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The Belle Of Mayfair
''The Belle of Mayfair'' is a musical comedy composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Basil Hood, Charles Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton and lyrics by George Arthurs. The story is inspired by the Shakespeare play ''Romeo and Juliet''. The original production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 11 April 1906, produced by Charles Frohman. It ran for 431 performances, closing on 13 April 1907, and starred Edna May, Louie Pounds, Arthur Williams, Camille Clifford and Courtice Pounds. Hood withdrew his name from the original production after Frohman started altering the text to suit casting changes that occurred during the run. Some of these changes resulted from disputes between the female leads and the management, one of which resulted in court action. Edna May stormed out of the production, and the role was assumed by Phyllis Dare, making her a star. Roles and original cast list *Julia Chaldicott (The Belle of Mayfair) – Edna May *Hon. Raymond Finchley (Julia's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna May
Edna May Pettie (September 2, 1878 – January 1, 1948), known on stage as Edna May, was an American actress and singer. A popular postcard beauty, May was famous for her leading roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Life and career May was born in Syracuse, New York, to Edgar and Cora Petty. The family later changed the surname to "Pettie". Her siblings were Adelbert, Jennie and Marguerite.Pascoe, Charles L"Edna May" Edna May website At the age of 5, she played Little Willie Allen in a production of ''Dora''. The next year, her performances "charmed a number of audiences lately with her child voice". By the age of 7, she had joined a children's opera company and performed Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Syracuse. She studied music at the New York Conservatoire as a teenager. May made her professional debut in 1895 in ''Si Stebbings'' in Syracuse. She then moved to New York to take the small role of Clairette in Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway show, '' Santa Maria''. Tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Williams (actor)
Arthur Williams (9 December 1844 – 15 September 1915) was an English actor, singer and playwright best remembered for his roles in comic operas, musical burlesques and Edwardian musical comedies. As a playwright, Williams wrote several farces as well as some dramas. Born in Islington, London, Williams initially went into business as a law stationer but soon left to take up acting in 1861 when he was 17. He travelled to Gravesend, Kent, where he made his stage début as Alfred Martelli in "The Corsican Brothers". He made his London stage debut at the St James's Theatre in 1868, where his roles included Thomas in ''The Secret'', Baron Factotum in a burlesque of ''Sleeping Beauty'', and Moses in ''The School for Scandal''. After playing in dramas in the 1870s, he appeared in comic operas in the 1880s, in which he created the roles Sir Mincing Lane in ''Billee Taylor'', Sir Whiffle Whaffle in ''Claude Duval'', Amaranth CVIII in ''Lord Bateman'', his most famous role, Lurcher in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicals Based On Plays
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Musicals
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1906 Musicals
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The Play Pictorial
''The Play Pictorial'' was an English theatrical magazine that was published in London between 1902 and 1939. ''The Play Pictorial'' provided pictorial records of West End theatrical productions. Each issue described a single show, with descriptions of the plot, the costumes and the sets, and many photographs of the cast and scenes from the production. For musicals, ''The Play Pictorial'' usually included some of the lyrics and short extracts from the score. The first editor of ''The Play Pictorial'' was Rudolph Birnbaum. In May 1904, he was replaced by Frank M. Boyd. In 1905, Fred Dangerfield became editor, handling the next 20 issues. In 1905, ''The Play Pictorial'' merged with a rival magazine, ''The Play'', which had been published between May and October 1904 under the editorship of Benjamin William Findon. In mid-1906, Findon took over the combined magazine, which he continued to edit for over 30 years. The last issue of ''The Play Pictorial'', no. 446, appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Ray (actress)
Ruby Ray (born Blanche Arnold Hameen Nicol, 14 August 1881 – after 1973) was an Argentine-born English stage actress, dancer and singer who performed mainly in Edwardian musical comedy. Ray began her stage career in London in 1897 despite the misgivings of her late father's family. She played in both musical comedies and drama before travelling to Australia in 1900. There she starred in the play '' A Message from Mars'' and the musical ''Three Little Maids'', among other pieces. She later appeared in London and New York, creating supporting roles in ''The Catch of the Season'' (1904) and ''The Belle of Mayfair'' (1906). She married in 1909 and left the stage, living with her husband and children in Ceylon, then Switzerland, and later Jersey. Early life Ray was born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father, James Watson Nicol, and an English mother, Blanche Caunter. Her paternal grandfather was the figure and genre painter Erskine Nicol, and her maternal grandfather was the wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Boyd
Maud Rachel Boyd (1 February 1867 – 23 February 1929) was an English actress and singer know for musical theatre pantomime principal boy roles. Life and career Boyd was born in 1867 at Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester, the daughter of James Boyd (1840–1870) and Elizabeth Montgomery ''née'' Hodgson (1834–1921). In 1881 aged 13 she was a boarder at Adelphi House Convent, a Catholic girls' school in Salford in Greater Manchester that was run by nuns. On the curriculum was music. As a pantomime principal boy she played Prince Charming in ''Little Red Riding Hood'' at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in December 1893, the title role in the panto ''Robin Hood'', while over Christmas 1894 she was in ''Babes in the Wood'' in Liverpool. Christmas 1895 found her in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Hull From December 1897 she played Alice in '' Dick Whittington'' at the Alexandra Theatre in Stoke Newington. In Dublin in 1899 she recorded "The Golden Isle" from ''A Greek Slave'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farren Soutar
Farren Soutar (born Joseph Farren Soutar; 17 February 1870 – 23 January 1962), was an English actor and singer who became known for his performances in Edwardian Musical Comedies in the West End and on Broadway. Later he acted in some serious plays. His mother was Nellie Farren, the famous principal boy in Victorian burlesque. Early years Born in Greenwich in London, he was the son of the actor, stage manager, and director Robert Soutar and the actress and singer Nellie Farren, known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre. His older brother was Henry Robert Soutar (1868–1928). A boyhood friend (and with whom he was later to work on the 1934 film '' The Iron Duke'') was George Arliss, for whom Soutar found his first acting job in 1886. Acting career A baritone leading man, he played a number of roles in Edwardian Musical Comedies, including Bobbie Rivers in '' A Gaiety Girl'' (1894), Algernon St. Alban in '' An Artist's M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Dare
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Courtice Pounds
Charles Courtice Pounds (30 May 1861 Gänzl, Kurt"Pounds of Pyes, or mea culpa No. 2" Kurt Gänzl's blog, 4 May 2018. Note that hibirth registrationis in central London in the third quarter of 1861 – 21 December 1927), better known by the stage name Courtice Pounds, was an English singer and actor known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and his later roles in Shakespeare plays and Edwardian musical comedies. As a young member of D'Oyly Carte, Pounds played tenor leads in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in New York and on tour in Britain and continental Europe from 1881 to 1887. After being promoted to principal tenor at the Savoy Theatre, he created the principal tenor roles in ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' (1888), ''The Gondoliers'' (1889), '' The Nautch Girl'' (1891) and ''Haddon Hall'' (1892), and played other principal roles. After leaving D'Oyly Carte in 1895, Pounds became a prominent performer during the tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Clifford
Camilla Antoinette Clifford (29 June 1885 – 28 June 1971), known professionally as Camille Clifford, was a Belgian-born stage actress and the most famous model for the "Gibson Girl" illustrations. Her towering coiffure and hourglass figure defined the Gibson Girl style. Early life Clifford was born on 29 June 1885 in Antwerp, Belgium, to Reynold Clifford and Matilda Ottersen. Camille was raised in Sweden, Norway and Boston. Career In the early 1900s, she won $2,000 in a magazine contest sponsored by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson to find a living version of his Gibson Girl drawings: his ideal woman. Clifford became an actress, performing in the United States from 1902 and in England from 1904. She returned from London to Boston on 3 July 1906. While generally playing walk-on, non-speaking roles, Clifford became famous nonetheless: not for her talent, but for her beauty, and in the musical show ''The Catch of the Season'' which opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
