras comiques", dramas and pantomimes. The variety and mix of these theatrical modes justified and explained changing the theatre's name, after only one year, from "Comédiens de bois" to "Ambigu- Comique" when Audinot substituted child-performers for marionettes.
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Forster, p. 65 Grimaldi's fame was established primarily by his numerous successes as Clown in pantomimes. His Clown satirised many aspects of contemporary British life, and made comic mockery of absurdities in fashion. Grimaldi quickly became the most famous Clown in London, gradually transforming the Clown character from a pratfalling country bumpkin into the most important character in the harlequinade, more important even than Harlequin.
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Leno (top), Johnny Danvers (middle) and Herbert Campbell In 1882, Augustus Harris, the manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, cast Campbell in a series of pantomimes which was to last until his death.Anthony, p. 88 From 1888 he was joined every year by Dan Leno, and their partnership became popular with audiences. As a result, his career excelled, owing much to their contrasting styles.
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Danny O'Dea (22 December 1911 – 16 April 2003) was an English actor. He made numerous appearances as Eli Duckett in the British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine between 1986 and 2002. His film roles include Paddie, an elderly man in Rita, Sue and Bob Too in 1986. His stage work included two pantomimes at the Swansea Grand Theatre in Wales: Robin Hood and Puss in Boots.
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At the age of 14, he ran away from home to join an acrobatic troupe led by an Italian, Giuseppe Chiese-Cinquevalli. Initially he performed on high wire and trapeze, but he took up juggling while recovering from a fall. He first appeared in England in 1885 and was a success. He settled in London and appeared in various circuses, music halls and pantomimes.
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Like his wife, Lowe suffered from alcoholism. In his final years, Lowe's alcoholism worsened and he was reduced to acting in pantomimes and touring theatre productions. Graham Lord's biography recalls that by 1979, Lowe was suffering from major health problems but continued to drink increasing amounts of alcohol, sometimes passing out on stage or at dinner. He was also a heavy smoker and his weight ballooned.
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"Beyond the Unknown" lasted for four series. The first three series consisted of twenty-five programs and the fourth was a collection of ghost stories. Charles appeared on Scottish television on numerous occasions and also on some French, German, Italian and American shows. He was a member of the Lothian Players, an amateur theatrical group, in which he took lead roles in various pantomimes and musical reviews.
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Alongside other stars such Dan Leno and Ada Reeve, Tilley made some of the first sound recordings in England in 1898. She also played the principal boy in a number of pantomimes. At the age of 13 she played Robinson Crusoe at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. She was best known for her titular role in Dick Whittington, which she played many times.
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Since 1996 Freddy has written scripts for The Sooty Show, Sooty & Co. Playdays, Wizadora and performed in pantomimes with Rod and Jane. Today Freddy still writes and records music and as of 2012, is about to release his first solo record. Freddy's new direction incorporates 'educational songs for the under fives, with a hip hop feel'. Marks has co written some songs with actor Dean Gaffney.
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Established by John Hargreaves in 1948, the Iver Heath Drama Club contributed to the construction of the current village hall. The group puts on plays and pantomimes. In 2008, it celebrated 60 years by performing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Iver Heath Drama Club As of May 2014, the club has over 40 regularly active members who are aged between six and eighty years of age.
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Masson has written and composed a series of critically acclaimed Scottish musicals; Stiff!, Mince and Pants. He directed the semi-autobiographical Mince with The Dundee Rep Theatre Ensemble, and it was nominated for best musical in The Barclays TMA Awards in 2001. At the Tron Theatre, Glasgow from 2001–2005 his alternative Christmas Pantomimes including Aladdie and Weans in the Wood were hugely successful.
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However, something of the flavour of Scottish music hall can still be seen in many Scottish pantomimes. Music hall is not strictly theatre, but it can contain dramatic elements and small sketches. It tended towards sentimentality, light humour and the singalong, rather than high-brow dramatic entertainment. Music hall was often working class recreation, and the temperance movement encouraged it as an alternative to drinking.
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In 1942, the Fletchers were familiar enough to a wide audience to make a wartime newsreel clip together, honouring farmers. Her last film role came in 1948, when she returned to the screen in A Piece of Cake, co-starring with her husband. Astell also wrote and produced pantomimes at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon, including Dick Whittington, Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Aladdin.
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The Hippodrome in 1916 The Hippodrome was a theatre in the town of Aldershot in Hampshire. It operated as a venue for variety shows, pantomimes, musical comedies and other shows from 1913 to 1961. When Peter Sellers appeared there in 1948 he complained that the band accompanying his drum act were four bars behind as they were eating their sandwiches while they were playing.
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He left Neighbours in February 2006 after a four and a half year run in the serial. His final scenes aired in early-mid-2006. He has since appeared in a number of theatre shows and pantomimes in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 2008, he appeared in Australian telemovie Valentine's Day for the ABC and had a guest appearance in "Rush" for the Ten Network.
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The Patti Pavilion after refurbishment, 2009 The Patti Pavilion is a venue for the performing arts in Swansea, Wales, located at Victoria Park to the south west of Swansea City Centre. The theatre stages plays, pantomimes, musical shows and fairs. The venue is named after Adelina Patti, the great 19th- century opera soprano. The building was originally sited in her winter garden at Craig-y-Nos estate.
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Jones ran Them and Theirs, a shop in St Christopher's Place, off London's Oxford Street, which sold commemorative ceramics and picture postcards. Jones had always been a collector of memorabilia and art works. In the mid-1990s Jones succeeded the late Reginald Woolley, as the resident designer of the Players' Theatre. He redesigned the space under Charing Cross Bridge, and his annual Victorian Christmas pantomimes became notable.
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Other television appearances include a guest role in an episode of Doctor Who ("The Sea Devils"), 'Allo 'Allo!, Dixon of Dock Green, Emmerdale Farm and two episodes of Ripping Yarns. After finishing Keeping Up Appearances in 1995, he toured worldwide, with Su Pollard, in the stage show The Good Sex Guide. He has also starred in several pantomimes such as Jack and the Beanstalk amongst others.
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Pieter Bruegel Children's Games (1560) Children's entertainment is centred on play and is significant for their growth. Entertainment is also provided to children or taught to them by adults and many activities that appeal to them such as puppets, clowns, pantomimes and cartoons are also enjoyed by adults. Children have always played games. It is accepted that as well as being entertaining, playing games helps children's development.
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Lillicrap is also the creator of the educational television show, El Nombre. His stage work includes pantomime, writing for the Proper Pantomime Company, in whose productions he starred as the dame. He has co-written numerous pantomimes and children's shows for the theatre with his actress wife Jeanette Ranger. Their musical Monty Moonbeam's Magnificent Mission won the TMA/Martini Award for Best Show for Young People.
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The first time was for the BBC in London and the second was for the Windmill Theatre Company in 2006. He has performed in three versions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and numerous pantomimes in the UK with Richard Cheshire. Schmid also appeared on the Nine Network show 20 to 1, hosted by Bert Newton. From 2016-2017, Schmid portrayed Mick Jennings on Home and Away.
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Coveney, Michael. "Obituary, John Moffatt", The Guardian, 17 September 2012 Over the next five years he learnt his craft playing more than 200 parts in repertory companies at Oxford and Windsor, and the Bristol Old Vic. At Oxford he and the young Tony Hancock played Ugly Sisters together. Moffatt retained a fondness for pantomime; he became a celebrated Dame, and was the author of five pantomimes.
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Santley made a name in the 1860s in British music halls and Drury Lane Theatre pantomimes. Early in her career, she was popular for singing the song "The Bell goes a-ringing for Sarah." At the Oxford Music Hall, she had appeared with Euphrosyne Parepa, who later married Carl Rosa. Santley was slim and pretty and became much photographed for visiting cards, postcards and advertising.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McKenna regularly played parts in pantomimes and fringe theatre productions. Her film and television credits include a minor uncredited role in the 1988 film Consuming Passions and a brief role in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, where she played the girlfriend of character Barry Grant. In 1996, McKenna became a television sports presenter for L!VE TV's Sports Live.
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She has since been a mainstay of the Hackney Empire annual pantomimes. In 2008, Empson appeared in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People and in the ITV1 thriller Whitechapel. In 2009, she joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Kim Fox, the half-sister of Denise Fox (Diane Parish). As a result, she has won several awards including an Inside Soap award in 2012 for "Funniest Female Performance".
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He himself had recently been inspired by his visit to the Holy Land, where he'd been shown Jesus's traditional birthplace. The scene's popularity inspired communities throughout Catholic countries to stage similar pantomimes. Distinctive nativity scenes and traditions have been created around the world, and are displayed during the Christmas season in churches, homes, shopping malls, and other venues, and occasionally on public lands and in public buildings.
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Una McLean MBE (born 1 May 1930 in Strathaven, Scotland) is a Scottish actress and comedian. She is best known for appearing in pantomimes. She was married to Scottish stage and film actor Russell Hunter from 1991 until his death in 2004. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and began her career at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews in 1955.
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In December 2013 and January 2014, he played the starring role of Prince Charming in Qdos Entertainment Pantomimes Cinderella at The Beck Theatre, Hayes. This was his pantomime debut, and he starred alongside Shane Richie Jr. for a 38 performance run. His single "Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)" featured in the show. He also appeared as a guest on the James Whale Radio Show.
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In November 1915 she made her début at the Old Vic in Richard III, and she subsequently appeared in many other Shakespeare plays. During her teenage years, the "consummate little actress", as a national paper had once called her when she was 10, starred in many musicals and pantomimes. She briefly 'retired' from acting at age 18. Her first marriage, to Stephen Thomas, produced one daughter.
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These early pantomimes were silent, or "dumb show", performances consisting of only dancing and gestures. Spoken drama was allowed in London only in the two (later three) patent theatres until Parliament changed this restriction in 1843.Haill, Catherine. Pantomime, University of East London, accessed 17 January 2012 A large number of French performers played in London following the suppression of unlicensed theatres in Paris.
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Although this constraint was only temporary, English pantomimes remained primarily visual for some decades before dialogue was introduced. An 18th-century author wrote of David Garrick: "He formed a kind of harlequinade, very different from that which is seen at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where harlequin and all the characters speak."Davies, Thomas. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, New edition, 1780, I. x.
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Unfortunately, his début came at a time when another Pierrot at the Funambules, Paul Legrand, was just beginning to make a reputation for himself; Charles had been conscripted as his replacement, in fact, while Legrand fulfilled an engagement at the Adelphi in London.Hugounet, pp. 125-26. When he returned, he and Charles fell into a rivalry, which persisted until Legrand left the theater in 1853. Two years later, Charles accepted an engagement at the Délassements-Comiques, and he was not to return to the Funambules until 1862, when he appeared in its last two pantomimes, The Golden Bough and Pierrot's Memoirs, before the theater was demolished, a casualty of Haussmann's renovation of Paris.The Funambules reopened on the Boulevard de Strasbourg in 1867; ten years later, it was still producing pantomimes, though of a very impoverished kind (see Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 181, 320–321).
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Hilton kept on performing well into the 1960s, in summer seasons and Christmas shows, and was also a regular fixture in pantomimes in Hull, at the New Theatre, but knew that his chart days were behind him. In 1967 he released a single with covers of "If I Were a Rich Man" and "The Laughing Gnome" on the A-side and B-side respectively. It did not chart.
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Thomsett was born in Plumpton in 1950 to Maurice and Dorothy Thomsett (née Joy) and had three older brothers. She grew up in nearby Brighton and attended the Elm Grove Infants and Juniors School. One of her brothers offered her five shillings to successfully audition for The Max Bygraves Summer Show. After that, she appeared in several pantomimes until she left secondary school to attend Phildene Stage School in London.
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Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.Byrne, Eugene. "The patient", Historyextra.com, 13 April 2012 In the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British pantomimes, notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden theatres.
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Grimaldi (Boz edition), p. 126 Grimaldi, who considered the role of Orson to be the most physically and mentally demanding of his career, nevertheless performed the part with enthusiasm on tour in the provinces.Grimaldi (Boz edition), p. 127 Perhaps the best-known of Grimaldi's pantomimes was Thomas Dibdin's Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Golden Egg, which opened on 29 December 1806 at the Covent Garden Theatre.Mayer, p.
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Anne Charleston (born 1942) is an Australian actress, notable for her career locally, as well as in the United Kingdom, she is best known for her roles in television series and telemovies, but has also acted on stage including theatre roles and pantomimes, she is probably best known for playing the itinerant character of gravel-voiced Madge Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and Lily Butterfield in British soap Emmerdale.
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He played summer seasons, pantomimes, and one-night stands in vintage form. Scott joined the Grand Order of Water Rats in 1952. He became the president of the Ukulele Society of Great Britain and he was performing in old-time music hall until the mid-1990s. He was a guest of the George Formby Society in November 1999 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, where he was made an Honorary Member.
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Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in the village of Marsden, where his family still live. He has an older sister, Hilary. His father Peter is a former electrician, probation officer and firefighter who is well known locally for writing plays and pantomimes for his all-male panto group, The Avalanche Dodgers. He wrote his first poem aged 10 as a school assignment.
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Antony came from a family of artists and was performing on stage from the age of three, receiving singing and dancing lessons. He attended Bridgnorth Endowed School and is a graduate of the Guildford School of Acting. He went on to appear in pantomimes and musicals across England. In 1997, Antony made his debut on the German stage, with the world premiere of the musical Catharine, in Aachen.
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In 1942 she toured in Baby Mine and appeared again as Aladdin. Two years later, she was touring with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as Olympia, the doll, in The Tales of Hoffman. Huntley-Wright's post-war engagements continued to feature annual pantomimes and comedies in London and on tour. In 1957 she took over the part of Madame Dubonnet in the long-running musical The Boy Friend.
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As the plays became more than mere pantomimes of biblical stories, they took on bigger texts and were performed at Christmas, Corpus Christi, and numerous other religious saints days or feasts. As the drama of the production became more ambitious, the playing spaces also grew. The plays originally were performed on the altar of the church but grew to encompass the entirety of the front of the church.
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This action led to the formation of the 'Variety Artists Federation' (VAF),It's Behind You! - The Music Hall Pantomimes at www.its-behind-you.com which decades later was absorbed into Equity. In December 1907 he helped found and became the first president of the Variety Artistes Benevolent Fund, which was set up by performers to replace a previous society (founded by Elvin's father) which had been controlled largely by agents and managers.
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In middle school, students develop music literacy by reading and writing music, playing choir chimes, and choral singing. The study of music in culture and the history of jazz and opera are taught alongside theory and performance. The drama program begins in acting and dramatic writing, directing, and the technical arts in the fourth group. Students practice both rehearsed and improvised performances to create pantomimes, monologues, films, and short plays.
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This year was Peter Pan, with Derek Griffiths as Captain Hook , whilst Jay played Smee. The 2015 pantomime production starring Kevin Kennedy was one of the most financially successful pantomimes in the theatre’s history. A total of 60,996 tickets were sold for Peter Pan, beating the previous year’s sales of 60,063 for Cinderella. During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic over half the theatre's staff were made redundant by the summer.
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" He regularly featured in pantomimes and in music halls in London, and toured in South Africa, Australia, and the United States.Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, British Music Hall: A story in pictures, Studio Vista, 1965, p.131 It was said of his first appearance in New York in 1909: "Nothing funnier.. has been seen in a New York vaudeville theatre. The burlesque is pure artistry, subtle and screamingly funny.
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A dress rehearsal of the duo's 1996 tour The Chuckle Brothers in Trouble was released on DVD in 2008. In addition, the brothers' 2008 tour, Indiana Chuckles and The Kingdom of the Mythical Sulk, set in Ancient Egypt, was released on DVD later that year. The brothers toured theatres annually with their shows until 2015. Although, they performed regularly in pantomimes, festivals, events and holiday parks until Barry's death in 2018.
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Some of his earliest works were for pantomimes and cabaret and variety shows. He then began collaborating on operetta librettos with his friends and fellow writers Rudolf Bernauer and Ernst Welisch. Their success led him to becoming a full-time librettist. During the course of his career he would write or co- write over 30 operetta and musical theatre librettos, many of which were later made into films.
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Marti Webb was born in Hampstead to Cecil (a clockmaker) and Selina Elizabeth Webb, and raised in Cricklewood.{{cn} Her parents took her to variety shows and pantomimes as a child. Her father played the violin and her mother sang and played the piano. She attended dance lessons from the age of 3 and first performed in public at the age of 7, at the Scala Theatre, London.
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He had several children by Anne Gaudry, including Rev. John Turner Colman Fawcett (1804-1867), and Robert Henry Harris Fawcett (1805-1859) of the 18th Regiment and the Bengal Civil Service. As his career progressed Fawcett became effective in playing a range of characters, being particularly remembered as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law (1797) and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman (1798). He also authored several pantomimes.
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Lavish sets and athletic clowning were expected, along with elaborate ballets. By far the most popular of these pantomimes was Fox's Humpty Dumpty. The plot had young Humpty and his playmates turn into harlequinade characters and romp through a candy store, an enchanted garden and Manhattan's costly new City Hall. Fox's mute passivity set him apart from the raucous clamor surrounding him, and audiences took the little man to their hearts.
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His legacy is in the organisations he launched, revived and often led: the brass band; the drama group; the festival players; the light opera group; the civic society; and the festival choir. He was also the driving force in the creation of an arts centre (few English towns of 7,000 people have one), a regular venue for string quartets, jazz, stand-up comedy, plays, pantomimes, as well as talks and lectures.
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Weaver left London and returned to Shrewsbury in late 1707 or early 1708. In Shrewsbury, Weaver embarked on a book of his own. In An Essay towards an History of Dancing, published in London in 1712, he admiringly recounts the achievements of the dancers – the mimes and pantomimes – of classical antiquity. He also appraises the stage dancing of his own time, setting down his ideas for its reform.
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This had a different story line in which the poor but happy Mother Goose is tempted with wealth by the Devil.Caroline Radcliffe, p. 127–9 "Dan Leno, Dame of Drury Lane" in Victorian Pantomime: A Collection of Critical Essays, Palgrave Macmillan 2010 This was the ancestor of all the pantomimes of that title that followed, adaptations of which continue to appear.Michael Billington’s Mother Goose review, The Guardian, 12 Dec.
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George was also an acrobat and pantomimist and produced and appeared in nearly 50 pantomimes with Henry Spry. George helped to run the Grecian and inherited it on his father's death. The theatre was rebuilt in 1858, again in 1876, and sold in around 1878 or 1879 when George Conquest went on a tour of the United States. He was injured in a stage accident during the tour.
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The school has staged productions of Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent (musical), Mary Poppins, Aladdin Jr. and several pantomimes written by staff like Peter Panto and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It produces one annual Christmas musical. As of 2019, the school will produce one spring play each year. The school holds an annual 'International Evening' to celebrate different cultures and countries of the world.
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Apart from hosting visiting theatre companies, Theatr Clwyd is home to Wales' major drama producing theatre company, under the artistic direction of Tamara Harvey, which stages their own productions throughout the year (including one of the longest-running pantomimes in the country) and also regularly performs on tour around Wales and the UK. Theatr Clwyd hosted the successful second stage performance of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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In 1868, he began a long association with W. S. Gilbert, staging the dances for most of the original productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Mikado (1885), as well as many other Savoy operas. Between the 1860s and 1909, D'Auban choreographed more than 150 productions, including pantomimes, burlesques, musical comedies and comic operas. He also taught dance to many who became famous performers.
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It was a huge success and was to remain Barnes' most popular song. As Barnes said in his account of his life ('How success ruined me'), his name was 'made in a single night'. With this impressive start to his career he spent the next few years establishing himself. By 1911, he was top of the bill on all of the major circuits and principal boy in a number of pantomimes.
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Wague performed in many stage pantomimes including Scaramouche, Barbe Bluette and L'homme aux poupées, and played silent roles in ballet and opera. Between 1907 and 1922, he also performed in more than forty films. He started his film career with the silent film L'Enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son) by Michel Carré, where he played a Pierrot. His last film performance was in 1922 in Faust by Gérard Bourgeois.
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As well as traditional clubs and societies such as the Women's Institute, Rotary Club, Scouts, Guides and Hilton Gardening Club, Hilton also has a thriving community of smaller special interest groups. There is a small local book club, Hilton Dog Walkers group and also a local history group. The Hilton Amateur Theatrical Society (H.A.T.S) has been performing pantomimes and other plays at the village hall for over twenty years.
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In the summer of 2008, at the age of 13, Vlahos wrote and performed his own material at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In December of that year, he was recruited to review Christmas pantomimes for the Guardian newspaper and website. He also had a comedy show on Radio London and has appeared on CBBC Extra. He has been involved with the "Comedy Club 4 Kids UK" children's Comedy Academy.
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She joined the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow in 1959. From 1965 she starred in her own show for Scottish Television, Over to Una, and In 1967 she starred in Scotland's first one-woman television show, Did you see Una? She has appeared in several films, including Peter Capaldi's Strictly Sinatra in 2001. She has appeared in many pantomimes in Scotland, often starring opposite Jimmy Logan and with Stanley Baxter.
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One year later, by this time the two live together in Irma's house, his marching orders arrive and he departs for the front. Return to the Japanese scene. The businessman reflects upon the Gyokuon-hōsō, Hirohito's radio address, and his eyes fall on his grandfather's sword. With slow, deliberate gestures he pantomimes the action of dressing himself in traditional Japanese clothes and initiating the ancient ritual of seppuku.
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By the early 1800s, the pantomime's classical stories were often supplanted by stories adapted from European fairy tales, fables, folk tales, classic English literature or nursery rhymes. Also, the harlequinade grew in importance until it often was the longest and most important part of the entertainment. Pantomimes usually had dual titles that gave an often humorous idea of both the pantomime story and the harlequinade. "Harlequin and ________", or "Harlequin _______; or, the ________".
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This was followed by what was often the most spectacular part of the production, the magical transformation scene.Wilson, p.?. In early pantomimes, Harlequin possessed magical powers that he used to help himself and his love interest escape. He would tap his wooden sword (a derivative of the Commedia dell'arte slapstick or "batte") on the floor or scenery to make a grand transition of the world around him take place.
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Lyn was born in 1965 and grew up in the area of Gendros in Swansea, South Wales. During his childhood he regularly attended the Grand Theatre in Swansea to see pantomimes during the 1970s. In 1980, Lyn first performed at the Grand Theatre in Swansea in a version of Kismet. Later that year came his second performance in Charlie Girl, which was also performed at the Grand Theatre.
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Many writers in the early 20th century perpetuated a myth that Thespis ran only a month and was considered a failure.Wyndham, p. 119; Walbrook, p. 35; Dark & Grey, p. 63; Dunhill, p. 45; Fitz-Gerald, p. 2; Sullivan & Flower, p. 68; Pearson, p. 89. In fact, it remained open until 8 March. Of the nine London pantomimes that appeared during the 1871–72 holiday season, five closed before Thespis did.
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They put on many productions varying from comedies and dramas, to pantomimes for kids/. Clondalkin Youth Theater is a theatre group for youth's in the Clondalkin area. It has two subgroups, the Junior club (10–16 yr old) and the Senior group (16–24 yr old) It is 25 years running and has had over 100 members in its time. At the moment it has around 30 members.
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The Playhouse is currently under the leadership of Stephanie Sirr, Chief Executive and Giles Croft, Artistic Director. In Spring 2017 it was announced that Adam Penford would succeed Croft as Artistic Director from September 2017. Nottingham Playhouse has a strong tradition of new works for children, both in the form of original writing and more recently in the form of classic pantomimes conceived by former artistic director Kenneth Alan Taylor. Taylor has directed 34 consecutive pantomimes at the theatre as of 2013. In common with most producing theatres, Nottingham Playhouse no longer has a repertory approach to programming although it continues to create up to 13 new productions per annum. Its recent plays include Old Big 'Ead in the Spirit of the Man, a homage to Nottingham legend Brian Clough, Rat Pack Confidential and Summer and Smoke, which both transferred to the West End and The Burial at Thebes which was part of the Barbican BITE season of autumn 2007 and toured the US in 2008.
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Lytton as Grosvenor Passmore stayed in London when the D'Oyly Carte company went on tour in 1903. There he began a career in musical comedies, plays and pantomimes in London's West End and on tour that lasted for thirty years. He first appeared at the Adelphi Theatre, where he played Jim Cheese in the hit musical The Earl and the Girl (1903) and the Emperor in Little Hans Andersen (1903),Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014), p. 165 then to the Lyric Theatre as Jerry Snipe in The Talk of the Town (1905) and as Private Charlie Taylor in The Blue Moon (1905). His pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane included Cinderella (1905), Sinbad (1906), and Babes in the Wood (1907), At the Apollo Theatre, Passmore appeared in The Dairymaids (1906) and The Three Kisses (1907), and at the Queen's Theatre he played Baptiste Boubillon in The Belle of Brittany (1908).
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The spectacular piece with which Charles débuted there had been set in such a fairyland: The Three Planets, or The Life of a Rose was, as noted above, a "grand pantomime-harlequinade-fairy play" that was "in three parts and twelve changes of scene, mixed with dances, transformations, and sumptuous costumes".Les Trois Planètes, ou la Vie d'une rose, grande pantomime arlequinade féerie, dialoguée dans le genre anglais, en trois parties et douze changemens à vue, mêlée de danses, transformations et travestissemens (Paris: Gallet, 1847). A glance into the volume of pantomimes that Emile Goby published in 1889, Pantomimes de Gaspard et Ch. Deburau, turns up nothing so ambitious as this. Instead, one finds what Adriane Despot concluded were the usual sorts of productions on Jean-Gaspard's stage: "light, small-scale, nonsensical adventures enlivened with comic dances, ridiculous battles, and confrontations placed in a domestic or otherwise commonplace setting."Despot, p. 366.
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It was founded in 1806 as the Sans Pareil ("Without Compare"), by merchant John Scott, and his daughter Jane (1770–1839). Jane was a British theatre manager, performer, and playwright. Together, they gathered a theatrical company and by 1809 the theatre was licensed for musical entertainments, pantomime, and burletta. She wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas, pantomimes, farces, comic operettas, historical dramas, and adaptations, as well as translations.
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McConnell Stott, p. 70 Jack made his debut on the Italian stage at age 11, soon afterwards coming to England in 1787, where he met the ten-year-old Joseph Grimaldi, who had begun performing in the pantomimes of his actor father Giuseppe. The two young performers formed a close friendship. From there, Bologna made his first appearance on the English stage with his family's tumbling act, which initially toured the provincial theatres.
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Tokunagayusurika akamusi is in the family of Chironomidae and in the order Diptera. The most ancient families of flies are midges, mosquitoes, and others in their broad subgroup of flies. The family name, Chironomidae, is derived from the Greek word for "pantomimist" which describes someone who pantomimes, for the fly's typical posture of having its forelegs held out in front of its body. More than 7,300 species in this family have been described scientifically.
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321 As in most pantomimes, he played a dual role, in this case first as "Bugle", a wealthy but abrasive eccentric womaniser, and after the transformation to the harlequinade, as Clown.McConnell Stott, pp. 171–73 Mother Goose was a runaway success with its London audiences and earned an extraordinary profit of £20,000. It completed a run of 111 performances over a two-year residency, a record for any London theatre production at the time.
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The English essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm thought of Campbell as "the offspring of some mystical union between beef and thunder" and regularly took French visitors to see him "as a liberal education in the character of this island".Beerbohm, p. 350 In the pantomimes, Leno and Campbell would often deviate from the script, improvising freely. Some critics, including the writer E. L. Blanchard felt that the employment of music-hall performers was corrupting pantomime.
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In 1967, Lee appeared at Melbourne's Lido Theatre Restaurant in a limited-season revue entitled Hello Australia. The show was billed as "the most spectacular revue in Australian theatre restaurant history", with Lee himself billed as the "controversial impressionist and singing personality from the famous Carousel Nightspot in Paris"."Amusements", The Age, 14 January 1967, p 72. From the early 1970s, Lee mostly performed in his native Sydney, appearing in cabaret, pantomimes and stage shows.
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In the 1930s, Tisdall toured England with Roy Fox and his band, during which time she adopted the stage name, Peggy Dell. Later, she performed in the United States as the lead singer with the Jack Hylton band. Following the outbreak of World War II she returned to Ireland and re-established herself as a popular musician and entertainer there. She played and sang at dances, performed in revues, and acted in pantomimes.
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These attracted huge audiences, peaking with 1994's Dick Whittington, starring Lesley Joseph and John Nettles, which attracted 126,256 theatregoers.The Mayflower – History – Born Again – The Mayflower Years accessed 7 July 2007 Musicals also made up a big part of the turnaround of the theatre. 1990 brought a full-scale version of the West End's 42nd Street, followed by Evita. These proved huge successes and, along with the pantomimes, ensured the continued success of the theatre.
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The new actors engaged faced opposition from the Sydney actors, and the Sydney Morning Herald commented on 25 January 1843: "Of the twelve brought out by him from England there is not one equal in ability to the leading members, male or female, of the old company". Wyatt eventually sacked some of his actors. Operas, dramas, burlesques, pantomimes and other amusements were held. George Coppin made his Australian debut in the theatre in 1843.
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In recent years, talking soft toys have been added to the range of Churchill merchandise,Buy a Churchill dog Churchill Dog Shop and the character has a page on social networking site Facebook. Walker began starring in the adverts in January 2009. During 2009, Churchill starred in twenty two pantomimes around the United Kingdom.Churchill in panto Churchill In August 2010, he made appearances at Pontins holiday camps, before returning for his second pantomime run.
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Initially Peter worked for Edinburgh District Council, at the now defunct Nelson Halls, building, amongst other things, trick props and Cinderella's Coach for the King's Theatre Pantomimes. He then went on to work for the Royal Lyceum Theatre at their Roseburn Studios. After four years working as a freelance, including projects for Perth Rep, Scottish Theatre Company, Scottish Heritage and The City Gallery; he moved to London and took up his career as a performer.
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In addition to the other works of notation mentioned above, he published A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing' (1706), another translation of Feuillet. He also published "Anatomical and mechanical lectures upon dancing. Wherein rules and institutions for that art are laid down and demonstrated" (1721). In 1728 he revised sections of his Essay of 1712 for a more popular audience and published it as The History of the Mimes and Pantomimes.
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The anti-ministerial (Tory) sentiment was entirely derived from interpretation. Playwrights were therefore in straits. On the one hand, when the playhouses were not running operas imported wholesale from the continent, they were dispensing with dramatists by turning out hack-written pantomimes. On the other hand, when a satirical play appeared from a literary source, the Whig ministry suppressed it even though it came from the most popular dramatist of the day (i.e.
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Benjamin has appeared in Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Black Mikado and The Husband-In-Law, as well as several pantomimes. On screen, she appeared in the 1975 horror film I Don't Want to Be Born and starred in the 1977 film Black Joy. Her television credits include Angels, Within These Walls, Crown Court, The Gentle Touch and Dixon of Dock Green. She appeared as Juniper in the first episode of Bergerac (1981).
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Retford appeared in Royal Variety Performances in 1912, 1921 and 1938. She also made film appearances as a character actress in Darby and Joan (1937), Poison Pen (1939), I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945), Paper Orchid (1949), and Shadow of the Past (1950). She continued to perform on stage in pantomimes until 1949, and appeared in 1954 on BBC television as a judge in the contest Top Town. Radio Times, 18 June 1954, p.
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429Gänzl, Kurt. "Chu Chin Chow Musical Tale of the East In 3 Acts, Music by Frederic Norton", Operetta Research Center, 9 July 2016 Pearce moved to the UK in 1922, with one of her earliest shows being Love's Awakening. She went on to work consistently on the London stage in musicals and pantomimes up until her death. In 1954 she appeared with Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare in the West End farce The Party Spirit.
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Outside of the group, Nolan is a staunch supporter of the charity 'HeadFirst', which was set up as a result of the 1984 coach crash and specifically Nolan's head injuries.Headfirst – Background His support for this charity also incorporates "The Mike Nolan Brain Damage Fund", which was co- created by fellow member Baker. Both continue to raise money for the charity. Other activities outside of Bucks Fizz include appearing on stage in a number of Pantomimes.
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The Capuchin community in Cork acquired a premises on Queen Street, modern Fr Mathew Street, in 1907. This building, now known as Father Mathew Hall, was used to host theatrical performances, annual pantomimes and other productions from 1911 to the 1960s. It remains the venue for the annual Feis Maitiú begun by Capuchin Fr Micheál O'Shea in 1927. A fenced boundary wall was added to the front of the church about 1960.
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Martin Shaw, How We Met--Edward Gordon Craig and Martin Shaw. Two years later, in his journal The Page, he published (under the pseudonym "S.M. Fox") a short story, "The Last of the Pierrots", which is a shaming attack upon the modern commercialization of Carnival. However, his most important contribution to the Pierrot canon was not to appear until after the turn of the century (see Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues below).
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" At age three, she took part in her first singing competition at the annual Feis Ceoil music festival. She took part in pantomimes at Gweedore Theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's church in Derrybeg. She learned English at primary school and began piano lessons at age four. "I had to do school work and then travel to a neighbouring town for piano lessons, and then more school work.
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Altan's version of the song appears on their 1997 album Runaway Sunday. Scottish folk group Battlefield Band popularised the song as "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" (which they recorded and released in 1976 on their debut album Farewell to Nova Scotia). He also wrote pantomimes for the local theater, and translated many songs from English into Irish. In 2003, he was honoured by the Oireachtas when he was the president of the Letterkenny event.
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Dancing with Iggy - audience participation at Sziget Festival An audience at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City. Audience participation is commonly found in performances which break the fourth wall. Examples include the traditional British pantomimes, stand-up comedy, and creative stage shows such as Blue Man Group. Audience participation can be uncomfortable for certain people, but is growing and evolving as a new tool of brand activation and brand engagement.
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With him she created political pantomimes each year for the Pindar, The Arches and the Canal Cafe Theatre. Together they wrote twenty five shows. With Robin Hunter and John Gould she wrote Hit the Fan or Not the News Revue, performed at the Canal Cafe. She wrote Stairway to Paradise, a musical biography of Marilyn Monroe, with music arranged by David Wykes, which was performed at The Arches and the Canal Cafe.
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She was born into a poor family in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England. Official records give her birth name as Betsey Bonehill. She appeared in the 1860s as a double act with her sister Marion. After cropping her hair, she became well known as a "principal boy" actor in local pantomimes, before moving to London and appearing as a male impersonator and performer of "coster songs" in theatres in the 1870s and 1880s.
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159 during which period a new roof was built. In the same year the renowned tightrope dancer Marietta Zanfretta also performed here. Theatrical productions included the pantomimes Harlequin Bluebeard, or, the Good Fairy Preciosa and the Bad Demon Rusifusti (December 1864-February 1865) and Mother Goose! and the Fairy Legend of the Golden Egg (February 1865) as well as the drama Fairy Prince O'Donoughue, or, the White Horse of Killarney (April to May 1865).
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Wait a Minim! (1962–68) was a musical revue conceived by Leon Gluckman, with original songs by Jeremy Taylor, and a collection of international folk music arranged by Andrew Tracey. Many authentic instruments were played to accompany dances and pantomimes satirizing the national characteristics and political and social eccentricities of many different countries. The only spoken words were when the cast was introduced, and in the South African scene where apartheid was ridiculed.
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Jessie Bateman as the Fairy Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma, retitled The Fairy's Dilemma shortly after the play opened, is a play in two acts by W. S. Gilbert that parodies the harlequinade that concluded 19th-century pantomimes. It was produced at the Garrick Theatre by Arthur Bourchier, lessee of the theatre, on 3 May 1904 and ran for 90 performances, closing on 22 July 1904. The work was Gilbert's last full-length play.
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Noverre was inspired by the pantomimes that he thought stirred up the audience's emotions by the use of expressive movement. He proclaimed in his text that ballet should unfold through dramatic movement, and the movement should express the relationship between the characters. Noverre named this type of ballet, ballet d’action or pantomime ballet (International Dictionary of Ballet 1032). From 1757 to 1760, he produced thirteen new works with composer François Granier at the Lyon Opera.
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She co-wrote three of the LTM's annual theater productions and performed in thirteen pantomimes. She worked alongside some of the most prominent figures in Jamaican theater, including Louise Bennett-Coverley, Charles Hyatt, Oliver Samuels, and Ranny Williams. For example, Kelly Miller and Bennett-Coverley frequently worked together, starred opposite each other in the 1963, 1966, and 1973 LTM Pantomime productions of Queenie's Daughter. She and Bennett-Coverley also appeared together in "Pirate's Princess" pantomime.
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At Drury Lane, Harris continued to devise elaborate spectacle and effects for his melodramas: in A Life of Pleasure (1893) there was a representation of the promenade at the Empire music hall, and in Cheer Boys, Cheer (1895) the sinking of HMS Birkenhead was spectacularly portrayed.Mander and Mitchenson, p. 69 He continued to stage the annual pantomimes, which he wrote in collaboration with Harry Nicholls and others. They ran from Christmas to Easter.
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Parker, pp. 396–397 Grossmith had a younger sister, Emily, and younger brother, Weedon. In 1855, he went to boarding school at Massingham House on Haverstock Hill in the district of Hampstead. There he studied the piano and began to amuse his friends and teachers with shadow pantomimes, and later by playing the piano by ear. His family moved to Haverstock Hill when young Grossmith was 10, and he became a day student.
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A & C Black Ltd, London, 1977. She left the company to play the principal role in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre, London. Following that Fraser appeared as Venus in The Olympians at Covent Garden, and starred in many plays and pantomimes. These included Girl in the Window and the musical romance Golden City; she was in the revue Airs on a Shoestring at the Royal Court Theatre from 1953 to 1955.
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The two siblings were brought up in The Dale, Widley, in the Borough of Havant. At the time of their appearance on The X Factor, Sean (born 24 September 1985) was an entertainer in Portsmouth while Sarah (born 4 November 1988) was a student. Sean left home at the age of 17 to perform on cruise ships and appeared in a number of pantomimes. Together, they performed at a local retirement home.
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The Gaiety is known for its annual Christmas pantomime and has hosted a pantomime every year since 1874. Actor and director Alan Stanford directed both Gaiety productions of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Irish entertainer June Rodgers starred in the Gaiety pantomime for years, until she began to headline the equally established Olympia Theatre panto. The Gaiety's pantomimes have included Irish performers that appeal to home grown audiences, including a number of Fair City actors.
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Loomis also composed works for children; also in his catalog may be found numerous stage works, including comic operas and pantomimes; sonatas for violin and for piano; and incidental music to numerous stage plays. Little of his music has been committed to disc, although some of the Lyrics may be found on a recording of Indianist piano music released by Naxos Records on the Marco Polo label. Loomis died on Christmas Day, December 25, 1930.
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He became so dominant on the London comic stage that the harlequinade role of Clown became known as "Joey", and both the nickname and Grimaldi's whiteface make-up design were, and still are, used by other types of clowns. Grimaldi originated catchphrases such as "Here we are again!", which continue to feature in modern pantomimes. Born in London to an entertainer father, Grimaldi began to perform as a child, making his stage debut at Drury Lane in 1780.
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The set consists of three pieces. It has an overall approximate duration of 7 minutes. The movement list is as follows: The term burlesque, used as the title for the pieces in this set, is meant to mean short, lively pieces used as pantomimes, since the term was originally used in literature and theater. Here, social conventions and customs are meant to be exaggerated and parodied, That is, scenes that reflect human vicissitudes, both pleasant and unpleasant.
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The LNER Sentinel Railcars LNER Encyclopaedia No. 220 "Water Witch" may have been the first to work to Cawood, but it was destroyed in a collision near Doncaster on 9 June 1929. Better remembered were two similar cars, No. 225 "True Blue" and No. 273 "Trafalgar" which worked the branch until the last passenger service on Saturday 30 December 1929. Occasional special passenger trains, such as excursions to pantomimes in Leeds, used the line until 1946.
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The LNER Sentinel Railcars LNER Encyclopaedia No. 220 "Water Witch" may have been the first to work to Cawood, but it was destroyed in a collision near Doncaster on 9 June 1929. Better remembered were two similar cars, No. 225 "True Blue" and No. 273 "Trafalgar" which worked the branch until the last passenger service on Saturday 30 December 1929. Occasional special passenger trains, such as excursions to pantomimes in Leeds, used the line until 1946.
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The LNER Sentinel Railcars LNER Encyclopaedia No. 220 "Water Witch" may have been the first to work to Cawood, but it was destroyed in a collision near Doncaster on 9 June 1929. Better remembered were two similar cars, No. 225 "True Blue" and No. 273 "Trafalgar" which worked the branch until the last passenger service on Saturday 30 December 1929. Occasional special passenger trains, such as excursions to pantomimes in Leeds, used the line until 1946.
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The Grace auditorium dominated the social life of Sydney with dances, fashion parades, children's events displays and pantomimes held within it. 1954 saw the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II with the Broadway stores extensively decorated. However, the centre of Sydney shopping gradually moved from Broadway into the current CBD around Market and Pitt Streets, and Grace Bros vacated the Broadway store in 1992. The building was resurrected as a multimillion-dollar retail and cinema complex in 1998.
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In the late 1850s and early 1860s, Craven worked at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on pantomimes, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on operas. His first post as chief scene-painter was at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, from 1862 to 1864. In London, during the rest of the 1860s, Craven was an assistant at the Lyceum, Olympic and Adelphi theatres. In June 1866 he married a dancer, Mary Elizabeth Watson Tees (1838–1891).
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His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece. Beckett's pieces include numerous burlesques and pantomimes, the libretti of Savonarola (Hamburg, 1884) and The Canterbury Pilgrims (Drury Lane, 1884) for the music of Dr. C. V. Stanford. With the composer Alfred Cellier, Beckett wrote the operetta Two Foster Brothers (St.
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Landmines & Pantomimes is a compilation by The Wildhearts including unreleased demo tracks and the B-sides to the cancelled 'In Lilly's Garden' single. The album was compiled and released by the record company without authorization from the band. The songs 'Weekend '96', 'Beautiful Me, Beautiful You' and 'All-American Homeboy Crowd' (without the word 'British') have been officially released in different recorded versions, while Wildhearts leader Ginger has occasionally performed 'Tom Take the Money' live during solo tours.
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The theatre closed for major redevelopment in January 1986, with the entire stage area being improved and additional facilities, such as computerised box office, being added. The theatre opened, as The Mayflower, on 24 February 1987, with a production of Peter Pan starring Bonnie Langford, with the official opening gala, televised in May. Initial audiences proved disappointing and there was talk of the project being a white elephant. This changed, with the introduction of major pantomimes.
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Natalie Powers began acting at the age of seven when she played the youngest orphan in the first run of the hit musical Annie. Natalie was brought up with her two brothers in Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham. Natalie's parents, Peter and Gloria, recognised her talent and took her to audition for the lead role in Annie. Natalie toured around the country and between the ages of seven and 14 she starred in a number of musicals and pantomimes.
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György Kósa (24 April 1897, in Budapest – 16 August 1984, in Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. Kósa studied with Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Victor von Herzfeld between 1905 and 1916. From 1927, he taught piano at the Budapest Conservatory. He composed nine operas, four ballets, and incidental music for four pantomimes, as well as nine symphonies, one orchestral suite, chamber music, eleven oratorios, several cantatas, one mass, one setting of the Dies Irae, two requiems, and lieder.
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During their career, Paul and Barry performed in fifty one pantomimes together. Their first was Babes in the Wood, which they performed as The Harman Brothers in Malvern from 1967 until 1968 with Sandy Powell. Their final pantomime became Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at The Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, which they appeared in from 2017 until 2018 with Craig Revel Horwood. They were awarded a Great British Pantomime Award for Best Double Act for this production.
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As Hope Hillier she appeared in plays, comedies and pantomimes in London's West End as well as touring productions. In 1907 she was in the farce Mrs Ponderbury's Post at the Vaudeville produced by Charles Hawtrey. While on tour appearing in The Cinema Star at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, she met Arthur Topham whom she would later marry. Her last appearance was in a 1922 production of J. M. Barrie's Quality Street at the Haymarket.
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There is always a healthy rivalry with other Scottish theatres to put on the biggest and best Christmas pantomimes, with the main competition to the King's in Glasgow now being the Pavilion Theatre in Renfield Street. Over the years many actors and actresses have graced the stage of The King's. These included Laurence Olivier, Sarah Bernhardt, Ray Walston, Katharine Hepburn and Tyrone Power. The Jackson Five appeared at a Royal Variety Performance in the late 1970s.
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When Jimmy left school in 1946, he joined "Britain's Dead End Kids" and appeared in five pantomimes before Brian joined him. The brothers got their big break in 1956 when they performed in Aladdin as Chinese policemen. Over the course of their career they appeared alongside British pantomime favourites such as Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Corbett and John Inman. Both Jimmy and Brian made appearances in the children's television series ChuckleVision alongside their younger brothers Paul and Barry.
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In a rare instance of her singing, she performed the song My Prince, originally recorded by Lara Pulver on the album Act One – Songs from the Musicals of Alexander S. Bermange. In 2009–10, she played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at Princess Theatre, Torquay. In December 2010, she starred as the 'Fairy Pea Pod' in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. She starred in further pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 2011 and 2012.
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The Queen's Park Hippodrome was a theatre in Harpurhey, Manchester, England. It was built on the site of an old tramshed and opened on 25 April 1904. It initially staged variety, dramas, pantomimes, and revues, which gave way to "sizzlingly saucy" French variety acts towards the end of the theatre's life. Like many other theatres of the period, the increasing competition from cinema resulted in its closure in 1952, and the building was eventually demolished in 1966.
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In 1912 he went to the Stadttheater Magdeburg, where he became municipal Kapellmeister in 1924. He worked as an opera conductor and also conducted folk concerts, so in the circus, in the and also in the . In addition, he also appeared as a pianist. As a composer he created two ballet pantomimes, two Christmas fairy tales, a suite for orchestra, several étude, songs, orchestral pieces, a concert piece for cello, incidental music for drama and cheerful pieces.
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The form was hounded off the "legitimate stage" and found itself relegated to saloons and barrooms, and its content mostly raunchy jokes. Vaudeville is a style of variety entertainment predominant in America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Developing from many sources including shows in saloons, minstrelsy, British pantomimes, and other popular entertainments, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in America. Part of this entertainment was usually one or more comedians.
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Fairfield Halls, Arnhem Gallery and the Ashcroft Theatre show productions that are held throughout the year such as drama, ballet, opera and pantomimes and can be converted to show films. It also contains the Arnhem Gallery civic hall and an art gallery. Other cultural activities, including shopping and exhibitions, are Surrey Street Market which is mainly a meat and vegetables market near the main shopping environment of Croydon. The market has a Royal Charter dating back to 1276.
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In February 1880 he arrived in London and gained his first position as Musical Director in Charles Colette's burlesque company.Glover (1911), p. 58 By 1893 he was at the height of his career as Director of Music at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Over a 30-year period Glover worked alongside Arthur Collins and arranged the music for most of his productions, including the Drury Lane pantomimes, and became a significant figure in London's West End.
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The Capitol Theatre was a cinema in Didsbury, Manchester later used as television studios by ITV contractor ABC from 1956 to 1968. The building opened as a cinema in 1931, but was badly damaged by fire in April 1932 and was closed for repairs until August 1933. The cinema was equipped for the production of live shows, and was used for occasional pantomimes and amateur theatrical performances. In 1956 it was converted into television studios for ABC Weekend Television.
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She continued acting in pantomimes such as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. In 1937, she appeared opposite Richard Tauber in the C.B. Cochran production of the operetta Paganini by Franz Lehár, at the Lyceum Theatre and on tour. Laye performed with an unnamed dog for the VE Day edition of BBC's Music Hall. After the Second World War, Laye had less success, but she returned to the West End in 1954, in the musical Wedding in Paris.
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In Hermeneutics, Arianna Béatrice Fabbricatore has used the term entropy relying on the works of Umberto Eco,Umberto Eco, Opera aperta. Forma e indeterminazione nelle poetiche contemporanee, Bompiani 2013 to identify and assess the loss of meaning between the verbal description of dance and the choreotext (the moving silk engaged by the dancer when he puts into action the choreographic writing)Arianna Beatrice Fabbricatore. (2017). La Querelle des Pantomimes. Danse, culture et société dans l'Europe des Lumières.
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Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p. 24, n. 66. And Paul de Saint-Victor echoed her words several weeks after Deburau’s death: “Indeed, in plenty of places, the poem of his roles was free, scabrous, almost obscene.”Saint-Victor, "Mort"; tr. Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p. 24, n. 66. The censor's copies of the pantomimes do not betray very much of this "obscenity"; it would have been a very foolish theater-director indeed who submitted manuscripts that did.
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Additionally, she has composed music for several shows, such as Dick Whittington at the Barbican Centre, and seven other pantomimes for Chipping Norton. She was the musical director and arranger for Privates on Parade at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company (15 September 2008 to 11 October 2008).Listing, Privates on Parade, West Yorkshire Playhouse, accessed 25 July 2009 She was also the music supervisor for the Agatha Christie Marple series television movie Sleeping Murder (2006).
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The Westwood Glee Club was formed in 1931 but in 1934 merged with the dramatic society. The society was still very strong in the 1970s, staging pantomimes and comedies by J B Priestley. After much vexed debate, dancing was allowed from 1921. The Church and Sunday School committees decided in joint session that no more than six dances should be allowed in any one night, except for special occasions such as Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
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He left EastEnders in late 2003 for a one-year break to concentrate on pantomimes. His character was written out of the series after being framed for an armed robbery by Den Watts (played by Leslie Grantham), and going on the run after breaking out of prison. During his break from EastEnders, he presented the reality fighting series Britain's Hardest which was an underground competition broadcast on Sky One. He returned to EastEnders for two episodes in April 2005.
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The latter is a satire on contemporary follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the exaggerated popularity of Lord Burlington's protégé, the architect and painter William Kent. He continued that theme in 1727, with the Large Masquerade Ticket. In 1726 Hogarth prepared twelve large engravings illustrating Samuel Butler's Hudibras. Self-Portrait by Hogarth, ca. 1735, Yale Center for British Art.
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Stage work varied from plays to pantomimes and light musicals; she appeared in Little Old King Cole with Charlie Drake at the London Palladium in 1961, Puss In Boots at the Coventry Theatre with Sid James and Frankie Howerd in 1962-63, and Mandrake at the Criterion Theatre with Roy Kinnear in 1970. In the 1980s Michaels appeared in a number of documentaries and short films, including the 1987 BAFTA nominated Mohammed's Daughter, directed by Suri Krishnamma.
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He attended the Scarborough High School for Boys, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, and served as a physical training instructor for the Parachute Regiment with the rank of sergeant. He worked as a variety artist and stand-up comic at the Windmill Theatre and appeared in summer seasons and pantomimes. Other occupations included driving instructor, butcher, trawlerman, dolphin trainer, computer systems analyst, nightclub owner, personal shopper, publican and maître d' at a Michelin star Algarve restaurant.
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He was a regular performer on the show from 1969 to 1974. He attended the Jean Pearce School of Dancing in Leeds throughout the early 1970s. Curry has appeared in many pantomimes throughout the UK. His first was a television pantomime in 1972, Babes in the Wood, starring Little and Large and Susan Maughan, where Curry and Bonnie Langford were the two babes. Alan Parker cast Curry as Oscar, the producer, in the film Bugsy Malone (1976).
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The theatre was popular and this excited the jealousy of other neighbouring theatres, resulting in a regulation against productions other than pantomimes and the employment of more than three actors at the same time, unless obscured by a gauze curtain. On 14 July 1789, the day of the storming of the Bastille, Plancher Valcour tore down the gauze curtain in his theatre with the cry of "Vive la liberté!" In 1792 the theatre was taken over by Colon.
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Two writers who helped to elevate the importance and popularity of the fairy-tale portion of the pantomime were James Planché and Henry James Byron. They emphasized puns and humorous word play, a tradition that continues in pantomime today. As manager of Drury Lane in the 1870s, Augustus Harris wrote a series of extraordinarily popular pantomimes, focusing on the spectacle of the productions, that pushed this transition by emphasizing comic business in the pantomime opening and grand processionals.Mayer, p.
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Published in "History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times" (1898) Arbuscula (1st century BCE) was a woman stage performer of ancient Rome. She was a celebrated actor in pantomimes during the 1st century BCE, when most of the female parts at the time were played by men at least in tragedy. Cicero speaks of her in 54 AD as having been very successful, and having given him great pleasure.Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 4.15Horace, Serm. 1.10.
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The building has held events, such as the Scottish auditions of Britain's Got Talent 2008 to 2010, the auditions for the first four editions of The X Factor and the Hugo Award ceremony during Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention. Singer Susan Boyle was discovered at this venue. The building served as the venue for the weightlifting competitions of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, held in Glasgow. In the season of Christmas, the Armadillo is used for pantomimes.
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The same team produced pantomimes for many years during the 1980s and 90's which set a standard in British Theatre for integrity and quality. His recent TV work has included spells in Emmerdale and Doctors, Heartbeat and two films with director Norman Hull based on true life events that revolve around the crimes of unlikely individuals, The Canoe Man and the Antiques Rogueshow, and has completed filming on Abrahams Point with Mackenzie Crook and Harriet Walter.
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In 1877, Edouin returned with Thompson to New York. He soon appeared with Colville's Folly Company, an American farce-comedy troupe, and then with E. E. Rice's Surprise Party in pantomimes such as Babes in the Woods, a version of The Lost Children and Horrors. In 1880 he formed his own company, Willie Edouin's Sparks, co-authoring and starring in a successful farce, Dreams. In 1881, Edouin purchased a photo gallery in Philadelphia but sold it the following year.
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Notably, he starred in soap operas: Emmerdale as Albert Dingle, Coronation Street as garage-owner Ron Sykes, and his last acting role as Eddie Dawson in the sitcom Benidorm. He had regular roles in 14 pantomimes at Sheffield's Crucible and Lyceum theatres. In 2008, he published his autobiography Eyup Knutty followed by the sequel Eyup Again in 2010. He worked as a comedian on cruise ships and provided the voice of "Gaffer" on Tetley Tea Folk TV ads.
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In less than ten minutes the interior was ablaze, and the theatre was burnt down shortly after midnight."The Surrey Theatre: Its total destruction by fire", London News, The New York Times, 30 January 1865, accessed 10 July 2008. A new theatre, designed by John Ellis, seating 2,161 people in four tiers, opened on 26 December 1865. Little of note took place until 1881, when George Conquest took over, staging melodramas, many of them written by himself, and pantomimes.
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In May 1993, she got married again to an American man, fourteen years her junior called Brett. Within a year however, they had separated and then divorced. In the 1990s, Stevens lived in Sturminster Marshall, but as of 2011 lives in Corfe Mullen, both in Dorset. Since moving to Dorset, Stevens has begun appearing in Christmas pantomimes including Cinderella at Weymouth Pavilion in 2013 and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Tivoli, Wimborne in 2014.
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Soon after the fee stopped, Grimaldi fell into poverty after a number of ill-conceived business ventures and because he had entrusted management of his provincial earnings to people who cheated him.McConnell Stott, pp. 230–31 Despite his disabilities, he offered his services as a cameo performer in Christmas pantomimes. Along with Bologna, in 1827 he re-appeared briefly at Sadler's Wells where he gave some acting instruction to the mime artist William Payne, the future father of the Payne Brothers.
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The theatre's "curtain" is a mechanical peacock's tail. From the very beginning, the theatre was the home of Italian pantomimes, introduced in Denmark by the Italian Giuseppe Casorti. This tradition, dependent on the Italian Commedia dell'Arte, has been kept alive; it portrays the characters Cassander (the old father), Columbine (his beautiful daughter), Harlequin (her lover), and, especially popular with the youngest spectators, the stupid servant Pierrot. The absence of spoken dialogue is an advantage, for Tivoli is now an international tourist attraction.
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Gänzl, Kurt. "Who WAS 'Little Buttercup'?", Kurt Gänzl's blog, 28 April 2018 Everard made her first known stage appearance in Exeter, at the Theatre Royal, about 1861, and in Swansea and Plymouth from 1862 to 1863, earning warm notices for her singing in the burlesques, pantomimes and comic operas, such as adaptations of Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Aladdin, Ruy Blas and Fortunio. In 1864, she was at the Surrey Theatre in Sheffield appearing in Sinbad Guy Mannering and Rob Roy.
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Who's Who on the Dr Crippen website Also in 1899 she recorded the song "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (written by Maude Nugent) for Berliner Gramophone and "I'll Be Your Sweetheart". In 1900 she starred in Walter Gibbon's Anglo-American Bio-Tableaux film Kitty Mahone.Hawthorne in Kitty Mahone - the Internet Movie DatabaseHawthorne in Kitty Mahone - the British Film Institute website She was the Principal Boy in the pantomimes Puss in Boots (1903–1904) and Sleeping Beauty (1904–1905), both at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol.
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The role drew on Jimmy's previous manifestations as "Dames" in Variety performances and pantomimes. Biddy Mulligan was the representation (caricature, parody and stereotype) of a Dublin street-seller, with all the working-class repartee, wisdom and failings implicit. He made a number of recordings of sketches starring Mrs. Mulligan.Irish Times, 6 November 1931 Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".
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The Glasgow Gaiety Theatre was a cine-theatre in Anderston Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. Originally known as the Victoria Music Hall, then the Tivoli Variety Theatre, and co-founded by a grandson of James Baylis of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow it opened in 1899 presenting Musicals, variety shows and pantomimes. When it was rebuilt in 1904 it changed to operate as a cine-variety under the name of Gaiety Theatre, becoming a full cinema in 1935. The Beatles appeared there in 1963.
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7, col. E The Clarion's life was always precarious, but among its successes was a series of articles by Blatchford, collected in a volume entitled Merrie England, dedicated to Thompson. It was said that for every convert to socialism made by Das Kapital there were a hundred made by Merrie England. Thompson's first professional works for the stage in the late 1890s were scripts for pantomimes written for Robert Courtneidge, who was then the manager of the Prince's Theatre in Manchester.
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Bertha M. Wilson (August 14, 1874 – 1936) was an American dramatist, critic, and dramatic actress, who earned a reputation throughout the Central United States. She leased some of her monologues, sketches, drills, and plays to educators and professionals. Her own work was of three kinds: home talent entertainments, including original drills, tableaux, and pantomimes; plays and farces; and costume monologues for platform and stage. Wilson's Book of Drills and Marches for Young People and Small Children was published in 1895.
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The fairground pantomimes, by combining motifs from the Commedia dell'Arte with lavish fantasy created by theatrical spectacle, served as the most direct precursor of the 19th-century féerie. The French Revolution changed the face of French theatre, with a large new audience to please: the bourgeoisie. Various genres developed to please bourgeois tastes. The féerie, combining the fairground influences with the farcical style of comédie en vaudeville, began as a form of melodrama, but the gap between them quickly became highly pronounced.
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Tamaddon has also appeared in pantomimes including Aladdin and Snow White. In December 2007, she played the Fairy godmother in Cinderella at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, and in 2008 performed the title role in Cinderella at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford. She returned to the Lyceum Theatre in the production of Peter Pan, opposite Nigel Planer's Captain Hook. Tamaddon also played Sleeping Beauty in Sleeping Beauty from 14 December 2011 to 15 January 2012 at the Theatre Royal in Norwich.
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Following the cinema's closure in July 1958 the theatre was used as a clothing / furniture store with some performances by repertory groups, including Venture Productions, and pantomimes being staged during the 1960s. From the mid 1960s until the summer of 1971, the theatre was owned by a Salford businessman, Councillor Sam Goldberg. Goldberg allowed repertory groups such as Venture Productions to put on productions rent free. He also used the theatre as winter headquarters for his own Southport Repertory Company.
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Good Old Gaiety: An Historiette & Remembrance, pp. 39–41 (1903) London: Gaity Theatre Co His last full-length play, The Fairy's Dilemma (1904), drew heavily on (and satirised) pantomimic conventions. But Harlequin Cock Robin was Gilbert's only solo essay in the genre of traditional pantomime.Stedman, passim In the West End, during the mid-19th century, pantomimes traditionally opened at the major theatres on 26 December, known in England as Boxing Day, intended to play for only a few weeks into the new year.
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Gilbert's pantomime opened on the same night as rival shows at the Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells, and eight other London theatres. Less well-established pantomime venues opened on Christmas Eve to give themselves an edge over the competition; seven such shows opened on 24 December 1867."The Christmas Burlesques and Pantomimes", The Era Almanack, 1868, p. 60 The writers of the rival shows included established authors such as Mark Lemon, Gilbert à Beckett, C. H. Hazlewood and E. L. Blanchard.
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He presented a praxinoscope projection device at the Société française de photographie on 4 June 1880, but did not market his praxinoscope a projection before 1882. Only a handful of examples are known to still exist.Mannoni 1995 In 1888 Reynaud developed the Théâtre Optique, an improved version capable of projecting images on a screen from a longer roll of pictures. From 1892 he used the system for his Pantomimes lumineuses: a show with hand-drawn animated stories for larger audiences.
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Transgression is severely punished. The "park" is financed by the takings from a theatre, where the girls must perform nightly in "pantomimes" of an adult nature they do not understand. At one point a delegation of "ladies" arrive to select the girls for unspecified tasks, but Hidalla is not chosen. With the onset of menstruation, Hidalla and her peers are required to take an underground train to the outside world where they are united with boys of their own age.
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Richard Wynn Keene (9 December 1809 – 28 November 1887) is mainly remembered today under his theatrical name of Dykwynkyn. Keene was a Victorian designer of costumes, props, mechanical effects and scenery for plays and pantomimes on the London stage, with a strong sense of wit and a special feeling for animals. He contributed some notable props for the first cycle of Wagner's Ring at Bayreuth. He was also an artist and in his earlier career a manufacturer and inventor of building materials.
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Dainton biography on the Stage Beauty website In 1898 Dainton appeared in the pantomime Puss in Boots with Eugene Stratton at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Birmingham.The Music Hall Pantomimes website She also appeared in the legitimate theatre. Dainton was in demand both in London and on tour in the British provinces and abroad. During 1900 and 1901 she appeared at the Casino Theatre in New York, and at the Apollo Theatre in London, as Paquita in The Belle of Bohemia.
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A Cinderella Christmas is a pantomime version of the fairytale Cinderella, with a book by Kris Lythgoe, using for its score a pastiche of well known pop tunes. It was first produced in 2010 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, California. The music includes songs by Lady Gaga, Michael Bublé, Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Clarkson among others. Like other pantomimes, the show includes magic, dancing, singing, acting, audience interactivity and sing-a-long segments.
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The story was adapted into puppet play by Martin Powell in the early 18th century. Later, it has been performed as stage pantomimes and children's plays. It has also been retold as a children's story by a number of printers and authors to this day. A number of foreign and medieval analogues exist that exhibit the motif ("Whittington's cat" motif, N411.2), where the hero obtains wealth by selling a cat, typically in a rodent-infested place direly in need of one.
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Born in South Dublin, Ireland, the youngest daughter of Jack Reeves and his wife, Kay. Reeves grew up on Sundrive Road in Dublin 12, where her father Jack was a sergeant at the Garda station on the same road. She was educated at St Louis high school, Rathmines, and trained at night as an actor for four years at the Brendan Smith Academy in Dublin. As a child, Reeves's parents would take her to see plays and pantomimes in Dún Laoghaire.
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Morley is a pantomime favourite and has appeared in many pantomimes including: Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and lots more. In 2010, Morley returned to Coronation Street in the 50th Anniversary Special Coronation Street: A Knights Tale alongside former Coronation Street actor Kevin Kennedy who played Curly Watts. In 2011, he appeared in an episode of the children's television show Sooty as Hurbert Fanshawe. Morley has promoted and appeared in the adverts Coronation Street Bingo for Gala Bingo.
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Adelaide Mary Reeves was born in London on 3 March 1874. Her father was Samuel Isaacs, an actor who changed his name to Charles Reeves, and her mother was Harriet Reeves (née Seaman), a dancer. She was of Jewish descent."Ada Reeve", The Jewish EncyclopediaJewish Virtual Library She made her first appearance on the stage at the age of four in the pantomime Red Riding Hood on Boxing Day 1878 at the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel and continued to play in pantomimes.
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Oldham was born John Stephens Oldham in Accrington, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Oldham and his wife Harriett, née Stephens. He had an elder brother, George, and a sister. As a child, Oldham was a boy soprano in demand for over five years in oratorios (including Sullivan's The Golden Legend and The Prodigal Son), concerts (including "Neath My Lattice" from Sullivan's The Rose of Persia), and pantomimes. As a young man, he worked as a bank clerk and sang in amateur operatic societies.
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In addition to his work as a musician, Voss also devotes himself to a creative work by making drawings, etchings, watercolor and acrylic paintings.Hermann Voss: Hackordnungen im Quadrat - Bleistiftzeichnungen von Hermann Voss. Res Novae Verlag, Aulendorf 2017, With self-made puppet figures, masks and instruments, he regularly gives private and public performances in his own musical miniatures and pantomimes. By Voss elaborated and performed stage pieces are Festival kleiner Interpreten (Festival of small interpreters)Schwäbische Zeitung: Warum Krokodile so weinen müssen. 26.
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Retrieved 2010-08-20. The college also organises an annual summer arts festival, one of the largest in the university. First staged in 1994, it features plays, pantomimes, comedy evenings, musical performances, and a keenly-contested bake-off. In 2016, the college held its 22nd summer arts festival, which featured six days of open- air plays, music concerts, a stage combat workshop, an outdoor film night, a poetry brunch as well as an outdoor summer bar, all organised by Brasenose students.
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See Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 284–294. Sarah Bernhardt even donned Pierrot's blouse for Jean Richepin's Pierrot the Murderer (1883). But French mimes and actors were not the only figures responsible for Pierrot's ubiquity: the English Hanlon brothers (sometimes called the Hanlon-Lees), gymnasts and acrobats who had been schooled in the 1860s in pantomimes from Baptiste's repertoire, traveled (and dazzled) the world well into the twentieth century with their pantomimic sketches and extravaganzas featuring riotously nightmarish Pierrots.
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We are capable of imitating movements, actions, skills, behaviors, gestures, pantomimes, mimics, vocalizations, sounds, speech, etc. and that we have particular "imitation systems" in the brain is old neurological knowledge dating back to Hugo Karl Liepmann. Liepmann's model 1908 "Das hierarchische Modell der Handlungsplanung" (the hierarchical model of action planning) is still valid. On studying the cerebral localization of function, Liepmann postulated that planned or commanded actions were prepared in the parietal lobe of the brain's dominant hemisphere, and also frontally.
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1865, and with the new name came a new ownership/management, in the form of (described in Allan's Tyneside Songs as "spirited") Joshua L Bagnall and Walter William Blakey. Whilst in this position he seems to have concentrated his writing skills solely to the Christmas pantomimes. There is no record of the length of his stay at the Oxford, but the advertisements for events at the Oxford appeared to cease c. 1879, which would point to its closure as a music hall.
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As an actress, she appeared on Jason King and had a recurring role on UFO, the Gerry Anderson live-action series. After starring in pantomimes and summer shows all over the UK, Ayshea then built up a large following for her live cabaret performances. Ayshea and Chris Brough divorced in the 1970s. In 1975, she represented Great Britain at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo with a song written for her by Elton John, entitled "The Flowers Will Never Die".
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She was the Conservative candidate for Sefton Central in the 2010 UK General Election, where she came second to Labour's Bill Esterson, gaining 33.9% of the vote. Jones has acted on stage and in movies. She played Micky in the film Distant Voices, Still Lives and has starred in pantomimes opposite Ricky Tomlinson at the Epstein Theatre. In January 2018 it was announced that Jones would join the new radio station Delux Radio, opposite presenters such as Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis.
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Jerrold Robertshaw as the Demon Alcohol Gilbert had always been fascinated by pantomime, particularly the harlequinade that concluded every pantomime in the early and mid-Victorian era. When Gilbert was growing up, the harlequinade was an extremely popular part of the Christmas pantomimes that were produced at most of the major theatres in London.Crowther, pp. 712–13 Gilbert admired the elegant dancing part of the Harlequin and in 1879 played this character in a pantomime that he co-authored, The Forty Thieves.
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Adams, p. 282 For Charles Morton, in 1871 at the Islington Philharmonic, she first appeared as Drogan in the long-running production of Geneviève de Brabant (also directing the production), which became her favourite role.Adams, p. 570 Now widely popular, she starred at the Gaiety Theatre, London in 1872 in another production of Geneviève de Brabant and as Mlle. Lange in La fille de Madame Angot in 1873. Soldene was also, for several years, a principal boy in British Christmas pantomimes.
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By the mid 1880s Levitan's friendship with Chekhov had deepened, and Levitan began spending time with the Chekhov family near Babkino where the Chekhovs had a house. During his first summer there he painted The River Istra (1885) and gave it to Chekhov. He also painted Twilight River Istra (1885) with a darker, more somber palette. Chekhov was fond of creating pantomimes for his guests, with Levitan often ridiculed for playing the villain, the victim and the alien Jew, ostensibly all in jest.
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This review was of the London production. The list of numbers in the Liverpool score shows that Donizetti and Offenbach were less generously represented in the original production. Gilbert and his wife, Lucy, in 1867 Gilbert married in 1867 amid one of his most productive periods. In addition to his other writing activities during the late 1860s, Dulcamara and La Vivandière were part of a series of about a dozen early comic stage works, including opera burlesques, pantomimes and farces.
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Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits played in pantomime at the New Theatre in the early 1970s together with Peter Glaze as the Dame. 1978 saw Norman Collier take to the pantomime stage in George Street. In 1955, Stanley Dorrill became managing director and his son, John Dorrill, took over the day-to-day management of the theatre, having served an apprenticeship in London's West End. John married Erica Yorke, who appeared as principal boy in many New Theatre Christmas pantomimes.
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Many of his articles were collected and published in book form. His stage successes in the 1890s included his English-language versions of two Edmond Audran operettas, titled La Cigale and Miss Decima (both in 1891). His last works included collaborations on pantomimes of Cinderella (1905) and Aladdin (1909). Known generally for his genial wit and good humour, Burnand was nevertheless intensely envious of his contemporary W. S. Gilbert but was unable to emulate his rival's success as a comic opera librettist.
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Waldron was prompter of the Haymarket Theatre, London, manager of the Windsor and Richmond theatres, a bookseller, an occasional actor at the Haymarket and Drury Lane, manager of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, the writer of several comedies, and a Shakespearean scholar. Through the interest of her husband Mrs. Harlowe obtained an engagement at Sadler's Wells, where, as a singer, actor, and performer in pantomimes, she gained some celebrity. She made her appearance at Covent Garden on 4 November 1790 in the Fugitive.
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She also presented Celebdaq for BBC Three and for the National Lottery Daily Play. She was on Live Roulette from 2008 to 2010 on Sky 866. Heavenor has also performed in pantomimes, playing the title role in Cinderella at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland in 2003, Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the White Rock Theatre, Hastings, in 2004, and Fairy Crystal in Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs at Southport Theatre in 2006. Heavenor gave birth to her first child in early 2011.
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11 March 2009. He has had TV roles in such shows as The New Statesman, Crocodile Shoes, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Spender as well as steady theatre work. However, it is his role in the York pantomime that has won him the most acclaim. 11 March 2009. Many pantomimes in recent years have relied heavily on celebrity guest stars and risque humour. Kaler's pantos reject this and hark back to a more traditional form of pantomime. Kaler comments: "I want everyone to laugh at the same joke".
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St. James's Theatre, where Dulcamara was premiered In 1865–66, Gilbert collaborated with Charles Millward on several pantomimes, including one called Hush-a-Bye, Baby, On the Tree Top, or, Harlequin Fortunia, King Frog of Frog Island, and the Magic Toys of Lowther Arcade (1866).Stedman (1996), pp. 34–35. Gilbert's first solo success, however, came a few days after Hush-a-Bye Baby premiered. Ruth Herbert, the manager of London's St James's Theatre asked Tom Robertson to supply her with a new work for Christmas, 1866.
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At a school musical recital Hull had her first taste of performing at the age of 9 when she sang a solo from The Little Mermaid. Hull then joined the Guildford School of Acting Saturday School and performed in two Christmas pantomimes at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. She was then accepted into the National Youth Music Theatre where she performed at Elizabeth II's 80th Birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle in May 2006. With NYMT she also performed The Dreaming in Tonbridge, Kent.
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At its peak, the series was watched by an estimated nearly 15 million people each week. Eddie Large was generally the funny man while Syd Little was the more serious 'straight guy'. Eddie Large performed a number of impressions, particularly cartoon characters like Deputy Dawg and Woody Woodpecker,'The Story of Light Entertainment' BBC Two, 25 February 2012 while Syd Little simply stood next to him, looking perplexed and distressed. They continued to appear in theatres and pantomimes, including Babes in the Woods, written by Ian Billings.
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Harry Bedford (1873 - 17 October 1939) was a British music hall comedian and singer. Born in Pimlico, London, he made his first onstage appearance at the age of seven. He was an apprentice in a boat building business before becoming a professional entertainer in 1888, making his first appearances in pantomimes and minstrel shows. By 1895 he had become a leading music hall entertainer, appearing at the Middlesex Music Hall in London and developing an act that was considered somewhat risqué for the time.
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The King discovers Larken's pregnancy and pantomimes this to his confidantes, the Minstrel and the Jester. He tells them to not say a word, but they both are more worried about the King letting it slip, because even though he's mute, he can still communicate ("The Minstrel, the Jester, and I"). Later, the Queen, assisted by the Wizard, designs a test for Winnifred based on something they are sure she hasn't got at all—sensitivity. They will place a tiny pea beneath twenty thick downy mattresses.
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Suzana Petričević graduated from the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy on the Department for Actors. She became a member of the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1982. She received the Award for Best Acting Achievement of the National Theatre in 1999 for her role in play Suze su OK (Tears are OK); The Award at Festival of Monodrama and Pantomimes in Zemun (Belgrade) for the role of Gocili in play Poslednja Šansa (The Last Chance); The Award of Festival of Monodrama in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
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The Point is often used by local community and local amateur dramatic groups throughout the year, all presenting a wide variety of different productions, including but not limited to dance, musicals, dramas and pantomimes. The venue is available to hire and has a substantial technical capabilities. Every summer, The Point runs a free outdoor festival called Eastleigh Unwrapped. The festival takes place on the Leigh Road Recreation Ground directly outside The Point, bringing a variety of circus, theatre, aerial and dance to the residence of Eastleigh.
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Roberts started her career as a cabaret dancer, supporting Cannon and Ball in a summer season in Guernsey, and then followed their act on to television. She supplemented this work with various supporting cast roles on TV including Citizen Smith and Doctor Who in 1979, Christmas pantomimes and dancing on cruise liners. She then took a job in a cabaret show in Hong Kong, dancing and singing. Roberts returned to the UK, and appeared in various commercials, including the Woolwich Building Society and Head & Shoulders shampoo.
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They announced that in addition to plays, opera, musicals and summer revues it would be known above all as a pantomime house, their first being The Forty Thieves. The new company, Howard & Wyndham, went on to produce pantomimes across Britain for almost 80 years. Howard & Wyndham also presented from the 1930s onwards the famous Half Past Eight Shows which later became the record-breaking Five Past Eight Shows. They were not operators of music-halls nor presented variety, which was the forte of Moss Empires.
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De Mooi moved into professional acting full-time in 2011 and has appeared in plays, musicals and pantomimes. In 2014, he performed in and produced two plays by Harvey Fierstein in London's West End and was then cast in the Lazarus Theatre productions of Troilus and Cressida and Coriolanus. He also completed filming on his movie debut, a nine-minute short entitled The Renata Road, which was filmed in 2011 and put out on release in 2014 with a showing at Cannes International Film Festival in 2015.
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The "Pas de Quatre" from Faust up to date (1888), one of many Gaiety burlesques choreographed by D'Auban D'Auban quickly became popular as a grotesque dancer and "star-trap" performer in London music halls early in his career. From 1865 to 1868, he danced in many of the Alhambra Theatre burlesques and pantomimes under director John Hollingshead.Hollingshead, John. My Lifetime, 2 vols., Chapter XXIII, (1895) S. Low, Marston: London He made a sensation in Paris in 1866, introducing that city to the star-trap.
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The first regular television work for Chesney and Wolfe, writing in partnership with Feldman, was in 1958 when ITV franchise holder Associated-Rediffusion made a television version of Educating Archie. Persuaded by Wolfe, Chesney soon gave up performing professionally, so that they could form a writing partnership. He did, however, tutor Sylvia Syms for her harmonica-playing role in the film No Trees in the Street (1959). By this time, they had also written material for Tommy Steele and Ken Dodd, including pantomimes for both.
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Félix was at the time a drama critic; Eugène was the director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance: see Storey (1985), p. 285. In undertaking their collaboration, the Larchers discovered talents and ambitions in themselves, vis-à-vis the pantomime, that neither knew he possessed. Eugène, in incarnating the Pierrot of one of Legrand's pantomimes, Le Papillon (The Butterfly), found that he was a more-than-competent mime, and Félix was inspired by his brother's performance to conceive the Cercle Funambulesque.Storey (1985), p. 286.
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The late 1890s saw big things for Howarde when she adopted the stage name Kate Howarde; she began touring Australia and performing in different settings such as tents and halls. She formed a company which consisted of her two younger brothers and her sister. Kate Howarde and her company continued touring Australia and New Zealand up until 1905. The company was involved in such things as occasionally staged pantomimes and burlesques some of which included Sinbad the Sailor (1897), Little Jack Sheppard, Aladdin and Diavolo.
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Like other wealthy aristocrats of the Roman Republic, the owners of the House of the Faun installed a private bath system, or balneum, in the house. The baths were located in the domestic wing to the right of the entrance, and along with the kitchen was heated by a large furnace. The servants’ quarters were dark and cramped, and there was not much furniture. The house features beautiful peristyle gardens, the second of which was created as a stage to host recitations, mimes, and pantomimes.
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Clegg has starred in a number of pantomimes, including Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in Crawley in 2010-11, Cinderella in 2007-08 and Aladdin, in 2006-07, both in Brighton. He played Simple Simon in the production of Jack and the Beanstalk at The Hexagon from 2013-14. He then starred once again as Buttons in Cinderella in the 2014-15 panto season at the same theatre. He starred in the 2015-16 pantomime Snow White alongside Sherrie Hewson at the Imagine Theatre in Coventry.
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Charles-Émile Reynaud further developed his projection praxinoscope into the Théâtre Optique with transparent hand-painted colorful pictures in a long perforated strip wound between two spools, patented in December 1888. From 28 October 1892 to March 1900 Reynaud gave over 12,800 shows to a total of over 500,000 visitors at the Musée Grévin in Paris. His Pantomimes Lumineuses series of animated films each contained 300 to 700 frames manipulated back and forth to last 10 to 15 minutes per film. A background scene was projected separately.
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In 2016, she filmed further guest leads in Casualty and Doctors for the BBC. Jenkins has produced and directed major pantomimes in the UK and four studio productions at The Lowry Theatre. She directed Build a Bonfire by Trevor Suthers and another Suthers' play, Toil and Trouble, for JB Shorts in April 2016. In 2017 at Salford Arts Theatre, she directed From Heaven to Hell which tells the story of the Salford, Greater Manchester Pals battalion who fought at the Battle of the Somme in WW1.
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Deburau neither idealized nor sentimentalized his Pierrot. His creation was “poor Pierrot”, yes, but not because he was unfairly victimized: his ineptitude tended to baffle his malice, though it never routed it completely. And if Deburau was, in Švehla’s phrase, an actor of “refined taste”, he was also a gleeful inventor, like Mozart (that artist of ultimate refinement), of sexual and scatological fun. Of his pantomimes in general, George Sand wrote that “the poem is buffoonish, the role cavalier, and the situations scabrous.”Sand, "Deburau"; tr.
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Carné did the same (if we may exempt the obviously fabricated The Palace of Illusions, or Lovers of the Moon, in which Baptiste appears as a moonstruck, loveless, suicidal Pierrot, an invention of Carné's screenwriter, Jacques Prévert).The Palace of Illusions, or Lovers of the Moon appears nowhere among the titles of Deburau's pantomimes either in Péricaud's chronicle of the Funambules or in Storey's 1985 reconstruction of the mime's repertoire. It stands today, for the nonscholarly public, as the supreme exemplar of Deburau’s pantomime.
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By 1941 the theatre had been renamed as The Garrison Theatre when the Paignton Pantomime Company (formed 1935) presented Aladdin there in that December. That group, now known as Paignton Pantomime Productions, still performs pantomimes in December and January every year. Other groups performing there in the 1940s were the West of England Players, the Torbay Amateur Operatic Society and Herman Darewski and his Orchestra. It was renamed again in 1948 as the "Palace Avenue Theatre" and after refurbishment put on summer shows for several years.
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They made regular appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour during the 1950s. Colgate Comedy Hour Their Comedy Hour shows consisted of musical song and dance from their nightclub act or movies, with Dick Stabile’s big band, sketch comedy with slapstick or satires of current films and tv shows, Martin’s solo songs, and Lewis’ solo pantomimes, physical numbers or conducting the orchestra. Martin and Lewis often broke out of character, ad-libbing and breaking the fourth wall. This early television show established their popularity nation-wide.
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With a rich and mellow speaking voice, Nixon was in demand as a compere and narrator. Alongside this he was a popular choice for pantomimes, which he enjoyed performing in and a favourite part was playing 'Buttons' in Cinderella. One of his most memorable performances was as a narrator in the show Emil and the Detectives, at the Mermaid Theatre, London. David Nixon made his final television appearance posthumously as a guest on Basil Brush's Magical Christmas, broadcast on BBC1 on 23 December 1978.
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She has four sisters, Deirdre, Eithne (better known as Enya), Olive and Brídín, and four brothers, Ciarán, Pól, Leon and Bartley. She sang along with her siblings in the family pub, Leo's Tavern in the village of Meenaleck, a short distance from the family home. She also took part in pantomimes at the local Amharclann Ghaoth Dobhair (Gweedore Theatre). After leaving secondary school, Brennan spent a few years at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin studying the harp, the piano and singing.
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In 1989, he appeared in the first episode of the sixth season of Murder, She Wrote in which he played Colonel Alex Schofield in the episode titled "Appointment in Athens". He formed Triumph Theatre Productions with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott in the late 1960s. This company produced more than 100 plays, musicals and pantomimes all over the country; some of them starred Todd. His acting career extended into his 80s, and he made several appearances in British shows such as Heartbeat and The Royal.
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Blakeley has also worked as a writer and theatre director. Since 2009, he has appeared in, written and directed several pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Windsor, playing pantomime dame in Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk'. In 2010, he was acting at Derby Theatre.HEARTBEAT may now have passed into the TV archive vaults, but the small screen's loss is proving to be Derby Live's gain. This is Derbyshire Blakeley appeared in TV soap ‘’Coronation Street’’ and BBC’s ‘’Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley’’ in 2018.
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Further, adopting a 'Cibberian identity' proved very advantageous for Susannah's career. Public audiences began to view her as the young ingénue of the Cibber acting dynasty, which in turn, helped land her leading roles. Her brother Thomas also benefited from the marriage as he became house composer at Drury Lane, and wrote music for a number of plays and pantomimes over the next several years. In 1736 Cibber made her début as a dramatic actress in the title role of Aaron Hill's Zara, with great success.
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As late as the second decade of the 19th century, we find Pierrot's name changing inexplicably to "Gilles" in the middle of the script of a pantomime performed at the Théâtre des Funambules.)Le Petit Poucet, ou Arlequin écuyer de l'ogre des montagnes (Tom Thumb; or Harlequin, Riding-Master of the Mountain Ogre, c. 1818): uncoded MS in the Collection Rondel ("Rec. des pantomimes jouées au Théâtre des Funambules et copiée par Henry Lecomte"), Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris; cited in Storey (1985), p. 12, n. 30.
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Bonita "Bonnie" Lythgoe (née Shawe; born 1949) is a British former dancer who, since the 1990s and 2000s, has been the producer and director of various theatre productions, including pantomimes. In 1969, aged 19 years, Lythgoe auditioned for the BBC's Young Generation dance troupe, which included her future husband Nigel among its members. The couple started dating, but after Nigel became choreographer in 1971, he dismissed Bonnie from the troupe. They continued their personal relationship, subsequently married and became the parents of two sons, Simon and Kristopher.
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She organized many solo and group dances, including pantomimes. She and her group held performances at the Estonian Drama Theatre in plays for children and young people with modern dance interludes, promoting intellectual, expressive, and creative development. Among the many famous artists who trained in her school were Ida Urbel (1900–83; she later founded the Vanemuine dance company in 1935 and was its director until 1973); H. Tohvelman; E. Oltrop; and A. Kalmet. In 1925, she married Paul Olak, a theatre manager, journalist and dramaturge.
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These spectacular Christmas shows were a major success, often playing into March. They were choreographed by the theatre's dance master, John D'Auban. Many of the designs under Harris were created by the imaginative designer C. Wilhelm, including the spectacular drama, Armada (1888), and many of the pantomimes."Mr. Pitcher's Art" – Obituary, The Times, 3 March 1925 Productions relying on spectacle became the norm at Drury Lane under the managements first of Harris, from 1879 to 1896, and then of Arthur Collins from 1896 to 1923.
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Sam Poluski of the Poluski Brothers as 'Teddy Bear' in the pantomime Jack Horner (1910) Lily Morris as Jack in Jack and Jill (1907) A. W. Clark in Aladdin (1908) Ouida MacDermott in the title role in Aladdin (1908) Daisy Wood in Aladdin (1908) Deborah Volar in Aladdin (1908) Horace Mills as the Dame in Jack and the Beanstalk (1911) During the later Victorian era the Prince's Theatre produced a highly regarded annual pantomime starting with Aladdin in 1867 and continuing almost every Christmas season until 1940 with some of the leading performers of the period. John Henry Chute kept overall control of the pantomimes held at the Prince's, beginning the planning in August of each year, with work commencing on the sets and costumes shortly after. Casting was ongoing with Chute travelling the country to watch about 30 other pantomimes in search of artistes and ideas. He employed leading writers in the genre and had a gift for spotting talented musical comedy artistes early in their careers including principal boys Ada Reeve, Florence Lloyd and Daisy Wood, the latter two being sisters of the famous Marie Lloyd.
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He has appeared in over 15 pantomimes. In 2006, after completing a NTCJ Post Graduate course, Pivaro became a journalist, working for the Manchester Evening News and then the Tameside Reporter in Stalybridge. He is now a freelance journalist, and has been published regularly in the Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror and Catholic Herald newspapers. Recently, following time spent in the Don-bass region of Ukraine, he has added Die Zeit Online and Jane's Defence Review to the list of titles in which he is published.
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Other pantomimes followed at Sadler's Wells that year, including The Talking Bird, in which he played Clown, and he also played Clown in productions at the Surrey Theatre and Covent Garden – a challenging schedule.Grimaldi (Boz edition), pp. 188–89 Later in 1814, he played the title role in a revival of Don Juan at Sadler's Wells, with JS in his second role as Scaramouche. The receipts at the box-office were unusually large and confirmed, in Grimaldi's mind, that his son was capable of sustaining his own career.
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Robey (left), Violet Loraine and Alfred Lester in costume for The Bing Boys Are Here (1916) This London engagement was a new experience for Robey, who had only been familiar with provincial pantomimes and week-long, one-man comedy shows. Aside from pantomime, he had never taken part in a long-running production,Cotes, p. 83. and he had never had to memorise lines precisely or keep to schedules enforced by strict directors and theatre managers. The Bing Boys Are Here ran for 378 performances and occupied the Alhambra for more than a year.
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After declaring his love, Baptiste flees Garance's room when she says she doesn't feel the same way, despite her clear invitation to stay. When Frédérick hears Garance singing in her room, which is next to his, he quickly joins her. Baptiste becomes the star of the Funambules; fueled by his passion, he writes several very popular pantomimes, performing with Garance and Frédérick, who have become lovers. Baptiste is tormented by their affair, while Nathalie, who is convinced that she and Baptiste are "made for each other," suffers from his lack of love for her.
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Pussy in Boots is a cult 1994 VHS adult pantomime starring stand-up comedian and EastEnders actor Mike Reid, with co-stars Barbara Windsor and John Altman, as well as Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie. Adult actress and model Cindy Milo played the role of Pussy. It was filmed in front of a live theatre audience in East London and is based on the classic pantomime tale of "Puss in Boots". It is cited as one of the first adult pantomimes, which later became popular with the comedian Jim Davidson.
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Michael presented a weekly show on Saga FM every Sunday, playing songs from stage shows and classic records. When Saga FM was bought by Real Radio company GMG Radio, Michael decided not to move across to Smooth Radio. Michael also starred in several pantomimes with Jack Milroy and completed many runs at the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow, the Gaiety Theatre, Ayr and the Edinburgh Kings in various productions and plays. Michael made a brief cameo in an episode of the BBC series VideoGaiden, playing himself in a speaking role.
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Dindon in La Cage aux Folles, Hortense in Martin Guerre (1995), as The Bird Woman in Mary Poppins (2004–05) and as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act the Musical at The London Palladium. She appeared in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969. She has also made many appearances on BBC TV's The Good Old Days. She carries on her acting work in adverts, pantomimes and West End production She married dancer Don Vernon and they had four children: Kate-Alice Woodbridge (also a west end performer),Harvey, Nicholas and Stuart Woodbridge.
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Theatres of bamboo and attap (palm fronds) were built, sets, lighting, costumes and makeup devised, and an array of entertainment produced that included music halls, variety shows, cabarets, plays, and musical comedies—even pantomimes. These activities engaged numerous POWs as actors, singers, musicians, designers, technicians, and female impersonators. POWs and Asian workers were also used to build the Kra Isthmus Railway from Chumphon to Kra Buri, and the Sumatra or Palembang Railway from Pekanbaru to Muaro. The construction of the Burma Railway is counted as a war crime committed by Japan in Asia.
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The theatre also features an annual pantomime performed in traditional style. The Theatre Royal in Windsor is a Grade II listed building and since 1997 has been managed by Bill Kenwright, who performed at the theatre as a young actor in the 1960s and 1970s under John Counsell. Under Kenwright's management the repertoire is wide, ranging from the classics and traditional pantomimes to first productions of new work. Many productions which first appear at the Theatre Royal subsequently transfer to the West End or go on national tour.
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Roy North (born 16 March 1941) in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England is an English actor and television presenter, who played Mr Roy in Basil Brush. He attended Hull Grammar School and is a Hull City fan, and occasionally he would wear a Hull City shirt on the television. He trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and then appeared in repertory theatre in Yorkshire, West End musical productions and pantomimes. He appeared on series 8–11 of the original Basil Brush Show from 1973 until 1976.
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Their entertainment style is generally designed to entertain large audiences. Modern clowns are strongly associated with the tradition of the circus clown, which developed out of earlier comedic roles in theatre or Varieté shows during the 19th to mid 20th centuries. The first mainstream clown role was portrayed by Joseph Grimaldi (who also created the traditional whiteface make-up design). In the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British pantomimes, notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden theatres.
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Harriett Everard as Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore Harriett Everard (12 March 1844 – 22 February 1882) was an English singer and actress best known for originating the role of Little Buttercup in the Gilbert and Sullivan hit H.M.S. Pinafore in 1878. The character regretfully reveals a key secret that sets up the ending of the opera. Everard had a stage career of 20 years, although she died at the age of 37. She appeared, for the first 15 of these, in numerous burlesques, pantomimes, comic operas, comic plays and even some dramas.
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The following year she performed in another new workshop musical written by Yusaf Islam, entitled Moonshadow with Ramin Karimloo. Paul has also played many principal roles in traditional pantomimes, her most recent being the title role in Dick Whittington and His Cat in the Theatre Royal Windsor's annual production performed during the 2001 Christmas season. She also lent vocals to a musical- concept album, for the stage adaptation of the film Alfie playing the role of Lily. Paul has also turned to television acting, appearing as a semi-regular character – Freda Danby – in ITV's Emmerdale.
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Between 1782 and 1783 he engaged some sixty children to act as dancers and singers for his various lively productions at the Circus, for which he supplied many airs, pantomimes, intermezzi and ballets, under such titles as Clump and Cudden, The benevolent tar, The saloon, The talisman, The graces, Long odds, Tom Thumb, The Passions, The Lancashire witches, The Barrier of Parnassus, The Milkmaid, The Refusal of Harlequin, The Land of Simplicity, The Statue, The regions of Accomplishment, and Cestus (a kind of mythological burlesque in which the Homeric gods discoursed in a low vernacular).
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Rhys Adrian worked in stage management before becoming a writer, contributing material to summer shows, revues, pantomimes and West End musicals. His first radio play, The Man on the Gate, was broadcast by the BBC Home Service in November 1956. By the early 1960s he was beginning to develop the dramatic style that would become a hallmark of his subsequent work. A Nice Clean Sheet of Paper (1964) features a talkative and condescending job interviewer (played by Donald Wolfit) whose attempts to communicate with an unresponsive applicant (John Wood) drive him to incoherent blathering.
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There is an attractive arts and crafts style Baptist church in the centre of the village. There is also a renowned local amateur dramatic group, the Alvechurch Drama Society which produces two plays per year at the village hall. The group is celebrated for its original pantomimes which are written by Chris Davies and Paul Chamberlain. Alvechurch Sports and Social Club hosts live music on a regular basis and is home to Alvechurch Acoustic Roots a curated music event which welcomes performers from the local area and beyond.
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893–894 His sister, Ellaline Terriss, became one of the most famous musical theatre stars of the day.Taylor, C.M.P. Terriss, Ellaline. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 7 January 2012 He made his first appearance on the professional stage at the Globe Theatre in March 1890, as Osric in Hamlet with F.R. Benson's company. In May of the same year he began a three- year association with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, playing first in Paul Kauvar and then A Million of Money, The Prodigal Daughter (1892), and three pantomimes.
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H. J. Byron wrote a series of Christmas pantomimes for the theatre, beginning in 1859 with Jack the Giant Killer, or, Harlequin, King Arthur, and ye Knights of ye Round TableLee, Amy Wai Sum. "Henry J. Byron", Hong Kong Baptist University and followed the next year by Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!Script for Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday (1860) In 1863, Sefton Parry, recently returned from Cape Town, appeared as Cousin Joe in the farce The Rough Diamond.Leeds Intelligencer 19 September 1863 p.
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Wonersh Players are a well established amateur dramatic society that write, produce and perform their own pantomimes. The Wonersh Players have been in existence since 1982,Wonersh Players always performing at the Wonersh Memorial Hall, usually during the February half term holiday, with rehearsals starting the previous October. In 1993 Wonersh History Society was formed to preserve and build on a quantity of historical material and notes gathered over many years by the late Anthony Fanshaw. Much of this archive is now being transferred to the Society's computer data base and will be available.
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Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 - 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris. His Théâtre Optique film system, patented in 1888, is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. The performances predated Auguste and Louis Lumière's first paid public screening of the cinematographe on 26 December 1895, often seen as the birth of cinema.
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Sketch of a scene from Jane Scott's 1816 play, The Old Oak Chest Jane M. Scott (1779–1839) was a British theatre manager, performer, and playwright. With her father, John Scott (1752–1838), Jane developed the Sans Pareil Theatre (later named the Adelphi), where they offered music and light shows. They gathered a theatrical company and by 1809 the theatre was licensed for musical entertainments, pantomime, and burletta. Scott wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas, pantomimes, farces, comic operettas, historical dramas, and adaptations, as well as translations.
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Although Drama is not taught as a subject in its own right, it forms an integral part of the English curriculum, and a weekly Drama Club meets. School plays occur once every two years, in conjunction with Skipton Girls' High School. In addition to various pantomimes and subject-related (namely Latin and Modern Foreign Languages) drama activities, house plays by Years 7–9 occur annually in the Autumn term, with an independent adjudicator voting for the best play. A group of pupils also take part in the annual English Schools' Shakespeare Festival.
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For three consecutive years, Ashworth has played Peter Pan, in the end of year pantomimes around England, and in December 2014, played the role of the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, at the Anvil Theatre, in Basingstoke. Ashworth played the role of the Forest Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk, at the Theatre Royal in Bath, in December 2015. Ashworth resigned from her presentation role at CBeebies, in the beginning of 2016, and her final studio recording session was on Friday, 1 April 2016, but she subsequently returned, in June 2017.
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He also wrote dramatisations based on Wuthering Heights (1994), An Old Man's Love (1996), Northanger Abbey (1998), The Turn of the Screw (1999) and Emma (2000).Wuthering Heights on the Northampton Borough Council websiteThe Plays of Michael Napier Brown on doollee.comBeryl Bainbridge Front Row: Evenings at The Theatre Continuum Books (2005) pg 105 'Google Books He directed 14 pantomimes, all of which had book, music and lyrics by his wife. In 1995 he was nominated as Best Director for the Martini Regional Awards for The Day After the Fair.
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Millar and husband Lionel Monckton As a child, Millar performed in London pantomimes, beginning with Babes in the Wood at the St. James Theatre in Manchester, at the age of 13.Obituary in Daily Telegraph, 26 April 1952 She started out as a singer and dancer in the music halls of Yorkshire. Later, she moved to London where she was soon earning good notices and better pay appearing in variety show bills. By 1897, she was playing the role of Phyllis Crosby in A Game of Cards at Shodfriars Hall, Boston, Lincolnshire.
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The illegitimate daughter of Vera Dowling, Joan was brought up by her great-grandmother, Elizabeth Dowling, in Uxbridge. She had a passion for acting, although she was never formally trained, and took roles in small plays, pantomimes and other productions whenever she could. At the age of 14 she approached a London acting agency and was given her first 'proper' part in a small production (title unknown). Her major acting debut came when producer Anthony Hawtrey cast her in the role of Norma Bates in the Joan Temple play No Room at the Inn.
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This was a particularly lively society season in Stockholm, which is estimated to have affected her and her work: she was introduced to Madame de Staël, for whom she felt deep admiration. She also watched Racine and Corneille performed by the French theatre company, including the famous Marguerite Georges, which had been expelled from Russia, and tableau vivants and pantomimes performed by Henriette Hendel-Schütz, which made a great success in Stockholm. In 1814, her father was ruined, and the family lived under limited circumstances. In 1820, she married colonel Baron Sebastian von Knorring.
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He was engaged in 1793 by the Royal Circus as composer and musical director; he remained there many years, producing incidental music for dramas, and vocal and instrumental pieces. Sanderson worked closely with John Cartwright Cross, who usually provided words for a long series of burlettas, melodramas and pantomimes. Cross devised a way for the Royal Circus, which became the Surrey Theatre, to get round restrictions on the classic plays they could show: it involved rendering the lines into rhymed couplets, and adding musical accompaniment. Sanderson died about 1841.
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In 1898 she co-starred with Courtice Pounds and Lottie Venne in The Royal Star, which ran only briefly; the following year she joined George Grossmith Jr. and Willie Edouin in Great Caesar, as Cleopatra to Grossmith's Mark Antony."Comedy Theatre", The Times, 1 May 1899, p. 14 In 1903 she was in another musical comedy, The Medal and the Maid, which ran for six months. She played in Robert Courteidge's pantomimes in 1903 to 1905 and toured in a farce, What the Butler Saw, from 1906 to 1908.
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He created roles in the original productions of the last two Gilbert and Sullivan operas and in many other Savoy Operas. He also played the patter roles in several Gilbert and Sullivan revivals, and he also toured for the company. In 1903, Passmore left the company and began a career in musical comedies, plays and pantomimes in London's West End and on tour that lasted for thirty years. His West End appearances included roles in such important productions as The Earl and the Girl (1903), The Talk of the Town (1905) and Madame Pompadour (1924).
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Jewel and Ben Warriss were first cousins and were brought up in the same household, even being born in the same bed (a few months apart). Jewel worked as a solo act until 1934, when he formed an enduring double act with Warriss, initially at the Palace Theatre, Newcastle.Gifford, Dennis: Obituary: Ben Warriss The Independent, 18 January 1993. Retrieved 23 May 2013 They toured Australia and America, as well as appearing in the 1946 Royal Variety Performance and five pantomimes for Howard & Wyndham Ltd at the Opera House, Blackpool, Lancashire.
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He was then to have proceeded in a car drawn by eight cats to the Coburg Theatre, but the crowd in the Waterloo Road made this impossible, and he was carried to the theatre on the shoulders of several watermen. Usher was known in the profession as the John Kemble of his art, and in the ring was the counterpart of Grimaldi on the stage, never descending to coarseness or vulgarity; his manner was irresistibly comic, and his jokes remarkable for their point and originality. He was the writer and inventor of several stock pantomimes.
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Lewis Theobald was working for Rich on writing pantomimes. When Alexander Pope wrote the first version of The Dunciad, and even more in the second and third editions, Rich appears as a prime symptom of the disease of the age and debasement of taste. In his Dunciad Variorum of 1732, he makes John Rich the angel of the goddess Dulness: > Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease > Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; > And proud his mistress' orders to perform, > Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
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Scottish Screen Archive (Amateur film of Alladin). Shows now included the fabulous Half Past Eight summer shows, later named Five-Past Eight produced by Dick Hurran and the Wish for Jamie pantomimes produced by Freddie Carpenter. These shows included : Rikki Fulton, Jimmy Logan, Stanley Baxter, Fay Lenore, Eve Boswell, Kenneth McKellar, David Hughes,University of Glasgow, Special Collections accessed 27 November 2006 Max Bygraves and Frankie Vaughan. The Bluebell Girls of Paris, based at Le Lido, made their debut in Britain, over two summers, in the Alhambra in 1962 and 1963.
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He also, as a consequence, thrust himself into dramatic territory for which his talents were not altogether suited. Typical of his post-Funambules pantomimes is Champfleury's Pantomime of the Attorney, which appears as the last piece in the Goby collection.For the well-read public, the only pantomime in the collection for which the authorship would have been known is Champfleury's—a fact that may explain its placement in the volume. Here we are in that "commonplace setting", an attorney's office, that Despot describes above, confronting a "light, small-scale" adventure.
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Pierrot is the clerk of Cassander, an attorney, and is in love with Columbine, the office assistant. Since Cassander is away for most of the piece, the lovers can indulge their appetites, and the pantomime turns out to be little more than a vehicle for comically arch and sweet amorous dalliance.See its full text in Goby; Storey summarizes it in detail (in English) in his Pierrots on the stage, pp. 71–72. It is, in fact, an ideal vehicle for the mime for whom Champfleury wrote his first pantomimes, Paul Legrand.
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She played the role of Carmen Howle in another The Dumping Ground spin-off, The Dumping Ground: I'm..., a webisode series. In 2014, Hickman played Princess Jasmine in her management's version of Aladdin, which took place in Swansea, Wales. Hickman starred in another of her management's pantomimes in late 2015, this time in Sleeping Beauty, playing the role of Jill, alongside her Tracy Beaker Returns co-star Joe Maw who played the corresponding Jack. In 2016, she appeared in Sleeping Beauty at the Sunderland Empire Theatre, where she played the role of Princess Briar Rose.
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Shaw's character met a tragic end in the episode screened on 13 January 2003, when she was murdered by Richard Hillman (played by Brian Capron). She has also appeared in numerous ITV dramas. In 2003 Shaw appeared as Sally in the stage play The Blue Room, starring alongside Jason Connery. Since the birth of her children Shaw has made the occasional return to acting and has performed in several national tours including Mum's the Word (2010) and Busy Body (2011), as well as lead roles in pantomimes in Worthing and Southsea.
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However, Miss Bancroft's performance does bring to life and reveal a wondrous woman with great humor and compassion as well as athletic skill. And little Miss Duke, in those moments when she frantically pantomimes her bewilderment and desperate groping, is both gruesome and pitiable."New York Times review TV Guide rates the film 4½ out of a possible five stars and calls it "a harrowing, painfully honest, sometimes violent journey, astonishingly acted and rendered."TV Guide review Time Out London opined, "It's a stunningly impressive piece of work . . .
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When Nicolet acquired the use of the theatre he reconstructed it to suit his needs. One of the major advantages of the new location, besides its popularity, was that performances could be presented year round, rather than intermittently, as was the case at the fairs. Thus Nicolet could begin to compete with the more established theatres in the heart of Paris. He had a license for acrobatics and rope-dancing, but also began adding pantomimes and dramatic sketches which were typically used in the breaks between the other acts.
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Pearce in 1918 Born in Broken Hill (New South Wales), Pearce spent much of her youth in Adelaide, and made her stage debut there at age five with the World's Entertainers"Miss Vera Pearce." The Mail (Adelaide) 28 June 1913, p.12. [Retrieved 16 February 2014] She went on to train as a juvenile performer in pantomimes and musical comedies produced by J.C. Williamson Ltd, and in 1910 scored much acclaim for her role in the Firm's hit production Our Miss Gibbs (1910)."Vera Pearce" at Australian Variety Theatre Archive. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
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He authored only one pantomime, Harlequin Restored, or, The Country Revels, which contained music by both himself and Thomas Arne and premiered at Drury Lane on 14 December 1732 (although the Burney Collection of newspapers showing contemporary playbills give the date as 20 March 1732). In addition to his contribution to pantomimes, Charke composed one ballad opera, The Festival, which premiered in 1734 and starred Susannah Maria Cibber. He also contributed songs to W.R. Chetwood's The Lovers Opera (1729) and The Generous Freemason (1730), and to James Miller's The Humours of Oxford (1730).
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She started acting at the age of eight and has since appeared in several film, television and theatre productions. Dryzek played the character Katy in the BBC family sitcom Life of Riley, from 2009 in all three series. She is also known for her role as Young Elizabeth Swann in 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Her credits include three British television series, appearances in The Sound of Music, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and several pantomimes, and roles in feature and made-for-television movies.
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The fourth century BC in Greece is an important milestone for the history of theatre: The roots of drama and comedy were established, also in the phylax play, a burlesque dramatic, played on wooden stages: A lot of the content was improvised. Improvisation also was applied in the Atellan Farces in ancient Rome. Always a combination of stocked and improvised moves, dances and artistic movements coined performances of Pantomimes – in ancient Rome it was also one of the origins of improvised dancing. Their performances were influenced through traditions of the Etruscans.
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Arthur Hill began his career performing animals in pantomimes. Among his roles were the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, the bear in Valentine and Orson and the cat in Dick Wittington. Hill’s animal impersonations became very popular and in 1902 he was offered the role of the Cowardly Lion in the original production of The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote the book of the same name. However, unlike the original book, the Lion was not a central character and was reduced to a bit part.
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Other works include the plays A Slice of Life (1981) and Boat People (1983). She has written songs for two pantomimes with Adèle Anderson. Fascinating Aïda performing in 2008 Keane continued her acting career, including touring versions of Dancing at Lughnasa and Charley's Aunt, Juno and the Paycock at the Leicester Haymarket; The Plough and the Stars at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds; Accommodating Eva at the King's Head Theatre in Islington and Present Laughter at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She was included in the premiere production of The Vagina Monologues in Dublin in 2002.
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In series 2, Howard, Vince, Naboo and Bollo are flatmates in a district of London. In series 3, Howard and Vince work in Naboo's magical shop, the Nabootique, and plots often revolve around them getting in trouble whilst Naboo and Bollo are away from the shop. Several episodes featured a "crimp"; a humorous a cappella nonsense song sung by Fielding and Barratt. The crimps were sung in a scat style and were lyrically characterized by non-sequiturs that were rhythmically similar to beatboxing, often accompanied by a small performance of hand gestures and pantomimes.
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The Mr. Men Show (sometimes simply called Mr. Men) is a British/American animated children's television series based on the original Mr. Men and Little Miss books created in the 1970s and 1980s by British author Roger Hargreaves and his son Adam Hargreaves. Adapted from the published source material into a television variety program, The Mr. Men Show features comedy sketches (primarily), pantomimes, dance numbers and music videos. The TV series was directed by Mark Risley and executive produced by Kate Boutilier and Eryk Casemiro. The music was composed by Jared Faber.
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Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1955). His films were popular, especially for his performances of patter songs and favorites such as "Inchworm" and "The Ugly Duckling".
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His brother, William Greet, was a theatre manager while his other brother Thomas was the only sibling to continue on to have a career in the Royal Navy. Ben Greet would visit the Greenwich and Woolwich theatres frequently to watch the exciting productions of Victorian melodrama, Shakespearean plays, farces and pantomimes. Some of the productions he might have seen as a young child were Light in the Dark, Mariner's Compass and Shakespeare's Othello around the year 1867. Greet was exposed to many dramas as a child, and he performed in plays at school.
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Georges Wague in one of the cantomimes (pantomimes performed to off-stage songs) of Xavier Privas. Poster by Charles Léandre, 1899 In the early 1890s Wague participated in the soirées of La Plume, the literary magazine founded by Léon Deschamps, where he was noticed for his verse recitals. Xavier Privas proposed to sing songs while Georges Wague mimed them, creating a new artistic expression they called "cantomime". In the cantomimes, which began in 1893 at the Café Procope, Wague performed on stage with a singer and piano in the wings.
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She later returned full-time from September 2019. Riley's other television credits include roles in The Bill, Holby City, Doctors, the BBC Afternoon Play series, Having It Off. She also played the role of Beth Trailor in the film Secret Society. On stage, Riley has appeared in fourteen pantomimes, including an starring role in Aladdin at the Kings Theatre in Southsea, Portsmouth during the 2009–2010 pantomime season, as well as the UK tours of The Play What I Wrote, The Vagina Monologues, The Naked Truth, Waiting for Gateaux and Calendar Girls.
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Buckley's acting experience includes playing Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at Leatherhead. He also toured in the black comedy Widow's Weeds, and starred in numerous pantomimes, playing King in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. He was also an extra in the Birmingham-based soap opera Crossroads. On hearing of the sacking of one of the programme's leading cast members Noele Gordon, Bill led a campaign outside the studios of Crossroads' producer ATV in Birmingham demanding her reinstatement and performed a protest song entitled "Meg is Magic".
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Elwes was one of several female writers of melodramas in the early 20th century. She wrote over 50 plays, mostly melodramas but also pantomimes, in the thirty-year period 1907–1938. Forty six plays were submitted to the Lord Chamberlain (the official censor) for licensing, and the scripts and Readers’ Reports are held in the British Library Lord Chamberlain Plays Collection. References to other plays, not submitted for licence, can be found in newspapers of the time. Her first play was a musical drama His Sister’s Honour which was staged in Fleetwood in January 1907.
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The smaller auditorium was renamed Bryant's Minstrel Hall in 1868 when it became the home of Don Bryant's Minstrels. After Bryant's Minstrels left, the theatre was leased to a German company: > Tammany Hall merged politics and entertainment, already stylistically > similar, in its new headquarters. ... The Tammany Society kept only one room > for itself, renting the rest to entertainment impresarios: Don Bryant's > Minstrels, a German theater company, classical concerts and opera. The > basement – in the French mode – offered the Café Ausant, where one could see > tableaux vivant, gymnastic exhibitions, pantomimes, and Punch and Judy > shows.
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The chat show began at the Alley Cat and moved to the St. James Theatre in Victoria, London, hosting an array of artists from stage and screen. Bedella’s work is not limited to the stage but includes five television series for the BBC and three Hollywood feature films as well as voicing several characters on the series Thomas and Friends. He has also performed in four pantomimes alongside Christopher Biggins, Bradley Walsh and for the last two years, has partnered the John Linehan (aka: May McFettridg) at the Belfast Grand Opera House in NI.
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The annual fairs of Paris at St. Germain and St. Laurent had developed theatrical variety entertainments, with mixed plays, acrobatic displays, and pantomimes, typically featuring vaudevilles (see Théâtre de la foire). Gradually these features began to invade established theatres. The Querelle des Bouffons (War of the Clowns), a dispute amongst theatrical factions in Paris in the 1750s, in part reflects the rivalry of this form, as it evolved into opéra comique, with the Italian opera buffa. Comédie en vaudevilles also seems to have influenced the English ballad opera and the German Singspiel.
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Masks or blackened faces are used in the pantomimes and fencing scenes to represent the Moors, and bizarre costumes were used to mock them as foolish enemies. In Slavic and Romanian Morris dance, it is less a dance about combat and more about religious folklores and rituals. In the fold dance The Roumanian Hobby-Horse, the Cǎluşari, the comic figure the dumb man, is masked and dressed in comical costumes. The mask is made to look like a stork's head with a movable beak, contributing to the character's nickname “beak”.
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Roselle was the eleventh of the thirteen children of William Hawkins (1807–1878). Her mother's maiden name was Rowsell, from which she took her stage name. Although she later claimed that her father was the headmaster of the Glastonbury Grammar School, according to the census returns he was an insurance agent (1851) and later an unemployed commercial traveller (1861).Ancestry.com, 1851 census and 1861 census Her brother Percy was a dwarf and played children's parts into adulthood in pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as "Master Percy Roselle".
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Lydia Thompson (born Eliza Thompson; 19 February 1838 – 17 November 1908), was an English dancer, comedian, actress, and theatrical producer. After dancing and performing in pantomimes in Britain and then in Europe as a teenager in the 1850s, she became a leading dancer and actress in burlesques on the London stage. She introduced Victorian burlesque to America with her troupe the "British Blondes", in 1868, to great acclaim and notoriety. Her career began to decline in the 1890s, but she continued to perform into the early years of the 20th century.
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Their plays and pantomimes, which were all staged in Irish, became a staple of Gaeltacht social life, drawing audiences from as far as Belfast and they performed throughout Ireland and Scotland. Members of the theatre group have gone on to create TV shows including CU Burn (Seán Mac Fhionnghaile), and have appeared on Ros na Rún (Gavin Ó Fearraigh). Many of Gweedore's musicians were associated with the group. Aisteoirí Ghaoth Dobhair are still active and performed shows at An Grianán Theatre in Letterkenny as part of the Earagail Arts Festival in 2010 and 2011.
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They are also free of their obligation once given clothes. In the TV show Supernatural, the season 6 episode Clap Your Hands If You Believe has a variation of the tale, of a watchmaker and some fairies. In Jane Shields and Rosemary Doyle's The Shoemaker and the Pantomimes Cinderella goes looking for elves to help her father in his obligation to the evil designer Kenneth Coal, but all she ends up with are Mimes, a resourceful mother Twanky, and an even more resourceful cat. Premiered Red Sandcastle Theatre, Toronto, 2012.
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There is a Methodist Church and the recently extended Christ Church, which includes stained glass designed by Patrick Reyntiens. A community centre is situated in the village centre, and has notably been made use of for the Scout's 2006 Christmas Pantomime, "Treasure Island", the 2007 pantomime, "Robin Hood", "Cinderella" in 2008 and most recently, "Dick Whittington" in 2009. The Scout Pantomimes were "enjoyed by all". The Community Centre is also home to an 'indoor boot sale' has been held every Sunday during Winter for the past few years, attracting many to the village.
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Miles studied at Bournemouth University where he developed an interest in college radio, followed by a stint on hospital radio. Stuart Miles gained his TV break working as a journalist for a local Cable TV station covering news and events in South London. From 1993–94, Miles presented Saturday Disney, which led to him joining Blue Peter on 27 June 1994; some of his most memorable moments included joining the RAF Falcons display team and starring in various Blue Peter pantomimes. His last appearance was on 21 June 1999.
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Norman's widow, on seeing Tommy perform this on television said it was the best she had seen. He appeared on playbills as ‘Tommy Trafford - Laughs from Lancs’. In later life he specialised in playing pantomime dames (harking back to Norman Evans), putting on annual Christmas pantomimes at Southport between the 1960s and 1980s, for which he earned the sobriquet ‘Mr Southport’. With his business partner and fellow actor, singer and dancer Ronnie Parnell he also ran a theatrical costume hire business as well as jointly producing summer shows and old time music hall.
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Crowd outside the Jardin Turc, one of the Paris pleasure gardens, by Léopold Boilly (1812). Pleasure gardens were a popular form of entertainment for the middle and upper classes, where, for an admission charge of twenty sous, visitors could sample ice creams, see pantomimes, acrobatics and jugglers, listen to music, dance, or watch fireworks. The most famous was Tivoli, which opened in 1806 between 66 and 106 on rue Saint-Lazare, where the entrance charge was twenty sous. The Tivoli orchestra helped introduce the waltz, a new dance imported from Germany, to the Parisians.
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They made their Paris debut at the Saint Laurent fair in 1718 performing La Princesse Charisme, created by Véronique Lesage. In 1725, their family returned to England, but they stayed. The pair is said to have studied with Claude Balon, star of the Paris Opéra, as well as his partner, Françoise Prévost, and fellow dancer at Paris Opera, Michel Blondy. They spent two more seasons at Lincoln's Field Inn, performing dances from George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo as well as pantomimes. Sallé went solo and started performing with the Paris Opera in late 1727.
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This was followed up by Jones winning the first Opportunity Knocks satellite show via a TV link up with Australia. She had albums released in the UK with 30 piece orchestral backing and, in 1976, was voted the second best female vocalist in Britain. Jones appeared in summer shows, and played lead roles in pantomimes, with many well known artists such as Les Dawson, Marti Caine, Jim Davidson, Hope and Keen, The Krankies, Craig Douglas and Charlie Drake. After living in New Zealand for over ten years, Jones has now returned to live in Wales.
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Bassano Moya Nugent (27 March 1901 – 26 January 1954) was a British actress and singer. She made a few broadcasts and three silent films but was chiefly known as a stage performer, and was particularly associated with the works of Noël Coward, appearing in twelve of his plays and two of his revues. Before that, she appeared early in her career in Peter Pan, and was cast in other children's plays and pantomimes. She was in the West End casts of revues by Cole Porter and others, and in musical comedies such as Lilac Time.
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Since Graduating in 2014, his theatre credits include: Love Birds (The Pleasance, Edinburgh) as "Puck" ; Qdos Entertainment Pantomimes: Peter Pan (Crewe Lyceum) as "Peter"; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Hull, New Theatre; Orchard Theatre, Dartford; Lyceum Theatre, Crewe) and Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (2016/19 UK tour) as "Benjamin". His theatre credits whilst training include: Meshak Gardiner in Coram Boy (Holy Trinity Church/PPA); The Fix (Electric Theatre/PPA); Curtis Hallerbread in The Witches of Eastwick (Electric Theatre/PPA) and Laurie in Little Women (Electric Theatre/PPA).
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Edouin was born in Brighton under the name William Frederick Bryer, the youngest of five children of John Edwin Bryer, an English dance instructor, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth (née May). He and his siblings played together in children's shows in London and Brighton. By 1849, the children were appearing as "The Living Marionettes" in London in farces, ballets d'action, and extravaganzas."Willie Edouin Dead", The New York Times, 15 April 1908, p. 9 In 1852 and 1854, the Edouin children played in pantomimes at the Strand Theatre.
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Gilbert described An Old Score as "my first comedy".Crowther, Andrew. Introduction to script of "An Old Score", accessed 10 September 2010 He had previously written more than a dozen stage works, and although they were all intended to be funny, they were in the styles of burlesques, extravaganzas, pantomimes and one-act farces, not full-length, character- driven "comedies"; and so the play represents part of Gilbert's move from being a humorist to being a dramatist. Gilbert adapted part of the story of the play from his 1867 short story Diamonds.
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David Skeele, Thwarting the Wayward Seas: A Critical and Theatrical History of Shakespeare, p. 104; Retrieved 3 September 2013 In 1958–59 came the pantomimes Cinderella and Aladdin, and work on more films, such as set decorator for Expresso Bongo (1958), and interior set designer for Look Back in Anger (1959). He designed the musicals Half a Sixpence (1963) and Canterbury Tales (1967).broadwayworld.com; Retrieved 3 September 2013IBDB; Retrieved 3 September 2013 His Canterbury Tales costume designs won him a Tony Award when the show played on Broadway in 1969.
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When the question is asked, 'What has Dior done to us this season?' that pronoun refers to all women; and not least to those who sit on platforms, who are guests at literary luncheons, or who catch the Speaker's eye in the House." Adburgham could be disapproving of the foibles of fashion. Writing about the latest collection of hats by Reed Crawford in 1964, she said they "beggar description, especially his cocktail confections: high-standing exclamation pieces stuck through with monstrous hat-pins. Funnier hats have appeared in pantomimes, but not much funnier.
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A precocious child star, Elsie appeared in music hall and variety entertainments as a child impersonator known as Little Elsie. Nevertheless, she was reportedly painfully shy, even as an adult. By 1895–96, she appeared in concerts and pantomimes in theatres in Salford. In 1896, she played the role of Princess Mirza in The Arabian Nights at the Queen's Theatre in Manchester. Then, at Christmas 1896–97, at the age of ten, she appeared in the title role of Little Red Riding Hood at the same theatre for six weeks and then on tour for six additional weeks. Her first London appearance was at Christmas 1898 in King Klondike at Sara Lane's Britannia Theatre as Aerielle, the Spirit of the Air. Elsie then toured the provinces, travelling as far as Bristol and Hull for a full year in McKenna's Flirtation, a farce by American E. Selden, in 1900.Edwards, G. Spencer. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 28 May 1904, pp. 474–75 She then played in Christmas pantomimes, including Dick Whittington (1901), The Forty Thieves (1902), and Blue Beard (1903) and toured in Edwardian musical comedies, including The Silver Slipper by Owen Hall, with music by Leslie Stuart (1901–02), and Three Little Maids (1903).
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Harry Nicholls, left, with Campbell in 1888 Herbert Campbell (22 December 1844 – 19 July 1904), born Herbert Edward Story, was an English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, Victorian burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era. He was famous for starring, for many years, in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's annual Christmas pantomimes, predominantly as a dame. Born in Lambeth, Campbell started his performing career appearing in amateur bands and quickly toured London's music hall's during the early 1860s. He decided to leave after a few years and adopted the stage name Herbert Campbell.
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They also have appeared on Granada TV's Christmas Special with Noddy Holder and the cast of Coronation Street, and on three Chuckle Brothers DVDs. Performing close up table magic and large-scale illusions, Safire's corporate clients include Virgin, Barclaycard, Channel 4, Sky TV, Nat West, BUPA, Hilton, Jaguar and Mercedes. Stuart also works as an illusion consultant for stage and TV and recently advised on Bradley Walsh’s ITV Variety at The London Palladium for Joe Pasquale. The couple also run Magic Light Productions, producing and directing nine sell out pantomimes at Theatr Colwyn and also four successful theatre tours around the UK.
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Croft was posted to India, arriving as the war in Europe ended, and was assigned to the Essex Regiment, rising to the rank of Major. When his military service ended he began working in the entertainment industry, as an actor, singer and writer. Croft met Freddie Carpenter, who produced many pantomimes for Howard & Wyndham across the UK, resulting in Croft writing scripts such as Aladdin, Cinderella and Babes in the Wood. Through his lifelong friend, composer/conductor Cyril Ornadel, Croft met the producer Fiona Bentley, who had obtained rights to adapt and musicalise a number of Beatrix Potter stories.
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Pete Price's Superlambanana After several years as the cook on a cruise ship, he became a disc jockey for BBC Radio Merseyside at the age of twenty-one. Shortly after, Price made his first appearance on the comedy scene at Liverpool's 'The Shakespeare', working at various venues which include The Palladium and the QE2. In the 1980s, he became a presenter on his former station's rival, 194 Radio City, and has remained so in its various incarnations since. He continues to star in pantomimes in Liverpool and Merseyside, as well as working for national newspapers including The Independent and The Times.
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Lusardi has starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Malvern Festival and toured in Happy as a Sandbag, Funny Peculiar, Bedside Manners, Not Now, Darling, Rock with Laughter, No Sex Please, We're British, and Doctor on the Boil. Lusardi took her own show to the British Forces in Belize, the Falklands and Northern Ireland. She is a supporter of UK pantomime and often stars with her husband Sam Kane each Christmas at major theatres in the UK. Recent venues have been Woking, Southend-on-Sea, Plymouth, and Llandudno. Lusardi has starred in over 25 pantomimes.
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Dare had her first performance on stage in 1899, at the age of 12, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood at the Coronet Theatre in London. Her sister Phyllis was also cast in this production, and they both adopted the stage name Dare. From 1900, she played in various pantomimes produced by F. Wyndham in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1902, at the age of 15, Dare was hired by Seymour Hicks to tour as Daisy Maitland in An English Daisy, and to play the title role in Cinderella in 1903–04 at the Shakespeare Theatre in Liverpool.
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In St. Petersburg, a confectioner exploited the popularity of Ragtime by issuing the latest Negro minstrel hits on records pressed into discs of hard baker's chocolate. Days after the Revolution ended, Ollie returned to Russia and resumed touring along Russian theatrical circuits. On June 19, she was at St. Petersburg's Demidov Garden Amusement Park located on 35-39 Ofitserskiy Street (now 35-39 Decembrists Street), performing at the Farce Theatre. Established by businessman Alexander Demidov in 1864, the Amusement Park was a popular family-oriented attraction that offered pantomimes, fireworks, operettas and non-stop cabaret performances.
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At the time, the people of the United States were fairly religious (notably Christian), and the hearing-advantaged believed that sign language opened deaf individuals' minds and souls to God. Through this, the hearing community believed that manualism brought deaf people closer to God and opened deaf people to the Gospel, which brought manualism general acceptance. Prior to the 1860s, the American hearing community viewed manualism, sign language, as an art, and naturally beautiful. They also thought of deaf people who signed as being like the Romans because of the pantomimes that are a part of the language.
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Ron West was raised in New Zealand, where he worked in picture theatres as an ice cream boy and a projectionist, and he also worked in theatre stage management, and as a musician or conductor in orchestra music pits. During 13 years as a sound engineer for the Commonwealth Film Unit in Sydney, he ventured into film production and photography. Ron's late wife Mandy shared his interest in the theatre, and during the 1980s she directed an amateur theatrical group, The Majestic Players, in pantomimes and plays on stage at the Majestic, the stage having been enlarged in 1979.
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At the widow's mansion, Laurel and Hardy encounter a deranged butler (Jack Barty) who pantomimes card tricks with imaginary cards, and serves an imaginary meal. The same butler tips off Stan and Ollie that the widow is a serial murderess, who had previously slit the throats of seven prior fiancés, all named Oliver. Laurel and Hardy are sent upstairs, as the widow tells her butler to make sure all the doors and windows are locked. She tells Ollie, "I hope you have a nice, long sleep", as the butler plays "Taps" (a bugle call played at dusk) on a trumpet.
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Her parents were photographers commissioned as "Studio Lisa" by the Queen Mother and her daughter, Elizabeth II to photograph the royal family and such events as royal pantomimes. She was educated at Sherrards School in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and the Italia Conti Stage School. In 1932, at the age of 11, she debuted professionally in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire. She changed her name to Dinah Sheridan, which she selected from a phone book, to play Wendy, at the age of 14, in a long-running theatrical production of Peter Pan starring Jean Forbes- Robertson.
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Melvin was a founder member of the Actors' Centre and was its chairman for four years during which time he started a centre in Manchester in honour of Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. As a theatre director, he has worked across all genres including opera, recital, drama and comedy. He directed the first productions of three of Graeme Garden's perennially popular pantomimes. In 1991, thirty four years after first making the tea and sweeping the stage at the Theatre Royal, he was invited to become a member of the board of the theatre, a position he held until 2011.
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The mayor's parlour in the guildhall remains the meeting place for the charter trustees who continue to appoint the mayor of Grantham each year. In 2015, a modern relief stone plaque commemorating Eleanor of Castile was installed at the guildhall close to the site where an original Eleanor cross was erected by King Edward I in around 1294. The original Eleanor Cross had been destroyed in 1645 during the English Civil War. The arts centre continues to provide support for pantomimes such as "Peter Pan" in December 1917, "Dick Whittington" in December 1918 and "Cinderella" in December 2019.
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William Edward Evans (29 May 1866 - 11 April 1931) was an English comedian, music hall performer, and maker of silent films. He was born in 1866 (though some sources erroneously give different years), the son of pantomime clowns Fred Evans (1842-1909) and Amy Rosalind (1842-1885). His older brother, Fred Evans, was the father of the comedian also named Fred Evans, whose films as "Pimple" were very popular during the First World War. Will Evans first appeared on stage in pantomimes as a child, toured with his father's company, and was part of a musical trio with his brother Fred.
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The Week's Theatres: "Jack and the Beanstalk.", The Observer 29 December 1935, p. 13 Of his performance in Puss in Boots in 1936, The Manchester Guardian said, "Monsewer Eddie Gray, quite arbitrary and quite irresistible … The Monsewer's nose blazes more than ever, and his linguistic virtuosity now includes two words of German.""The London Pantomimes", The Manchester Guardian, 28 December 1936, p. 18 During the Second World War the Crazy Gang went their separate ways. They re-formed in 1947, but without Chesney Allen, who had retired from regular performing because of poor health, and without Gray, who continued his solo career.
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Maria Theresia was the eldest child and daughter of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1704–73) and Princess Maria Henriette Josepha of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (1732–72). She was a younger half-sister of Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and niece of Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis. She grew in a cultural environment at the princely court in Regensburg, which was a center of French, German and Italian opera, theater, ballet, pantomimes and concerts. She was instructed in clavecin playing with her sisters and displayed an early talent of music composition.
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Between 1891 and 1893, Lloyd was recruited by the impresario Augustus Harris to appear alongside Dan Leno in the spectacular and popular Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Christmas pantomimes. While lunching with Harris in 1891 to discuss his offer, Lloyd played coy, deliberately confusing the theatre with the lesser known venue the Old Mo so as not to appear conscious of Drury Lane's successful reputation; she compared its structure to that of a prison. Secretly, she was thrilled with the offer, for which she would receive £100 per week. The pantomime seasons lasted from Boxing Day to MarchFarson, p.
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Book cover of Victoria in 1880 by Garnet Walch Garnet Walch (1 October 1843 in Broadmarsh (Tasmania) – 3 January 1913 in Melbourne), was an Australian writer, dramatist, journalist and publisher. From 1872 on, he became very popular as author of numerous pantomimes, burlesques, melodramas, comedies and comediettas. As a publisher, his most outstanding work was Victoria in 1880, a de luxe book with lavish engravings by Charles Turner, compiled by Walch and published by George Robertson in Melbourne, celebrating the 1880–1881 International Exhibition. The book was inscribed to The Honourable William John Clarke, President of the Victorian International Exhibition Commission.
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His principal compositions were "The Queen of a Day," a comic opera, and "A Summer Night's Love," an operetta, both produced at the Haymarket. He also wrote the overture, act, and vocal music of the Green Bushes for the Adelphi Theatre, the overtures and music of all the Haymarket pantomimes, and of many that were brought out at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool. The music of Perea Nena's Spanish ballets, El Gambusino and Los Cautivos, were entirely his composition. His works were distinguished by an intelligence that gave promise of great excellence had he lived to fully master the technicalities of his art.
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He appeared in the first show to be staged at the Olympia when it reopened in March 1977.The Irish Times, "Olympia is back to life", 4 March 1977 Sheridan wrote his own material, including pantomimes. Three days before his version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was due to begin its run, he learnt that Walt Disney's feature-length cartoon of the same name was about to open at a nearby cinema. He set to work immediately on a new pantomime, Mother Goose, and had it ready for its first performance on the date planned for Snow White.
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The producer Julian Wylie saw Tate and Mayne's act and formed a partnership with Tate. They began to specialize in creating and producing pantomimes and revues just before the First World War, including I Should Worry at the Palace Theatre (1913), the Victoria Palace's A Year in an Hour (1914), Very Mixed Bathing (1915), Kiss Me, Sergeant (1915), The Passing Show (1915), and High Jinks (1916). Tate co-wrote the successful Samples (1916) with Herman Darewski and Irving Berlin, including the hit song, "A Broken Doll." The Vaudeville Theatre revue Some included his successful song, "Ev'ry little while" (1916).
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First state of print (see reference to "Pasquin" in the wheelbarrow) Later state of the print ("Pasquin" replaced by "Ben Johnson"). The Bad Taste of the Town (also known as Masquerades and Operas) is an early print by William Hogarth, published in February 1723/24. The small print – by – mocks the contemporary fashion for foreign culture, including Palladian architecture, pantomimes based on the Italian commedia dell'arte, masquerades (masked balls), and Italian opera. The work combines two printmaking techniques – etching and engraving – with etched lines made in the plate using acid and engraved lines marked using a burin.
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Bridgmont grew up among actors, singers, dancers and clowns. His father Leslie Bridgmont was a pianist for the silent movies, his mother was a cellist and both also worked for the BBC where Leslie Bridgmont produced 4 episodes of The Goon Show. Bridgmont used to attend his parents' pantomimes as a child including one during which English musical theatre and operettas actress Jean Colin (28 years old at the time; 24 March 1905 – 7 March 1989) ironically promised him that she would marry him. He was educated at the Wynstones School, a Steiner Waldorf school in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds.
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When On the Buses finished, Grant found himself heavily typecast as Jack Harper and struggled to get other parts. He toured Australia in the farce No Sex Please, We're British, and continued to appear in musicals and pantomimes. In 1975, he wrote and starred in a one-off pilot Milk-O alongside his On the Buses co-star Anna Karen, an attempt to reinvigorate his career by means of a similar character, a milkman who spent his time fighting off amorous housewives he was delivering to. However, this did not lead to a series, and Grant never acted for television again.
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His stage credits after the war include revues, pantomimes and musicals, including the London productions of Show Boat and Rio Rita. Sarony became well known in the 1920s and 1930s as a variety artist and radio performer. In 1928, he made a short film in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system, Hot Water and Vegetabuel. In this film, he sang, interspersed with his comic patter, the two eponymous songs – the first as a typical Cockney geezer outside a pub, the second (still outside the pub) as a less typical vegetable rights campaigner ("Don't be cruel to a vegetabuel").
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From 1976 until his death, he performed his one-man comedy shows around the world. Harris was a regular visiting lecturer for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.Sleeping Beauty programme, Theatre Royal, Bath 2009 He co-directed the opera Griselda for the Buxton Festival, and appeared in two productions for Dutch Television with members of the Welsh National Opera. He spent nine years, up until 2000 writing, directing and starring in pantomimes for the Bristol Old Vic and since then had done the same for the Theatre Royal, Bath.
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However Rich drew him back, and Leveridge scored a success in 1726 in Apollo and Daphne with Silenus's song Tho' envious old age seems in part to impair me, composed by Johann Ernst Galliard. From that time forth he became the leading bass at Lincoln's Inn FieldsO. Baldwin and T. Wilson, 'Singers and John Rich's Pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields', in B. Joncus and J. Barlow (Eds), The Stage's Glory: John Rich (1692–1761) (University of Delaware 2011), pp. 156–69. See also O. Baldwin and T. Wilson, 'The Music for Durfey's Cinthia and Endimion', Theatre Notebook xli (1987), pp. 70–74.
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Tate died in 1922, and Mayne married Teddy Knox of Nervo and Knox in 1934. Mayne also played the principal boy in a number of Tate's pantomimes throughout Britain beginning in World War I, including a pantomime version of Cinderella in 1916, Dick Whittington in 1918, Puss In Boots in 1920, Cinderella again, at the London Hippodrome in 1922 (and many times thereafter, playing with Stanley Lupino and her later husband, Teddy Knox),Information about casts of Cinderella. lib.rochester.edu and Dick Whittington again in 1923, at the London Palladium, among others. In 1936, she played Emily Hackitt in the film Educated Evans.
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Between 1892 and 1900, many attractions were successful for the first time in the form of pantomimes lumineuses. For instance, in 1894, people could see moving photographs in Thomas Edison's kinetoscope and, starting in December 1895, they could see the first Lumière brothers' films. Seeing the success that it had generated, many entrepreneurs tried to incorporate moving images into their already existing amusements, because the recreational qualities of the moving images by themselves were not totally appreciable. So, instead of thinking that the images in movement threatened the panoramas of that time, entrepreneurs initially incorporated films on their panoramic screens with great enthusiasm.
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He played Goronwy Jones in the Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen and appeared in numerous television light entertainment shows, including Victoria Wood, Jimmy Cricket and Babble Quiz. On the West End stage, Lloyd spent three seasons at the Windmill Theatre; a year at the Strand Theatre in When We Are Married; two years in No Sex Please, We're British at the Strand; and at the Lyric Theatre in Tonight at 8.30. He was part of the Royal National Theatre company under Ian McKellen, in The Critic, The Cherry Orchard and The Duchess of Malfi. He also performed in over twenty pantomimes.
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In pantomime versions, changes in the setting and story are often made to fit it better into "China" (albeit a China situated in the East End of London rather than Medieval Baghdad), and elements of other Arabian Nights tales (in particular Ali Baba) are often introduced into the plot. One version of the "pantomime Aladdin" is Sandy Wilson's musical Aladdin, from 1979. Since the early 1990s, Aladdin pantomimes have tended to be influenced by the Disney animation. For instance, the 2007/8 production at the Birmingham Hippodrome starring John Barrowman featured songs from the Disney movies Aladdin and Mulan.
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When it opened in 1838, The Royal Polytechnic Institution in London became a very popular and influential venue with all kinds of magic lantern shows as an important part of its program. At the main theatre, with 500 seats, lanternists would make good use of a battery of six large lanterns running on tracked tables to project the finely detailed images of extra large slides on the 648 square feet screen. The magic lantern was used to illustrate lectures, concerts, pantomimes and other forms of theatre. Popular magic lantern presentations included Henry Langon Childe's dissolving views, his chromatrope, phantasmagoria, and mechanical slides.
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Many reviewers of his pantomimes make note of this tendency: see, e.g., Gautier, Le Moniteur Universel, October 15, 1855; July 28, 1856; August 30, 1858; tr. Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 66–68. In this he was abetted by the novelist and journalist Champfleury, who set himself the task, in the 1840s, of writing "realistic" pantomimes.Champfleury, p. 6. Among the works he produced were Marquis Pierrot (1847), which offers a plausible explanation for Pierrot's powdered face (he begins working-life as a miller's assistant), and the Pantomime of the Attorney (1865), which casts Pierrot in the prosaic role of an attorney's clerk.
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She continued to act in London into the 1940s, appearing in 1945 in Quality Street at the Embassy Theatre, directed by Anthony Hawtrey, and was still spry enough to play Jim Hawkins in a stage version of Treasure Island at the Granville Theatre the same year.Wilton, Rob. "Other Plays: 1940–1949", Rob Wilton Theatricalia, accessed 18 December 2012; "Christmas Entertainments: Pantomimes and Plays", The Times , 24 December 1945, p. 6 In 1951, she appeared on television in Sunday Night Theatre in Season 2, Episode 38, as Birdie Hubbard in the BBC's production of The Little Foxes.
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Although his proprietorship survived the disaster, the Napoleonic wars of 1803-1815 had ruined public demand for Dibdin's type of entertainment, and his fortunes fell until, in 1819, he was declared bankrupt and was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. He was released two years later upon the sale of his shares in Sadler's Wells which bought him out of debt. He continued with his compositions, writing many songs and pantomimes for various London theatres and took up the role of stage director at the Royal Amphitheatre from 1822–23 and manager of the Surrey Theatre from 1825–26.
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Johnny Danvers, Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London In 1899 Danvers appeared with Leno in the musical farce In Gay Piccadilly! by George R. Sims. In 1905 he played King Ivory of Oddland in the Drury Lane pantomime The White Cat, Snap in Cinderella in 1906, a Robber in Babes in The Wood in 1907, and Alderman in Dick Whittington in 1908.History of the Drury Lane Pantomimes - It's Behind You website During 1911 and 1912 he was touring with Agnes Fraser and Walter Passmore in the musical farcical sketch Sweet Williams.
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Albert Jarrett was a schoolmaster with literary aspirations who had supplied the theatre with scripts for pantomimes for some years. Jarrett was also Secretary of the Manchester Mechanics Institute, chairman of the Manchester Arts Club, and a registrar of cemeteries in Manchester. The production borrowed a camel from the local zoo for Middle-Eastern authenticity; it ran initially for 30 performances from 16 November to 9 December 1874, with Furneaux Cook in the title roleStone, David. "Furneaux Cook", Who Was Who in The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, accessed 11 July 2008 and Bessie Emmett as Dolly.
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Jane Barbier (will proved 9 December 1757) was an English contralto of the 18th century, best known for her performances in the operas of George Frideric Handel. She created the roles of Dorinda and Arcano (Il pastor fido and Teseo, respectively), and also sang in Rinaldo. After leaving Italian opera she performed in the masques of Johann Pepusch, and worked for John Rich in various pantomimes and English-language operas. Thomas Arne's Rosamond (1733), where she took the role of King Henry, marked the end of her successful career, and after this she largely disappears from the historical record.
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Evans was one of the lead roles in BBC 's The Basil Brush Show, playing an American girl called Madison—which she based on Reese Witherspoon's performance in Legally Blonde, and on Phoebe from TV’s Friends. Evans appeared as a regular on the show from 2004 until 2007, and her role as Basil's next door neighbour earned her a place in television folklore as a member of Basil's gang. The episode 'Basils Angels' from the third series was nominated for a children's BAFTA Award in 2006. Bafta nominated Evans has had several leading roles in pantomimes.
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Gilbert wrote and directed a number of plays at school, but his first professionally produced play was Uncle Baby, which ran for seven weeks in the autumn of 1863. Hush-a-Bye Baby, On the Tree Top – an 1866 pantomime by Gilbert and Charles Millward In 1865–66, Gilbert collaborated with Charles Millward on several pantomimes, including one called Hush-a-Bye, Baby, On the Tree Top, or, Harlequin Fortunia, King Frog of Frog Island, and the Magic Toys of Lowther Arcade (1866).Stedman (1996), pp. 34–35. Gilbert's first solo success came a few days after Hush-a-Bye Baby premiered.
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Lillebil Ibsen took ballet lessons at an early age with her mother, who was a professional choreographer and ballet instructor. She made her début as a dancer at Nationaltheatret in 1911, in the ballet pantomime Prinsessen på erten, an adaptation of the story The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen. She then studied ballet with Hans Beck in Copenhagen, and later with Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine. She started performing in Berlin under supervision of Max Reinhardt when she was sixteen years old, and played leading roles in Reinhardt's pantomimes Die Schäferin, Lillebils Hochzeitsreise, Prima Ballerina, Sumurun and Die grüne Flöte.
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Nicholls took a brief absence from CITV in December 2000 to play the lead role in the pantomime Snow White at the Opera House in Manchester. In subsequent years she appeared as Snow White in the other pantomimes at Northampton, Sunderland, Southport and Weston-super- Mare, and in December 2005/January 2006, playing another role as Fairy Crystal in the Snow White pantomime at the Grand Opera House in York. As well as the annual pantomime performances, in 2004 she also starred on stage in the Hammond Production Group's The Young Ones Summer Holiday in Worthing.
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The decade also saw the theatre host the Central Television revival of the ITV talent show New Faces, hosted by Marti Caine. The exterior of the theatre was substantially rebuilt by Associated Architects and Law and Dunbar-Nasmith in 2001, with a new glass facade and accommodation for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and additional performance space. In July 2015, comedian and actor Brian Conley was celebrated at the end of a performance of Barnum, having performed at the Hippodrome for 600 performances, appearing in six pantomimes, Jolson, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hairspray, Oliver! and hosting the 1999 Royal Variety Performance at the theatre.
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England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 Record information. Name Julian Ulric Samuelson, Birth abt 1878, 7 September 1920 After the First World War, Wylie and Tate concentrated more on pantomime, and the business flourished through the Roaring Twenties, despite the sudden death of Tate in February 1922, and on into the 1930s. Through the skill of Wylie, the Drury Lane pantomime was briefly brought back to Drury Lane in 1929. By the end of his life he had produced over a hundred pantomimes and was known as "the King of pantomime", a title also given to others later.
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Gill appeared in Crocodile Dundee as the leader of a group of kangaroo shooters whom Dundee (Paul Hogan) fights in the Walkabout Creek Hotel bar, and later uses a dead kangaroo as a cover to shoot at the shooters and scare them. He portrayed Santa Claus on Australian TV's annual Carols by Candlelight for 27 years (in later years alongside well-known children's entertainers Hi-5 and Australian TV icon Humphrey B. Bear). For many years, Gill and his wife Carol Ann ran The Tivoli theatre restaurant in Melbourne, producing pantomimes and theatre shows featuring many well-known Australian performers.
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When it opened in 1838, The Royal Polytechnic Institution in London became a very popular and influential venue with all kinds of magic lantern shows as an important part of its program. At the main theatre, with 500 seats, lanternists would make good use of a battery of six large lanterns running on tracked tables to project the finely detailed images of extra large slides on the 648 square feet screen. The magic lantern was used to illustrate lectures, concerts, pantomimes and other forms of theatre. Popular magic lantern presentations included phantasmagoria, mechanical slides, Henry Langdon Childe's dissolving views and his chromatrope.
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The Royal Circus was opened on 4 November 1782 by the composer and song writer, Charles Dibdin (who coined the word "circus"),Mr Philip Astley’s Introduction to The First Circus in England (PeoplePlay UK) accessed 18 Mar 2007 aided by Charles Hughes, a well-known equestrian performer. The entertainments were at first performed by children with the goal of its being a nursery for young actors. Delphini, a celebrated buffo, became manager in 1788 and produced a spectacle including a real stag-hunt. Other animal acts followed, including the popular dog act Gelert and Victor, lecture pieces, pantomimes and local spectacles.
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In the Victorian era, musical burlesques generally included several breeches roles. According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, although "an almost indispensable element of burlesque was the display of attractive women dressed in tights, often in travesty roles ... the plays themselves did not normally tend to indecency."Schwandt, Erich et al. "Burlesque", Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, accessed 3 February 2011 One of the specialists in these roles was Nellie Farren who created the title roles in numerous burlesques and pantomimes, including Robert the Devil, Little Jack Sheppard and Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué.
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Active management of the theatre was carried out by several parties during Sheridan's ownership, including himself, his father Thomas, and, from 1788 to 1796 and 1800 to 1802, the popular actor John Philip Kemble. Linley took up the post of Musical Director at the theatre, receiving a retainer of £500 per annum. Sheridan employed dozens of children as extras at Drury Lane including Joseph Grimaldi who made his stage debut at the theatre in 1780. Grimaldi became best known for his development of the modern day white-face clown and popularised the role of Clown in many Pantomimes and Harlequinades.
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Whilst studying for her GCSE exams she also appeared in the lead role of Little Meg in both popular series of Big Meg, Little Meg and as the guest lead Deborah for several episodes of Heartbeat. She also appeared as the co-presenter on Sooty (ITV) from 2001–04, recording three series. In addition to acting, Taylor has won awards for singing and dancing (including a guest appearance on the BBC Series Star for a Night). She has appeared in numerous pantomimes, including Snow White (Cardiff) and Dick Whittington (Leamington Spa) and most recently as Cinderella (High Wycombe).
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However, previously she had filled her father's jumper with balloons and using Pansy's unique hairstyle, manages to burst the balloons causing her father to flee home in the nude, the thought of punishing his daughter forgotten. Minnie also made a cameo in the 1992 Beano Annual story, "Dennis Through The Beano Book", in which she played the Queen of Hearts. She has also been the star of several Beanotown pantomimes, playing the role of Cinderella in each. With the turn of the new century, Minnie was featured in a feature-length strip alongside Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger and The Bash Street Kids.
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John Baskcomb (7 February 1916 – 29 March 2000) was an English character actor who made numerous television and film appearances over a 35-year period. He was the son of the founder of the Bank of England Opera and Dramatic Society and was educated at Croydon High School for Boys. He then appeared on stage in repertory theatre in Croydon and Henley-on-Thames and in clubs, pantomimes and concert parties. He made appearances in numerous British television plays and series including; Doctor Who (Terror of the Autons), The Saint, Softly, Softly and Poldark and he played the role of Cardinal Wolsey in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).
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She was able to resign from shop work when she was offered a position touring, appearing in musicals and pantomimes. She reputedly had only seen one opera when she successfully auditioned for the chorus of the Royal Opera in London in 1960, and won a scholarship to study with Dominique Modesti in Paris. After singing minor roles at Covent Garden, she joined Sadler's Wells Opera as a principal, continuing to appear with them after they became the English National Opera in 1974. Her appearances with other companies included Scottish Opera, where she sung Fricka in Wagner's Die Walküre, a role she reprised in Reginald Goodall's 1973 Ring Cycle.
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Adolphe Benoît Blaise was an 18th-century French bassoonist and composer, died in 1772. He joined the orchestra of the Comédie-Italienne in 1737 and composed the music for Le petit maistre in 1738. In 1743, he was head of the orchestra of the Foire Saint-Laurent and in 1744 of that of the Foire Saint-Germain. From 1753 to 1760, he was director of the orchestra of the Comédie-Italienne and composed many ballets, divertissements, dances, parodies, pantomimes and overall the music for the successful comedy by Justine Favart Annette et Lubin (1762) and two comedies by Favart: Isabelle et Gertrude (1765) and finally La Rosière de Salency (1769).
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Even with the revisions, and continuing additions of ballet pantomimes, the audience's appreciation of Vogel's opera did not increase and it was withdrawn on 7 November 1786 after nine performances in all, returning only 2,166 livres to the box office.Pitou, article: "La Toison d'or", pp. 523–524. It was revived at the Paris Opera beginning on 17 June 1788, but Vogel’s death on 26 June between the second and third performances ended the run prematurely; it earned only 1,553 livres 6 sols in the third and final performance of the revival on 1 July, and was shelved thereafter, having been presented a dozen times.
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When Dad's Army ended in 1977, Lowe remained in demand, taking starring roles in television comedies such as Bless Me, Father with Daniel Abineri (1978–1981), as the mischievous Catholic priest Father Charles Clement Duddleswell and in Potter (1979–80) as the busybody Redvers Potter. By now he was making many television commercials, but his later stage career mainly involved touring the provinces, appearing in plays and pantomimes with his wife, Joan. In 1981 he reprised his role as Captain Mainwaring for the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army. At Christmas 1981 Lowe appeared in pantomime with his wife.
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In the early 1930s, Huntley-Wright performed in comedies and operetta in London and on tour. In 1933 she played Madeleine in a revival of Madame Pompadour, in which her father had made a great success in 1923. In the mid-1930s she extended the range of her career, playing an English and French season in Paris in 1935, and building up a repertoire of principal boy roles in pantomimes, including Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk (1934) and Aladdin in Aladdin (1939). From 1939 to 1942 she was a member of the BBC Repertory Company, formed to broadcast drama from studios away from London and wartime bombing.
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Pantomimes at Drury Lane - It's Behind You website The family returned to Drury Lane in 1879 in the pantomime Bluebeard in which Victoria Vokes played Selim. This was to be their last pantomime at Drury Lane as by now the public were wearying of the Vokes Family who had dominated the pantomime at Drury Lane for more than a decade but who had never updated their routines. The new manager Augustus Harris found the Vokes Family to be too demanding, while they considered him a tyrant. For Christmas 1880 the family were at Covent Garden in Valentine and Orson; or, Harlequin and the Magic Shield written by F. C. Burnand.
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The groups that participate in the carnival are composed of either permanent carnival companions, groups of friends, colleagues or neighbours. They have a name as a group and a theme for their costumes. Depending on their carnival term, member's education, and the time they have available they choose whether they will participate in the treasure hunt games or the parades or both. These games comprise questions from subjects such as history, philosophy, mathematics, or from practical knowledge, exercises in navigation through hidden clues spread throughout the town, artistic competitions in painting, pantomimes, theatrical highlights or whatever else the organisers of the game can think of.
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At least 12 productions were put on annually after this period ranging from children's pantomimes to serious tragedy-dramas including those by Shakespeare and Chekhov. Notable actors who performed at the theatre during their careers include Pam Ferris, Lee Grant, Roy Billing, George Henare, Michael Hurst and Ian Mune. Raymond Hawthorne joined the theatre in 1971 and worked as an actor, director and a tutor and became artistic director of the theatre in 1985 until its closure in 1992. Although the theatre steadily attracted visitors, the extravagance of the theatre productions and running costs forced the Mercury Theatre as it was to close in 1992.
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After returning to Britain, Kirkwood picked up where she left off with the revue Starlight Roof at the Hippodrome, London (1947). She had some recording success with "Make Mine Allegro" during this period and continued to act in West End theatres in pantomimes and venues such as Little Miss Muffet (1949) and Austin Melford's Roundabout (1949). It was Noël Coward's casting of her as Pinkie Leroy in Ace of Clubs (Cambridge Theatre, 1950), written specifically for her, that put her back in the spotlight. It was around this time that Kirkwood married for a second time to Greek shipowner, Spiro "Sparky" de Spero Gabriele, in 1952.
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Her own work was of three kinds: home talent entertainments, including original drills, tableaux, and pantomimes; plays and farces; and costume monologues for platform and stage, which was her specialty. Wilson's work was distinguished for its dramatic conception, its vividness, originality and unaffectedness. While artistic, it was written with vigor and directness. Most of it had the test of public presentation, either in home talent entertainments under her own supervision for the purpose of studying effects and gaining experiences in stage management, or in her own programs. Wilson’s experiences and painstaking study fitted her for the role of dramatic critic as well as writer.
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The young actress unsuccessfully tried to return to the Vaktangov's, spent several months at the Mayakovsky Theatre again without any role to cling to, and in the end of 1964 joined Taganka (which opened officially in April that year) to be employed there regularly, but mostly in unsubstantial roles. The reason for Lyubimov's mistrust might have been the fact that in her first leading role here, that of Vera in A Hero of Our Time, Demidova, admittedly, 'failed miserably'. Several years of hard work in mass scenes and pantomimes followed. This master-and-servant type of relationship between the theater director and his actress continued for decades.
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He spent the next two decades in variety theatre, before getting his TV break on Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the late 1950s. After appearing in over a dozen pantomimes, often in unremarkable or unfulfilling roles, Dainty was finally persuaded, in 1964, to play the Pantomime dame opposite Harry Worth's Old King Cole at the Bristol Hippodrome, where he was hailed a huge success. He also played the dame at the London Palladium in Dick Whittington with the then rising star Tommy Steele. He was proclaimed as "one of the last of the genuine music-hall performers" and as "one of the outstanding artists of his generation".
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Drury Lane pantomime Ada Blanche (born Ada Cecilia Blanche Adams; 16 July 1862 – 1 January 1953) was an English actress and singer known early in her career for vivacious performances in Victorian burlesque and pantomime and later in character roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Born into a theatrical family, Blanche made her stage debut at the age of fourteen and had a forty- five year career, almost exclusively on the British stage, in the West End and on tour. In the 1890s she was a leading principal boy in London's most lavishly staged pantomimes. In the 20th century her career changed to playing comic, formidable older women.
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About 1620, the "fachonos", the baroque equivalent of modern drag queens, organized big parties in the Gaia Lisboa, the gay Lisbon. These itinerant celebrations, called "escarramão", or "esparramão", used to include pantomimes with racy scenes, where some of the participants were dressed as women, and other as men. His Majesty's High Court in Mexico City discovered in 1656 a similar case, when Juan Correa, an old man, over 70 years old, confessed that he had been committing the unspeakable vice since his childhood. Correa's house, in the outskirts of the city, had been used as a meeting point to celebrate balls, where many men dressed as women.
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In 1960, Marjorie founded the City Literary Drama Company. This presented its own work, ranging from original pantomimes to experimental mime and movement workshops at the City Lit Theatre, with people such as Ronald Smith Wilson, Claud Newman, and Dorothea Alexander. In 1968 the company visited Warsaw, Leningrad and Moscow with its children's drama programmes. In the meantime she worked as a director and writer at the Mermaid Theatre, notably directing a stage version of Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives. She was invited for two spells, 1962 and 1968–69, at the Habimah National Theatre of Israel and in 1964 did a Youth Theatre tour of Czechoslovakia.
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Floodlights were installed in the Stadium in 1955. Throughout the late 1940s and 1950s the Empire Pool continued to be dominated by Ice hockey, skating, boxing and tennis. New events were introduced after the war, however, including a meeting of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty (1946), darts (1948), the All American Roller Skating Show (also known as Skating Vanities of 1949), pantomimes on ice (the first being Dick Whittington on Ice, in 1951) and swimming spectacles devised by Hollywood stars Buster Crabbe and Esther Williams. These last had to use temporary structures to retain water, as the swimming pool itself was no longer usable.
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It was rebuilt and redesigned several times and the gradual transformation changed it beyond recognition. Besides “Maxim’s”, the building in Bolshaya Dmitrovka housed another theatre too: there worked the Boris Nevolin's Intimate Theatre of Miniatures which moved to Moscow from Saint-Petersburg in 1910. Its repertoire consisted of vaudevilles, ballet pantomimes, dances, interludes and comic sketches. The Dmitrovsky Theatre After the October Revolution the building of the former Merchants Club and the garden surrounding it became the government property. The Dmitrovsky Theatre was opened there and two auditoriums equipped: the “Maxim’s” was used for music performances, and one of the staterooms was turned into a concert hall.
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One of his earliest successes was in performing William J. Scanlan's song "My Nellie's Blue Eyes", which was soon parodied by Charles Coborn as "Two Lovely Black Eyes". Costello performed in pantomimes, but increasingly specialised in black humour, such as "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" and "His Funeral's Tomorrow", and sentimental and patriotic ballads such as the stirring "Comrades", a story of friendship between two old soldiers written by Felix McGlennon, which became Costello's signature song. He continued to have a lengthy career in pantomime, and in the 1920s toured with his own variety company. He recorded a medley of his most famous songs in 1933.
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In 2000, after appearing himself in pantomime, he set up his own pantomime company, The Owen Money Theatre Company, with the aim of taking family friendly pantomimes around the theatres of Wales from November to February. The first production was Aladdin, followed by Cinderella (2001/02), Jack And The Beanstalk (2002/03), Dick Whittington (2003/04), Aladdin (2004/05), Robinson Crusoe (2005/06), Peter Pan (2006/07), Cinderella (2007/08), Jack And The Beanstalk (2007), Adult pantomime Buttons Undone - The Cinderella Story continues... (2008), Robinson Crusoe (2008), Aladdin (2009), Dick Whittington (2010), Peter Pan 2011/2012), Babes in the Wood (2012/2013), Aladdin (2013/2014).
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In 2016 he played Mr Grainger in a one-off revival episode of Are You Being Served?.Are You Being Served Cast at Radio Times Retrieved 29 August 2016 On stage, Barraclough appeared in everything from musicals (The Boy Friend and Gypsy) to high drama (Death of a Salesman) and Christmas shows and pantomimes. He created the role of Santa in the lavish stage musical Santa Claus, which he reprised for several Christmases. In the 2006 New Year Honours, Barraclough was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama and to charity in the region of North West England.
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The Ständeklausel (estates-clause) was a principle in poetic theatre, by which attempts were made to transfer the principles of Classicist French drama into German theatre. It is often connected with Johann Christoph Gottsched. It stated that only kings, princes and other people of high rank were to be shown in tragedies and that those of the middle classes could only be shown onstage in comedies. It also demarcated audiences in theatre concessions granted by ancien regime princes - only theatres in courts were allowed to put on tragedies (including ballets and serious operas), while the rapidly proliferating Volkstheaters were only allowed to put on comedies, including comic operas and pantomimes.
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A comic sketch published in 1818 has a character expostulate: "Is it not ridiculous for us grown people to be going to see Mother Goose, Tom Thumb, Old Mother Hubbard, and suchlike infantile fooleries; or to misspend our time at pantomimes and at rope dancings?""The Hermit of London or Sketches of English Manners XVII", in The Literary Gazette 93, 31 October 1818, p.700 What kind of show contained those characters is not explained. It was not until a decade later that there was mention of a Christmas pantomime, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, that was "founded on the familiar nursery-tale of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog".
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A more long-lasting development occurred in Denmark. In that same year, 1800, a troupe of Italian players led by Pasquale Casorti began giving performances in Dyrehavsbakken, then a well-known site for entertainers, hawkers, and inn-keepers. Casorti's son, Giuseppe (1749–1826), had undoubtedly been impressed by the Pierrots they had seen while touring France in the late eighteenth century, for he assumed the role and began appearing as Pierrot in his own pantomimes, which now had a formulaic structure (Cassander, father of Columbine, and Pierrot, his dim-witted servant, undertake a mad pursuit of Columbine and her rogue lover, Harlequin)."Casorti", Gyldendals encyklopædi.
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Additionally, Arthur Lewis notes that: :Pantomimes began in 1936 with Cinderella and continued regularly until 1946. In 1947 the musical Annie Get Your Gun was staged at the Coliseum and had a staggeringly successful run for the time, of 1,304 performances and three continuous years which was the longest run in theatrical history. There then followed a long run of major American hits beginning with Kiss Me, Kate in 1951, Guys And Dolls in 1953, Pajama Game in 1955, and Damn Yankees in 1957. But this exceptional period did at last come to an end in 1957 when the production of The Bells Are Ringing failed to enthrall anyone.
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710–12 The pantomimes had double titles, describing the two unconnected stories such as "Little Miss Muffet and Little Boy Blue, or Harlequin and Old Daddy Long- Legs.""Theatre Royal, Haymarket", The Times, 3 Feb 1862, p. 8 Illustration of the Harlequinade in The Forty Thieves (1878), showing Swell, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Columbine (above), Clown and Policeman In an elaborate scene initiated by Harlequin's "slapstick", a Fairy Queen or Fairy Godmother transformed the pantomime characters into the characters of the harlequinade, who then performed the harlequinade. Throughout the 19th century, as stage machinery and technology improved, the transformation of the set became more and more spectacular.
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Braintree's museum, containing displays relating to the history of the town, is named after the local naturalist John Ray and has a number of relatively famous patrons, including the Essex-born artist, Jennifer Walter and Lesley Killin, an influential member of Essex Council of Education (the ECE). The associated Warner Textile Archive contains the second largest collection of publicly owned textiles in the UK (after the Victoria & Albert Museum). The Braintree Arts Theatre opened in 2009 on the Notley High School campus. The Bocking Arts Theatre is based at The Literary and Mechanical Institute at the top of Bocking End, and promotes pantomimes, drama and a range of live entertainment events.
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The musical was frequently revived during West End Christmas seasons during the four decades after its premiere, including a London production at the Globe Theatre in 1888, with Isa Bowman as Alice. Maidie Andrews as Alice in Alice Through the Looking-Glass at the Comedy Theatre, London during the Christmas period 1903–04. Pictured in The Tatler (January 1904) As the book and its sequel are Carroll's most widely recognised works, they have also inspired numerous live performances, including plays, operas, ballets, and traditional English pantomimes. These works range from fairly faithful adaptations to those that use the story as a basis for new works.
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The episode telecast August 21, 1931, (listed as "Looking at Television") aired at 9:00 PM, preceded by a play titled Hawaiian Shadows and followed by a demonstration of television by Lighthouse for the Blind.www.fultonhistory.com 2 The episode telecast August 28, 1931, aired at 9:00 PM, preceded by Irwin Trio and followed by How the Blind See.www.fultonhistory.com 3 The episode telecast September 4, 1931, aired at 9:00 PM, preceded by pantomimes by Grace Voss and followed by tenor Elliott Jaffe.www.fultonhistory.com 4 The episode telecast September 11, 1931, aired at 9:00 PM, preceded by "vocal trio" and followed by magician Richard Kenny.www.fultonhistory.
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Hilary does have a talent for ballet, but is not at all interested in it. Their mother dies when the girls are ten, just before Hilary's audition for the Royal Ballet School, and the girls go to live with their Uncle Tom (their father's brother), his wife Cora Wintle, and their daughter, Dulcie. Aunt Cora runs a dancing school to teach girls how to perform in troupes for pantomimes, musicals and reviews; the troupes are referred to as "Mrs Wintle's Little Wonders". Dulcie, who is almost a year older than Rachel and Hilary, is very attractive and a talented dancer, but also very spoiled by her mother.
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However, things improved in 1842 when the theatre was relaunched under the management of John Douglass as the Theatre Royal, Marylebone with a production of the drama The Saxon Maid; or The Days of William the Conqueror, followed by the farce Tea With My Aunt and finishing the evening with Passion And Repentance. Later performances included Shakespeare's Richard III and The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, who at the time was living nearby in Tavistock House in Devonshire Terrace.Theatre Royal, Marylebone - Church Street Memories website Under Douglass the theatre could seat about 2,500 patrons and was quite successful. He put on melodramas and pantomimes until he retired in 1847.
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Crush is featured vocally on Pickwick's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat playing the role of "Pharaoh" and songs from the musical Hair for Carlton Records. Following the release of his album Reel Music, Crush played a 30 date tour with 60s singing star Gene Pitney, including a night at the London Palladium. Other career highlights include "The Stonewall Equality Show" at the Royal Albert Hall and a tour of "Back to Bacharach", Crush's tribute show to Burt Bacharach, for which he also wrote the script. Crush has appeared in over 30 pantomimes, starting out initially in "principal boy" parts but is now in demand for "dame" roles.
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Living nativity in Sicily, which also contains a mock rural 19th-century village Living nativity in Bascara Pantomimes similar to the scene staged by St. Francis at Greccio became an annual event throughout Christendom. Abuses and exaggerations in the presentation of mystery plays during the Middle Ages, however, forced the church to prohibit performances during the 15th century. The plays survived outside church walls, and 300 years after the prohibition, German immigrants brought simple forms of the nativity play to America. Some features of the dramas became part of both Catholic and Protestant Christmas services with children often taking the parts of characters in the nativity story.
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1895 set design model by Marcel Jambon for Act I of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello for a production in Paris. Our more modern notion of scenery, which dates back to the 19th century, finds its origins in the dramatic spectacle of opera buffa, from which the modern opera is descended. Its elaborate settings were appropriated by the 'straight', or dramatic, theatre, through their use in comic operettas, burlesques, pantomimes and the like. As time progressed, stage settings grew more realistic, reaching their peak in the Belasco realism of the 1910-'20s, in which complete diners, with working soda fountains and freshly made food, were recreated onstage.
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Impressed with what he saw, he offered the comedian a theatrical residency at Drury Lane but he was forced to withdraw it as Little Tich was contracted to Charles for a further year; Harris instead signed Little Tich for a two-year contract starting the following season. The deal required Little Tich to star in two pantomimes for a wage of £36 a week.Findlater & Tich, p. 42 Following on from his success in Babes in the Wood which culminated in April 1890, the theatre manager Rollo Balmain cast him as Quasimodo in a production of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.
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She had appeared in, among other things, Burnand's Black-Eyed Susan and Gilbert's An Old Score, and had performed together with her sister and Burnand in Burnand's one-act burlesque of The Odyssey, Patient Penelope; or, The Return of Ulysses. It was at that time illegal in England for a man to marry his dead wife's sister, although such marriages made outside British jurisdiction were recognised as valid; accordingly the wedding ceremony was performed in continental Europe. There were two sons and four daughters of this marriage. Throughout the 1870s, Burnand maintained a prodigious output. For the stage he wrote 55 pieces, ranging from burlesques to pantomimes, farces and extravaganzas.
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When sound was first introduced, there were a number of complications. First of all, most of the famous actors from the Silent Era, who were primarily pantomimes, had untrained voices and were incapable of expressing the necessary emotions with the addition of words. This voice struggle led to the end of many previously successful acting careers. Some had voices that were not compatible with the microphones, some had voices that were too high, too husky, or too soft, and some simply could not act convincingly. Because of this, many companies began to hire a higher number of “theatre” actors, who were familiar with using their voices.
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After completing his secondary education at The Valley School, Bengaluru, Sunder went to and consequently dropped out of the National School of Drama in Delhi halfway because he could not cope with Hindi. He returned to Chennai to join the Visual Communication course at Loyola College and happened to shoot a portfolio for model Sunita Punjabi who reached the semi-finals of the Femina Miss India competition. This began a career in fashion photography and he has since gone on to work for several different brands. He juggled this with a career as a stage actor, featuring in pantomimes for The Little Theatre for over 10 years.
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For his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screen test, Skelton performed many of his more popular skits, such as "Guzzler's Gin", but added some impromptu pantomimes as the cameras were rolling. "Imitation of Movie Heroes Dying" were Skelton's impressions of the cinema deaths of stars like George Raft, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. Skelton appeared in numerous films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer throughout the 1940s. In 1940 he provided comic relief as a lieutenant in Frank Borzage's war drama Flight Command, opposite Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey and Walter Pidgeon. In 1941 he also provided comic relief in Harold S. Bucquet's Dr. Kildare medical dramas, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day and The People vs.
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Brief career sketch of Nigel Lythgoe The Lythgoes separated in 2007, and divorced in 2010. Lythgoe's success as a choreographer of dance productions within the West End led to a career as a producer/director of various theatre productions, including pantomimes. She produced/directed and choreographed the Christmas 2006 version of Peter Pan, starring Henry Winkler, in Wimbledon and Cinderella, starring Patrick Duffy, in Woking.review of Cinderella and Peter Pan in the 14 December 2006 edition of The Telegraph Lythgoe came to American public attention as a producer and judge on season one of the reality television series So You Think You Can Dance.
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Between December 1771 and February 1772, the theatre staged a number of theatrical pieces, pantomimes, dancing, and acrobatics by Norwegian artists, performing in Danish.Anne Margrete Fiskvik, Where highbrow taste met itinerant dance in eighteenth century Scandinavia: The dance entrepreneur Martin Nürenbach According to advertisements, comedies by Holberg were performed mixed with dance performances. Not much is known of the activity of the Nürembach theatre. Martin Nürenbach himself was evidently an appreciated and popular dancer, but not considered as good in the capacity of an actor, and it seems as if the dance performances were more appreciated than the theater plays, which is why dance performances were mixed with the plays.
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After leaving D'Oyly Carte, Grey enjoyed a long West End theatre career. She began with Drury Lane pantomimes, including playing one of the Merry Men in Babes in the Wood in 1888 with Harry Payne, Dan Leno as the Dame, and Harriet Vernon as Robin Hood. She and Rosina Brandram appeared in a musical version of Newport (The Song of the Looking Glass) in a vanity production at Devonshire House. In 1889–1890 Grey continued at Drury Lane as Deborah Wood in The Royal Oak, the Royal Housemaid in Jack and the Beanstalk, and, in Beauty and the Beast as the King of Diamonds.
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Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at the Waterfront, 2013 Many plays take place every year, in the 350 seated capacity studio, including operas, pantomimes, and musicals. The hall is a key venue for the Belfast Festival at Queen's and for concerts given by the Ulster Orchestra. During their 2002 tour, in promotion of their album Right Now, famous pop trio Atomic Kitten recorded their Right Here, Right Now DVD at the auditorium. Planxty performed there on 19, 20 and 21 January 2005 as part of their series of reunion concerts. In 2011 the Waterfront hosted the Sinn Féin Ardfheis, the first time for it to be held in Belfast.
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According to the lyrics, Billy Baxter's attributes include: lost limitations, imitations, a thousand faces, a lover, a gambler, a lesson for all the crew, a hungry heart, love to burn, in love with abandon but never loses control, walks right through disaster and still whole, plays pantomimes. Kelly had met Joe Camilleri (from Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons) when the latter was looking for someone to co-write songs with, Kelly gave Camilleri "Only the Lonely Heart" (aka "Only the Lonely Hearted") and "Hand Me Down". Camilleri recommended Kelly to Mushroom Records and put up the money to produce the group's debut album, Talk. The song was produced by Camilleri for Mushroom Records.
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Paul Cinquevalli, in the New York Clipper, 1907 Paul Cinquevalli (30 June 1859 – 14 July 1918) was a German music hall entertainer whose speciality juggling act made him popular in the English music halls during the 19th and early 20th century. Cinquevalli first appeared in England in 1885 with much success and settled in London, appearing in various circuses, music halls and pantomimes. In 1912, he became one of the first acts to appear in music hall's first Royal Command Performance. He is perhaps best known for being one of the first "gentleman jugglers", a description given to a male performer who juggles with everyday objects such as bottles, plates, glasses and umbrellas.
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Besides his songs and operettas, Roger's compositions included some ballet and pantomimes, the former being Le vague (1883), La Camargo (1901), and Cendrillon (1902), and the latter were Balazi-Boumboum (1888) and (1895). He collaborated with the composers Gaston Serpette (Cendrillonnette (1890) and La Dot de Brigitte (1895)) and Paul Lacome (Mademoiselle Asmodée (1891)). The critic Andrew Lamb wrote of Roger, "His music is admirably crafted, demonstrating melodic grace, charm and a flair for rhythmic effect that are well suited to the lighthearted stage works to which he contributed." Roger was a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, a critic for the publication La France, and editor of the theatrical news in the Petit journal.
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Known as 'Gabs' to family and friends, Ray first appeared in London's West End at the age of ten in the role of Eveleen in John Hollingshead's production of a musical play called Miami at the Royal Princess's Theatre. This was followed by juvenile roles in a series of plays in London and on tour. The next year, she played a role in A Celebrated Case. She was also a dancer in the Blackpool ballet. At the Richmond Theatre from 1893, she played Cupid in Little Red Riding Hood, Adrienne in Proof, and Cissie in The Silver King, among other plays and pantomimes. In 1899, she appeared in Sinbad the Sailor at the Hammersmith Lyric Opera House.
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On 27 Nov 1941 a Wellington bomber crashed into the sea to the east of the pier. The first jet airspeed record and the first airspeed record over 600 mph was made between Herne Bay Pier and Reculver by H J Wilson who broke the World Air Speed Record at 606 mph in a standard Gloster Meteor Mark IV in November 1945. Cricketer Godfrey Evans used to box on the pier: "he would take on all comers at £2 a bout until his county Kent, fearing for his eyesight, told him to stop". From 1910 to the end of the 1960s the Grand Pavilion housed summer shows, winter pantomimes, exhibitions and the Remembrance Day and Commonwealth Day services.
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Therefore, the evening's entertainments received mixed reviews, except for the uniformly enthusiastic reviews of Nellie Farren. However, The Times noted that "Like the other extravaganzas from the same pen, Robert the Devil shows an endeavour to avoid the ordinary vulgarities of grotesque drama, and bring its most elegant contingencies into the foreground.... The burlesque has been received with a storm of approbation."Ainger, p. 80 The success of Robert and Dulcamara showed that Gilbert could write entertainingly in this form and, together with his early pantomimes and farces, full of awful puns (traditional in burlesques of the period), though they do, at times, show signs of the satire that would later be a defining part of his work.
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Cameron was born in London in 1862 to Mary Josephine (née Brougham) and William Melfington Thompson, a linen merchant. Her "aunt" was the Victorian burlesque actress and dancer Lydia Thompson. She made her stage début in 1871 at the age of 9 in the part of Karl in Boucicault's Faust and Marguerite. She also appeared as a child in the Drury Lane Theatre's Christmas pantomimes."Miss Violet Cameron: Scandalous Stage Actress", The Cabinet Card Gallery, 7 April 2014 She also played at the Adelphi Theatre and the Globe. In 1876 she created the role of Joconde at the Criterion Theatre in H. B. Farnie's burlesque Piff Paff and soon played Perdita in A Winter's Tale in Liverpool.
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Then again on 5 August 2010, Benjamin returned to EastEnders for one episode in a storyline that was building up to the exit of Barbara Windsor. Benjamin reprised her role for a short stint in July 2017, part of on-screen daughter Louise Mitchell's (Tilly Keeper) bullying storyline. Since leaving EastEnders, Benjamin has appeared in the BBC television programme The Afternoon Play, and the BBC hospital drama Casualty. She has also appeared in pantomimes across London, as well as touring for 6 months in the play Framed in which she starred with Tom Craig from Coronation Street. In April 2006, the Daily Mirror reported that Benjamin was in talks with EastEnders about reprising the role of Lisa Fowler.
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Victorin Jasset was born in Fumay in the Ardennes region of France in 1862, and after studying painting and sculpture with Dalou, he began a career designing theatre costumes and as a decorator of fans. He then became known as the producer and designer of spectacular ballets and pantomimes, notably Vercingétorix in 1900 at the newly built Théâtre de l'Hippodrome in Paris. In 1905 he was hired by the Gaumont Film Company to work with Alice Guy on film productions such as La Esméralda (1905), based on Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and La Vie du Christ (1906), working firstly as a designer and then as assistant director.Dictionnaire de biographie française, tom.
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The two remaining operas, Lucerna (The Lantern, 1923, based on Jirásek), and Dědův odkaz (The grandfather's legacy, 1926, based on Heyduk) met with predominantly negative criticism, and Novák developed extreme bitterness toward the cultural forces that opposed him, leading him toward reactionism. With two ballet-pantomimes completed in 1928–29, Signorina Gioventù and Nikotina, Novák regained some of the respect he had lost among his colleagues; the layering of orchestral effects (including mixed meters and even references to tango) won him the approval of some younger composers, such as Iša Krejčí and Alois Hába. In the 1930s he returned to chamber music, but also large forms such as the epic choral/orchestral work, Podzimní symfonie (Autumn Symphony, op.
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Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow auditorium about 1930 The theatre was opened in 1867 as the Royal Colosseum and Opera House by James Baylis. Baylis also ran the Milton Colosseum Music Hall at Cowcaddens Cross, and had opened the Scotia Music Hall , later known as the Metropole , in Stockwell Street in 1862. The Royal, and its shops and adjoining Alexandra Music Hall, were designed by George Bell of Clarke & Bell, who became the founding President of the Glasgow Institute of Architects. Baylis presented a range of performance activity in its auditorium: pantomimes, plays, comedies, harlequinades and opera. This early mention of opera seems significant given the theatre’s later role since 1975 as the home of Scottish Opera.
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Dan Leno in the 1880s George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era. He was best known, aside from his music hall act, for his dame roles in the annual pantomimes that were popular at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, from 1888 to 1904. Leno was born in St Pancras, London, and began to entertain as a child. In 1864, he joined his parents on stage in their music hall act, and he made his first solo appearance, aged nine, at the Britannia Music Hall in Coventry.
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The Vokes Family in about 1875: (l-r) Fawdon Vokes, Rosina, Victoria, Jessie and Fred Vokes With the Vokes Family he performed at music halls and at pantomimes both for British and American theatre-goers. They made their début on Christmas night in 1861 at Howard's Operetta House in EdinburghThomas Allston Brown, A History of the New York stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1903) - Google Books pg. 146 and made their London début at the Alhambra Theatre in 1862 when they were billed as 'The Five Little Vokes'. They appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 26 December 26 1868 in Edward Litt Laman Blanchard's pantomime Humpty Dumpty.
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Laura Eugenia Bayley (4 February 1862 – 25 October 1938) was a British actress and filmmaker, active in the Brighton School of early cinema pioneers. Born in Ramsgate, Bayley performed onstage in Victorian burlesques, revues, and pantomimes, often with her three sisters. After marrying the showman George Albert Smith, she entered the world of early experiments with motion picture film; she played main roles in many of the most important films Smith made between 1897 and 1903, including The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) and Mary Jane's Mishap (1903). Behind the camera, Bayley likely played a significant hand in the creative development of Smith's fiction films, and may have directed some of those currently credited to him.
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Since 1999 Orkian has starred in 27 British Pantomimes alongside a plethora of British stars including Leslie Grantham, Julian Clary, husband and wife team Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane, Warwick Davis, Dame Edna Everage, Stacey Solomon, Sam Bailey, John Inman and Claire Sweeney. In December 2009 he starred as Chester The Jester in Sleeping Beauty alongside singer/actress Claire Sweeney at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley. 2010 was the first year for over a decade that Orkian did not perform in panto, deciding to concentrate on private bookings and presenting his own full one-man show. 2011 saw Orkian perform in the biggest pantomime in the UK alongside comedy legend Dame Edna Everage at the Wimbledon Theatre for FFE productions.
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She played the title role in the 'Christmas 1908 and 1909 pantomimes of Jack and the Beanstalk, with George Robey as her stage mother. Over the following years, Reeve played in variety in England and enjoyed extensive and lucrative foreign tours, including South Africa and the U.S. in 1911, South Africa in 1913, Australia in 1914, Australia and South Africa in 1917–1918 (including a return engagement at the Tivoli in Melbourne in You're in Love), South Africa in 1920, Australia and New Zealand from 1922 to 1924 (again often in Aladdin with the Williamson company), and in 1926 and 1929, the last time playing in vaudeville. She was absent from England from 1929 to 1935.
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The cinema was opened on 24 November 1925 by National Pictures Ltd as the Princess Theatre, cited as located in Marryatville. at that time in a late Edwardian style designed for National Pictures (who also owned cinemas at Prospect, North Adelaide, Norwood and Victor Harbor) by South Australian theatre architect Christopher Arthur Smith. (Smith (1892–1952) had no formal architectural training, but is recognised as one of the leading South Australian exponents of the Art Deco style for his later works.) It was designed for silent films, and in the early days, presented pantomimes accompanied by the Princess Theatre Orchestra. The film shown at the opening night was Little Annie Rooney, starring Mary Pickford.
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Both bands were contenders in the All British Dance Band Championships. As Cragburn became established, many of Britain's top bands visited Cragburn, including Joe Loss, Oscar Rabin, Lew Stone, and many more. Cragburn also hosted a summer show each year with top artists from Scotland including Tommy Morgan, Alec Finlay, Larry Marshall, and The One O-Clock Gang. As the pop scene started taking over in the 1960s, the big band scene started to go into decline, and although the pavilion continued to be used as a facility for variety shows, pantomimes and functions by the local authority who owned it, it was becoming clear that greater financial benefit could be had by selling off the land for development.
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Weaver’s ballet tells the story of the love affair between Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war, and the revenge enacted on them by her husband Vulcan. It draws on classical mythology, but contemporary passions abound, and its immediate source was Peter Anthony Motteux's play, The Loves of Mars and Venus, written in 1695. Despite Weaver’s appeal to the revered performances of the ‘mimes and pantomimes’ of classical antiquity, who he wished to emulate, his ballet was a thoroughly modern work in tune with the sophisticated comedies of his own time. The Loves of Mars and Venus told the familiar story in six short scenes full of dancing and gestures.
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Pierrot was not Baptiste's only creation. As Robert Storey, one of the most assiduous students of the mime's repertoire, has pointed out, Deburau performed in many pantomimes unconnected with the Commedia dell'Arte: > He was probably the student-sailor Blanchotin in Jack, l'orang-outang > (1836), for example, and the farmhand Cruchon in Le Tonnelier et le > somnambule ([The Cooper and the Sleepwalker] late 1838 or early 1839), and > the goatherd Mazarillo in Fra-Diavolo, ou les Brigands de la Calabre > ([Brother Devil, or The Brigands of Calabria] 1844). He was certainly the > Jocrisse-like comique of Hurluberlu (1842) and the engagingly naïve recruit > Pichonnot of Les Jolis Soldats ([The Handsome Soldiers] 1843).Storey, > Pierrots on the stage, p. 10.
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Karen played Aunt Sal, the sister of Windsor's Peggy Mitchell. Although Karen was never a permanent cast member in the soap, she appeared as Aunt Sal occasionally, usually for only one or two episodes at a time. In 2006, Anna Karen used her experience as a striptease dancer to act as a judge in the final edition of Channel 4's reality television documentary Faking It. In 2008, Karen was a guest on the Channel 4's Sunday Night Project, again with Barbara Windsor. Karen has also been a regular in pantomimes over the years, and played the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella at the Millfield Theatre, in Edmonton, London at Christmas 2008.
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The Elgiva Theatre The Elgiva Hall opened on its original location in 1976.Elgive Hall opens 1976 Chesham Musical Theatre Retrieved, 2009_07_23 In 1998, having made way for an enlarged supermarket development the Elgiva was rebuilt as a purpose-built theatre on its current site and reopened as the New Elgiva. Now rebranded The Elgiva it is a 300 seated/400 standing capacity theatre, with a Dolby Digital 35mm cinema and is owned and managed by Chesham Town Council. The Elgiva presents a wide-ranging programme of professional and amateur theatre productions, musicals, comedy, dance, one night shows and concerts, pantomimes, films, exhibitions and other public and private events by both professional and community organisations.
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Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Spikey spent his early career working as a biomedical scientist in the haematology laboratory at Bolton General Hospital. It was during this period in the 1980s that Spikey scripted and performed in a number of amateur pantomimes with a group of like-minded health workers called the Bolton Health Performers. Early in his career Spikey won a talent show called Stairway to the Stars with a routine about juggling on a motorbike, judged by comedian Larry Grayson who took him aside to tell him he had potential and his routine was fantastic. Spikey was inspired to pursue a part-time comedy career while working in Bolton General Hospital.
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A Théâtre Optique screening of Pauvre Pierrot, as imagined by Louis Poyet and published in La Nature in July 1892 Émile Reynaud already mentioned the possibility of projecting moving images in his 1877 patent application for the Praxinoscope. He presented a praxinoscope projection device at the Société française de photographie on 4 June 1880, but did not market his Praxinoscope à projection before 1882. He then further developed the device into the Théâtre Optique which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, and patented the machine in 1888. He created several Pantomimes Illumineuses for this optical theatre by painting colourful images on hundreds of gelatin plates that were mounted into cardboard frames and attached to a cloth band.
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A trained actor, he appeared in theatres throughout Scotland, including the Royal Lyceum, The Traverse, Perth Theatre, The Tron, Eden Court, The Pavilion, and was Assistant Director of The Scottish Theatre Company, Founder of the independent company, United Artists (Scotland). He directed new plays by Peter Arnott and George Gunn as well as the first Scottish production of Howard Barkers, Pity In History. Working as a freelance director he worked with many companies and theatres including The Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Unit One, The Traverse, Mayfest, The Borders Festival, Craigmillar Festival Society and directed plays, pantomimes and community pageants. He was an elected member of the Scottish Committee of the Equity Union for 12 years.
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For some six years to early 1897 the manager was H Cecil Beryl before he went off on his own account to operate and then buy theatres in Glasgow including its Royal Princess`s Theatre. The new lessee from 1897 was the newly formed limited company The Robert Arthur Theatres LtdThe Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation, by Graeme Smith, published 2008 which had theatres in Scotland such as Her Majesty`s in Dundee and in England, such as the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. Robert Arthur, from Glasgow, now floated his company on the Stock Exchange. He presented the whole range of acclaimed plays, opera, revues and pantomimes until the company ran out of funds in 1912.
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The New Theatre's renowned annual pantomimes (incorporating Vera Legge's Dancers) attracted many star names, and became an Oxford family Christmas ritual. In 1963/4 Yana (real name: Pamella Guard) starred in Cinderella together with Des O'Connor as Buttons, Danny La Rue and Alan Hayes as The Ugly Sisters, and Erica Yorke as Prince Charming, as well as Jack Douglas, George Arnett and Wendy Cameron. The following year, 1964/5, Billy Fury starred as Aladdin, appearing with his band, The Gamblers, alongside Ray Fell and Laurie Lupino Lane. Freddie Garrity played Wishee Washee opposite Lulu as Aladdin in 1976, returning in the 1980s to play Jack in Jack and The Beanstalk with Anne Charleston, Alvin Stardust and Lynsey de Paul.
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Nicholls joined the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane company in 1880, and his act together with Campbell became one of the standing features in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's elaborate pantomimes until 1893. A reporter for the South Wales Daily News considered: "a Drury Lane pantomime was never complete without the assistance of Mr Harry Nicholls.""Mr Harry Nicholls", South Wales Daily News, 7 December 1900, p. 3 Among the dramas in which Nicholls appeared during those years were Pluck (1881), Human Nature (1882), A Run of Luck (1885), Pleasure (1886), The Armada (1887), The Royal Oak (1888), A Million of Money (1889), A Sailor's Knot (1890), The Prodigal Daughter (1891), and A Life of Pleasure (1893).
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In 1929, at the age of 14, Darnborough auditioned for the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev during the final season that the highly influential Ballets Russes performed in London. He was evidently impressed and asked to see her again in three years time, but nothing came of this as he died a few weeks laterAnthony Meredith, interview with Hermione Darnborough, Dancing Times, July 2009, pp 35-7 in Venice.Osbert Sitwell (1949) Laughter in the Next Room From an early age, Darnborough took part in a range of productions, including charity matinées and Christmas pantomimes. Among the latter were Beauty and the Beast (1928) and Puss in Boots (1929) at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
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McKenna on The Byre Theatre website McKenna was also a member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre company in Edinburgh, and with that company appeared in Kidnapped and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and played the "Principal Girl" in several traditional pantomimes. Her television credits include 41 episodes of The Kids from 47A (1973–4), playing Georgina Hogarth in Dickens of London with Roy Dotrice (1976), "Christina" in 13 episodes of Flambards (1979), Friends and Other Lovers (1981) for ITV Playhouse, and the film Mask of Murder (1985). McKenna relates in her autobiography Why Didn't They Tell The Horses? that when she auditioned for the part of "Christina" in Flambards, her most notable role, she had never ridden a horse before.
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A common feature of the Christmas season is the Nativity play which is practiced in most primary and some secondary schools across the UK. This practice is becoming less common, and Christmas pantomimes may be performed instead. Midnight Mass is also celebrated by Anglicans, Catholics, and other denominations, and services take place in nearly all Church of England parishes on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, presents are supposedly delivered in stockings and under the Christmas tree by Father Christmas, who previously had been something like The Ghost of Christmas Present in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843), but who has now become mainly conflated with Santa Claus. The two names are now used interchangeably and are equally known to British people, though some distinctive features still remain.
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Formby lost the case: his plea of ill-health was compromised by his accepting an engagement elsewhere at the same time. Formby's health was further damaged in the influenza pandemic of 1918, during which he contracted the disease while appearing at the Manchester Hippodrome and was unable to work for a month. He was taken ill during the runs of pantomimes in both 1918 and 1919, was forced to rest for three months in 1919, and collapsed on stage during a performance in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1920–21 pantomime season. Formby was advised by doctors to emigrate to South Africa for the benefit of his health, but he preferred to stay in Britain, with his wife and children, and continued to work.
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Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan, Wales. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the age of three in Current Cash and appearing in juvenile troupes all over Britain as a child, before going solo as 'Little Doris Hare', appearing in music hall, variety, cabaret, revues and pantomimes. One of five, her brother, Bertie Hare and her sisters Betty Hare and Winifred Hare Braemer were also actors and performers In 1930, the actress toured in The Show's the Thing, taking the part made famous by Gracie Fields. In 1932 she appeared in the West End in Noël Coward's show Words and Music, alongside John Mills.
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McDonagh's career when she was three years old, modelling for various catalogues before taking young roles in West End productions of Annie Get Your Gun and later Les Misérables. Her first television acting role was in Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... She joined the long-running children's show Grange Hill in 1997 as Lisa West, a role she played until 2002. She appeared as a guest film reviewer on Live & Kicking in 1999 and had a cameo on Child Stars in 2001. She also played Kristy in Fairytale Heart, which aired on BBC One in 2001. She has also had roles in pantomimes Jack and the Beanstalk (2001) and Aladdin (2003)Charlotte McDonagh profile, TV.com; accessed 23 September 2014.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron were the most important literary dramatists of their time (although Shelley's plays were not performed until later in the century). Shakespeare was enormously popular, and began to be performed with texts closer to the original, as the drastic rewriting of 17th and 18th century performing versions for the theatre (as opposed to his plays in book form, which were also widely read) was gradually removed over the first half of the century. A Theatre Royal, Exeter playbill from 1836, featuring Charles Kean in a performance of Richard III Melodramas, light comedies, operas, Shakespeare and classic English drama, pantomimes, translations of French farces and, from the 1860s, French operettas, continued to be popular, together with Victorian burlesque.
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In early 1996, the Wildhearts claimed to have recorded two new studio albums, which would be released via East West on the band's own record label, Round Records. Only some of the songs saw the light of day, in a revamped version of the previously fan club-only EP Fishing for Luckies with eight new tracks bringing it to full album length. An additional album of new material was never quite finished, although leaked copies were distributed as the Shitty Fuckin' Stupid Tracks bootleg. These rare tracks were officially released by East West in 1998 as part of the Landmines and Pantomimes rarities compilation, although the band claimed that they had not approved this release and urged fans to boycott the record.
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Ashworth began her television career presenting I Can Cook, the cookery programme for the under 6s, on the children’s channel by the BBC, CBeebies. She has also been one of the regular continuity presenters for CBeebies since 2011, appearing on an ongoing basis, as one member of the CBeebies “house”. She has also appeared on other programmes on CBeebies, including Justin's House, as well as performing in various station promos. She has appeared in four of the CBeebies Christmas Pantomimes, as Aladdin in Aladdin, the palace cook in Strictly Cinderella, the Giant’s Cook in Jack and the Beanstalk, and Mrs Darling in Peter Pan, and in July 2014, featured in the first ever CBeebies Prom, at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Gasparo Angiolini (7 February 1731 – 6 February 1803), real name Domenico Maria Gasparo, son of Francesco Angiolini and Maria Maddalena Torzi, was an Italian dancer and choreographer, and composer. He was born in Florence and died in Milan. He is known thanks to the polemics with the French ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre.Arianna Béatrice Fabbricatore, La Querelle des Pantomimes : Danse, culture et société dans l’Europe des Lumières, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, coll. « Le Spectaculaire Arts de la scène », 2017 (471p.). Gasparo Angiolini directed the ballet at the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, taking over the post in 1758, working closely with Christoph Willibald von Gluck on such works as Don Juan ou le Festin de Pierre (1761), and the opera Orfeo ed Euridice (1762).
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Nicholas Jeffrey Thomas (born 16 December 1959) is a British entertainment entrepreneur and an Olivier-award-winning theatre producer. He is founder, Chairman and joint-owner with his wife Sandra, of Qdos Entertainment Ltd (Qdos), whose subsidiaries include HQ Theatres & Hospitality Ltd, Qdos Entertainment (Pantomimes) Ltd, Qdos Entertainment (Productions) Ltd, Q Talent Ltd and Q Voice Ltd. Since its inception, The Stage newspaper annual ‘Stage 100’ has accredited Thomas as one of the top 100 most influential people in British Theatre. In 2018, he was ranked 13th in the list, and his highest position was 5th in 2008. In 2017, Thomas was the Executive Producer, alongside Qdos Entertainment Managing Director Michael Harrison, for Qdos’ production of Dick Whittington at The London Palladium.
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Edward Bryant was born in London, England in 1957, and is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for his appearances in the films Rita starring alongside Julie T. Wallace and the 2006 film The Rulers and Dealers by Stephen Lloyd Jackson with Philippe Deguara, Terence Anderson and Freema Agyeman in which he played Fletcher. He also played the character of Mum in Steven Berkoff's production of East which ran at the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End theatre district during 1999. Edward Bryant has also performed extensively in Christmas pantomimes such as Aladdin at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing with Janet Dibley in 1992 and he also performed at the Algiva Theatre in Chesham with Sam Kelly in Cinderella in 2004.
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He initially worked as a dancing-master before being appointed by Colley Cibber as leader of the orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1729. Soon thereafter, he began performing as a solo violinist and singing in small roles at the theatre. He eventually graduated to lead roles in the musical productions at Drury Lane, starring in such productions as Henry Carey’s The Contrivances (1729) and Cibber’s Damon and Phillida (1729). Charke possessed a good sense of humor and had a talent for wit, which he ultimately made use of in pantomimes, mostly as a composer but also as a writer. He wrote several amusing "Medley Overtures" that became highly popular for pantomime performances during the 1730s and 1740s.
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Since 1996, Ross Petty Productions have been producing what they call “Fractured Fairy Tale Musicals” at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre.Aisle Say (ONT): ROBIN HOOD The shows are firmly in the old English pantomime tradition, incorporating many of that style’s elements — broad comedy, winking asides that break the fourth wall, audience participation, and, of course, a man in a dress. Petty had previously been involved since the early 1980s with pantomimes staged at the Royal Alexandra Theatre by British producer Paul Elliott who imported traditional English pantos using a largely British cast with a few token Canadian actors. Petty began appearing in the shows in 1983 and became co- producer with Elliott in 1986 before launching his own version of the tradition a decade later.
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At the mining town a county commissioner arrives to review the claims, but the miners are afraid to talk to him – except for the McGavin family, but they are besieged in their home and eventually destroyed with dynamite by the large outlaw band of Finch, who co-operates with Fisher. However, at night a message is delivered to the commissioner in his room by a dwarf (from the circus). In the morning the circus arrives, and the commissioner convinces Fisher to invite everybody to the show. At the circus show they perform pantomimes about the threat to the miners and the killing of the McGavins. The miners find guns under their seats, while Fisher’s men find feathers. There is a fight and Fisher’s men are killed.
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He produced The Ed Sullivan Show when it visited Ireland, insisting on the use of Irish artists, including Maureen Potter, who received a career boost from the experience. Fred O'Donovan handprints (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin) O'Donovan joined the Irish Theatre Company in the 1970s and achieved recognition as the producer of variety show Gaels of Laughter, which featured Maureen Potter and was performed at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Gaels of Laughter returned to the Gaiety Theatre for a one-night tribute show to O'Donovan on 25 January 2010, with Gay Byrne as host and John McColgan as producer. Other production credits include several Christmas pantomimes, Jury's Irish Cabaret, The Jack Benny Show and Juno and the Paycock, which featured Peter O'Toole, Siobhán McKenna and Jack MacGowran.
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Because Charles II had only awarded royal patents allowing for the staging of plays to the "Theatres Royal" (the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden) all the other theatres, even in 1823, could only perform melodramas, burlesque, pantomimes, puppet theatre, musical entertainments, and spectacles. This meant that Peake's Presumption had to include music, pantomime and spectacle in order for it legally to be staged. Thus, the play had songs that the Creature could react to, pantomime as the Creature was mute and spectacle in the form of an avalanche in the finale. The drama opened on Monday, 28 July 1823, at the head of a programme that included two farces, The Rival Soldiers and Sharp and Flat.
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Occasionally, a piece would be chosen for a series theme tune and become more widely known, such as the theme for the 1962 US medical drama TV series The Eleventh Hour.Screenarchives.com Aside from library music, Palmer wrote a series of orchestral suites and shorter light music movements, some plays with music and pantomimes for children, and the occasional work with more serious intentions – notably the Three Atonal Studies for piano.A Fourth Garland of English Light Music Composers, by Philip L Scowcroft He collaborated with his wife Winifred on a new musical, The Snow Queen, in 1967, with music adapted from Grieg. By the end of the 1960s Palmer had stopped composing, but usage of his library music continued to grow.
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Johannes Brost and Nermina Lukac with their awards at Guldbaggem 21 January 2013 In 1981, he had the leading role in the SVT children's television program Christmas calendar titled Stjärnhuset, which won him national recognition. A year later Brost became a panelist on the ratings success Gäster med gester, which began airing on SVT; he also appeared in several pantomimes. He also participated in several comedy plays such as ' (A Bedfull of Foreigners) and ' at Chinateatern; Me and My Girl at in Stockholm and ' at the Palladium in Malmö. Brost became best known for his role as Joker the bartender in the television series Rederiet; he appeared in all 318 episodes of the series, which ran between 1992 and 2002.
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After leaving Blue Peter permanently in 1986, he returned to the stage, most notably in Mike Stott's Funny Peculiar and in the musicals Barnum, Me and My Girl and The Card for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In the 1990s he appeared in numerous pantomimes, some of which he also produced through his company Here's One I Made Earlier, including Robin Hood at the Lewisham (now Broadway) Theatre in South East London. He wrote and directed the Oxford Playhouse pantomime from 2006 to 2013 He played Charlie Peace at Nottingham Playhouse in 2013 and Jack Firbrace in Birdsong in 2014 and 2015. He played Wilbur Turnblad in the touring production of Hairspray in 2015/16.
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It opened on 8 February 1864 with the equestrian company of Marie Macarte among those who appeared on the first night. Music for the performances, everything from equestrian display to ballet and incidental music for dramas and pantomimes, was provided by H. Wayrauch, the resident composer and musical director. The venue immediately became popular with audiences.'The Hippotheatron' - The New York Times, 24 November 1864, Page 5 Spalding & Rogers' Circus, which had just returned from a two years' tour in the seaports of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, and the West Indies, were in residence for four weeks from April 25 to May 21 1864,William L. Slout, Clowns and Cannons: The American Circus During the Civil War, Emeritus Enterprise Book (2000) - Google Books p.
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There was never any serious thought at this time of becoming a writer, but McHale did both write and direct various productions for the Q20 company. He then went onto become a member of the Chesterfield Civic Theatre (now The Pomegranate Theatre) where he played numerous roles in straight dramas, musicals, Shakespeare, pantomimes and Old Time Musical Halls. Here he also directed a number of productions, wrote some one act plays as well as the company's pantomime one Christmas – this was the first time he was actually paid for his writing. He returned once more to the Isle of Wight to play in the summer repertory season, playing lead roles in Doctor In The House, The Whole Truth and the farce Bed, Board and Romance.
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50–51; Crowther, pp. 716–17 After writing and thinking about the harlequinade for half a century, and like some of Gilbert's earlier works, The Fairy's Dilemma "sets pantomime fantasy alongside modern everyday life... a harlequinade parodied and subverted."Crowther, p. 719 As The Observer noted in their opening night review of the piece, Gilbert turns inside out, as no other dramatist could do as well, conventional Christmas pantomimes, "with their good fairies and wicked demons supernaturally influencing the destinies of unnatural lovers.... Mr. Gilbert makes the goodness of the Fairy Rosebud as perfunctory as the wickedness of the Demon Alcohol; and it is she who, with a view to her own professional advancement, invents for the Demon the malignant plot".
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She has toured extensively both in the UK and abroad and appeared in several West End shows (most recently in The Vagina Monologues and 84 Charing Cross Road) and in many pantomimes and is a regular performer (and part of the original cast) of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners. In December 2005, she appeared on stage with the London Gay Men's Chorus for their Christmas Show, Make the Yuletide Gay. She sang and danced while also hosting the show at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Dome Concert Hall in Brighton and the Barbican Centre in London. At the equivalent show in December 2006, Sandi Toksvig corrupted the lyrics of a song to suggest Lenska had a Christmas job in Debenhams.
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Halesowen is the base for two Amateur Dramatic Societies – Startime Variety (pantomimes in January and Summer Variety shows around July, both at the Cornbow Hall Theatre) and Mayhem Theatre Company (comedies and dramas, normally two shows per year at the Leasowes Theatre). Hereford and Worcestershire ACF/Army Cadet Force a well known mercian regiment of A company in the acf also holds a good amount of cadets. Halesowen Jazz Club holds fortnightly concerts on Sundays (except in Summer) at Halesowen Cricket Club (licensed premises), usually featuring Trad and New Orleans Jazz. Halesowen Boardgamers' Club play adult-orientated board and card games (German and American games such as Settlers of Catan, Acquire and Carcassonne) each Wednesday evening at The Stag & Three Horseshoes public house in Halesowen.
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North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre As well as the town's Country Park, The North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, formerly the Motherwell Heritage Centre on High Road, situated next to the town's railway station, is a building that displays the history of Motherwell from the Roman era. The building also has a viewing tower on the fifth floor, giving visitors a good view of the town and other parts of Lanarkshire, as well as of mountains as far back as Ben Lomond. Motherwell Civic Centre is the headquarters of North Lanarkshire Council (since 1996, previously the offices of Motherwell District Council within the Strathclyde region since 1975). A number of pantomimes and musicals have taken place in the concert hall and theatre within the complex.
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His acting credits include four rock and roll pantomimes at Clwyd Theatr Cymru as well Mickey in Tipyn o Stad and Dafydd Meirion in A470 for ITV Wales. Lloyd's music career has seen him release two albums, Goleuadau Llundain (2005) with Mr Pinc, which reached number 4 in Radio Cymru's Welsh Language Music Chart, and Tro Ar Fyd (2009) as a solo artist, which reached number 3 in the same listings. He has also appeared as Blondel/Will Scarlet in Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood at Clwyd Theatr, Cymru. He currently lives in Denbigh with his speech therapist girlfriend Elen. He announced he had got engaged to Elen during a holiday to Rome on Uned 5 on 7 February 2010.
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During this period he travelled to the UK where he performed on stage in several Christmas pantomimes such his role as Prince Charming in Sunderland's Cinderella and at Tunbridge Wells in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He left the soap in 1997, with his character moving to London. Since leaving Neighbours, McNair has continued acting on television and stage. He was cast as Joseph in the original The Secret Life of Us telemovie for Network Ten in Australia in 2001 and later played Joseph, the boyfriend of Deborah Mailman, during the first season of television series of the same name. He has guest-starred in television series such as All Saints (1999), Something in the Air (2001), and Blue Heelers (2000; 2002; 2005).
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His friend and mentor, Tom Robertson, was asked to write a pantomime but did not think he could do it in the two weeks available, and so he recommended Gilbert instead. Written and rushed to the stage in 10 days, Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack, a burlesque of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, proved extremely popular. This led to a long series of further Gilbert opera burlesques, pantomimes and farces, full of awful puns (traditional in burlesques of the period),Gilbert, W. S. La Vivandière, or, True to the Corps! (a burlesque of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment) though showing, at times, signs of the satire that would later be a defining part of Gilbert's work.
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Nugent played in three more pantomimes and children's shows after her early appearances in them: the title role in Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Edinburgh 1920); Polly Perkins in Robinson Crusoe (Opera House, Manchester, 1926), and Zoe in The Three Musketeers (Drury Lane, 1930). She appeared in Lilac Time in 1922 in the role of Tilli, and in Cole Porter's revue Wake Up and Dream in 1929. In the 1930s Nugent appeared as Sally Hamil in The New Gossoon (Apollo Theatre, 1931); Miss Pratt in Nymph Errant (Adelphi Theatre, 1933); Gladys in George and Margaret (Morosco Theatre New York, 1937); Essie in You Can't Take It With You (St. James's Theatre, 1937); and various roles in Harold French's revue All Clear (Queen's, 1939).
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In the 17th century, dumbshow survived as an element of the courtly masque, and in the Jacobean tragedies of Webster and Middleton dumbshows are featured in masque-within-the-play episodes. From the 1630s the dumbshow no longer featured in mainstream British drama, but it resurfaced in harlequinades, pantomimes and melodramas in the 19th century. Thomas Holcroft introduced a dumb character in his play A Tale of Mystery (1802), and the device of using a mute to convey essential facts by dumbshow became a regular feature of melodramas. In his Dictionary of Literary Terms (first published in 1977), J. A. Cuddon lists 19th century plays with the titles The Dumb Boy (1821), The Dumb Brigand (1832), The Dumb Recruit (1840), The Dumb Driver (1849) and The Dumb Sailor (1854).
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The main frontage of the civic centre, facing on Windmillhill Street, featured continuous stone facing panels above and below a continuous row of windows on six floors with a separate council chamber jutting out to the east of the main structure: the design also included a multi-purpose concert hall and theatre which was built to the west of the civic centre and was part financed by the Scottish Arts Council. The complex received a Scottish Civic Trust Award in 1973. Following the official opening, the concert hall and theatre hosted an initial "carol pageant" and then followed this up with a regular programme of pantomimes and concerts. As well as this, top-level snooker (the Scottish Masters event) was also held within the complex during the 1990s.
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Askwith's extensive work on stage, includes numerous farces such as Run For Your Wife, Casanova's Last Stand, One For The Road plus the stage Confessions sequel The Further Confessions of a Window Cleaner and Terry Johnson's Dead Funny. From 11 December 2012 – 27 January 2013, he appeared at the Mill at Sonning, Reading, Berkshire in Ray Cooney's farce Caught in the Net. In pantomimes, Askwith has appeared with the Chuckle Brothers in Dick Whittington, with Frank Bruno and Sooty in a Wolverhampton production of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears and in various productions of Aladdin as Abanazar. More unusual stage roles include the title role in a production of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and the Child Catcher in a 2006 touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Chaplin believed his first influence to be his mother, who entertained him as a child by sitting at the window and mimicking passers-by: "it was through watching her that I learned not only how to express emotions with my hands and face, but also how to observe and study people." Chaplin's early years in music hall allowed him to see stage comedians at work; he also attended the Christmas pantomimes at Drury Lane, where he studied the art of clowning through performers like Dan Leno. Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker. Simon Louvish writes that the company was his "training ground", and it was here that Chaplin learned to vary the pace of his comedy.
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By the 19th century, Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot had begun to be used as the basis for pantomimes. One early example is Harlequin and Guy Fawkes: or, the 5th of November, which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 November 1835. After the Plot is discovered, Fawkes changes into Harlequin and Robert Catesby, the leader of the Plot, into Pantaloon, following which "pure pantomime begins". Fawkes also features in the pantomime Guy Fawkes, or a Match for a King, written by Albert Smith and William Hale and first performed in 1855. The opening scene shows an argument between Catesby and Fawkes over the fate of Lord Monteagle, the man who raised the alarm after receiving an anonymous letter warning him not to attend Parliament on 5 November 1605.
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She followed it with Lady Rodolpha Lumbercourt to his Sir Pertinax MacSycophant in Charles Macklin's Man of the World; Charlotte to his Sir Archy MacSarcasm in Love a la Mode by the same author; and Lady Percy to his Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1. Other roles she played at this time were Miranda, with her husband as Marplot, in The Busy Bodie by Susanna Centlivre; and Eliza Ratcliff, with John Bernard as Sheva, in The Jew by Richard Cumberland. She also appeared in the pantomimes Oscar and Malvina by William Reeve, in which she also danced; and Brazen Mask by James Hewitt. On 29 April 1811 the Duffs appeared at a benefit in which Mary danced a solo while her husband performed in The Three and the Deuce by Prince Hoare.
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Going to the local Feldman's Theatre, he asked if they wanted a Lime Boy, and they did since so many men had gone off to war. He was hired as an "Opposite Prompt Lime Boy" for £1.5s a week and paid for his "digs" and everything out of that, even saving some money. His father found out where he was working and asked them to give him all the dirty jobs to try and discourage him but Jack did them all without any complaint, so come his fifteenth birthday, his father gave him a present. A script for a Cinderella pantomime, which he was to direct. Having seen his father direct three or four pantomimes, Jack knew what to do, and did 22 weeks at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland.
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Daly was born in Glasgow where he attended St Mary's School. On completing his education he started work in the Clydeside shipyards. Daly began his stage career as a foil to Glasgow music hall artiste Lex McLean, and his peers included Andy Stewart and the Alexander Brothers. The song for which he is best known "The Celtic Song" is still played at the start of home matches for Celtic F.C.. Daly also toured extensively and is probably best remembered for appearing on BBC Scotland show The White Heather Club as well as in many pantomimes at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre where he also frequently topped the bill in variety shows Further afield from his native city Daly was also a popular performer at the Edinburgh Palladium, and in Belfast.
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Mr. Smee seems an oddly genial man for a pirate; Barrie describes him as "Irish", the only Nonconformist among Hook's crew, and "a man who stabbed without offence" – and is portrayed in the multiple pantomimes or movies of Peter Pan as a rather stupid but entertaining man interested in loot rather than Hook's more evil pleasures. Smee typically represents a humorous side to pirating, often portrayed as a portly man with a bulbous nose and red cheeks, although Barrie hinted at a darker side. When captured by Hook, every child in the brig loves Smee – he cannot lay a fist on them and does their darning – despite his belief that they fear him. Hook considers that Smee has good form without knowing it, which is of course the best form of all.
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Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p. 59. (Nadar's photographs of him in various poses are some of the best to come out of his studio—if not some of the best of the era.)For a gallery of these photographs, see But the most important Pierrot of mid-century was Charles-Dominique-Martin Legrand, known as Paul Legrand (1816–1898; see photo at top of page). In 1839, Legrand made his debut at the Funambules as the lover Leander in the pantomimes, and when he began appearing as Pierrot, in 1845, he brought a new sensibility to the character. A mime whose talents were dramatic rather than acrobatic, Legrand helped steer the pantomime away from the old fabulous and knockabout world of fairy-land and into the realm of sentimental—often tearful—realism.
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Darlington has been subject to increasing amounts of inward investment in recent years with the completion of large scale local council sponsored schemes such as the 2007 Town Centre Pedestrian Heart Project worth 10 million pounds, which saw most of Darlington Town Centre modernised with an emphasis on fewer vehicles in the centre and roads pedestrianised completely. The town has also received further investment worth 170 million pounds with the creation of Central Park, a new industrial, residential, cultural and education park. All of the investment in recent years and planned investment with large scale public sector support makes Darlington the most invested in Borough in the Tees Valley region, with Stockton a close second. The Civic Theatre is a popular arts venue in the town, hosting a mix of musicals, dramas, plays and pantomimes.
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There are many versions of the story of Cinderella (the earliest was written down in China in the 9th century) and it has been the basis for a long list of pantomimes, operas, and ballets. The earliest Cinderella ballet proper was by Duport in Vienna in 1813, although Drury Lane's Cinderella ten years earlier had a ballet divertissement of Loves and Graces introduced by Venus. London's first complete Cinderella ballet was seen in 1822, the year Paris first heard Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Enrico Cecchetti choreographed Cinderella for the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in 1893 to the music of Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schell—it was in this splendid production that Pierina Legnani first performed in Russia her celebrated feat of 32 fouettes—but none of the choreography has survived.
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Poskitt was a member of a comedy group while at Durham University, and toured with it to the US in 1979, playing the piano and singing, performing skits and doing a ventriloquist act with a dummy which wouldn't speak. He participated in the National Student Drama Festival from 1976-1980, and also performed solo at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 1979 to 1981. He was a member of the pop group Candlewick Green in the early 1980s. He has written and directed a number of pantomimes performed by the National Student Theatre Company, including Jack and the Beanstalk (1979), The Sleeping Beauty (1980), Cinderella (1981), Jack and the Beanstalk (1983), as well as a nativity play,The Road to Bethlehem (1980), and a "musical ghost pantomime", Sammy's Magic Garden (1985).
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In 2008 she recorded the voice of 'Wendy Darling' in a musical adaptation of Peter Pan with the music lyrics by Dallison/Wherry and was also narrated by Joe Parquale as 'Smee'. Pargeter has starred in several Christmas Pantomimes for children over the years, she appeared in Alice In Wonderland, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. In July 2011 Pargeter played the role of Gertrude Riall at the Manchester International Festival in a Victoria Wood's play called That Day We Sang. Between February and June 2013, Pargeter went on A National Tour and played the role of Eliante in the Roger McGough's play called The Misanthrope and on 10 March 2013 The Misanthrope also went live from the Everyman Playhouse and English Touring Theatre on BBC Radio 3.
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He recently directed the UK Theatre Productions of Mum's The Word and Alf Ramsey Knew My Grandfather for producer Robert C. Kelly. He has contributed as a writer to the sketch show Titty Titty Bang Bang and written gags for Dick and Dom for the Sky One Quiz Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? He has also scripted many pantomimes across the UK. As of 2013, Andrew continues to be a prolifictheatre director, including productions of Wuthering Heights (with Emmerdale's Adele Silva and his EastEnders co-star Mark Homer in the cast), the UK Tour of the Nell Dunn play Steaming and Christmas shows for Qdos Entertainment. He is also the Chairman and Artist Manager for The Spaniel Talent House (who produce and manage the band Skip Ad).
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Grant also pursued a parallel career as a writer of pantomimes and popular theatre. In 1830 he fell into a public dispute with the noted stage entertainer and clown Signor Paulo after publishing a letter in The Morning Advertiser newspaper in which he accused Signor Paulo of plagiarising one of his scripts. Signor Paulo strenuously denied the accusation and wrote back to say that he had only agreed to read Grant's script out of respect for a mutual friend and that he found it "totally destitute of the indispensable requisites of entertainments of that description." A theatrical connection would explain the many dramatic reference which appear in Grant's prints, including most notably The Political Drama, which includes numerous references to plays that were being performed on the London stage at the time of their publication.
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McConnell Stott, p. 125 In 1805, Bologna succeeded James Byrne as Harlequin at the Covent Garden theatre and, the following year, along with Grimaldi, he starred in Thomas Dibdin's Christmas pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, the Golden Egg. The show was a success and ran for ninety- two nights, selling 300,000 tickets.McConnell Stott, p. 197 So successful was Bologna's partnership with Grimaldi that between 1807 and 1814, they earned £2,000 in various benefit performances. Between November 1805 and February 1806, he was engaged by Charles Dibdin to appear at the Amphitheatre in Dublin, and the following year he choreographed a number of successful pantomimes and plays at the Royal Circus, including The Cloud King, The False Friend, The Mysterious Freebooter, The Sorceress of Strozzi, Black Beard, Moms and Mercury, Buenos Ayres, Werter and Charlotte and Edwin of the Green.
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Ali Baba was a popular subject for operas (Cherubini, 1833, Bottesini, 1871), pantomimes and extravaganzas in Paris and London during the nineteenth century.Gänzl K. Ali Baba – in The Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre. Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. Both librettists were experienced in opéra-bouffe and had previously worked with Lecocq, Busnach from 1866 with Myosotis, Vanloo starting in 1874 with Giroflé-Girofla; the two men had met in 1868 when Vanloo had submitted an opéra-bouffe for consideration to Busnach who was at the time the director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée.Opéra-Comique Dossier Pédagogique: Ali-Baba (Anne Le Nabour (2013) Originally intended for the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris, Lecocq's opera was premiered in a sumptuous production at an established home of operetta and revue in Brussels, the 2,500-seat Théâtre Alhambra, on 11 November 1887.
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In 2011 Curtis went on to host a pilot game show with former You Bet and Stars in Their Eyes presenter Matthew Kelly called Shark Vs Bear, which had been positioned to Channel 4, however this was later altered to The Bank Job and the format changed. Curtis is also a regular in theatres across Wales, appearing in several family pantomimes and comedies, including Dandini in Cinderella and barrister Brogan-More in the series Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie at the New Theatre, Cardiff alongside Honeysuckle Weeks (Foyle's War), Denis Lill (The Royal), Ben Nealon (Soldier, Soldier), Robert Duncan (Drop the Dead Donkey), Peter Byrne, Jennifer Wilson and Mark Wynter. More recently he appeared on TV Gameshow 1000 Heartbeats hosted by Vernon Kay, and alongside Ben Shephard as a contestant on ITV's Tipping Point.
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270px Zena Dare (born Florence Hariette Zena Dones, 4 February 1887 – 11 March 1975) was an English singer and actress who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre and comedic plays in the first half of the 20th century. In a career spanning over six decades, Dare made her first appearance on stage in 1899, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood in London, where she performed under her real name Florence Dones. She starred alongside her sister Phyllis in the production, and they both adopted the stage name of Dare soon afterwards. In the first decade of the 1900s, she starred in pantomimes and various Edwardian musical comedy productions including An English Daisy, Sergeant Brue and The Catch of the Season, as well as the title roles in Lady Madcap and The Girl on Stage.
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The theatre's frontage The auditorium from the stage On 18 February 1888 during the last performance of the pantomime Babes In The Wood the show was interrupted by the behaviour of a group of students and others who threw squibs on to the stage, dried peas at the actresses and who argued loudly with the manager. In 1896 the pantomime was followed by a short Harlequinade and then by a showing of early films. In 1912 'Jimmy' Chute died and the Prince's became a limited company with the theatre being managed by Abigail Philomena Chute (née Henessy, 1855-1931), his widow, together with her co-director, John Hart. The finances needed to mount 'in house' productions became increasingly difficult to raise and the Prince's became reliant on touring productions and its annual pantomimes in order to survive.
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After three years and nearly 1300 performances, he joined the American cast of Guys and Dolls when they brought the show to London, in the role of Sky Masterson. Hockridge went on to make two more musical roles his own - Judge Forestier, in Can-Can, and Sid Sorokin in the original London production of The Pajama Game, an instant hit with the British public. His hit single, "Hey There", from what quickly became a hit show, ensured that his name became more well-known. Seven years of musicals were followed by public appearances, concerts, pantomimes, Royal Command Performances, London Palladium seasons, summer shows, television dates in the UK, Canada and Europe and some special occasions - topping the bill on the maiden voyage of the QE2 to New York and representing Canada in the choir at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II among them.
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The New Theatre Royal Lincoln was renamed to the Theatre Royal Lincoln and then later changed back the New Theatre Royal Lincoln in 2016 when the theatre was taken over and refurbished after the previous management folded. From 1893 to 1954 the theatre was run by a succession of leaseholders and managersTheatres Database The Theatres Trust: Theatre Royal Lincoln; retrieved 5 April 2011 presenting popular plays, musicals, music hall stars and film. In 1954 it became a weekly repertory theatre under the Lincoln Theatre Association until bankruptcy in 1976, after which it was taken over by Paul Elliot Entertainments in association with Chris Moreno. Under Elliot it became a producing house for its own shows, and a design and production facility for various UK theatre pantomimes, national tours and cruise-ship shows, and a continuing venue for amateur dramatic companies.
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Sheridan's performances in revues, variety shows, and pantomimes kept the spirit of the old music hall and vaudeville alive on the Dublin stage well into the era of television.The Irish Times, "Nostalgic evening in Olympia revue", 4 April 1972 He performed frequently at Dublin's Queen's Theatre from 1940 onwards, and he appeared also on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Dublin. In 1976, he was deemed by The Irish Times to have "stolen the show" when he performed his own songs in Noel Pearson's production of You Ain't Heard Nuttin' Yet at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.The Irish Times, "'You Ain't Heard Nuthin' Yet' at the Gaiety", 3 March 1976 He was a regular at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, and was one of the leaders of the campaign to raise funds for the theatre's restoration following the collapse of the proscenium arch in 1974.
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On one point > everyone was in agreement: the murder of the bird, an act of coldblooded > cruelty, rendered Isabelle utterly odious.The distance between the > pantomimes of the Cercle and those of Paul Margueritte may be gauged by > comparing these remarks with a scene from Margueritte's Au cou du chat (At > the Cat's Neck). Columbine has forced one of her bracelets over her pet > cat's head, and, when it cannot be removed from its neck, her lover > Harlequin picks up a cleaver: "The cat's head comes off like a champagne > cork, and the bracelet, thrown up around a crimson fountain, goes rolling > into the bloody grass." Columbine then wipes off the bracelet on the > "immaculate" blouse of the horrified bystander (and husband), Pierrot. The > pantomime appears in Paul [and Victor] Margueritte; the quotations are > translations by Storey (1985), p. 262.
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He wrote many other burlesques for the Globe Theatre, the Olympic Theatre (including Richelieu in 1873 and Clockwork in 1877),Programme listings the Vaudeville Theatre (including Green Old Age, with music by Frederic Clay, in 1874; and a burlesque, Ruy Blas Righted), the Strand Theatre, and the Gaiety. At the Gaiety, he produced fourteen pieces between 1872 and 1884, among them the pantomimes Ali Baba (1872), Don Giovanni in Venice (1873), The Forty Thieves, (written with F. C. Burnand, H. J. Byron and W. S. Gilbert) (1878) and another version of the same story, with music by Meyer Lutz in 1880;"The Gaiety", The Times, 25 December 1880, p. 8 and the burlesques Aladdin, (1881); Little Robin Hood, (1882); and Valentine and Orson, (1882). He collaborated with Henry Brougham Farnie on 15 libretti or adaptations and occasionally joined with other dramatic writers.
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He attempted to make a living with drama and began to work with John Rich at Drury Lane, writing pantomimes for him including Harlequin Sorcerer (1725), Apollo and Daphne (1726), The Rape of Proserpine (1727), and Perseus and Andromeda (1730); many of these had music by Johann Ernst Galliard. He also probably plagiarized a man named Henry Meystayer. Meystayer had given Theobald a draft of a play called The Perfidious Brother to review, and Theobald had it produced as his own work. Theobald's fame and contribution to English letters rests with his 1726 Shakespeare Restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his late edition of this poet; designed not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the true Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever published.
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Before this lead actors would rarely rehearse their parts with the rest of the cast: Edmund Kean's most famous direction to his fellow actors being, "stand upstage of me and do your worst." Melodramas, light comedies, operas, Shakespeare and classic English drama, pantomimes, translations of French farces and, from the 1860s, French operettas, continued to be popular, together with Victorian burlesque. The most successful dramatists were James Planché and Dion Boucicault, whose penchant for making the latest scientific inventions important elements in his plots exerted considerable influence on theatrical production. His first big success, London Assurance (1841) was a comedy in the style of Sheridan, but he wrote in various styles, including melodrama. T. W. Robertson wrote popular domestic comedies and introduced a more naturalistic style of acting and stagecraft to the British stage in the 1860s.
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"Punch" Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 - 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box. The son of a prosperous family, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge and was expected to follow a conventional career in the law or in the church, but he concluded that his vocation was the theatre. From his schooldays he had written comic plays, and from 1860 until the end of the 19th century, he produced a series of more than 200 Victorian burlesques, farces, pantomimes and other stage works. His early successes included the burlesques Ixion, or the Man at the Wheel (1863) and The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan; or, the Little Bill that Was Taken Up (1866).
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The building remained the meeting place for Pontefract Borough Council but ceased to be the local seat of Government when the enlarged Wakefield Metropolitan District Council was formed in 1974. The building was the subject of an extensive restoration programme in 1996. Since it was formed by the then Vicar of St. Giles Church, the Reverend Jack Peel, in 1949, the St. Giles with St. Mary's Pantomime and Theatre Society have been staging pantomimes in the assembly rooms. Performances in the 1950s included a pantomime based on a folk tale from One Thousand and One Nights entitled Aladdin; more recent performances have included a pantomime based on another folk tale from One Thousand and One Nights entitled Sinbad the Sailor in 2011 and a pantomime based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen entitled the Snow Queen in 2020.
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The Birmingham Hippodrome is a theatre situated on Hurst Street in the Chinese Quarter of Birmingham, England. Although best known as the home stage of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, it also hosts a wide variety of other performances including visiting opera and ballet companies, touring West End shows, pantomime and drama. The Hippodrome is the venue for West End touring theatrical shows, such as Wicked, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Lion King, Matilda, Mary Poppins, Annie, Grease and We Will Rock You. The theatre's Christmas pantomimes are produced by Qdos Entertainment, over recent years attracting stars such as Brian Conley, Don Maclean, Julian Clary, Joe Pasquale, John Barrowman, Joan Collins, Nigel Havers, Keith Harris, Lynda Bellingham, Lesley Joseph, Gary Wilmot, Paul Zerdin, Gok Wan, John Partridge, Jane McDonald, Marti Pellow, Lee Mead, The Krankies, Steve McFadden, Jodie Prenger and Andrew Ryan.
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The Vokes Family in about 1875: (l-r) Fawdon Vokes, Rosina, Victoria, Jessie and Fred Vokes First as the "Vokes Children" and later the "Vokes Family" they began to perform at music halls and at pantomimes, and by their agility and humour made the name well known to English and American theatre-goers. They made their début on Christmas night in 1861 at Howard's Operetta House in Edinburgh and made their London début at the Alhambra Theatre in 1862 when they were billed as 'The Five Little Vokes'. They appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 26 December 26 1868 in the pantomime Humpty Dumpty written by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, and they traveled through a great part of the civilized world. Early in their career, at the Lyceum Theatre in London, they danced in W. S. Gilbert's pantomime Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren.
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His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman, Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore, and he also had his own one-man show entitled "Meet Marcel Marceau". He teamed with Red Skelton in three concerts of pantomimes. Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as Professor Ping in Barbarella (1968); First Class (1970), in which he played 17 roles; Shanks (1974), where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist; and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks Silent Movie (1976), in which, with intentional irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word "Non!" when Brooks asks him (via intertitle) if he would participate in the film. His last film appearances included small roles in Klaus Kinski's Paganini (1989) and Joseph's Gift (1998).
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Corneille's Andromède, a precursor of the féerie The féerie can trace its origins to the ballet de cour ("court ballet") tradition of the Renaissance, in which such court leaders as Catherine de' Medici and Henry IV of France would commission spectacularly designed ballets based on mythological subjects and fables. Another notable precursor is the pièces à machines ("plays with machines") genre, popular at the Théâtre du Marais in the mid 17th-century, again using mythology as source material; Molière's Psyché is a notable small-scale example, and Corneille's Andromède and La Toison d'or also count within the genre. These genres owed much to the theatrical engineering work of Italian architects, especially Nicola Sabbatini. These spectacles paved the way for 18th-century fairground pantomimes (théâtre de la foire), such as Arlequin dans un oeuf at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes, or Les Eaux de Merlin by Alain-René Lesage.
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The pantomimes performed are almost always written by members of the society, and include many parodies of popular songs (such songs by ABBA or Queen) with accompanying dance moves, while the comic plays may be original works or adaptations (such as the Jeeves and Wooster plays by P. G. Wodehouse, or a play by Oscar Wilde), see below), through making full use of the members' (sometimes unusual) possessions and creative talents. Elaborate costumes and props are often created at great effort, with little more than cloth, cardboard and string – often adding to the humour in a production. In Michaelmas and Lent terms, the productions are taken to special needs schools, homes for the elderly, homeless shelters, and hospital wards, for whose occupants these performances often represent a welcome departure from an otherwise monotonous daily routine. A final performance is organised for the students of the university.
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The Vokes Family in about 1875: (l-r) Fawdon Vokes, Rosina, Victoria, Jessie and Fred Vokes First as the "Vokes Children" and later the "Vokes Family" they began to perform at music halls and at pantomimes, and by their agility and humour made the name well known to English and American theatre-goers. They made their début on Christmas night in 1861 at Howard's Operetta House in Edinburgh and made their London début at the Alhambra Theatre in 1862 when they were billed as 'The Five Little Vokes'. They appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 26 December 26 1868 in the pantomime Humpty Dumpty written by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, and they traveled through a great part of the civilized world. Early in their career, at the Lyceum Theatre in London, they danced in W. S. Gilbert's pantomime Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren.
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Post-Mortem was published in 1931, but was not staged until 1944. Its première was a production by British prisoners of war in a German camp, during World War II, at Eichstätt. The four leading parts were performed by professional actors, Michael Goodliffe, Dan Cunningham, Brian McIrvine and Desmond Llewelyn, and the play was produced and directed by a fifth professional actor and producer, Wallace Finlayson. The archive at King's College, Cambridge, England, contains "an array of photographs, handbills and programmes from Christmas pantomimes produced between 1940 and 1943, not in a local village hall, but in three POW camps in Austria"."POWs in pantomime", Kings College, Cambridge, December 2009, accessed 7 March 2010 The Germans permitted the production, with as many stage costumes and props as could be devised, only after the entire cast and backstage crew had given an undertaking that they would use nothing to make an escape.
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The Vokes Family in about 1875: (l-r) Fawdon Vokes, Rosina, Victoria, Jessie and Fred Vokes First as the "Vokes Children" and later the "Vokes Family" they began to perform at music halls and at pantomimes, and by their agility and humour made the name well known to English and American theatre-goers. They made their début on Christmas night in 1861 at Howard's Operetta House in EdinburghThomas Allston Brown, A History of the New York stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1903) - Google Books pg. 146 and made their London début at the Alhambra Theatre in 1862 when they were billed as 'The Five Little Vokes'. They appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 26 December 26 1868 in the pantomime Humpty Dumpty written by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, and they traveled through a great part of the civilized world.
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Mike Doyle is a British comedian, vocalist and broadcaster from Carmarthen, Wales, but is now based in nearby Bridgend.Allen, Gavin (2009) "Twenty years of panto with Mike Doyle", South Wales Echo, 24 December 2009, retrieved 2010-01-24Williams, Tryst (2003) "Doyle says thanks for the memories and the career", Western Mail, 30 December 2003, retrieved 2010-01-24 Doyle made his debut television back in 1988, winning the BBC One talent show Opportunity Knocks."High Notes and Humour", Chester Chronicle, 26 August 2005, retrieved 2010-01-24 Mike has done many pantomimes and standup comedy shows including his very own televised series "The Mike Doyle Show" which aired on HTV (ITV Wales) in 2002. Mike has worked for BBC Radio Wales, 106.3 Bridge FM, 102.1 Swansea Bay Radio, Radio Carmarthenshire and Radio Pembrokeshire. He’s currently the voice of the Trade Centre Wales radio adverts heard on most commercial stations across Wales.
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The Brighton Aquarium, where Bayley and her sisters performed in Victorian burlesques Bayley was born on 4 February 1862 in the English seaside town of Ramsgate. She and her sisters Blanche, Florence, and Eva worked together as performers for J. D. Hunter's Theatre Company, which produced a "burlesque" extravaganza every year at the Brighton Aquarium. The Brighton Society, in 1887, praised "the Misses Bayley … who, by their charming vocal selections added so considerably to the success of the burlesque Brown and the Brahmins". Bayley's three sisters also performed without her for some Aquarium productions, such as in the pantomimes Cinderella and Dick Whittington in August 1890 and again in the latter in 1892, but the four sisters were reunited at the Aquarium for Babes in the Wood in 1894, about which the Brighton Herald commented that "The Robin Hood of Miss Laura Bayley is a distinctly comely and cheery Robin Hood".
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Elizabeth Poole was born on 5 April 1820 in Adam Street, Marylebone, London. She was the youngest daughter of John Lidbury Poole, the architect in charge of construction of the Royal Mint. Her mother (also Elizabeth) died when she was six, and she received her early musical education from an elder sister. Her first stage appearance was at the Olympic Theatre pantomime on Boxing Day 1827, emerging from an oyster-shell to sing ‘Oysters, Sir’, to music by Rossini. Apprenticed in 1829 to the chorus master at Drury Lane, she enjoyed fame as a child prodigy and actress in London and Brighton. She played principal boy in Covent Garden pantomimes during the 1830s, and from 1836 began to appear in opera, beginning with Auber's The Bronze Horse at Drury Lane, where she also played a supporting role to Malibran in the premiere of Balfe's The Maid of Artois.
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He summarizes the plots of several of its pantomimes: > Pierrot loses his fiancée when his "art"—of thievery—inspires him to > reckless heights (Najac's L'Amour de l'art [1888]); he botches his own > suicide and then, stuffing the noose in his pocket for luck, is emboldened > to court Colombine ([Fernand] Boussenot's La Corde de pendu [1892]); he > plays out a dream of heroic exploit that leads alla gloria militar ([Henri] > Ferdal's La Rève du conscrit [1892]). ... Sometimes his drama has a > hackneyed lesson to teach: Woman is fickle (Camille de Saint-Croix's Blanc > et noir [1888]); Earth's the right place for love (Beissier's La Lune > [1889]). ... Sometimes it is tearful, in the manner of the old-fashioned > comédie-larmoyante....Storey (1985), pp. 291-292. The titles may be > translated, respectively, as The Love of Art, The Hanged Man's Rope, The > Conscript's Dream ("alla gloria militar" [It.
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The action unfolded in fairy-land, peopled with good and bad spirits who both advanced and impeded the plot, which was interlarded with comically violent (and often scabrous) mayhem. As in the Bakken pantomimes, that plot hinged upon Cassander's pursuit of Harlequin and Columbine—but it was complicated, in Baptiste's interpretation, by a clever and ambiguous Pierrot. Baptiste's Pierrot was both a fool and no fool; he was Cassandre's valet but no one's servant. He was an embodiment of comic contrasts, showing > imperturbable sang-froid [again the words are Gautier's], artful foolishness > and foolish finesse, brazen and naïve gluttony, blustering cowardice, > skeptical credulity, scornful servility, preoccupied insouciance, indolent > activity, and all those surprising contrasts that must be expressed by a > wink of the eye, by a puckering of the mouth, by a knitting of the brow, by > a fleeting gesture.In La Presse, August 31, 1846; tr.
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In 1944, after being auditioned by Leonard Sachs, Jacques made her professional theatrical debut as Josephine Jacques—adding a "c" to her birth name as she did so—at the Players' Theatre, London in a revue called Late Joys. Almost immediately she became a regular performer with the company, appearing in music hall revues and playing the Fairy Queen in their Victorian-style pantomimes. Her biographer, Frances Gray, described the Players' as being Jacques's drama school, as she acted, directed, wrote lyrics and "developed the persona she was to use in pantomime for years, the large, bossy, but vulnerable fairy queen". It was while appearing in a Late Joys revue in June 1946 that she made her debut on television, when the show was broadcast on the BBC. While appearing at the Players' in 1946 she acquired the nickname "Hattie" after performing in the minstrel show Coal Black Mammies for Dixie.
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From October 1792 to May 1800 the theatre was managed by Nicolas Lenoir, also known as Lenoir du Romain, and his nephew, known as Lenoir de Saint-Edme. Thereafter, it had a number of different managers, including Nicolas Cammaille-Saint-Aubin (May 1800 – February 1801), César Ribié and Louis Ferville (3 February – August 1801), Lenoir de Saint-Edme (November 1802 – September 1803, 23 October 1803 – June 1805), and an association of actors under the direction of Jean-François de Brémond de la Rochenard, dit Beaulieu (4 August 1805 – September 1806). The repertory included comedies, comédies- vaudevilles, melodramas, patriotic scenes, opéras-bouffes, opéras-folies, opéras-comiques, ballets-pantomimes, and pantomimes.Lecomte 1910, pp. 4–203. From 16 November to 6 December 1801 a German troupe known as the Théâtre Mozart, directed by Haselmayer and the bass Elmenreich, presented the first operas to be performed in German in Paris:Wild 1989, p.
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In addition to his contract at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation Malcolm also worked as a composer and arranger for other clients such as the Jamaica Little Theatre Movement for whom he created original musical for the libretti of two pantomimes: Banana Boy in December 1958 (libretto by Ortford St John) and Jamaica Way in 1960 – libretto by Samuel Hillary. In 1962 Carlos became the first musical director of the Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company created by Dr. Rex Nettleford of the University of the West Indies, for which Carlos and Oswald Russell created original works for the debut performance of the Company at the Inaugural Celebrations of Jamaica's Independence. In 1963 Eon Production went to Jamaica to film Dr. No, the first James Bond movie, and employed Carlos Malcolm to write incidental tropical music for the film. He was appointed director of "island content" of the musical score.
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From 1883 to 1900, a small room was used for magic acts, replaced from 1892 onwards by coloured projections by Émile Reynaud called Pantomimes lumineuses, cartoon ancestors.One of the strip, Pauvre Pierrot (1891), is kept at the of the CNCThéâtre Grévin on theatreonline The current venue, named Cabinet fantastique, was built in 1900 for the Universal Exposition within a complex initiated by the financier Gabriel Thomas and built by the architect Eugène-Émile Esnault-Pelterie,Musée Grévin on Voyages Scolaires in which can also be found the Musée Grévin, the Palais des Mirages, the Coupole and the Salle des Colonnes. The famous Georges Méliès, inventor of film special effects, gave performances there. Throughout the end of the 19th century, before Méliès worked for film, at a fixed time during the day, visitors to the museum were able to attend small shows of moving images, magic or ombromania.
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El Apóstol, the world's first animated feature film, and Peludópolis, the first animated feature film with sound, were produced in cutout animation by Italian-Argentinian cartoonist Quirino Cristiani. A single frame from the Humorous Phases of Funny Faces animation, showing the use of cut-out technique When cinematography was introduced, animation was familiar from various optical toys (in stroboscopic form), magic lantern shows (in mechanical form) and from Emile Reynaud's Pantomimes Lumineuses. It took over a decade before animation started to play a role in cinemas with stop motion short films like Segundo de Chomón's Le théâtre de Bob (1906) and J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel (1907) as well as hand-drawn short animation films like Blackton's 1906 film Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (with some cut-out animation) and Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie (1908). The world's first animated feature film was El Apóstol (1917), made by Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani utilizing cutout animation.
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Attwell's initial career was founded on magazine illustration, which she continued throughout her life, but around 1900 she began receiving commissions for book illustration, notably for W & R Chambers and the Raphael House Library of Gift Books. Her early works were somewhat derivative of the style of artists such as her friend Hilda Cowham, Jessie Willcox Smith, John Hassall, and the Heath Robinson brothers. From 1914 onwards, she developed her trademark style of sentimental rotund cuddly infants, which became ubiquitous across a wide range of markets: cards, calendars, nursery equipment and pictures, crockery and dolls. During the 1910s Attwell produced a number of posters for London Transport featuring the children to promote travel to Christmas pantomimes and other causes. She illustrated children's classics such as Mother Goose (1910), Alice in Wonderland (1911), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1914), The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1915), and an edition of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy abridged and written by May Byron (1921).
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Dorothy Ward as Cora Angélique in The Whirl of New York (1921) Ward became noted as one of the leading principal boys, while Glenville as "a pantomime Dame without equal".W. MacQueen-Pope, The Melodies Linger On: The Story of Music Hall, (London: W.H. Allen, 1950), p. 340 Thus, for 50 years they often played mother and son. They appeared in pantomimes together until 1914 when Ward was cast as Louise opposite Fay Compton and Cicely Courtneidge in The Cinema Star, which toured the provinces before opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. In 1916 she was in We’re All In It at the London Hippodrome, touring throughout 1917 before being reunited with Glenville in Happy Go Lucky (1918). For much of 1921 she was with her husband in New York where she was Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street at the Shubert Theatre and Cora Angélique in The Whirl of New York at the Winter Garden Theatre.
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The novel was based on research by the author as well as a visit to the penal settlement of Port Arthur. Clarke originally referred to the novel as "His Unnatural Life." One critic has claimed that Clarke's novel is "the book that, more than any other, has defined our perception of the Australian convict experience.". For the Term of his Natural Life is considered a novel in the grand tradition, that places Clarke with Charles Reade, Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoevsky among the great nineteenth-century visionaries who found in the problems of crime and punishment a new insight, especially relevant in the convict-founded Australian colonies, into the foundations of human worth. Clarke also wrote The Peripatetic Philosopher (1869), a series of amusing papers reprinted from The Australasian; Long Odds (London, 1870), a novel; and numerous comedies and pantomimes, the best of which was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Theatre Royal, Melbourne; Christmas, 1873).
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UK Community Foundations (UKCF) is a registered charity that leads a movement of community foundations committed to positive social change in the UK through the development of “community philanthropy”. Community philanthropy involves people from all parts of a community working together locally to use the financial and other resources available to them to improve others’ lives.George Hepburn OBE, "The future of community philanthropy: More than pantomimes and football shirts", "Philanthropy UK", September 2007 Previously Community Foundation Network, in February 2013 CFN relaunched as UK Community Foundations, with a renewed commitment to build thriving communities in the UK. UKCF also has a role as national membership association for community foundations which encompasses negotiating and managing national grant-making and funding opportunities on behalf of its members and providing direct technical assistance to member community foundations through its network. As a membership organisation its work is governed and directed by a board drawn from its members.
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Educated at Gourock High School, Inverclyde, and latterly Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow, Logan left school at the age of 14. His family, in the 1930s and 1940s, toured the small music halls of Scotland and Northern Ireland and ran seasons at the Metropole, Glasgow and in the Theatre, Paisley, where Logan became house manager for the family. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. His connection with pantomime continued throughout his life, most famously with the long-running pantomimes produced by Howard & Wyndham in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Aberdeen.Alhambra Glasgow by Graeme Smith, published 2011The Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith, published 2008 Logan, starring with Jack Radcliffe and Eve Boswell, held the record number of performances of the famed Five Past Eight shows staged each summer at the Alhambra Theatre. Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for £80,000 in 1964.
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In the Harry Potter series, he is a brother of Harry Potter's best friend, Ron Weasley. Rankin is the co-founder of a theatre company, Painted Horse UK. He re-appeared in the final two films of the Harry Potter film franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, after his character's absence from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and only a brief non-speaking role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Outside of the Harry Potter films, Rankin has also been seen in the TV mini-series The Rotters' Club and Channel 5's "Victoria Cross Heroes" in which he played Evelyn Wood. On stage, Chris has played a variety of roles in pantomimes across the country, as well as Edgar Linton in Wuthering Heights, Eilert Loevborg in Hedda Gabler and Young Syrian in Salomé.
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Pantomimes began, using the Wylie-Tate production company. Scottish performers included Harry Lauder, Will Fyffe, Alec Finlay and Harry Gordon; revues and musical plays were added, featuring Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Buchanan, Evelyn Laye, Jessie Matthews and Ivor Novello; and also opera, ballet and dance. In 1941 it was the debut theatre of the International Ballet newly formed by Mona Inglesby.Alhambra Glasgow by Graeme Smith, published 2011 The Alhambra presented variety, ballet, opera, musicals, revues, plays and pantomime; significantly after a major extension in 1927 of the stage and increase in dressing rooms, all with showers, many of its musicals were the British premieres of musicals from America.Alhambra Glasgow by Graeme Smith, published 2011 From 1941, the new Wilson Barrett Repertory Company, not the 19c company, made the Alhambra their largest base in Scotland.The Glasgow Story accessed 27 November 2006 In its 14 years of staging plays over 12 weeks each summer, the company produced over 450 plays.
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After a classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School,Who at Complicite , Complicite.org his career has spanned more than 40 years, and includes theatre roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Royal National Theatre, as well the West End, the Royal Court, the Bush, and the Soho Poly, plus many tours and pantomimes around the country. His television roles have included Minder as Kev in the Series 1 episode, The Bengal Tiger, Steve Bracket in Rooms, Citizen Smith (series regular, Ken Mills), Look and Read, Dr Ballantyne, Sweet Sixteen, 161 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine playing Barry Wilkinson, husband of Glenda, Colin's Sandwich, Up the Garden Path and Not with a Bang. His film credits include Carry On Loving (1970), Up the Front (1972), Symptoms (1974), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) opposite Peter Sellers, I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976), Britannia Hospital (1982), Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
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Students of Modernist painting and sculpture are familiar with Pierrot (in many different attitudes, from the ineffably sad to the ebulliently impudent) through the masterworks of his acolytes, including Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Rouault, Salvador Dalí, Max Beckmann, August Macke, Paul Klee, Jacques Lipchitz--the list is very long (see Visual arts below). As for the drama, Pierrot was a regular fixture in the plays of the Little Theatre Movement (Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo [1920], Robert Emmons Rogers' Behind a Watteau Picture [1918], Blanche Jennings Thompson's The Dream Maker [1922]),For direct access to these works, go to the footnotes following their titles in Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues below. which nourished the careers of such important Modernists as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and others. In film, a beloved early comic hero was the Little Tramp of Charlie Chaplin, who conceived the character, in Chaplin's words, as "a sort of Pierrot".
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The school's Art Department displayed work at nearby St. Ann's Hospice and in spare window space at Walkden Tesco (and the Scan supermarket that preceded it) who in return provided bags for the distribution of the Harvest Festival foods which pupils collected each year and distributed to the elderly of Little Hulton and Walkden, many of whom were also invited into school at Christmastime for a festive dinner and to be entertained by pupils. The Joseph Eastham Steel Band, in addition to performing regularly in school, performed at St. Ann's Hospice and Ellesmere Shopping Centre, and also represented Salford at the Northwest Schools' Prom held at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in 1999. Cover of Christmas Profile 1987 designed by Wai-Tsau Wong The Carol Concert was a regular event, often with feeder primary schools providing an audience. Year group Christmas parties and discos were also regular features of Christmas at Joeys and other common events included Talent Shows and hugely popular Staff Pantomimes.
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All were asked to accept half-pay for a period and everyone agreed with the exception of the Vokes Family around whom the pantomime centred and who had played the leading parts in Drury Lane pantomimes for a decade. The Vokes family proved to not be the draw they had once been as they had never updated their routines while the critics were not kind concerning their contribution to Cinderella, making such comments as: "They were on stage far too long", "They are sublimely indifferent as to whether the story of Cinderella be a Sanskrit myth or a Greek fable", "If they want to retain their hold on the public, they should get someone to concoct for them new modes". They refused to perform for less and without them the show could not go on and on 4 February 1879 Chatterton closed the theatre. He petitioned for bankruptcy with assets of £1,500 but with liabilities of £38,690.
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Returning to the stage he has appeared in many Pantomimes including Peter Pan in Tunbridge Wells he played Smee opposite James Gaddas as Captain Hook. In 2008 Andrew fronted his own CBeebies Theatre Show for nine months touring the UK; CBeebies at the Theatre - Let's Play. He has appeared in 2 Balamory Live Arena shows - "Strike up the Band" and "What's the story?" - and has also completed another 2 Arena tour in CBeebies Live - "Fantasy Circus", in which he played the Ringmaster. CBeebies Live - Reach to the Stars saw Agnew back in the Police uniform at Wembley Arena in 2012. He appeared alongside Su Pollard in Snow White at the Malvern Theatre over 2007 Christmas panto season. and as Mother Goose Christmas 2008 at the Kilmarnock Palace Theatre with Liam Dolan. He is also one of the writers of "A Child Made of Love" a play he appeared in at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in October 2009.
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The Granada Theatre pantomimes Kaye's last British television appearance was on the Barrymore Show where he performed his famous One Man Band act. A brash man who was said to be difficult to work with, he nevertheless was rarely out of work and on two occasions the Variety Club of Great Britain gave a lunch in his honour at the Dorchester Hotel in 1985 and 1995 to celebrate his 50th and 60th year in show business respectively, both of which were televised on the BBC. Noted for his charity work, over the years Kaye raised more than one million pounds for a number of charities, including the Bud Flanagan Leukaemia Fund, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, the Prince Philip Trust Fund, the Nightingale House home for elderly Jews and the Ealing Jewish Youth Club. He was a Past King Rat of the Grand Order of Water Rats (1984), and later was Preceptor.
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Teasdale was interned at Wakefield between 1862 and 1864. He claimed that whilst in prison he underwent a conversion and decided to leave behind his life of vice in the performing industry and preach the doctrines of Methodism. Once released from prison Teasdale moved back to Sheffield and joined the Hallelujah Band to spread the message of Methodism. However, his sincerity is questionable: in an attempt to rid himself of his former persona and the monkey that had become his alter-ego, Teasdale advertised that he would burn his effects, including his monkey costume, in Sheffield's Temperance Hall. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported that ‘placards have been circulated within the town, stating that Harvey Teasdale, the well-known man monkey and clown, would relate his experiences and destroy his dresses and theatrical effects’. Yet a different newspaper documents him burning his effects in Leeds and the Era suggests they were for sale: ‘The whole of Harvey Teasdale’s pantomimes, monkey pieces, manuscripts… to be sold for £2 10s’.
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Of the major bodies representing amateur theatre nationally, the National Operatic and Dramatic Association ("NODA") was founded in 1899 and in 2005 reported a membership of over 2,400 amateur theatre companies and 3,000 individuals staging musicals, operas, plays, concerts and pantomimes in venues ranging from professional theatres to village halls. The Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain ("LTG") represents over 100 independent amateur theatres with auditoria from 64 to 450 seats, while the National Drama Festivals Association ("NDFA") caters for some 500 groups participating in around 100 local drama festivals. (See "Major Festivals" below) There are regional bodies throughout the UK. England The All-England Theatre Festival ("AETF") caters for amateur theatre groups which participate in local drama festivals, and is also concerned with a similar number of festivals of one-act and full-length plays, involving a similar number of theatre companies. The AETF hold All-England Finals, the winners of which go forward to represent England at the National Festival of Community Theatre along with representatives from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Vasseur's one-act operettas are: Un fi, deux fi, trois figurants (1872); Mon mouchoir (1872); Le grelot (1873); L’Opoponax (1877); Royal amour (1884); Au premier hussard (1883); Le royaume d'Hercule (1896); Au chat qui pelote (1897); and Dans la plume (1898). His three-act operettas are: La timbale d'argent (1872); La petite reine (1873); Le roi d'Yvetot (1873); La famille Trouillat ou La rosière d'Honfleur (1874); La blanchisseuse de Berg-op-Zoom (1875 ); La cruche cassée (1875); La Sorrentine (1876); Le droit du seigneur (1878); Le billet de logement (1879); Le petit Parisien (1882); Le mariage au tambour (1886); Madame Cartouche (1886); Ninon de Lenclos (1887); Mam’zelle Crénom (1888); Le voyage de Suzette (1889); La famille Vénus (1891); Le pays de l'or (1892); and La souris blanche (1897). Other stage works, including ballet-pantomimes are: Les parisiennes (1874); Le prince soleil (1889); La prétentaine (1893); La brasserie (1886); and Le commandant Laripète (1892) Vasseur's church works include, L'Office divin (a collection of masses, offertories, antiphons, etc.); Hymne à Ste Cécile, for soprano, organ and orchestra; 2 masses; Magnificat.
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Delord's reference to the "marriage of the sublime and the grotesque" is an allusion to Victor Hugo's preface to Cromwell (1827), in which it is announced that "the drama"—by which Hugo means the drama inspired by Shakespeare, where that marriage seemed to him most fully in evidence—is (or, rather, should be) the reigning art of the day. Portrait of Deburau by Jean Pezous Charles's pantomime was, by contrast, old-fashioned: he apparently had no desire to part with his father's conception of Pierrot.Louis Péricaud noted that, never having seen Baptiste perform, "Glatigny erred in writing that Charles Deburau had reformed his father's Pierrot.... [T]he son, apart from several great qualities that only the first of the Deburaux possessed, was the exact copy of his father" (p. 494). A full dozen years after he had left the Funambules and was performing at the Fantaisies- Parisiennes, half of his repertoire consisted of modified versions of his father's pantomimes; see Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p. 60, n. 52.
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Hill's first public success came at age ten when he won a local talent contest in his native East Kilbride, impersonating Cleo Laine. In 1991, he moved to Edinburgh in order to study Drama at Queen Margaret University College, graduating in 1994. Hill's comedy characters as well as his ability to improvise and write material led him into stand-up. He was still an actor, working in Theatre in Education and pantomimes when a friend secretly booked him in for an ‘open spot’ in 1998. In 1997 and 1998, Hill performed a lead role (Jeremy Weller) in the Grassmarket Project’s theatre production "Mad" at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since 2002, Hill has extensively toured with his solo comedy shows throughout Scotland, Ireland and the UK. His international work includes Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival 2008 where he hosted the prestigious Britcom series as well as Bubbling With Laughter and shows in Toronto, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent, Athens, Stockholm and Berlin.
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That same year he also received the Sir James Carreras Award for "Outstanding New Talent". Prior to this he was voted Club Mirror's solo comedian of the year by fellow professionals in 1988, and followed this with best television comedy newcomer at the London Palladium. He has been a regular on stage, performing a summer season with acts such as Tommy Trinder at the Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, and topping the bill at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool in 1993. He completed two summer seasons at the Grand Theatre Blackpool in 2000 and 2001, originally with John Inman and then with Joe Longthorne and Keith Harris, starred at the Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth in 1994, and at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough, in 1995. He has also headlined in numerous pantomimes, topping the bill and breaking successive box office records at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford in Aladdin (1994–1995), as Buttons in Cinderella (1997), alongside Amanda Barrie in Snow White (2002–2003), and in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Hull New Theatre (2001–2002). From 2003–2004 he appeared once again at Bradford Alhambra in the highest grossing pantomime in its history.
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French took on her first pantomime in 2008, playing Queen Genevieve in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (Chipping Norton Theatre). The pantomime gained great reviews, making it into the top 10 pantomimes in the UK in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. In 2009 she was Fairy Godmother in ‘Cinderella’ (The Brindley, Runcorn), for New Pantomime Productions, alongside Syd Little, Leah Bracknell, Aiden J Harvey and Hayley Clarke. She was working on the tour of ‘Annie’ in 2010, but in 2011 went back to panto, playing Dandini in ‘Cinderella’ (Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering) with Danny Young and Neil & Christine Hamilton, and for the 2012 Christmas season played Fairy Sparkle in ‘Cinderella’ (Princess Theatre, Torquay) with Steven Arnold, Stuart Wade and Tom Owen, again for NPP. In 2013 she was cast as Queen Charlotte in an Easter production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ for Enchanted Entertainment, alongside Peter Duncan, and at Christmas played her first ‘baddie’ role of Wicked Stepmother Queen in ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ for Paul Holman Productions at the Palace Theatre, Newark, with Bernie Clifton. In 2014, French she worked again for Paul Holman, playing Witch Guillotine in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Oakengates, Telford, alongside Matt Evers.
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Harmer made her stage debut at the age of six in the musical The Who's Tommy in the West End. She has appeared in a number of pantomimes: Dolly Mixture in Snow White (2004), the title character in Peter Pan (2005, Alban Arena, 2006 in Worthing and 2010 in High Wycombe), Dick Whittington (2007, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre) and the title role in Cinderella alongside Joe Tracini (2011, York Barbican). She appeared as an extra in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; she was sitting in the Great Hall when the new students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry took turns to visit the Sorting Hat. Her big break arrived when she landed the title role in CBBC's dramedy series The Story of Tracy Beaker, in which she starred for five series, and in the accompanying feature-length film Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me. Her other TV credits include the ITV drama series Trial & Retribution, My Family, Pie in the Sky, The 10th Kingdom, Beast, Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor, "Beep Beep" in the British television series The Beeps, and the pilot for Coming of Age.
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Unlike many former regulars, she has never returned to the show. Despite these negative experiences, Smart told Inside Soap that she had learned a "tremendous amount" from working on the series and said that she is like her character in that she is not traditional and does not care about doing "the 'done' thing". In the following years, Smart unsuccessfully attempted to launch a singing career, posed nude in the magazine Black+White, performed on stage in a handful of plays in Australia and Christmas pantomimes in the United Kingdom alongside her Home and Away love interest Bruce Roberts and did not return to the screen until 1994 when she was cast by student director Samantha Lang in her Graduate short film Audacious, which went on to screen at a number of film festivals across the world, winning some awards along the way. She continued her stage endeavors the next year, appearing in two plays, but also went on working in front of the camera, starring in the television film Blackwater Trail and the feature Back of Beyond, which reunited her with Home and Away co-star Rebekah Elmaloglou.
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Research continues as to what form this took. On 1 May 1928 Selby received its first Sentinel steam railcars.The LNER Sentinel Railcars LNER Encyclopaedia No. 220 "Water Witch" may have been the first to work to Cawood, but it was destroyed in a collision near Doncaster on 9 June 1929. Better remembered were two similar cars, No. 225 "True Blue" and No. 273 "Trafalgar" which worked the branch until the last passenger service on Saturday 30 December 1929. The arrival of the Sentinels followed by closure to passenger traffic reduced then removed the need for small locomotives with continuous brakes to act as backup, so they were moved away from Selby between 1929 and 1932. Occasional special passenger trains, such as excursions to pantomimes in Leeds, used the line until 1946. By 1945 declining traffic, except in the "Campaign", i.e. harvesting time for key crops of potatoes and beet, meant a handful of 0-6-0Ts were regularly in charge, notably J71s 68285 and 68286 and veteran "Ironclad" J77 68406, being replaced by a J72 towards the closure of Selby shed on 13 September 1959.
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Its boldness annoyed the managers of the patent-houses, who were engaged in a fierce struggle with Palmer. Oulton then induced an acquaintance to offer in her name his next piece, ‘As it should be,’ to George Colman the younger of the Haymarket, where it was produced on 3 June 1789. The piece was published anonymously; but Colman discovered its author, and gave Oulton much encouragement. On 7 July 1792 he produced a short piece by Oulton, ‘All in Good Humour’ (London, 1792); there followed at the same house ‘Irish Tar,’ a musical piece, 24 August 1797; ‘The Sixty-third Letter,’ a musical farce, 28 July 1802; ‘The Sleep-walker, or which is the Lady?’ 15 June 1812; and ‘My Landlady's Gown,’ 10 August 1816. Meanwhile, at Covent Garden, Oulton secured the production of two similar pieces, ‘Perseverance,’ 2 June 1789, and ‘Botheration,’ on 2 May 1798. David Erskine Baker credited him with the choruses in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's ‘Pizarro,’ which was produced in 1799. In 1798 he provided two pantomimes, ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ and the ‘Two Apprentices,’ for the Birmingham theatre. His last connection with the stage was on 27 February 1817, when his farce ‘Frighten'd to Death’ was produced at Drury Lane.
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Their Comedy Hour shows consisted of stand-up dialogue, song and dance from their nightclub act and movies, backed by Dick Stabile's big band, slapstick and satirical sketch comedy, Martin's solo songs, and Lewis' solo pantomimes or physical numbers. They often broke character, ad-libbing and breaking the fourth wall. While not completely capturing the orchestrated mayhem of their nightclub act, the Comedy Hour displayed charismatic energy between the team and established their popularity nationwide. By 1951, with an appearance at the Paramount Theatre in New York, they were a cultural phenomenon. The duo began their film careers at Paramount Pictures as ensemble players, in a 1949 film adaptation of the radio series My Friend Irma and its sequel My Friend Irma Goes West (1950). The pair then starred in 14 new feature-length movies of their own, At War with the Army (1950), That's My Boy (1951), Sailor Beware (1952), Jumping Jacks (1952), The Stooge (1952), Scared Stiff (1953), The Caddy (1953), Money from Home (1953), Living It Up (1954), 3 Ring Circus (1954), You're Never Too Young (1955), Artists and Models (1955), Pardners (1956) and Hollywood or Bust (1956), all produced by Hal B. Wallis and appeared on Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's Olympic Fund Telethon.
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Condon was also enamored of long lists of detailed trivia that, while at least marginally pertinent to the subject at hand, are almost always an exercise in gleeful exaggeration and joyful spirits. In An Infinity of Mirrors, for instance, those in attendance of the funeral of a famous French actor and notable lover are delineated as: > Seven ballerinas of an amazing spectrum of ages were at graveside. Actresses > of films, opera, music halls, the theatre, radio, carnivals, circuses, > pantomimes, and lewd exhibitions mourned in the front line. There were also > society leaders, lady scientists, women politicians, mannequins, > couturières, Salvation Army lassies, all but one of his wives, a lady > wrestler, a lady matador, twenty-three lady painters, four lady sculptors, a > car-wash attendant, shopgirls, shoplifters, shoppers, and the shopped; a zoo > assistant, two choir girls, a Métro attendant from the terminal at the Bois > de Vincennes, four beauty-contest winners, a chambermaid; the mothers of > children, the mothers of men, the grandmothers of children and the > grandmothers of men; and the general less specialized, female public-at- > large which had come from eleven European countries, women perhaps whom he > had only pinched or kissed absent-mindedly while passing through his busy > life.
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Even Handel, whom Pope values as restrained and sober, had his heroine brought on stage by "two huge Dragons out of whose mouths issue Fire and Smoke" in Rinaldo in 1711. The "problem" of spectacle continued in the 1720s and 1730s. In 1734, Henry Fielding has his tragedian, Fustian, describe the horror of a pantomime show: ::intimating that after the audience had been tired with the dull works of Shakespeare, Jonson, Vanbrugh, and others, they are to be entertained with one of these pantomimes, of which the master of the playhouse, two or three painters, and half a score dancing-masters are the compilers. ...I have often wondered how it was possible for any creature of human understanding, after having been diverted for three hours with the production of a great genius, to sit for three more and see a set of people running about the stage after one another, without speaking one syllable, and playing several juggling tricks, which are done at Fawks's after a much better manner; and for this, sir, the town does not only pay additional prices, but loses several fine parts of its best authors, which are cut out to make room for the said farces.
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1916 publicity piece Wylie and Tate concentrated on pantomime after World War I, introducing shows such as Any Lady (1918), The Follies of 1919 (which was repeated in each subsequent year) and Mr Manhattan (1919), The Whirl Of Today (1920), Aladdin (1920), and many shows at the London Hippodrome, including The Peep Show (1921), 1921 Swindells Stores, Round In Fifty (1922, with Herman Finck, based on Around the World in 80 Days), Brighter London (1923) and Better Days (1925). In his last years, Tate continued to produce popular songs, such "Somewhere in France with you," "Give Me a Cosy Little Corner," but he never wrote for another "book" musical. Tate's sudden death in 1922 at the age of 46 cut short a very productive career. The Wylie-Tate company continued through the 1920s and into the 1930s despite Tate's death, and Wylie continued to use Tate's music in pantomimes during this period, including several productions of Cinderella, Leap Year (1924), Mr Tickle M.P (1924), Who's My Father (1924), Turned Up (1926), Flyaway Peter (1926, with Sophie Tucker), The Apache (1927 at The London Palladium), Dancing Mad (1927), The Yellow Mask (1928), Mr. Cinders (1929) at the Adelphi Theatre and The Good Companions at His Majesty’s Theatre (1931).
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