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LETTERS: Lyceum--need for public debates

... large stage in central London, which to me seems to have a surfeit of discos, rock venues, and ballrooms. The prospect of Drury Lane being occupied for the rest of the decade by the Royal Opera and Ballet during rebuilding at the Garden, and thereafter ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Theatre Today

... advertising and a fashion- conscious environment, can ihey really be expected to arrive at the imposing entrance to, say Drury Lane, hot and perspiring after an energetic journey from the suburbs? For the majority of young people (and there wifl always ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1964
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: The new theatre at Bromley

... his right. As far as I am aware his voice was not heard. As a matter of pure fact, the stage at Bromley is not the size of Drury Lane, but of course it is true to say that the expansion of the scale of operations will be about as large as took place between ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Theatrical portraits

... there are fine scattered theatri cal portraits, notably of Tree as King John in the foyer of Her Majesty's, the Kemble6 at Drury Lane, Gwen ffrangcon-Davies as Florence Nightingale by Sickert in the foyer of the Globe, some at R.A.D.A., Seymour Hicks as ...

Published: Thursday 23 November 1972
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 20 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: Insult to profession?

... profession? SIR,--Your editorial last week noted that many of the critics who reviewed Not in Front of the Audience at Drury Lane came to the conclusion that what works on TV often fails in the theatre. Your contemptuous dismissal of this point of view ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 32 | Tags: letter 

ENTERTAINMENTS TAX

... Tivoli. for example, might make (shall we say?) a net profit of £4.000 in a particular week, yielding a tax of £400; whereas Drury Lane, with large gross receipts, might i have a net profit of £500 only, yielding a tax, at 10 per cent., of £50. I don't suppose ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: THANKS FROM SLT

... to become founder members of the Trust. As a result of the activities organised by companies like the Billy company at Drury Lane and the Month in the Country com pany, who have each raised more than £250, we are well into our second thousand as far ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1976
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 25 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: MISS OLIVE STETTITH DISPLEASED

... de Medina (Her lather lead (Man to Man), Romeo, May Harebell, juvenile part in The Artful Dodger, at Blanchard Benefit, Drury Lane, soubrette part at Vaudeville, Ac., and (thers too numerous to mention. [The criticism was not severe. Mirs Stettith may ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1890
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

Jerome Whyte could not say 'No'

... Derek Rae's letter in your last issue, the cost of reproducing the gay posters of Oklahoma! which adorned the exterior of Drury Lane when the show was done there, is now up about 150 percent. This I told Mr. Jerome Whytc when he approached this company ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1961
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Shipping out centuries of traditional British panto to America

... following year, versions ot All Baba and Sindbad the Sailor made their way to America. Whimsical Wal ker, the last clown at Drury Lane theatre, also took his own production to the USA, and it is recorded that [he theatre gallery collapsed under the strain ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 531 | Page: 10 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Hollande gets a dressing down

... stage successes we have costumed Les Miserables (including six productions throughout the world), Miss Saigon and numer ous Drury Lane and London Palladium shows. Although Mr Hollande is now den igrating all these achievements, I do not wish to criticise ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 501 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Theatre On The Civic Front

... near as is humanly possible cost nothing! Older theatres and larger theatres were also represented, for the Hay- market. Drury Lane, the Royal Opera House and the Piccadilly all appeared. Even multi-purpose con cert halls were not left out. A considerable ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter