... dressed in sweaters and tights, will run in pairs. The torch will be lit at the stage door of Drury Lane. and the route to Puddle Dock will be via Drury Lane, Aldwych, Strand. Fleet Street, and New Bridge Street. Changeovers will take place every 200 yards ...

... reck lessness. She first appeared at Drury Lane in 1764 and soon became a favourite performer. But in 1770 Baddeley was involved in a bloodless duel with George Garrick, David Garrick's brother and assistant at Drury Lane, over the reputed escapades of Mrs ...

... Arthur Collins, who was joint managing director of Drury Lane, he entered the profession after working on the Stock Exchange and playing as an amateur. His first professional appearance was at Drury Lane when he was 19, in a walking-on part. Later he appeared ...

... during the Second World War, when ENSA occupied Drury Lane, there was no com pany to entertain. The money was given to a theatre charity. My Fair Lady, which holds the record for any run at Drury Lane, naturally holds the record for the largest number ...

... about Nellie Stewart (1858-1931) the Australian actress who play ed at Drury Lane in The Forty Thieves in 1899. W. Macqueen Pope said she was the best prin cipal boy in Drury Lane ever had. She was related to Mary Jane Yates, who appeared with Garrick ...

... Harold Fielding as leading man to Ginger Rogers in the Drury Lane production of the Ameri can musical Mame He will play the part of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. Mame opens at Drury Lane on February 20. Barry Kent, after some years I with leading ...

... Retiring PRESENTATIONS were made at a party at Drury Lane to Lou Walton, the stage manager, who has retired after being with Prince Littlersince 1929 and at the Lane since 1945; and to Alec Marlowe, the master carpenter, who retired after working in the ...

... upper circle seat at Drury Lane for a musical. You would get in at Drury Lane for Pirates for £3. To see Joseph at York the cost was £3.20. But the strange thing is that both Darlington and York are subsidised while Drury Lane is not. Something has ...

... The Baddeley Ceremony THE TRADITIONAL Baddeley Cake ceremony took place at Drury Lane on Twelfth Night, when members of the oast of The Boys From Syracuse drank punch and ate the famous cake. This year, for the first time, the punch was served in a ...

... 29, just two days after W. Macqueen-Pe>pe. the his- torian at Drury Lane, where she was working until her sudden death, b was his wish to feature her in his be>e>lc. A History e>t Drury Lane. Because her work 1 was back -stage and not as per- i former ...

... 1733 20TH NOVEMBER 1794 For over 30 years an actor in David Garrick's Company at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. From 1 775 a Founder Director of Drury Lane Theatrical Fund. Remembered on this the 200th Anniversary of his Death by the present Master and Directors ...

... seen by 2,275,000 people in London and more than 76,000 have stood to see the show at Drury Lane. 9 Next month it will become the longest running show at Drury Lane since the theatre opened in 1663 and the tickets sold, if placed end to end, would reach ...