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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 

Stamp of approval

... idea to put theatre stars on stamps (Stamp on theatres? page 8, November 17). Why not famous London theatres too, such as Drury Lane, The Palladium, Old Vic, Coliseum and the Royal Opera House etc. Another set could be new theatres of The British Isles ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Keeping things in the family

... music hall act Collins and Daley, as well as the act itself. I have clippings about their performances at venues including Drury Lane, the Bedford, Camden Town, the New Sebright, Hackney and the New Alhambra, Hull, where they appeared on the same bill as ...

Published: Thursday 14 October 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 9 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Evelyn laye

... star by making the occasion a truly memorable one. Marie Tempest s bi-ccntury was celebrated with a special matinee at Drury Lane. Couldn't something of this nature be repeated? Nor would it be amiss at sometime to see Miss Laye's name appear in an honours ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1965
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

Television Today: LETTERS - The Rebel--Some Replies

... QIR.--Who on earth is the author of that incoherent letter printed in your issue of 1st February! The Equity meeting at Drury Lane on 21 si January was the most representative and at the same time the most democratic which has ever been held in the history ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: That cast in full

... for mentioning the whole cast of Radio 2 Follies in her critique (February 20, The Light Programme, page 30). I was there. Drury Lane rafters rang, at the magical recording and I bought a pro gramme, but it was the best kept secret in town as to who was ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 9 | 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 

LETTERS: THANKS

... directors and designers who gave their services for the Jubilee gala performance. This took place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane at midnight on Saturday. September 10 in the presence of The Prince of Wales. The co-operation and help given by all those ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 17 | Tags: letter 

LET THEM ALL COME

... Mr. Glover says that Dan Leno and Campbell never sang their own *ongs in pantomime. I can recr fleet quite well Leno in a Drury Lane panto- mime singing his popular 4* All Thro' a Little Piece of Bacon, and also giving 44 My Old Mar, and dancing to its ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1927
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 17 | Tags: letter 

Letters: The Rebel--some Replies

... nature. By what right what facts or figures-- does he assume that the majority of actors assembled for the Equity meet ing at Drury Lane were refugees from West End failures or pro vincial engagements? And by what alchemy does the distinguished name of Noel ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 11 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Old Musicals

... compelled to write to you in defence of the old musicals. I can just remember seeing Harry Wclorwnan in The Desert Song at Drury Lane when I was five years old, arid the show made such a vivid impression on me that today I thank heaven for John Hanson His ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: 'Pirates'

... London, White's show couldn't have lasted 14 days, let alone 14 months. In a case where the best man definitely didn't win, Drury Lane for £12.50 (1982 price) gave us an absolutely ordinary presentation, set around a diminutive stage set, lost in the centre ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter