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THE NEW DRAMA AT DRURY LANE

... Messrs Hamilton and Harris's new drama, d at The Royal Oak, produced with great wealth a y of scenery and costumes at Drury Lane Theatre P ra I last night, is, from a literary point of view, a il 'al distinct out above the ordinary standard of t 0 ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... of Clarkson Stanfield, and in 1851. was appointed chief scenic artist at both ! Covent Garden and Drury Lane. He painted I. I for nearly every Drury Lane pantomime down a to last year, and many miles of his canvases are ' etored up in the theatre, from ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... October 14 and Madame ohM Patti's tour October 15. Wi The 21st inst. has at present bee~n fixed for de this reopenting of Drury Lane Theatre with MNr sti IsHamlit on's new historical dransa, which it is at to P;re~sent.inteoded to call '-The Royal Oak, ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... looking up, the advance bookings for t Macbeth at the Lyceum and the pantomiime n at Drury Lane being enormous. At the two n performaiices given daily Drury Lane holds t about £1000 per day, although, of course, those n figures are very rarely reached ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... holiday season, but Iof those splendid modem Christmas spectacles which interest adults as well as the young. At any rate Drury Lane is this seasen no longer to have the monopoly of pantomime in the West End. Mr Augustus Harris will have a strong competitor ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... comiic opera by MM. Bisson and a 1lanquette, which will eventually follow d Pal Jones ;at the Prince of Wales fr Theatre. Drury Lane is now practically ready b for the rehearsals of Messrs Harris & Hamilton's 'new historical drama on a subject of the period ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... in i , progress for the return to the operatic stage of t x. Madamne Christine Nilsson. t About 10W guests assembled at Drury LAne, it Theatre last evening to see the new decorations 9 of the theatre. The main liues of the building ,t haye been preserved ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... before Easter Eve, will probably again bg; E observed as a close time at many of the theatres, I notably at the Lyceum and Drury Lane, - Managers of other houses, too, are beginning to prepare for their Easter novelties. The long run of Dorothy ended last ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... being quito C over, many of the best London theatres remtain a closed. b Mr Augustus Harris has now decided not to re-open Drury Lane until about tho end of September. Ho has the choice of two pieces i for the re-opening, but has settled to mount an historical ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... miser. and the graceful imper. twE .sonatiea of his daughter by Mrs Tree, were wa. greatly and deservedly admired. Nor The Drury Lane pantomime produced en aati boxing night was finally withdrawn last night, the after the-longest run on record. It enjoyed ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... Grand Theatre by ?? Wallis,of Mr W, G. Wills's Ninon, also based upon a stery of the French Revolution. The Royal Oak at Drury Lane is now .furnished with an epilogue which gives a finish to the story. In the original version Charles II. 'escaped in a ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... years she was C e attached to the opera, and from 1865 to 1S73 L she was highly popular at Her Majesty's Theatre a y and Drury Lane, London. She had a most v extraordinary soprano voice, nearly three octaves P Din compass. She sang the music of The P ...