... OLD MUSIC HALL lJON ELLIS is staging an Olde Tyme Music Hall production at the Pavilion, Liverpool, for the week beginning Decenrber 15. Artists will include Albert Whelan, Randolph Sutton, Billy Matchett, Marie Lloyd Jnr., Kitty Gillow, JiU Jayes and ...

... Music Hall BOLTON MUSIC hall is precisely that, old fashioned variety in abundance. The Octagon auditorium is successfully transformed for the evening The evening is divided into three sections, firstly Victorian and Edwardian music hall The second, entitled ...

... A Night at the Music Hall CENTRAL CONFERENCE CENTRE THIS SHOW proved to be far more impressive than its title suggested, for it was in fact a musical based on the life of Dan Leno, The King's Jester. Written by Peter Quartermain, with additional music ...

... Ruby Cinema fate in the balance Ellis Ashton's Music Hall Miscellany WHILE THE British Music Hall Society has compaigned to save theatres, it is not often that I myself actually attend a Public Enquiry under theauspices of H.M. Inspector. It was witn ...

... The Entertainer John Osbome's tribute to the British folk art of the music hall is splendidly captured by Anthony Clark in his production for the Rep. But this is the fifties, music hall--like Britannia--is in decline, and the fairy lights, strings of little ...

... of British music hall with more than a touch of compassion but the characters have no warmth to create any degree of sympathy. A long two and a half hours is emphasised by the lack of real care as to what happens to Archie Rice music hall artist, philanderer ...

... pastiches of the one time genuine music hall items, are often very funny, but the pedestrian link ing script produces a predictable and less than gripping story. The heavenly mentor and inspiration for the kind of music hall act which used to wow them On ...

... Cheap and cheerful fun Brick Lane Music Hall Cinderella Music hall has most of its roots in pantomime, so it is hardly surprising that this production should make its bow in the heart of the East End and a bawdy show it is too. The set was not exactly ...

... remains an island; the circumstances behind their banishment are rationalised into his having been the conjuring star of a music hall out of which he is tricked by his unscrupulous brother, impre sario Antonio, while the weird and wonderful inhabitants of ...

... The Beggar's Opera Wilton's Music Hall John Gays enduring piece creates a satirical world teeming with tricksters, deceivers and whores with bold, generalised strokes, the simplicity of the popular melodies introducing an ironic tension between words ...

... the film historian who brings the magic of the music hall back to the screen SILVERY-HAIRED John Huntley is a man who can make a fair assessment of the talent and personality of the actors and music hall stars of the past. Sitting at his office-workshop ...

... Jack the Ripper--The Musical BRICK LANE MUSIC HALL JACK the Ripper has been the subject of endless biographies, films and stage shows and now like Sweeny Todd has been turned into 'a family entertainment.' Well, that's what it said on the publicity bills ...