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The Spring Chicken
''The Spring Chicken'' is an Edwardian musical comedy adapted by George Grossmith, Jr. from ''Coquin de Printemps'' (1897) by Jaime and Duval, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Grossmith.Howarth, Paul and Colin Johnson"''The Spring Chicken''" British Musical Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 2 November 2016Gillan, Don Stage Beauty, accessed 15 April 2022 Produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London, it opened on 30 May 1905. It ran for a very successful 401 performances. The London production starred Grossmith, Harry Grattan, and Gertie Millar, with Henry Lytton later joining the cast. ''The Spring Chicken'' had a Broadway run in 1906 and toured in Britain and America. Roles * Gustave Babori (Advocate) – George Grossmith, Jr. * Boniface (His Head Clerk) – Lionel Mackinder * Baron Papouche (His Client) – Harry Grattan * Félix (Head Waiter at "The Crimson Butterfly") – Robert Nai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertie Millar And Edmund Payne In The Spring Chicken
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Edmund Payne
Edmund James "Teddy" Payne (14 December 1863 – 15 July 1914), was an English actor, comedian and singer best known for creating comic roles in a series of extremely successful Edwardian musical comedies. He was often paired with the comic actor George Grossmith, Jr. After about a decade touring and in stock productions, Payne joined the company at the Gaiety Theatre in London, gaining notice for creating a comic character in the musical '' In Town'' (1892). He spent more than two decades at the Gaiety, using his diminutive stature, malleable features, distinctive lisp and comic dance ability to his advantage. His further successes in the 1890s included lovable comic roles in such long-running shows as ''The Shop Girl'' (1894), ''The Circus Girl'' (1896) and ''A Runaway Girl'' (1898). In the new century, he created memorable characters in such hits as ''The Messenger Boy'' (1900), ''The Toreador'' (1902), ''The Orchid'' (1903), ''The Spring Chicken'' (1905), ''The Girls of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Musicals
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 Musicals
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Rudge Sisters
The Rudge Sisters were British actresses and dancers from Birmingham. Their father, Henry Rudge, was a brass founder and chandelier maker. Their mother, Elizabeth, had a brief acting career in the Birmingham area. They also had two brothers who became brass founders. The Rudge sisters were: * Letitia Elizabeth Rudge – Letty Lind (1861–1923) * Sarah Rudge – Millie Hylton (1870–1920) * Elizabeth Rudge – Adelaide Astor (1873–1951; married George Grossmith Jr. in 1895) * Lydia Rudge – Lydia Flopp (1877–1963) * Fanny Rudge – Fanny Dango (1878–1972; married Samuel Peter Mackay in 1911) The sisters were primarily dancers, but later developed their singing talents, working variously in pantomime; variety and music hall; Victorian burlesque, often at the Gaiety Theatre, Alexandra Theatre and Daly's Theatre, London, in the 1880s and 90s; and Edwardian musical comedy.Cruickshank, Graeme. "The Rudge Family: The Lives and Work of Letty Lind and her sisters", Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grisette (French)
The word grisette (sometimes spelled grizette) has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from ''gris'' ( French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. The 1694 edition of the ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie française'' described a grisette as simply "a woman of lowly condition". By the 1835 edition of the dictionary, her status had risen somewhat. She was described as: a young working woman who is coquettish and flirtatious. This usage can be seen in one of Oliver Wendell Holmes' early poems "Our Yankee Girls" (1830): the gay grisette, whose fingers touch love's thousand chords so well. ... In practice, "young working woman" referred primarily to those employed in the garment and millinery trades as seamstresses or shop assistants, the few occupations open to them in 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaynor Rowlands
Gaynor Rowlands (3 April 1883 – 18 July 1906), was an English actress, singer, and dancer, born in London, of Welsh parents. In Wales she became known as ''"Eos Gwalia"'': The Nightingale of Wales. Rowlands began her career in the ballet of The Empire Theatre, London under Miss Katie Lanner, graduating in 1900. She joined the company chorus line of George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre in 1900, toured India in 1901/02, and quickly became a star. In her time she became the most photographed of the "Gaiety Girls"; her roles were portrayed in numerous picture postcards. She was featured in periodicals such as The Era, The Stage, and The Play Pictorial, and in 1906, in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in scenes from The Spring Chicken. Rowlands died of heart failure at the age of 23 following surgery for appendicitis. She is buried at Finchley Cemetery, North London. Gilbert Frankau, poet and novelist, struck-up a platonic friendship with Rowlands, and described this frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive May
Olive May (November 17, 1871 – July 24, 1938) was an American stage actress. She appeared in the popular play ''Arizona'' and appeared in Maude Adams's company. Personal life May was married to playwright Henry Guy Carleton from 1894 to 1898.(8 September 1898)Mrs. Henry Guy Carleton Divorced ''The New York Times''(8 September 1898)Olive May's sacrifice: Why she married Henry Guy Carleton the play writer ''Jamestown Weekly Alert'' (reprint of ''Chicago Chronicle'' article)(18 January 1899) ''The New York Times'' She married actor and manager John W. Albaugh Jr. (son of John W. Albaugh) in 1907; he died in 1910.Who's who on the Stage 1908 p. 10M(8 April 1910) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Morrell
Olive Morrell, born Olive Miller (1877–1937), was an English actress and Gaiety Girl best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Early life Morrell was born in Highbury in 1877 and grew up in Highgate, near London. A singing teacher introduced her to theatrical producer George Edwardes, which led to roles at the Gaiety Theatre, London."Confidences of Stage Favorites: Miss Olive Morell" '''', December 9, 1906, p. 5, via ...
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Kate Cutler
Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ''ingénue'' in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's ''The Vortex'' in 1924 shortly before opening night. Early years Cutler was born in Marylebone, London, daughter of Henry Cutler, a singer, and his wife Mary Ann, ''née'' Tims. Gänzl, Kurt"Cutler, Kate Ellen Louisa (1864–1955)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 29 May 2009 She trained at a conservatoire in Watford, north of London, where one of her tutors described her as "an ideal Cherubino" in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro''.''The Times'' obituary notice, 18 May 1955, p. 13 Her career, however, took her not into opera, but into operetta and then musical comedy. Musical stage In 1888, she appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Ediss
Connie Ediss (born Ada Harriet Whitley; 11 August 1870 – 18 April 1934) Gänzl, Kurt"The real Connie Ediss, or 'She was a Milliner's Daughter'" Kurt of Gerolstein, 6 November 2020 was an English actress and singer best known as a buxom, good-humoured comedian in many of the popular Edwardian musical comedies around the turn of the 20th century. After beginning her career in provincial theatres in Britain in music hall and pantomime in the 1880s, Ediss was engaged to play in a series of extraordinarily successful musical comedies at the Gaiety Theatre, London, beginning in 1896, and also played in several musicals on Broadway. During World War I, she began a long tour in Australia, returning to London in 1919 to play in farces and comedies. She made a few films in the 1930s. Early life and career Born in Brighton in 1870 as Ada Harriet Whitley, Ediss was the youngest of four daughters of milliner Jane Whitley ''née'' McClean (born 1844) and John Whitley (1837–1909), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lytton
Sir Henry Lytton (born Henry Alfred Jones; 3 January 1865 – 15 August 1936) was an English actor and singer who was the leading exponent of the starring comic patter-baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1909 to 1934. He also starred in musical comedies. His career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company spanned 50 years, and he is the only performer ever knighted for achievements in Gilbert and Sullivan roles. Lytton was born in London; he studied there with a painter but then went on the stage in defiance of his family's wishes. At the age of 19 he married Louie Henri, an actress and singer who helped him gain a place in a D'Oyly Carte touring company in 1884. After briefly playing in other companies, he and his wife rejoined D'Oyly Carte. He had an early breakthrough in 1887 when the Savoy Theatre star George Grossmith fell ill, and the 22-year-old Lytton went on for him in ''Ruddigore''. Lytton starred in D'Oyly Carte touring companies from 1887 to 1897, playing m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
