Posts Tagged 'West End'

The Incomparable Maudi Darrell: One-Time Darling Of London’s Gaiety Theatre

The story begins almost like a fairy tale: Once upon a time there were three brothers, George, Edward and John.

Ivan Caryll was the principal composer and conductor for the heyday of the Gaiety musical comedy who encouraged the development

Elsie Hodder was born in a rather squalid theatrical lodging house in Leeds on 8 April, 1886. Her mother was

Joseph Coyne was a light comedy actor-who-sings who moved from silly-ass rôles in his native America to stardom as Britain’s

Most operetta fans will know David Slattery-Christy as the biographer of Ivor Novello (1893-1951) and as a tireless champion of

It might be imagined by those who underrate the virility of convention that the good old-fashioned musical comedy would not

01/07/2020·1 comment·

If you are interested in what original audiences of early 20th century English operetta and musical comedy heard, there is

Will Marion Cook was born inWashington, DC, on 27 January, 1869. The son of a well-off and well-educated family, Cook

Amélie is a charming, whimsical, musical, based on a 2001 French Film, which was originally (2015) staged in California, and

In Print

Considering that there are not that many new books on operetta in English, one must greet Derek B. Scott’s fresh-off-the-press

In Print

26/09/2017·1 comment·

When this heavy, 350 page book, closely but clearly typed and well-illustrated, arrived in the post I thought I would