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22.3.1854 (Wedn)
J.V. BRIDGEMAN: "I've Eaten My Friend!" (1851)
T: Farce (1 act)
J.M. MORTON: "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" (1849)
T: Farce (1 act)
J.M. MORTON: "The Two Bonny Castles" (1851)
T: Farce (1 act)
C: Amateurs
F: Music
Th: Tac Ming Theatre (C)
R: Was the new member perhaps "Mr Mercury WARREN" who scored such a great success in I've Eaten My Friend! as Hezekiah Jellytop? "The refined sensibility of the character was portrayed with a power and intensity which mark Mr. Warren as one of the true sons of Thespis. How shall we describe the horror when the internal evidence of a pie revealed a clue to the whereabouts of his departed friend".
In the second piece, An Unwarrantable Intrusion "the part of Ashplant was performed by a gentleman whose via comica and power of communication were unmistakable. He completely embodied the character and infused life and vigour into his conception of it**.
Until now, even the stage names of the actors had scarcely been mentioned in the reviews, but tonight we learn that in The Two Bonny Castles Messrs Bravo ROUSE, Mercury WARREN, and Horatio BUSKIN excelled as well as the ladies who acted with great spirit and sustained the dignity and elegance of the sex with most admirable effect" (Bravo ROUSE was a borrowed alias).
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Among the musicians was again "Herr KOENIG" who "brilliantly executed" on, presumably, the violin. (NCH 25.3.1854).
15.5.1854 (Mon)
C.W.S. BROOKS: "Anything for a Change" (1848)
T: Comedietta (1 act)
J.M. MORTON: "Box and Cox" (1847)
T: Farce (1 act)
C: Amateurs
F: "A Grand Ethiopian Entertainment" with the "Virginian Minstrels"
Th: Tac Ming Theatre (C)
N: These performances, the last of the season, had originally been announced for April 5; on that date would also have been played J.T.G. Rodwell's farce A Race for Dinner. The evening was postponed, however, because of the Battle of Muddy Flat on April 4, 1854.
R: Some of the local celebrities definitely could not go wrong, witness the following remark in the Herald: "As we dropped in for half an hour we cannot speak of the concluding (Box and Cox) but, as our favourite Mr. VERDENT and the clever Mr. WARREN enacted parts in it, we have no doubt it must have told on the audience". Earlier that night Mr. Bravo ROUSE and Mr. WARREN had starred in Anything for a Change (probably as Swoppington and Honeyball).
19.5.1855 (Sat)
A "Soirée Musicale Dansante" by officers of the U.S.S. "Powhatan" with an "Ethiopian Concert by the Minstrels of the Powhatan" and a burlesque on Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons. H.J. Byron wrote a burlesque with the same title, but according to HED, the first performance took place on February 1, 1858.
R: In the Survey, it was pointed out that the officers of naval vessels sometimes entertained the local foreign residents. The first of these occasions occurred on board the Powhatan, an American warship that took part in the Japan expedition, on the eve of her departure.
196
22.3.1854 (Wedn)
J.V. BRIDGEMAN: "I've Eaten My Friend!” (1851)
T: Farce ( act)
J.M. MORTON: “A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" (1849)
T: Farce (1 act)
J.M. MORTON: "The Two Bonny Castles" (1851)
T: Farce ( act)
C: Amateurs
F: Music
Th: Tac Ming Theatre (C)
R: Was the new member perhaps "Mr Mercury WARREN" who scored such a great success in I've Eaten My Friend! as Hezeziah Jellytop? "The refined sensibility of the character was portrayed with a power and intensity which mark Mr. Warren as one of the true sons of Thespis. How shall we decribe the horror when the internal evidence of a pie revealed a clue to the whereabouts of his departed friend".
In the second piece. An Unwarrantable furusion "the part of Ashplant was performed by a gentleman whose via conica and power of communication were unmistakable. He completely embodied the character and infused life and vigour into his conception of it**.
Until now even the stage names of the actors had scarcely been mentioned in the reviews, but tonight we learn that in The Two Bonny Castles Messrs Bravo ROUSE, Mercury WARREN and Horatio BUSKIN excelled as well as the ladies who acted with great spirit and sustained the dignity and elegance of the sex with most admirable effect" (Bravo ROUSE was a borrowed alias).
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Among the musicians was again "Herr KOENIG“ who “brilliantly executed" on. presumably, the violin. (NCH 25.3.1854).
15.5.1854 (Mon)
C.W.S. BROOKS: "Anything for a Change" (1848)
T: Comedictta (act)
J.M. MORTON: Box and Cox" (1847)
T: Farce (1 act)
C: Amateurs
F: "A Grand Ethiopian Entertainment” with the "Virginian Minstrels”
Th: Tac Ming Theatre (C)
N: These performances, the last of the season, had originally been announced for April 5: on that date would also have been played J.T.G. Rodwell's farce A Race for dinner. The evening was postponed, however, because of the Battle of Muddy Flat on April 4. 1854.
R: Some of the local celebrities definitely could not go wrong, witness the following remark in the Herald: "As we dropped in for half an hour we cannot speak of the concluding (Box and Cox) but, as our favourite Mr. VERDENT and the clever Mr. WARREN enacted parts in it we have no doubt it must have told on the audience". Earlier that night Mr. Bravo ROUSE and Mr. WARREN had a starred in Anything for a Change (probably as Swoppington and Honeyball).
19.5.1855 (Sat)
A "Soirée Musicale Dansante" by officers of the U.S.S. "Powhatan" with an "Ethiopian Concert by the Minstrels of the Powhatan" and a burlesque on Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons. H.J. Byron wrote a burlesque with the same title, but according to HED the first performance took place on February 1, 1858.
R: In the Survey it was pointed out that the officers of naval vessels sometimes entertained the local foreign residents. The first of these occasions occurred on board the Powhatan, an American warship that took part in the Japan expedition, on the eve of her departure
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