Thursday, April 18, 2024

A lovely Lincolnshire photo ... life in the 18-19th century.

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Charles Rivers came up with a darling photo today.  Three gentlemen from West End, Burgh Le Marsh, near Skegness, photographed in 1867, when...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Purposefully smutty: the Barrison sisters

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  Everyone nowadays knows the opening to the stage musical of 42nd Street . The slowly rising curtain and the tapping feet. Original!!! Er ....
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Juteau: tenor, baritone and comic through 45 years.

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I added this as a PS to my Fille de Madame Angot  blog. But here it is for those who don't want to read that whole piece again https://k...
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Monday, April 8, 2024

Mr Pavitt: a musical homosexual in Victorian England ...

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  Quiet day today. Autumnal. Just felt like doing nothing. Too cold and breezy to go out in the garden. Wendy and Pat went off to buy nature...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

The Lamys of the Théâtre des Célestins, Lyon

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  Charles Lamy was a long-lived feature of the French musical theatre, as juvenile lead, as little comic and, latterly in a whole panoply of...

1858: Mr Buckstone goes talent-seeking for the Theatre Royal, Haymarket

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  Today I was tidying some old theatrical papers (it's a never ending job!) and I glanced in my 'autograph letters' folder. Thin...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Star mezzos only live twice: Miss Hallande of Covent Garden.

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In my ceaseless inquiring wandering through the theatre of the Victorian, and more recently, Georgian eras, there is, since publishing my Vi...