D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Correspondence Concerning Back-Stage and Office Staff
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Correspondence concerning employment of backstage and office staff, including: Patricia Bainbridge. Includes newspaper articles about a performance of Puss in Boots; Josephine Brice; Lalita Carlton-Jones; Anne M. Davis; Frances Doll; Gillian Evans; David Greenhalgh; Christine Heighway; John Herbe...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Correspondence concerning Contracts, Salaries and Casting
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Correspondence concerning contracts, salaries and casting. Including: Papers concerning payments for understudies and small parts; Correspondence about the American tour falling through, 1954; Cast lists and correspondence concerning casting decisions; Correspondence concerning sickness pay and c...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Contracts Non-Performing Staff: Barnard - Wilson
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Contract letters for musicians, wardrobe assistants, assistant director, music assistant, assistant business manager, assistant carpenter, music assistant/ répétiteur, musical director, director of productions, wig mistress, stage manager, properties and baggage master, company manager, technical...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: The Story of the Mikado by W. S. Gilbert
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Published by Daniel O'Connor, London, 1921. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward. Includes undated pasted-in note written from Edinburgh ('next Metropole Theatre Glasgow'): 'Dear Bruce / Thought you might like this'. Signed either 'Dan' or 'Don'.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Correspondence with Herbert Sullivan Regarding Arthur Sullivan's Estate
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Correspondence with Herbert Sullivan, and with his wife Elena (subsequently Bashford upon re-marriage), regarding Arthur Sullivan's Estate. The correspondence concerns copyright, performance rights and fees and broadcasting rights.