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10391. Add MS 52987 P

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‘Victorine’, opera in three acts by Edmund Falconer, music by A. Mellon. Licence sent 14 December 1859 for performance at Covent Garden on 19 December 1859. Extensive cuts noted in ink. Contains words to songs. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, French character names and settings, pove...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1859
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1 item

10392. Add MS 52992 D

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'The sylphide', extravaganza in one act by William Brough. Licence sent 9 April 1860 for performance at the Princess's. Contains words for songs. Based on the scenario for the ballet La sylphide, first performed in Paris in 1832 with choreography written for Marie Taglioni. The 'libretto' w...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1860
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1 item

10393. Add MS 52992 E

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'A Christmas dinner' (altered from 'A family party'), comedietta in one act by Tom Taylor. Licence sent 14 April 1860 for performance at the Olympic. Contains extensive amendments in ink and paste-ins. Based on the lives of the Irish actress Margaret 'Peg' Woffington and the artist William H...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1860
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1 item

10394. Add MS 52993 I

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'Le mariage aux lanternes', operetta in one act by MM. Michel Carré and Léon Battu (for the music by J. Offenbach.) French. Licence sent 10 May 1860 for performance at the Lyceum. MS in French. First performed in a concert version as 'Le trésor à Mathurin' at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, 1...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
Date Range:
10 May 1860
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1 item

10395. Add MS 52994 L

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'Bowl'd out' (Bowl'd out, or, A bit of Brummagem), farce in one act by 'Henry Thornton Craven' (i.e., Henry Thornton). Licence sent 10 July 1860 for performance at the Princess's. MS written in two different hands. Published in Lacy's, vol. 47, no. 694 as Bowl'd out, or, A bit of Brummagem. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1860
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1 item

10396. Add MS 52997 M

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'Did I dream it?' (al. 'Charming dreams'), farce in one act by J. P. Wooler. Licence sent 9 November 1860 for performance at the Strand. Listed in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 under original title, 'Charming dreams'. Published in Lacy's, vol. 50, no. 739. Contains words to songs. Keywords: song...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1860
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1 item

10397. Add MS 52999 U

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'Goosey Goosey Gander, or, Froggy would a-wooing go and the fairy of the golden lilies', pantomime by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 24 December 1860 for performance at the Eastern Opera House, Pavilion Theatre. Unusual theatre venue also recorded in LCO Day Book Add. 52703. Includes comic sc...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1860
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1 item

10398. Add MS 53004 H

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'The dark woman', drama in two acts by Mrs H. Young. Licence sent 17 May 1861 for performance at the Effingham. Signed Morris Abrahams. ff. 55. Melinda Young, also called 'mrs Henry Young: Plays by, submitted: 1859-1867.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1861
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1 item

10399. Add MS 53004 N

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'The Bohemian girl', burlesque in one act by William Brough. Licence sent 24 May 1861 for performance at the Bijou. Balfe's opera with libretto by A. Bunn, first performed in London in November 1843, for which see Add. 42970 (17 ). ff. 24. William Brough, journalist and author; brother of R...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1861
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1 item

10400. Add MS 53008 A

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'Ruy Blas', grand opera in four acts by William H. Glover. Licence sent 16 October 1861 for performance at the Royal English Opera, Covent Garden, on 21 October. Based on the play by Victor Hugo. Cover signed W. Harrison, manager. Cues and stage directions underlined in red ink. Contains w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1861
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1 item