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Published by [London], 1820. *, 1820
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
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Single sheet, 33 x 21cm.
Unbound. Condition: Very good condition, edge-worn. Broadside 1 sheet Catherine Stephens (1794-1882) was well known for her beautiful soprano voice, particularly of ballads. William Hazlitt, who spoke of her and Edmund Kean as the only theatrical favourites he had, wrote his first theatrical criticism on her in the Morning Chronicle. After hearing her as Polly and as Mandane, Leigh Hunt said that they 'are like nothing else on the stage, and leave all competition far behind; Thomas Noon Talfourd recalled the days when he heard her send forth 'a stream of such delicious sound as he had never found proceeding from human lips.' William Oxberry gave her unmixed praise. A portrait painted by John Jackson hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Theatre Royal that still stands today opened in 1812. It has been the residency of well known actors including; Edmund Kean, comedian Dan Leno, and the musical composer and performer Ivor Novello.Since the Second World War, the theatre has primarily hosted long runs of musicals, including Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, 42nd Street and Miss Saigon, the theatre's longest-running show. The theatre is owned by the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Published by S. G. Fairbrother [1827], [London], 1827
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Single leaf broadside. All edges uncut. Some spotting, very short tear to one margin. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising a staging at the English Opera House of William Moncrieff's (1794-1857) popular Monsieur Tonson, a two-act farce first performed in 1821, with Mary Anne Goward (1805-1899) in the lead female role. In 1829, Goward married actor Robert Keeley (1793-1869), who also appears on the present bill as part of a 'new musical farce' Before Breakfast! Two further comic pieces were a part of the night's proceedings, the performances interspersed with the overtures to Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Figaro. Size: Dimensions 215 x 350 mm.