This isn't the first time Martin's kids have stood in the footlights.
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Then, the troupe rush back out onstage into the glare of the footlights.
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Just before New Year's Ms. DesRoche took Rose to the theater for a taste of the footlights.
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"I started off being a fan and then slowly shifted over into this other side of the footlights."
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In pastel, particularly, he could imitate his view of the backlit performers, their faces lost in the footlights.
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She has always been a contained performer, seldom naturally theatrical, but her gaze across the footlights was almost piercing.
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He joined the Footlights, the Cambridge theatrical club whose members later included David Frost, John Cleese and Eric Idle.
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Citing a maxim popular at Brunswick — "Never get between a client and the footlights" — he declined to be quoted.
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Miss Lottie Gee or Roger Matthews comes down to the footlights and sets a metronomic foot to beating a rhythm.
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She is working the other side of the footlights as the director of "Newton's Cradle," an offering of the New York Musical Festival.
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Suddenly McLaren (played by Jack Bertinshaw), leaping over the footlights, dances too — not the same choreography as theirs, something far sillier and funnier.
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"Cash stomped out the footlights," Strait sings, evoking the famous moment, in 1965, when Cash threw a tantrum on the Grand Ole Opry stage.
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"I decided to be on the other side of the footlights and got the background a young person couldn't get today," he once recalled.
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As Lucy comes into her own as an independent woman, Ms. Linney tracks this burgeoning sense of self with an empathy that crosses the footlights.
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Fans rushed the stage to bring him gifts, and in some songs he reached across the footlights to give handshakes while he sang about feeling lonely and alienated.
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And what we see, in their faces and bodies, and feel — in the less easily described energy that reaches across the footlights — is a harsh and beautiful muddle.
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On a reconnaissance mission, Barry tracks the trainer into an acting class, and when he's ambushed into serving as a scene partner, Barry soaks up a special energy from the footlights.
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But it feels, most of the time, as if its author has forgotten how to connect across the footlights or doesn't realize how far he has wandered from his own goal.
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Because all three were performers, I nicknamed the loft and its inhabitants the Footlights Club, in honor of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's 1936 play, "Stage Door," about aspiring actresses boarding together.
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The members of the ensemble, headed by the invaluable Cecilia Noble (a National regular of late), seem to inhabit their roles rather than act them, and their commitment to social justice crosses the footlights.
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The next slide was an etching of a theatre from the perspective of the stage, showing the unpainted backs of the scenery, the silhouettes of three actors, and, beyond the footlights, a big black space.
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After a few minutes the scene flips to show the backs of the performers, the glare of the footlights, and behind them, the front row of the fictional audience that includes our heroine, aspiring ballerina Vicky Page.
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And, because my friends sang or acted or wrote or directed for the stage, they had opening-night and closing-night parties at the Footlights Club that were more fun than anything, full of post-performance energy and camaraderie.
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Meanwhile, the art of portraiture made strides in the young Annie Leibovitz's daring Rolling Stone photos, and " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas " (which Rolling Stone published), by Hunter S. Thompson (whom it brought into the footlights), is as genuinely "alt" a chronicle as exists.
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It's not his first foray with the footlights: Some 20 years ago he created the costumes for a short-lived opera on the life of Rudolph Valentino, and in more recent years he designed costumes for dancers of the Vienna State Opera Ballet and New York City Ballet.
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" Citing Joel Grey's M.C. in "Cabaret" as a touchstone, he said, "In my mind's eye, the footlights at the edge of stage pop on, and I'm looking out at you guys: This is what happened to me, what happened to the Hurricane, and it's happening in your city.
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At an age when most performers have long retired from the footlights and the brutal, peripatetic life of an international star, Mr. Aznavour continued to range the world, singing his songs of love found and love lost to capacity audiences who knew most of his repertoire by heart.
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Behind the Footlights () is a 1956 Soviet comedy drama film directed by Konstantin Yudin.
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Before panic could consume the audience, Edwin stepped to the footlights to calm the audience.
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The following year, Slattery was made President of the Footlights. During his tenure, the touring annual revue was Premises Premises.
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Kickin' Out The Footlights...Again would be the final proper studio album recorded by Jones before his death in 2013.
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From the paint-room Garner soon found his way to the footlights, and for some time appeared in various provincial companies.
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Information about the Footlights Club and its revues can be accessed through the Cambridge Footlights official website The History of Footlights.
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He had the most suasive, genial, and gentlemanly comedy manner conceivable, and was never for a minute away from the footlights.
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Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again is a studio album by American country music artists George Jones and Merle Haggard, released in 2006.
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The couple met at Cambridge University and first worked together composing for the Footlights. They went on to form Morgan Pochin Music Productions.
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The play remains a success after months, but Terry continues to board at the Footlights Club. A newcomer shows up looking for a room.
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While at Cambridge, she was a member of the Footlights, where she met Mel Giedroyc. She was Footlights president during the academic year 1990–91.
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Footlights website. Retrieved 29 June 2009. He also directed and appeared in the Footlights pantomime Aladdin as Widow Twankey during the 1978–79 season.Staff (18 January 1979). "Aladdin".
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Having successfully passed the entrance exams in autumn 1977, Fry was offered a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge for matriculation in autumn 1978, briefly teaching at Cundall Manor, a North Yorkshire preparatory school before taking his place. At Cambridge, Fry joined the Footlights, appeared on University Challenge, and read for a degree in English Literature, graduating with upper second-class honours. Fry also met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie at Cambridge and starred alongside him in the Footlights.
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The Cambridge Footlights Revue is an annual revue by the Footlights Club - a group of comedy writer-performers at the University of Cambridge. Three of the more notable revues are detailed below.
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The Eric Hamber Theatre department runs four mainstage and four junior theatre productions (the "Footlights") each school year. The mainstage productions usually include a guest-directed play, musical and student-written play.
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He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, becoming vice-president in his final year. After graduating, he performed in Sensible Haircut with the Footlights team at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000.
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Arden's musical credits: West End productions include Susannah in Someone Like You at the Strand Theatre (1990),"Someone Like You", MusicalsWorld.be, accessed 19 October 2020; and Ellacott, Vivyan. "Someone Like You", Over the Footlights, accessed 19 October 2020 Tuptim in The King and I at Sadler’s Wells Theatre (1991),Ellacott, Vivyan. "The King and I (3rd Revival)", Over the Footlights, accessed 19 October 2020 Mona Lisa in Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love at the Strand Theatre (1993),"Leonardo the Musical", ThisIsTheatre.
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Louis Kronberg (1872–1965) was an American figure painter, art dealer, advisor, and teacher. Among his best-known works are Behind the Footlights (Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia) and The Pink Sash (Metropolitan Museum, New York).
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She began directing for theatre at Cambridge and amongst other credits, was the first woman in history to direct the Footlights Pantomime, which was co-written by Footlights President and Vice President Richard Ayoade and John Oliver.
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It's London run was hampered by the 1926 national strike in Britain.Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals: 1925–1929, Wildflower", Over the Footlights, accessed February 3, 2016 Wildflower was Oscar Hammerstein's first successful musical and Vincent Youmans' second show.
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" By the end of the first act Lehár was amazed. Though the audience seemed reserved and did not clap with typical enthusiasm, Lehár felt that Coyne had "unquestionably got his audience. He himself had felt the power this odd man Coyne was putting over the footlights." thumb By the time the curtain fell the audience was completely won over. "The applause went across the footlights like a prairie fire, accompanied by roars of cheers, warm and glowing with pleasure and affection, such cheers as are seldom heard by players.
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It played more than 10,000 performances in London, making it the third longest-running musical to ever play in the West End.Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals 2012" , Over the Footlights, pp. 20–24 The UK tour continued until 2013.
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Root was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge where he read Philosophy and English. At Cambridge he was President of the Amateur Dramatic Club (CUADC) and Junior Treasurer of the Footlights revue group.
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Horne was educated at Lancing College (Fields House, 1991–1996) and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied classics,classics careers at Willamette.edu. Retrieved 25 April 2013 graduating in 2001. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights.
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Ladies of the Footlights, p. 81 Bernhardt wore mourning for a year after Damala's death. She had legally adopted his surname (i.e. Sarah Bernhardt-Damala) but never renounced it, even after her husband's death, though this was not widely known.
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Accessed 2 July 2014 On the strength of an essay on religious poetry that discussed the Beatles and William Blake, he was awarded an Exhibition in English at St John's College, Cambridge, going up in 1971. He wanted to join the Footlights, an invitation-only student comedy club that has acted as a hothouse for comic talent. He was not elected immediately as he had hoped, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith; they formed a group called "Adams-Smith-Adams". He became a member of the Footlights by 1973.
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Fred was a member of the "White Rats Actors' Union", and co-founder of the short-lived "Knights of the Footlights", another union for entertainment workers. He died October 14, 1913 while on tour in Lancashire England due to complications from diabetes.
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She made beautifully carved gilded frames from paste impregnated papers covered with painter's gold. The frames looked as if they were real. At a theatre performance, there was a huge vase on the stage. In the footlights it shone as a diamond.
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4; "Grand Theatre, Leeds, Next Week" in Leeds Mercury, 20 September 1913, p. 4 and from January to March 1914 he was in P. G. Wodehouse's revue Nuts and Wine at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square.Ellacott, Vivyan, London Reviews 1910–1914, Over the Footlights, p.
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Evans was raised in Wrexham and read Classics at Cambridge University. He joined the Footlights, where he became president, and met writing partner James Bachman and also Robert Webb. After an unsuccessful stint as a stand-up comedian, he decided to switch to screenwriting.
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Craig Grant (born 1968), known as muMs the Schemer, is an American poet and actor best known for his role as Arnold "Poet" Jackson on the HBO series Oz.Collins-Hughes, Laura. "Versifying Above the Footlights". The New York Times. September 14, 2014. p. AR6.
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Haggard would record the song again in 2006 as part of the second Jones/Haggard release Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again. A duet version featuring Jones and Shelby Lynne was made available on the 2009 Jones LP Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets.
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He recalled that he went to the Cambridge Guildhall, where each university society had a stall, and went up to the Footlights stall, where he was asked if he could sing or dance. He replied "no" as he was not allowed to sing at his school because he was so bad, and if there was anything worse than his singing, it was his dancing. He was then asked "Well, what do you do?" to which he replied, "I make people laugh." At the Footlights theatrical club, Cleese spent a lot of time with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie and met his future writing partner Graham Chapman.
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Vranch graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in physics.Interview, livingonfascination.com, 15 June 2014; accessed 15 December 2015. While a first-year doctoral student, he joined the Footlights in 1981 and was a contemporary of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Tony Slattery and Neil Mullarkey.
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Una Stubbs was Mary, Gerald Harper was Augustus, Ruth Madoc was Suzanne, Simon Williams was Thomas, Jean Challis was Nanny and Jeremy Sinden was George."Bless the Bride: London Revival (1987)", Ovrtur.com, accessed 6 September 2020Ellacott, Vivyan. "1987 Musicals: Bless the Bride", Over the Footlights, p.
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Bron began her career in the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, entitled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was a departure; until that time it had been all-male, with female characters portrayed in drag.
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At Cambridge, Armstrong studied English, receiving a third- class degree, and sang bass baritone as a choral scholar with the college choir. Armstrong joined the Footlights in his final year as part of the writing team for the 1992 revue and was Spooks creator David Wolstencroft's comedy partner.
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Kingsley was educated at Eton College, a boarding independent school for boys in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, where he studied English, and was a member of the comedy group Footlights, directing the Footlights Revue "Wham Bam" at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe.
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Jessie Mackaye was a comic"Music", New York Times, May 7, 1899, pg. SM7. stage actress of the Victorian era. Prior to becoming an actress she spent part of her youth in a convent in the United States."Flashes From The Footlights", English Illustrated Magazine, 1900, Volume XXII, pg. 590.
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Born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), into a Foreign Office family, he was educated as senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then at Tonbridge School in Kent. He gained an Exhibition in English Literature as well as a choral scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Rutter and joined the Footlights.
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765 The stage's proscenium opening was wide, with between side-wings, and a depth of from the footlights to the back wall. The height of the proscenium opening was . Its first opera season was from October through December 1854. The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company was engaged by US actor James Henry Hackett.
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He was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society. Sam Mendes, a friend and fellow student, directed him in several plays while they were at Cambridge, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac (which also featured future Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg).
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Graham Chapman was originally a medical student, joining the Footlights at Cambridge. He completed his medical training and was legally entitled to practise as a doctor. Chapman is best remembered for the lead roles in Holy Grail, as King Arthur, and Life of Brian, as Brian Cohen. He died of metastatic throat cancer on 4 October 1989.
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John Stroud was born in 1955 in Gillingham, Kent. He was the son of Heather Lovesey and James Stroud. He attended (and became head boy at) Dover College, and went on Tonbridge School on a scholarship; it was there he first met Vikram Jayanti. During his time reading English at Cambridge, he was a member of the Footlights.
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Corbett first worked with Ronnie Barker in The Frost Report (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly Oxbridge graduates from the Footlights tradition. Corbett said he and Barker were drawn together as two grammar school or state secondary school boys, who had not gone to university. The show was a mixture of satirical monologues, sketches and music.
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Claude Hulbert was born in Fulham in West London on Christmas Day 1900. He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. Like his brother he received his formal education at Westminster School and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights Comedy Club as an undergraduate.Obituary for Claude Hulbert, 'The Times', 24 January 1964.
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"Growing up with Greer", The > Guardian. As soon as she arrived, Greer auditioned (with Clive James, whom she knew from the Sydney Push) for the student acting company, the Footlights, in its club room in Falcon Yard above a Mac Fisheries shop. They performed a sketch in which he was Noël Coward and she was Gertrude Lawrence.
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Postcards of her in costume became ubiquitous; more photographs of her were sold in London than of any other actress in 1898."Flashes from the Footlights", English Illustrated Magazine, February 1899, p. 509 In London, the piece opened on 12 April 1898, produced by J. C. Williamson and George Musgrove. The composer conducted at the opening night.
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Sharpe was born in London, but lived in Tokyo until he was eight years old. After returning to the United Kingdom, he studied at Winchester College. Sharpe read Classics at the University of Cambridge, where he was the president of the Footlights Revue. He graduated in 2008 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 2008/2009 season.
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9, accessed 24 April 2020 and The Bing Girls Are There (1917), both at the Alhambra Theatre."The Bing Girls Are There", Over the Footlights, p. 19, accessed 24 April 2020 She played Jane in the silent film Winning a Widow (1910).Blanche Stocker, British Film Institute, accessed 24 April 2020 Stocker died in Kensington in London in 1950 aged 65.
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Ladies of the Footlights, p. 96-99 (2005) (short chapter dedicated to Heron)(22 January 1872). News of the Day, The Charleston News (bottom of Col. 1, report on the benefit show) Matilda Heron died at the age of forty-six on March 7, 1877 at her New York City home a few weeks after an unsuccessful operation to halt hemorrhoidal bleeding.
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Tom Chadbon was cast as Duggan on account of his resemblance to the Franco-Belgian comics hero Tintin.Hayes et al., City of Death DVD Commentary, Part One Peter Halliday had previously appeared in several Doctor Who serials including The Invasion and Doctor Who and the Silurians. Douglas Adams knew John Cleese and Eleanor Bron through his connections with Monty Python and the Footlights.
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Tim Key attended secondary school at Histon and Impington Village College; Hills Road Sixth Form College and subsequently the University of Sheffield, where he studied Russian. Following graduation he returned to his native Cambridge where he eventually joined the Cambridge Footlights. Through The Footlights, Key met future colleagues Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski and Lloyd Woolf; with whom he formed sketch group Cowards.
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Henry Wolfsohn claimed to have offered Joseffy huge sums for concert tours but the pianist found concert life so severe upon his nerves that he would not accept. He preferred the smaller income of a teacher to the glare of the footlights. Joseffy continued to care absolutely nothing for fame or applause. To him his art was supreme and other things mattered little.
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Pelléas and Mélisande premiered on 17 May 1893 at the Bouffes-Parisiens under the direction of Aurélien Lugné-Poe. Lugné-Poe, possibly taking inspiration from The Nabis, an avant-garde group of Symbolist painters, used very little lighting on the stage. He also removed the footlights. He placed a gauze veil across the stage, giving the performance a dreamy and otherworldly effect.
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Robinson toured London's West End in 1914 with Smith's Fortune-Hunter. The critic, Boyle Lawrence, described Robinson's performance in the Pall Mall Magazine Mr. Forrest Robinson, as an inventor, acted charmingly. Without any trace of effort, he projected a real, lovable personality over the footlights. Robinson's silent film career included starring with Winifred Allen in From Two to Six (1918).
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Sweet was born in Nottingham and educated at the local independent school Nottingham High School. He read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge and met writing partner Joe Thomas, and both were members of the Footlights. Sweet served as vice- president to Simon Bird while Thomas was secretary. After graduating, the three shared a flat together before their big break into comedy and television.
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He spent much of his time there performing in the Cambridge Footlights alongside Hugh Laurie, Rory McGrath and Emma Thompson. From 1977 to 1978, he was the secretary of the group and from 1978 to 1979, he was the president. Among the Footlights Revues in which he participated were Stage Fright in 1978, which he also co-wrote and Nightcap in 1979."1970 ".
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Des O'Connor was a member of the Cambridge Footlights at the same time as Mitchell and Webb, Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness. After a year away from Cambridge, he became musical director of the Footlights at the invitation of David Mitchell. At one point, O'Connor was a Latin teacher. He has been a presenter for MTV UK at Bestival and The Big Chill.
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Stadium shows provided a new challenge for the band. The venues were large enough in size that the band became "like ants" to audience members. This resulted in Jagger having to project himself "over the footlights" and the band needing to use more gimmicks, such as pyrotechnics, lights and video screens. As time went on, their props and stage equipment became increasingly sophisticated.
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Though being of an accomplished legal mind, his interest was drawn to theatre and the performing Arts. Both he and Jill were members of The Oxford Footlights which had fellow members of the time; Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Jill Graham continued acting as her career as did their eldest son. Angus was a talented pianist and this was his main contribution to the Footlights.
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Wolstencroft was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, studying at George Watson's College, later going on to read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was active in the Footlights where he collaborated with Mark Evans, Sue Perkins, Andy Parsons, Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, and had served as Footlight's vice-president and revue director.
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Born in Bedfordshire, McCloud and his two brothers, Terence and Graham, were raised in a house his parents had built.Building sight The Observer – 2 November 2003 McCloud attended Dunstable Grammar School, which became Ashton Middle School, and then studied the history of art and architecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights comedy ensemble alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
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Punt and Dennis are a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The duo first met at the Footlights while studying at Cambridge University in the early 1980s. Initially they started off as an amateur double act performing at various venues in London on the weekends due to Dennis' weekday job commitments and have since branched out into acting and screen writing.
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Richard Sisson is a British pianist and composer. As well as concert works, he has composed extensively for the theatre.University of Bedfordshire: Richard Sisson, accessed 17 June 2010 He was also part of the cabaret double-act Kit and The Widow alongside Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Sisson was educated at King's College, Taunton and the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights.
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Mitchell and Webb are a British comedy double act, composed of David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) and Robert Webb (born 29 September 1972). They are best known for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show and their sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look. The duo first met at the Footlights in 1993 and collaborated on the 1995 Revue while at Cambridge.
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John Cradock Maples was born at Fareham, Hampshire. His father, a businessman, lived in the Wirral; he was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read Law, and played hockey for the college and performed with the Footlights. Maples received an MA in 1964, and later studied at the Harvard Business School. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1965.
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Ivor Novello biography at Spartacus Educational, accessed 2013 Ellacott, Vivyan.Perchance to Dream, London Musicals: 1945–1949, p. 4, Over the Footlights, accessed 15 January 2013 Written as World War Two drew to its close, the song describes the yearning of parted couples to be reunited. It evokes the joy they would feel when together once again, and the pleasures of the English countryside in spring with its lilac blossom.
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Ofelia was raised primarily in England by nuns until the age of sixteen.Boys in the Trees: A Memoir – Carly Simon (2015) (Page: 7) A 2017 episode of PBS show Finding Your Roots tested Simon's DNA, which included 10% African and 2% Native American, likely via her maternal grandmother. Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx,"Heroines in the Footlights, From All Sides Now". The New York Times.
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Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the third of four children of Claremont McKenna College Professor Graham Bird and Professor Heather Bird. Bird was educated at Cranmore School, West Horsley, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English, alongside Inbetweeners co-star Joe Thomas. At Cambridge, Bird was the president of the Footlights, the university's sketch and theatrical group. He graduated with a double First.
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On April 28, 1915, a new theatrical group called The Footlights was born when Will Lewers, Mrs. Walter F. Dillingham, Helen Alexander, Margaret Center and Gerrit Wilder appeared in The Amazons by Pinero. The performance took place at the Honolulu Opera House, where the main Post Office on Merchant Street now stands. The legacy of those theatre lovers grew into the third-oldest, continuously operating theatre in the entire United States.
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Hancock grew up with three elder sisters and his father Ken. He was educated at Yarlet School in Staffordshire and later Shrewsbury School. He was awarded a third-class degree in education by Homerton College, Cambridge. While he was at Cambridge Hancock was a member of the Footlights, where he first collaborated with Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt, and became President in 1983, with Punt as Vice President.
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Idle attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied English. At Pembroke, he was invited to join the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club by the president of the Footlights Club, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Footlights Club member Bill Oddie. Idle started at Cambridge only a year after future fellow- Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese. He became Footlights President in 1965 and was the first to allow women to join the club.
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He was educated at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hampshire, a place where he claims bullying was "endemic", and later at The King's School, Canterbury. He read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Footlights. He became friends with fellow student Douglas Adams, with whom he later worked and shared a flat. Lloyd is the great nephew of the soldier John Hardress Lloyd.
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Cleese wrote extra material for the 1961 Footlights Revue I Thought I Saw It Move, and was registrar for the Footlights Club during 1962. He was also in the cast of the 1962 Footlights Revue Double Take! Cleese graduated from Cambridge in 1963 with an upper second. Despite his successes on The Frost Report, his father sent him cuttings from The Daily Telegraph offering management jobs in places like Marks & Spencer.
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Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals 1935-1939", Over the Footlights, accessed 12 March 2013 A character actor in many films, often portraying nobility, he had a starring role in the film Seven Days to Noon. He also played Mr. Lundie in the 1954 film adaptation of Brigadoon, and Polonius in the 1953 U.S. television adaptation of Hamlet. He appeared as Claudius in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a sequel to 20th Century Fox's biblical epic, The Robe.
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The Cowards met at Cambridge University's Footlights Dramatic Club where they worked together. Basden, Golaszewski, and Woolf performed in a show directed by Key and Mark Watson. It later emerged that Key was not studying at Cambridge University and that he had misled the society when auditioning. This was discovered when he got into the tour show Far Too Happy but the Footlights agreed to "keep up the charade" until the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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A Taste of Yesterday's Wine is an album by the American country music artists George Jones and Merle Haggard, released in 1982. They are backed by Don Markham and Jimmy Belken of The Strangers. The album includes the song "Silver Eagle", written by Gary Church, also of The Strangers. This was their first album together; their next album together, Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again, did not come until 24 years later in 2006.
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Lina Abarbanell In 1905, Heinrich Conried, manager of the Irving Place Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera House, brought Abarbanell to New York. Her American debut came that October at Irving Place in Fruehlingsluft (Spring Breezes) followed a month later playing Lt. Von Vogel in Jung Heidelberg (Young Heidelberg), a comic opera with music from Carl Millöcker and book by Leopold Krenn and Karl Lindau.Before the Footlights. The New York Daily News November 5, 1905, p.
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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist and comedic actor. He was a leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. Born in Torquay, he was educated at the University of Cambridge. There he became involved with the Footlights Club, of which he later became president.
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His Yale instructor, Ralph Henry Gabriel, wrote the foreword for Connecticut Agricultural College. Stemmons also composed a "dairy play," And Thou, which premiered at UConn in 1932 and was "designed to put across the footlights certain fundamental principles of the dairy industry in Connecticut." It was one of several agriculturally themed plays he composed on behalf of the university. In 1954 he received UConn's Athletic Medallion in recognition of distinguished service to athletics.
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Instead, she sent Sardou the telegram: "I am going to die and my greatest regret is not having created your play. Adieu." A few hours later, Sardou received a second message by Bernhardt which simply stated: "I am not dead, I am married".Ladies of the Footlights, p. 80 When asked later by Sardou why she had wed, she somewhat naïvely responded that it was the only thing she had never done.
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The initial Billboard review from October 12 1963 commented Vaughan was "really swinging on this album", and described it as a "must for Sassy's fans" and that there was "radiation on both sides of the footlights". Scott Yanow on Allmusic.com gave the album four and a half stars out of five and commented that the album was a "gem" that this "wonderful live session" was "one of her very best of the 1960s".
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After attending Eton College, he read for a law degree at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge where he wrote a thesis on the House of Lords. While at Cambridge, he joined the Footlights club. After graduating, he decided to return to acting and enrolled in a London drama school, which led to his touring in a repertory company. He moved to the United States to follow actress Susan Fallender, whom he eventually wed.
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All three Goodies became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964.Footlights! – 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' – Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983. Garden himself was succeeded as Footlights Club president in 1965 by Idle, who had initially become aware of the Footlights when he auditioned for a Pembroke College "smoker" for Brooke-Taylor and Oddie.
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He was born in Ealing on 30 October 1930 and started his education there at Harvington School. He subsequently attended Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read land economy. He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspaper, Varsity. He did national service in Egypt and was called up from the reserves in 1956 to serve again in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
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The reviews called the play "Stirring" (Newsday), "captivating" (The New York Times), "wonderfully funny" (New York Daily News), and a "classic" (Chicago Sun-Times) The Footlights discussion group webpage The play was also the inspiration for an indian movie, from 1990s, directed by Amol Palekar named Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen, which also got wide positive reviews by critics and was incorporated into management studies courses on behavioural sciences in India, due to its grasp on human emotions.
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The son of actor and actress Peter Davey and Anna Wing,Profile, bbc.co.uk; accessed 25 November 2015. Wing-Davey attended Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk before studying English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights between 1967 and 1970.Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Cambridge tripos: results in Economics and English,' The Times, 1 July 1970. He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries The Glittering Prizes.
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Fry wrote the play Latin! or Tobacco and Boys for the 1980 Edinburgh Festival, where it won the Fringe First prize. It had a revival in 2009 at London's Cock Tavern Theatre, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher. Archived at Wayback Engine. The Cellar Tapes, the Footlights Revue of 1981, won the Perrier Comedy Award. In 1984, Fry adapted the hugely successful 1930s musical Me and My Girl for the West End, where it ran for eight years.
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It was directed by Leontine Sagan, with choreography by Ralph Reader. The plot echoed current events in Rumania, where the king was willing to give up his reign to marry a Romany actress, Mme. Lupesco.Ellacott, Vivyan. "London Musicals 1935-1939", Over the Footlights, accessed 12 March 2013 A movie was made of Glamorous Night in 1937, with Barry MacKay taking the role of Anthony Allen, Otto Kruger as King Stephen and Mary Ellis reprising her stage role of Militza.
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Davidson was the elder son of J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson, and Frances, daughter of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson. He was educated at Westminster School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Between 1947 and 1949 he served in the Black Watch and the 5th Battalion of the King's African Rifles before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was known for his thespian talents, being president of the Footlights in 1951.Who's Who 2007.
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He was also a founding member of the Homerton College Blaggards. After graduating Hancock became a PE teacher and practised stand-up comedy as a hobby. He formed a double act with Neil Mullarkey, another former member of the Footlights, and they mostly did satirical spoofs of the title sequences of television shows to accompanying music, several times on television, including on After Ten with Tarbuck in 1988. The shows included Doctor Who, Kojak, and Dad's Army.
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After leaving university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 television in 1974. A version of the Revue performed live in London's West End led to Adams being discovered by Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch called "Patient Abuse".
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O'Dell wrote frequently on the subject of magic. For eight years in the 1940s, she contributed a column titled "Dell-lightfully" for the magicians' magazine The Linking Ring. She also produced a number of books of tricks and performance routines, including Presenting Magical Moments (1939) and On Both Sides of the Footlights (1946), though both books were ghost-written for her. Her "Stamp Album" presentation was published in volume 4 of the Tarbell Course in Magic.
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The film is based on the play, Down Hill, written by its star Ivor Novello and Constance Collier under the combined alias David L'Estrange. The stage performance had a short run in the West End and longer in the provinces. In the play Novello thrilled his female fans by washing his bare legs after the rugby match. An appreciative James Agate, drama critic for the London Sunday Times, wrote "The scent of good honest soap crosses the footlights".
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He had auditioned for the Durham Revue twice but failed to get in and instead frequented the local comedy circuit. After graduating with a first in geophysics, he commenced doctoral studies in seismology at Magdalene College, Cambridge and had a job for an oil company lined up. His interest in comedy prompted him to audition for the Footlights, which he did successfully. Following a performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was contacted by a BBC producer.
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Seats were not numbered and were offered on a "first come, first served" basis, leading many members of the gentry to send servants to reserve seats well ahead of performances. The stage was wide and deep with a raked floor from the footlights to the backdrop. The angle of the rake rose one inch for every of horizontal stage. The stage floor included grooves for wings and flats in addition to trap doors in the floor.
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Orr took the name Monroe Salisbury as his stage name. He appeared behind the footlights with such notables as Richard Mansfield, Eleonora Duse, John Drew, Nance O'Neil, Minnie Maddern Fiske, and Kathryn Kidder. While he was performing in Providence, Rhode Island, in June 1900, Salisbury and his mother were staying in a hotel on Weybosset Street when the U.S. Federal Census was taken.1900 Providence Co., RI, U.S. Federal Census, Providence, Ward 4, 205 Weybosset St., June 5, Enumeration Dist.
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Rehearsals were disorganised and fraught with tension; Bart was drinking; Littlewood threatened to walk out. At a rehearsal, Littlewood accused Bart of failing to fulfill his creative responsibilities because he was too strung-out on LSD.Roper, p. 88 Bart, in turn, accused Littlewood of ruining the piece.Twang, 1965 shows, Over the Footlights, accessed 25 December 2012 A Birmingham tryout was scheduled and cancelled. A Manchester preview opened on 3 November 1965 at the Palace Theatre with a script that was unfinished.
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Pechey as "Valentine" often wrote lyrics in conjunction with composer James W. Tate, including for The Beauty Spot.Gaiety Theatre production of The Beauty Spot (1917)- Over the Footlights pg. 21 Songs written by Tate and Valentine (with F. Clifford Harris) include "A Bachelor Gay" and "A Paradise for Two" (both 1917, from The Maid of the Mountains). Pechey wrote stories, such as "The Adjusters" (1922) and "An Exploit of The Adjusters: The Man Who Scared The Bank" (1929), under the name Valentine.
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From one of its arms hangs the crown of grape leaves Giselle wore as Queen of the Vintage. On the stage, thick weeds and wildflowers (200 bulrushes and 120 branches of flowers) were the undergrowth. The gas jets of the footlights and those overhead suspended in the flies were turned low to create a mood of mystery and terror. Benois' design for Act I at the Paris Opera, 1910 A circular hole was cut into the backdrop and covered with a transparent material.
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From the age of 15, he spent his summers training and performing with the National Youth Theatre in London. Stevens studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Footlights with Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Mark Watson, and was also active in the Marlowe Society. He was first spotted by director Peter Hall at a Marlowe Society production of Macbeth, in which he played the title character alongside Hall's daughter, actress Rebecca Hall.
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Stage Door is a 1936 stage play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman about a group of struggling actresses who room at the Footlights Club, a fictitious theatrical boardinghouse in New York City modeled after the real-life Rehearsal Club. The three-act comedy opened on Broadway on October 22, 1936, at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 169 performances. The play was adapted into the 1937 film of the same name, and was also adapted for television.
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Then came the delirium and the pity of it. Though the last act was enough to agonize the soul of an Egyptian sphinx, it was, artistically speaking, always within bounds." In the third act, as Lulla Rosenfeld describes it in her commentary to Adler's memoir, Kaus "gives way to madness with the wild cry, 'Solomon Kaus now rides his fiery steed!' On this line Adler executed a leap that carried him to the brink, and almost over the brink, of the footlights.
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It was Muriel Bradbrook, Cambridge's first female Professor of English, who persuaded Greer to study Shakespeare; Bradbrook had supervised Barton's PhD. Left to right: Hilary Walston, Germaine Greer and Sheila Buhr, joining the Footlights, Cambridge News, November 1964"Women admitted to make Footlights even brighter", Cambridge News, November 1964. Cambridge was a difficult environment for women. As Christine Wallace notes, one Newnham student described her husband receiving a dinner invitation in 1966 from Christ's College that allowed "Wives in for sherry only".
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After entering the performing arts via the Footlights, Thomas performed with fellow University of Cambridge students at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production of All's Well That Ends Well directed by author Duncan Barrett. After graduating from university, Thomas took to acting professionally, and his parents have accepted and are proud of his choice of career. Thomas is in a double act along with Sweet, and they have performed their show, The Jonny and Joe Show, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Watson was born in Bristol to a Welsh mother and English father. He has younger twin sisters called Emma and Lucy and a brother, Paul. He attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, an independent day school where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the Year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English, graduating with first class honours. At university he was a member of the Footlights and contemporary of Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Dan Stevens.
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He came to the attention of Mavor Moore who recommended Cohen to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where, as a theatre critic, he hosted Across the Footlights, The Theatre Week and CJBC Views the Shows. Cohen received national prominence as host of Fighting Words, an intellectual, but popular panel show on CBC Television from 1953 to 1962. Cohen also worked for CBC Television in the 1950s as a script editor for the anthology series General Motors Presents and continued with CBC Radio conducting interviews on the show Audio.
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Young's comment proved to be correct, for by October and November 1911, foreign newspapers were already reporting positive responses to the screen drama's presentation in select theaters in England, Ireland, Wales, and France; and by February 1912 the "spectacular picture" was being screened as far away from Edison Studios as Bombay (now Mumbai), India."Behind The Footlights / The Battle of Trafalgar", South Wales Sentinel and Labour News (Carmarthenshire), November 10, 1911, p. 1. HathiTrust Digital Library."Pictures At Rotunda", The Irish Times (Dublin), October 17, 1911, p.
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Duchêne started to act at the age of 14. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Cambridge in the 1980s, where she became a member of the Footlights theatre group, writing and performing her own material.Mini Bio at IMDb She also acted with the Cambridge Mummers, appearing in such plays as Measure For Measure (as Isabella) in Cambridge and the Edinburgh Fringe. In the 1980s she joined the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, appearing in the premiere productions of Losing Venice and The White Rose.
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The Majestic, now known as the Athena, opened up in 1915 when the Bethel grocery store was evicted. The movie theater began showing movies that all the stars were in. The theater was such a low price, at 5 cents for a “four reeler movie”, that people would rather go to the theater than spend more money seeing something at an expensive opera house. The theater was getting in all the most popular movies from “Etta of the Footlights” and “A Good Little Devil”.
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Having grown up watching The Young Ones, Blackadder and Only Fools and Horses, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school and began writing parodies. While Webb was in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. At the age of 20, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights. Webb and Mitchell met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.
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Programme cover for The Beauty Spot (1917) by Dolly Tree On 22 December 1917 The Beauty Spot opened at the Gaiety Theatre in LondonThe Beauty Spot (1917) - Broadway World database but this production shared only the title with its American counterpart.Gaiety Theatre production of The Beauty Spot (1917)- Over the Footlights pg. 21 The London version featured Evelyn Laye in an early appearance in a minor role.Brief biography for Evelyn Laye - National Portrait Gallery, London website The Beauty Spot ran at the Gaiety Theatre from 22 December 1917 to 4 May 1918 (152 performances).
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Over the Footlights p. S14 Despite Croft's reputation as an internationally respected director,Sykes, 2004 the NYTGB always struggled against inadequate funding. When asked on Desert Island Discs (in 1977) about his ambition to be a writer, Croft ruefully admitted that the only writing he did by then was in the form of begging letters, pleading letters, or letters attacking the Arts Council. He also said that, by then, the National Youth Theatre had probably put on between 100 and 120 plays, and that applications to join it were running at about 3000 a year.
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As Julian Hawthorne wrote, > Hall was a genuine comedy figure. Such oily and voluble sanctimoniousness > needed no modification to be fitted to appear before the footlights in > satirical drama. He might be called an ingenuous hypocrite, an artless > humbug, a veracious liar, so obviously were the traits indicated innate and > organic in him rather than acquired. Dickens, after all, missed some of the > finer shades of the character; there can be little doubt that Hall was in > his own private contemplation as shining an object of moral perfection as he > portrayed himself before others.
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Bennett was born in Leytonstone, London, and attended The Latymer School in Edmonton, where he was Head Boy and played the title role in Hamlet in his final year. He trained with the National Youth Theatre, appearing in their production of The Master and Margarita at the Lyric Hammersmith. Bennett studied Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian) at Queens' College, Cambridge. Whilst there, he performed with the Footlights and the Marlowe Society and was named in Varsity's 'Talent 100' as "without doubt the most sought-after actor in Cambridge".
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Coward wrote the role of Melanie with Printemps in mind, and as she spoke practically no English, she learned the part phonetically. Her singing of the big romantic number, "I'll follow my secret heart", was the highlight of the show. The Times said of her performance: The Observer said, "The best conversation in this piece is not that which occurs on the stage, but that which flashes over the footlights between the bright eyes of Miss Yvonne Printemps and her fascinated audience.""Conversation Piece", The Observer, 29 April 1934, p.
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After leaving Cambridge, Bathurst spent a year touring Australia in the Footlights Revue Botham, The Musical, which he described as "a bunch of callow youths flying round doing press conferences and chat shows".Selway, Jennifer (28 March 2003). "The Jennifer Selway Interview: Robert Bathurst". The Express (Express Newspapers): pp. 30–31. Although he enjoyed his work with Footlights, he did not continue performing with the group, worrying that he would be "washed up at 35 having coat-tailed on their success through the early part of [his] career".
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He was born in Yorkshire, the son of a general practitioner, and educated at Stonyhurst College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights and appeared in La Vie Cambridgienne (1948), the first Footlights revue televised by the BBC. He was also a member of the Young Writer’s Group founded by Stephen Joseph and succeeded Joseph as editor of Cambridge Writing. His short story A Sense of Value was later reprinted, with a commendation from E. M. Forster, in an anthology of post-war Cambridge writing.
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Oddie wrote original music at Cambridge University for the Footlights and later wrote comic songs for I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. He also wrote a number of comic songs for The Goodies, most of them performed by Oddie. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Oddie released a number of singles and at least one album. One of the former, issued in 1970 on John Peel's Dandelion Records label (Catalogue No: 4786), was "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at", performed in the style of Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from my Friends".
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Later, Booth became a writing partner. He was soon offered work as a writer with BBC Radio, where he worked on several programmes, most notably as a sketch writer for The Dick Emery Show. The success of the Footlights Revue led to the recording of a short series of half-hour radio programmes, called I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which were so popular that the BBC commissioned a regular series with the same title that ran from 1965 to 1974. Cleese returned to Britain and joined the cast.
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From 1972—1979, Mullarkey was educated at Kingston Grammar School, an independent school for boys (now coeducational), in Kingston upon Thames, followed by Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights and was Junior Treasurer during Tony Slattery's term as president. He became president in 1982 with Nick Hancock, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis as his contemporaries. Mullarkey formed Hancock & Mullarkey with Hancock, performing their act (which consisted of spoofing television shows' title sequences to that show's accompanying theme music) several times on television. This included Doctor Who, Kojak, and Dad's Army.
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The three mainland lighting towers, which rise hydraulically from pits in the ground prior to the show, were rebuilt with pull-out slides for the new Clay Paky Alpha Spots and Washes and redesigned for the new Strong Gladiator IV followspots. The footlights on the mainland side at water level were replaced with LED fixtures, as part of Disney's environmental initiative and for improved flexibility. Refurbished pyrotechnic barges were given new technologies derived from Disneyland's Air-Launch Firework (ALF) system. Reworked pyrotechnics emitted less smoke than the previous iteration, reducing pollution and improving visibility of the stage, most notably in the finale.
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Over the footlights website, regarding the Secombe Centre Theatre In 2014 Sutton Council requested bids to take over the running of the theatres, and in January 2015 the bid by the new "Sutton Theatres Trust" was given approval by the council's environment and neighbourhood committee to take over the theatres. In August 2016 the Trust went into administration and the theatre closed permanently. ;Cinema The former Granada Cinema opened in 1934 as the Plaza Theatre in Carshalton Road, where Sutton Park House now stands. The ten-screen Empire Cinema, opened in 1991 opposite the St. Nicholas shopping centre.
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Ranous was a member of the editorial staff of Funk & Wagnalls' new Standard Dictionary, from July, 1911, to September, 1912, where she was entrusted with the work of reading the plate proofs. Then came an interval, which she improved by compiling a cook-book for an Ashfield townsman who had become a publisher in New York. She was the author of The Diary of a Daly Debutante, 1910 (first edition published anonymously), in which she told the story of her life behind the footlights. She wrote book reviews for the Holiday Issue of The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer.
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However, when Maria C. Downs, the owner of the theatre, insisted that the name of her company be changed to the Lincoln Players. Bush's response to the request was, “…[she] moved her company to the Lafayette Theater to open with a sketch entitled Over the Footlights”. Anita Bush and The Lafayette Players The Lafayette Players Stock Company was owned by Anita Bush in the early 1900s. In 1915, she presented the idea of launching a dramatic stock company to Eugene "Frenchy" Elmore, the assistant manager of the Lincoln Theatre, an established vaudeville house in the Harlem section of New York City.
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The theatre and school were completed in 1837.The Pitt Estate in Dean Street: The Royalty Theatre, Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 215-21 accessed: 23 March 2007 Kelley's engineer friend, Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, persuaded her to build into the theatre new machinery that he had invented to move the stage and scenery; theoretically a significant step forward in theatre technology.Ellacott, Vivyan. "An A-Z Encyclopaedia of London Theatres and Music Halls", Over the Footlights, accessed 16 October 2014 It took more than two years to install the machinery in the theatre.
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Ken Cheng, is a British born Chinese (BBC) professional poker player and comedian noted for his YouTube comedy character, Mark Liu, and reaching the final of the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards. Cheng studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge University but dropped out to become a professional poker player. He wrote and performed for the Cambridge Footlights, often known to refer to himself as a 'footlights regular', and he has also taken his stand-up performances to the Edinburgh Festival. Cheng directed The Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles, which toured the UK, Paris and North America.
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Pollitt as Diane de Rougy, mid 1890s. Photograph by Scott & Wilkinson, CambridgeThe name of Pollitt's female alter-ego, Diane de Rougy, was inspired by Liane de Pougy, a vedette at the Folies Bergère who also had a reputation as one of Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesans. Performance wise, however, de Rougy's noted scarf- dancing was more like that of the American dancer Loie Fuller. As the Footlights were largely a masculine establishment, female impersonation was not uncommon, but de Rougy became particularly renowned for her performances and as much a local Cambridge celebrity as Pollitt himself.
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He wrote the lyrics for The Nightbirds (1911; adapted from Die Fledermaus; titled The Merry Countess in the 1912 Broadway production), The Marriage Market (1913) and The Beauty Spot (1917).The Marriage Market at the Guide to Musical Theatre, accessed 8 December 2010Gaiety Theatre production of The Beauty Spot (1917), Over the Footlights, p. 21 He also contributed lyrics for the Broadway production of Chu Chin Chow (1917) and wrote the lyrics to many popular songs. His musical burlesques included The Bill-Poster (1910, with music by Herman Finck), and his comedy plays included John Berkeley's Ghost (1910 with Hartley Carrick).
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A year before Mordaunt Hall would receive a byline as The New York Times' first official film critic, an anonymous reviewer, writing for the paper in October 1923, reported that "Blinn seems to take the same Keen enjoyment in playing the part for the screen as he did before the footlights. His is a lesson for motion picture players, for he is never at a loss for a smirk, a smile, a look of surprise, threatening gestures, or interest in what is going on around him. Blinn's hands and feet appear to suit the very expression of his darkened countenance.""THE SCREEN".
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Parsons was born in Weymouth, Dorset. He attended Parc Eglos Primary School, Helston Comprehensive School in Cornwall and Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Torbay (Devon) before going to Christ's College, Cambridge to study Law, where he met and formed a double act with Henry Naylor which twice toured with the National Student Theatre Company and once with the Footlights. After completing his studies, Parsons got a job working as a legal clerk on a case at the Greenock shipyards, which he describes as "the most tedious thing I'd ever done." With Naylor he established TBA, London's first sketch comedy club.
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In 1934, The Footlights reorganized and took on a new name: Honolulu Community Theatre. In the original mission statement, still honored today, the theatre committed itself to community service through the art of theatre, involving the people of Hawaii as audience members, stage crew and performers. During World War II, Honolulu Community Theatre productions entertained thousands of troops at over 300 performances throughout the Pacific (a tradition they continued with the Pacific tour of Ain't Misbehavin' during the 1990 season). Then, in 1952, Honolulu Community Theatre took up residence in the Fort Ruger Theatre, the Army Post's then movie house.
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Pammal Vijayaranga Sambandha Mudaliar died in 1964. Aside from his theatrical works, Mudaliar left a record of his own life that, according to theatre historian Kathryn Hansen, is a "treasure house of information on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Tamil theatre". These memoirs were originally published weekly in serial form by the nationalist-oriented Tamil newspaper, Swadesamitran, and have since been translated into English, in which form they comprise six volumes and are entitled Over 40 Years Before The Footlights. Their original title, when published in book form in 1938, was Natakametai Ninaivukal (Reminiscences of the Stage).
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His son described him as being "broad- shouldered and deep-chested," with "a big, finely-shaped head, a handsome profile, deep-set, light-brown eyes." Gelb, Barbara. "O'Neill's Father Shaped His Son's Vision", The New York Times, Theater Reviews, April 27, 1986 James had the kind of charm that communicated itself palpably across the footlights, and by the age of 24 he had already established a reputation among theater managers as a box-office draw, particularly with the ladies. But he was also working doggedly at his craft, ridding himself of all vestiges of brogue and learning to pitch his voice resonantly.
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Trentholme House, York, was the family home where Terry was living when he wrote A Fool to Fame Terry was educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he was stage-manager of the Footlights club. While at Cambridge he was editor of The Granta but left in 1906 to take up a position with the Daily Mirror before becoming a dramatic critic for The British Review and The Onlooker, for which he was also the editor. His first play Old Rowley, The King (1908) is believed to have been lost. In September 1908 he became a Freeman of the City of York.
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Ayoade co-wrote the stage show Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight with Matthew Holness, whom he also met at the Footlights, appearing in the show with Holness at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000 where it was nominated for a Perrier Award. The show saw the debut of Holness' character Garth Marenghi, a fictional horror writer, and Ayoade's character Dean Learner, Marenghi's publisher. In 2001, he won the Perrier Comedy Award for co-writing and performing in Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, the sequel to Fright Knight. In 2004, Ayoade and Holness took the Marenghi character to Channel 4, creating the spoof horror comedy series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
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Her plan was to follow up the > first concert with a second, at which the audience consisted of poor school- > children and their parents, to whom she played in her most fascinating > manner, and, at the conclusion of her performance, money, food, and > clothing, purchased with the receipts of the previous concerts, were > distributed. In 1852 she resumed touring in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. Apparently her "improved performance" excited even more interest than before, and from 1853-6 she was in the "zenith of her powers". Once, her skirt caught fire when she walked too close to the footlights during a concert in Aix-la- Chapelle.
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Beside Held, it starred Henry Leoni, Truly Shattuck and Charles A. Bigelow; Gertrude Hoffman, the composer's wife, led the chorus dancers.A Parisian Model, Internet Broadway Database, accessed July 27, 2017"Before the footlights", New York Tribune, November 25, 1906, p. 6 Held's many onstage costume changes, especially in the song "A Gown for Each Hour of the Day", together with her dance with a cross-dressing Gertrude Hoffman and other slinky dancing by Held, Hoffman and the chorus, made the show provocative or "salacious". Held's success in Ziegfeld's shows, especially A Parisian Model, cemented his popularity and led to his series of lavish revues, beginning in 1907, the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Toksvig began her comedy career at Girton, where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Footlights. She was there at the same time as fellow members Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson, and wrote additional material for the Perrier award-winning Footlights Revue. She was also a member of the university's Light Entertainment Society. She started her television career on children's series, presenting No. 73 (1982–1986), the Sandwich Quiz, The Saturday Starship, Motormouth, Gilbert's Fridge, for Television South, and factual programmes such as Island Race and The Talking Show, produced by Open Media for Channel 4.
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He returned to acting, making his London acting début, in 1869, achieving much greater success than in his early attempts, as Sir Simon Simple in his comedy Not Such a Fool as He Looks.Stedman, Jane W. "General Utility: Victorian Author-Actors from Knowles to Pinero", Educational Theatre Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, October 1972, pp. 289–301, The Johns Hopkins University Press He followed this with successful outings as Fitzaltamont in The Prompter's Box: A Story of the Footlights and the Fireside (1870), The Prompter's Box (1870, revived in 1875 and often thereafter, and later renamed The Crushed Tragedian), Captain Craven in Daisy Farm (1871) and Lionel Leveret in Old Soldiers (1873).
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Laura Keene's Variety Theatre, 1856 On December 27, 1855, the actress and manager Laura Keene reopened the theatre as Laura Keene's Varieties with Old Heads and Young Hearts.Brown, pp. 431-2 Here the leading female impresario of New York produced an eclectic form of entertainment which she would perfect in subsequent productions such as the musical Seven Sisters five years later. A rare etching of the interior of the theatre at this time depicts a production by Laura Keene in her theatre; From the point of view of the stage, it depicts what is probably the production of a classical text, with two figures in historical costumes standing downstage close to the footlights.
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Dan Stevens is an actor and literary critic, best known for his role as Matthew Crawley in the popular drama series Downton Abbey. Stevens studied for a degree in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Footlights theatrical club. In addition to his acting career, Stevens is also editor-at-large of the on-line literary journal The Junket, and has a column in The Sunday Telegraph. He revealed that, in order to have time to read all the required books in the allotted time, he had a special pocket sewn into his Downton costume for an e-reader, that would allow him to read in between takes.
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Alan Christopher Warren (born 27 June 1932) was an Anglican priest and author,Amongst others he wrote "Incarnatus for Organ", 1960; "Putting it Across", 1975; and "The Miserable Warren", 1991 > British Library website accessed 15:38 UTC Saturday 23 April 2010 in the second half of the 20th century. He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1957.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 During his time at Cambridge he was a choral scholar and was a violinist and violist in the Footlights and then in the Plymouth and Leicester Symphony orchestras. He later conducted several choirs and composed choral and chamber music.
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Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (17 July 194012 April 2020) was an English actor and comedian. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at the University of Cambridge, and became president of the Footlights, touring internationally with its revue in 1964. Becoming more widely known to the public for his work on BBC Radio with I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, he moved into television with At Last the 1948 Show, working together with old Cambridge friends John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He was best known as a member of The Goodies, starring in the television series throughout the 1970s and picking up international recognition in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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" The Telegraph's Charles Spencer said that The Real Inspector Hound "brilliantly nails the clichés of the reviewer's craft and the bitter jealousies of this grubby profession". Spencer said the play "[sends] up hackneyed thrillers and terrible acting with a winning mixture of sly humour and palpable affection." The Guardian's Michael Billington wrote that "Stoppard pins down perfectly the critical tendency towards lofty pronouncements [...] Stoppard also plays brilliantly on the spectator's secret desire to enter the house of illusion", praising the scene when Birdboot crosses the footlights. The critic joked, "If I weren't so scared of sounding like the pretentious Moon, I'd say Stoppard's play is a minor comic masterpiece about the theatrical process.
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William's success as a film actor led to additional work for him as a director for Universal and to opportunities for Leonora to demonstrate her talents for screenwriting. By 1915 she was developing screenplays for projects in which her husband served as both actor and director. That year she was credited by either her maiden name or her married name, Leonora Dowlan, for writing a variety of shorts for Universal, including Across The Footlights, Their Secret, The Devil and Idle Hands, Dear Little Old Time Girl, The Masked Substitute, The Mayor’s Decision, The Great Fear, and Just Plain Folks."Leonora Ainsworth", filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), a subsidiary of Amazon, Seattle, Washington. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
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The proscenium arch covered the stage equipment above the stage that included a pair of girondels – large wheels holding many candles used to counteract the light from the footlights. Towards the latter part of the 18th century, doors were placed on either side of the stage, and a series of small spikes traced the edge of the stage apron to prevent audiences from climbing onto the stage. At the very back of the stage, a wide door opened to reveal Drury Lane. An added difficulty for Killigrew and his sons Thomas and Charles was the political unrest of 1678–1684 with the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill crisis distracting potential audiences from things theatrical.
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65 (Paperback ed. 2010) It was also an early example of sex exploitation, as music writer David Ewen has noted: "When Milly Cavendish stepped lightly in front of the footlights, wagged a provocative finger at the men in her audience, and sang in her high-pitched baby voice, 'You Naughty, Naughty Men' … the American musical theater and the American popular song both started their long and active careers in sex exploitation." Cavendish had played in British music hall for 15 years under the name Mrs. Lawrence.Gänzl, Kurt. "'The Black Crook: Demystification Part 2", Kurt of Gerolstein, October 8, 2016, accessed June 18, 2018 She died in New York on 23 January 1867(25 January 1867).
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He was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire in 1945. He attended Hallcroft school, then studied Theology at St David's College, Lampeter (1963–1966), and for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Cambridge (1966–67), where he was a member of Fitzwilliam College, and a member of the Footlights Dramatic Club. He completed an MA degree in Philosophy in 1975, and PhD in Arts Education in 1994 at the University of Warwick. He taught at Nottingham High School 1967–1971, and at Coventry College of Education 1972–78, joining the Department of Arts Education (later Institute of Education, and then the Centre for Education Studies) at the University of Warwick in April 1978, becoming Professor of Religions and Education in 1995.
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Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club,Inspired by the real-life Rehearsal Club, according to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies a theatrical boarding house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth, Terry comes from a wealthy Midwest family.
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Robert Marshall's father was a magistrate in Edinburgh, who sent his son to school in St Andrews and afterwards to the University of Edinburgh, where he read Greek, Latin and English literature. His father's death curtailed his studies and he spent some time as the articled pupil of his uncle, a solicitor but he tired of this and chose to enlist in the 71st Highland Light Infantry,"Mr Robert Marshal" (Dec. 3, 1898) Black & White, United Kingdom his brother having graduated from Sandhurst with distinction.Alec Tweedie (1904) Behind the Footlights, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York After three years service in the ranks, he was given a lieutenant's commission in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, at that time stationed in the Bermudas.
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She toured nationally, and to Canada, and frequently headlined variety shows. Reviewers described Adair as "one of those few who have the singular attraction of personality combined with voice and action .. truly a comedienne"; "Diminutive and childlike Miss Adair "puts over" her songs in a fashion that is irresistible"; "an excellent imitator"; "an irresistibly fascinating adorably clever young lady ... [with] the atmosphere about her that gets right over the footlights ... Some call it personality, and others call it pep; but whatever it is, she has it in carload lots." Her songs, which she called "song definitions", were described as "satires of various personages easily recognizable .. clever jabs at certain phases of domestic and social life". During 1919-1920, she appeared in the Shubert Gaieties of 1919.
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As a child, Marshall was primarily brought up by his three maternal aunts, while his parents toured in theatrical productions. During school vacations, however, they took him with them. These early experiences initially gave him a negative view of the theatre: > I used to tour the provinces in England with my mother and father, you know, > when I was a small lad. And I was often tired and cold, there seemed to me > to be so much heartache and poverty and disappointment that the glamour and > applause and tinsel of the theatre escaped me, quite...No, I had no reason > to love the theatre...I spent most of my time trying to forget those tired > faces which the footlights served only to illumine, mockingly.
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Billie Holiday (circa 1947) at the Downbeat club, New York (February 1947) debuted "Strange Fruit" at Café Society in 1939 Billie Holiday sang in Café Society's opening show in 1938 and performed there for the next nine months. Josephson set down certain rules around the performance of Strange Fruit at the club: it would close Holiday's set; the waiters would stop serving just before it; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore. He later said: > I wanted a club where blacks and whites worked together behind the > footlights and sat together out front... here wasn't, so far as I know, a > place like it in New York or in the whole country. Few nightclubs permitted blacks and whites to mix in the audience.
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At least at first he made little impression in New York, where critics described his voice as "pleasant""Music: Opening of the New York Season," The Critic, December 1, 1894 or "tolerable"; The New York Times, in a generally mixed review of the production, indicated the artist "lacks distinction, both vocally and dramatically." "Verdi's 'Aida' at the Opera," The New York Times, November 24, 1984 Perhaps Bensaude was overshadowed by other developments; the Aida soprano Libia Drog was attempting to erase memories of her own unsuccessful New York debut two days earlier in Rossini's William Tell, when she was so stricken by stage fright that she froze onstage and was unable to perform, and the Rhadames, Francesco Tamagno, drew critical reproval for "bawling" his part over the footlights.
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As described in a film magazine, Betty Jordan (Francisco), daughter of a Montana banker, is in the East attending boarding school and falls desperately in love with Burke Randolph (Desmond), a matinee idol, who performs valiant deeds behind the footlights each night in the title role of an old-fashioned melodrama, The Western Knight. She is expelled from school after Burke treats a chaperon rather roughly during an automobile ride. When Betty returns home to Montana, Sheriff Pat McGann (Delmar), who is in love with her, finds a picture she has of Burke in his cowboy suit, and in a fit of jealousy sends copies of it out to the other neighboring sheriffs with the request that Burke be arrested on sight. When his show hits a small western town, Burke is arrested.
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His dissertation was titled "The Spatial Distribution of Elementary Education in 19th-century Wakefield". He also joined the Footlights, where he first met Punt and club president Nick Hancock and the trio collaborated on a number of projects besides the annual revue. In a 2016 interview with ITV's This Morning programme, Dennis said that he was approached by Britain's domestic intelligence service, MI5, whilst at Cambridge University and attended a preliminary interview; however, he eventually decided that he did not want to take the matter any further, particularly due to being told during the interview that the job would require him to "do people over". After graduating with a first (his nickname was "Desk"), Dennis worked for Unilever for six years in the marketing department while performing comedy with Punt at venues including The Comedy Store on the weekends.
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Price in 1995 For the next dozen years, she continued to perform concerts and recitals in the U.S. Her recital programs, arranged by her longtime accompanist David Garvey, usually combined Handel arias or arie antiche, Lieder by Schumann and Leo Marx, an operatic aria or two, followed by French melodies, a group of American art songs by Barber, Ned Rorem, and Lee Hoiby, and spirituals. She liked to end her encores with "This Little Light of Mine", which she said was her mother's favorite spiritual. Over time, Price's voice became darker and heavier, but the upper register held up extraordinarily well and her conviction and sheer delight in singing always spilled over the footlights. On November 19, 1997, she sang a recital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that was her unannounced last.
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Whilst in this post, he also presented (with his daughter, Louisa) the BBC Television series, Let's Go. This was the first British programme to be created specifically for people with a learning disability and ran from 1978 until 1982. Rix found being on the wrong side of the footlights increasingly frustrating and in 1980 he became the Secretary-General of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (shortly to become the Royal Society, later Mencap). He returned to performing and the stage intermittently in later years, playing Shakespeare on BBC Radio, doing a 6-month run in a revival of Dry Rot, directing a play with Cannon and Ball, playing his favourite big band jazz on Radio 2, and touring three one-night- only shows, one with his wife, which explored theatrical history and his own remarkable experiences of life.
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Through booking his band at a number of West End hotels, as well as the May and Commem Balls and various Deb Dances, Bassett had also brought forward Jonathan Miller for the occasional cabaret work (to boost his medical student salary) for what might be called 'a second time', as Jonathan had already made his comic mark while at Cambridge with The Footlights. Bassett knew Miller because Miller's wife had been at the same school (Bedales) as Bassett. Equally, Bassett had also organised a large number of gigs for Alan Bennett, who was at Exeter College, just up the road from Wadham, so much so that Alan had asked him to cut the number down, as he wanted to continue his Post-Graduate studies! In fact,Moore had already appeared on the Fringe in the 1958 Oxford revue.
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Since its founding, the Metropolitan Opera Guild has continuously worked to foster a stimulated and educated community connecting the drama on the stage to the last person in the Family Circle, to the remote member of the radio and HD audience. Community Programs form the bridge across the footlights, bringing audiences nearer to opera, taking people backstage, offering insight and opportunities to explore the arts of opera. The Guild Community Programs include Lecture events, backstage tours, Opera Explorers Workshops, Score Desk seating at the opera, and overseeing the Guild's volunteer corps. Community Programs' vision is to create community, stimulate conversation, and open up opportunities that empower individuals to further explore an underlying shared interest in opera Lectures at the Guild include lecture, master class, seminar and interview events, as well as the Met Talks -group interviews and discussions with cast and artistic crew of an opera production.
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Shaw remarked, > Mr Ben Davies conquers, not without evidence of an occasional internal > struggle, his propensity to bounce out of the stage picture and deliver his > high notes over the footlights in the attitude of irrepressible appeal first > discovered by the inventor of Jack-in-the-box. Being still sufficiently > hearty, good-humoured, and well-filled to totally dispel all the mists of > imagination which arise from his medieval surroundings, he is emphatically > himself, and not Clement Marot; but except in so far as his opportunities > are spoiled in the concerted music by the fact that his part is a baritone > part, and not a tenor one, he sings satisfactorily, and succeeds in > persuading the audience that the Basoche king very likely was much the same > pleasant sort of fellow as Ben Davies.Shaw 1932, ii, 78–79. In 1892 Davies made his Covent Garden debut in Gounod's Faust.
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Billie Holiday (circa 1947) at the Downbeat club, New York (February 1947) debuted "Strange Fruit" at Café Society in 1939 In December 1938, Leon borrowed $6,000 so his brother Barney could open Café Society in a basement room on Sheridan Square, West Village, New York City. Billie Holiday sang in Café Society's opening show in 1938 and performed there for the next nine months. Josephson set down certain rules around the performance of Strange Fruit at the club: it would close Holiday's set; the waiters would stop serving just before it; the room would be in darkness except for a spotlight on Holiday's face; and there would be no encore. Barney Josephson later said: > I wanted a club where blacks and whites worked together behind the > footlights and sat together out front ... There wasn't, so far as I know, a > place like it in New York or in the whole country.
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"One Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously (comic irony), and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a laugh from the audience with almost every line. Peter Cook said that this was one of the most perfect sketches he had acted in, and that it amazed him, later in his career, that he could have created it so young, at the age of 17 or 18. It first appeared in a Pembroke College revue, Something Borrowed, in 1960 (where it was titled Leg Too Few as the show had an alphabetical theme and the sketch appeared under the letter "L") and later the same year in the Footlights revue, Pop Goes Mrs Jessop.
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He first became associated with the theatre as a member of the Footlights Dramatic Society while reading medicine at Caius College, Cambridge. His first professional appearance was at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1920, and went on to appear at almost every London theatre. Among his stage credits for the 1920s are Charlot's Revue (1925) and (1927) (with Beatrice Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence), and Good Morning, Bill (1928), in which his understudy was William Hartnell and, for the 1930s his credits included Paulette, Tell Her the Truth (with Bobby Howes and Alfred Drayton), That's a Pretty Thing, Who's Who, Anything Goes (Palace Theatre, London, 1935), Love and Let Love (with Claire Luce), No Sleep for the Wicked and Under Your Hat (with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge). In 1947, he co-starred with Robertson Hare in the West End comedy, She Wanted a Cream Front Door and appeared in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Court Theatre in 1952.
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A newspaper report published the day before the premiere states that Puccini himself gave Toscanini the suggestion to stop the opera performance at the final notes composed by Puccini: > . > (A few weeks before his death, after having made Toscanini listen to the > opera, Puccini exclaimed: "If I don't succeed in finishing it, at this point > someone will come to the footlights and will say: 'The author composed until > here, and then he died.'" Arturo Toscanini related Puccini's words with > great emotion, and, with the swift agreement of Puccini's family and the > publishers, decided that the evening of the first performance, the opera > would appear as the author left it, with the anguish of being unable to > finish). Two authors believe that the second and subsequent performances of the 1926 La Scala season, which included the Alfano ending, were conducted by Ettore Panizza and Toscanini never conducted the opera again after the first performance.
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The vignette, here vibrantly performed by Andy Blankenbuehler and Lainie Sakakura, is a re- creation of the first sequence Fosse choreographed for film, a scene from the 1953 movie of Kiss Me, Kate, danced by Fosse and Carol Haney. It was a calling card, of sorts, announcing that an audacious new choreographic talent had arrived, and when you watch the film today, Fosse's pas de deux still seems to tear through the celluloid....There are only a few instances in which an infectious rush in the joy of performing gets past the footlights. You feel it in the athletic pride generated by Desmond Richardson's gymnastic Percussion 4 solo in the first act; in Scott Wise's satisfaction in turning tap steps into a personal stairway to heaven in Sing, Sing, Sing, and in, of all things, the salacious, watch-me delight that a young woman named Shannon Lewis draws from a 1970's artifact called I Gotcha, choreographed for Liza Minnelli's 1973 television special.Brantley, Ben, "Theater Review: An Album Of Fosse", The New York Times, January 15, 1999.
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Barder was born in Bristol, the son of Harry and Vivien Barder. He was educated at Sherborne School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights, the Cambridge University Musical Comedy Club, the St Catharine's College Boat Club and the Cambridge University Labour Club (chairman, 1957). Barder did his National Service as 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Royal Tank Regiment, in Hong Kong (1952–1954). He joined the Colonial Office in London in 1957 (Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary, 1960–61). He transferred to the Diplomatic Service in 1965. From 1964-1968 he was First Secretary, UK Mission to the United Nations, dealing with decolonisation. He returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London as Assistant Head of West African Department, including dealing with Biafra (1968–71). He became First Secretary and Press Attaché, Moscow (Soviet Union) (1971–73); and Counsellor and Head of Chancery, British High Commission, Canberra (Australia) (1973–77). In 1977-78 he was a course member at the Canadian National Defence College, Kingston, Ontario.
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Doggart returned to King’s, sharing rooms with his brother Graham Doggart, and enjoying a rebirth of university life: > 1919 was a most exciting time to be in Cambridge. Undergraduates of mixed > ages poured in. A few had gone up in 1913, joining the Forces at the > outbreak of the War… John Maynard Keynes resigned from the Treasury, > violently disapproving of Lloyd George's policies at the Versailles Peace > Conference, and got back to King’s for the May term of 1919… The Fox-trot, > the One-step and the Waltz dominated the dancing world, and the girls of > Girton and Newnham, duly chaperoned in those conventional times, were > ardently courted… There were the Pitt Club, the Hawks, the Footlights and a > host of friends at King’s and in other colleges, and games of rugger. I did > very little solid work, and of course I fell in love. (ibid, 2002) It was in Keynes’ rooms at King's where friend and writer Peter Lucas introduced Jimmy to a secret society known as the Apostles.
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55 and played Mariza opposite Passmore in Baron Trenck at the Strand Theatre (1911). In 1912 she played the title role in a British tour of the musical comedy The Boy Scout with C. Hayden CoffinThe Boy Scout at the Grand Theatre, Leeds (1912) - Leeds Play Bills and in 1915 was Mrs. Pineapple in the first revival of A Chinese Honeymoon at the Prince of Wales Theatre.London Musicals 1915-1919 - Over the Footlights website In July 1911 Marie George was accompanied by Herbert Sparling in a performance at the Palace Pier in Brighton when: > ‘Marie George gives the audience twenty minutes of sparkling fun, and makes > them regret very much the powers that be which prevent her continuing her > part for double that period. She is delightful in her songs, “That’s a > Cinch,” and “Over again.” She is most ably assisted by Mr. Herbert Sparling, > whose make-up as a pianoforte turner and acting throughout is wonderfully > clever.’Brighton & Hove Society, Brighton, Sussex, Thursday, 12 July 1911, > p.
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"The Belle of New York" From 1873, the brothers William and James Francis, who worked for the piano manufacturers and music publishers Chappell & Co., were members of leading London music hall ensemble the Mohawk Minstrels. Harry Hunter (1840–1906), the lead performer and lyricist with rival group the Manhattan Minstrels, joined the Mohawks in 1874. The Francis brothers began printing booklets setting out the words of their songs, to encourage audiences to join in with the choruses."London Theatres", Over the Footlights, p. I-6 In 1877, together with David Day (1850–1929), who had worked for another publishing company, Hopwood and Crew, they set up their own company to publish their songs, including those written by Hunter and others.British Music Hall: An Illustrated History by Richard Anthony Baker, Pen and Sword, 2014, p. 198"Blackface Minstrels in England" by Derek B. Scott, in Rachel Cowgill, Julian Rushton (eds.) Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 273–274"Francis, Day & Hunter", Grove Music Online.
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Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, screenwriter, activist, author and comedian. She is one of Britain's most acclaimed actresses and is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, three BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Born in London to English actor Eric Thompson and Scottish actress Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe. After appearing in several comedy programmes, she came to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work in both series. Her first film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with her husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh. The pair became popular in the British media and co-starred in several films, including Dead Again (1991) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). In 1992, Thompson won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress for the period drama Howards End.
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The Cambridge Arts Theatre was home to the Cambridge Theatre Company (established in 1969), which became one of the most respected and influential touring companies in the UK. Formed as a sister company to Toby Robertson's Prospect Theatre Company and Ian McKellen's Actors' Company (presented as part of CTC),The Actors' Company. McKellen.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016. the Cambridge Theatre Company enjoyed enormous loyalty in its home town, and many excellent emerging actors were featured in its wide repertoire. Under Jonathan Lynn (1976–1981) many of the company's productions transferred to the West End. Lynn, a 1963 Cambridge graduate along with John Cleese and others in the Footlights, used his many contacts to build up a successful repertoire of quality drama. He commissioned plays from Frederic Raphael (After the Greek) and Royce Ryton (The Unvarnished Truth with Tim Brooke Taylor and Graeme Garden), and his production of Songbook, a spoof musical by Julian More and Monty Norman, transferred to London in 1978. Like the Prospect Theatre Company and the Actors' Company, CTC initially operated a repertory system of a company of around 14 actors. For example, the 1974 six- play season featured Zoë Wanamaker, Oliver Ford Davies, Roger Rees and Ian Charleson.
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