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LETTERS: Increased cost

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: Can you help?

... writing on 'O'- level history project entitled The Theatre Royal Drury Lane 1663-1982. I would be grateful if anybody with any photographs of the interior or any theatre programmes for Drury Lane would contact me so I could either pur chase them or photocopy ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 12 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Back to 'Sinbad'

... seen in London since Sindbad at Drury Lane in 1907, I would be very interested to know if anyone is still alive that either appeared in the original show or who remembers seeing it. Our Sinbad stars Ken Dodd, in Drury Lane the stars were Walter Passmore ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Unforgettable Fair Lady

... Unforgettable Fair Lady SIR, April 30 1958 who will forget that sunny evening just 25 years ago when London, and Drury Lane, saw the opening of what was to be the Lane's longest running and record breaking musial, My Fair Lady. It stayed for over f ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

Light Entertainment Letters: Problems that faced the Royal Variety musicians

... reply to Denham Ford's criticism of our performance (THE STAGE, December 13). First, the orchestra was forced to play in the Drury Lane theatre pit, which, to meet the requirements of Hello Dolly, is covered over with a kind of mosquito net. Inside is a forest ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 5 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Magic touch

... Magic touch SIR, Having first purchased some tickets for next month's Night of Stars at Drury Lane Theatre through a handbill sent to me, I was once more duly intrigued to see that this whole event is being devised and organised by a Barry J. Mishon ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

Light Entertainment Letters: Defending the Osmonds

... Defending the Osmonds SIR, In reply to your recent report of the Osmonds at Drury Lane I don't think it is fair when you say that the Big O are here to be seen rather than heard. The Osmonds, over their years as superstar idols, can have had no rivals ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 5 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: Pleasure in the provinces

... punishment, having seen the disastrous Drury Lane production, we thought at least another try. Again we were not disappointed. We had always thought that this show could well be done in a smaller area than Drury Lane, and it is quite amazing what a little ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 28 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Critical blindness to great musical-thriller

... and as a Franco-Canadian I yield to no one in healthy resistance to many things American. Nor did I see the production at Drury Lane under good auspices. A Saturday matinee found one of the principals losing his voice, another who had lost hers and didn't ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: No price range in West End

... am therefore horrified to see what I hope is not going to be a new trend; i Not in Front of the Audience, open- ing at Drury Lane on April 12, has Stalls I and Circle priced at £8.50, the Upper I Circle at £7 and the Balcony at £5.50. i With the ancillary ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

Light Entertainment Letters: Live manure!

... letter (THE STAGE, January 3) describing the problems of cramped and criticised musicians at the Royal Variety Show at Drury Lane. But lest he should be too de pressed by his description of musi cians as cultivated mushrooms sitting in the dark, ignored ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: Join the rally

... likely to be the first such event for many people, we shall be meeting on familiar territory outside the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, at 10.30 a.m. and moving as a group to join the main march on the Victoria Embankment. Graham Padden 16 Port Road New Duston ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1981
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 22 | Tags: letter