Posts Tagged 'Lydia Thompson'

A Legendary American Burlesque: “Evangeline” (1874), Beautiful Country Girls & A Dancing Heifer

A burlesque of Longfellow’s poem of the same name, the extravaganza Evangeline followed the trials and tribulations of its heroine

27/09/2019·1 comment·

I first came seriously in contact with F. C. Burnand’s burlesque, Ixion, when working on my biography of burlesque megastar,

Originally produced at Baden-Baden during the 1869 summer season, with the young Mdlle Périer in its principal travesty rôle, La

To say precisely who were the first English dancers to perform the cancan in the English-language theatre is pretty impossible.

Last night, I was researching in ancient texts, trying to track down the history of a burlesque blonde who went

Lydia Thompson [Eliza Hodges Thompson] is one of the theatre’s ‘legends’, and as in the case of other such legendary

In Print

“Gender Studies” are something on everyone’s lips these days. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the operetta world has hardly taken note of