Theatre royal drury lane...On monday, Jan. 25th, 1858, and During the Week, Her Majesty's Servants will perfomed the Comic Drama, in Two Acts, entitle his first champagne... After which will be produced...little jack horner or, harlequin a. b. c., and the enchanted regions of nursery rhymes!...
[London].
Printed by J. W. Peel, [1858].
Dimensions 500 x 510 mm.
Single leaf broadside. numerous old horizontal and vertical folds. A trifle creased and browned.
An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane of William Leman Rede's (1803-1847) two-act farce His First Champagne and Edward L. Blanchard's (1820-1889) comic pantomime Little Jack Horner or, Harlequin A. B. C., and the Enchanted Regions of Nursery Rhymes!
The bill rather verbosely described the pantomime as 'Allegorical, Beautiful, Comical, Diverting, Educational, Fanciful, Gorgeous, Hyperbolical, Intellectual, Jovial, Keen, Laughable, Merry, Novel, Original, Peculiar, Quizzical, Romantic, Splendid, Transcendent, Unobjectionable, Volatile, Waggish, Extravagant, Youthful, and Zigzaggy'.
In the pantomime, an entreaty to literacy and knowledge, Intelligence sends Proverb to help Jack Horner with his studies, Jack fends off Ignorance with the Sword of Perseverance, and sent to a 'Fairy Aquarium' with a coral palace to see what can be achieved by Imagination.
The spectacular visual scenery provided by William Beverley, in particular the 'Fairy Aquarium', was universally praised; indeed even the The Times, who dismissed Blanchard's efforts stating that 'People do not expect to be edified and instructed at a pantomime' were effusive in their praise: 'As its wonders gradually revealed themselves, and the circumambient air, no less than terra firma, became peopled with floating nymphs and soaring fairies, the applause was vociferous and continuous, and a summons first for Mr E. T. Smith, the manager, and next for Mr Beverley, the artist presented the climax of excitement'.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 25652
The bill rather verbosely described the pantomime as 'Allegorical, Beautiful, Comical, Diverting, Educational, Fanciful, Gorgeous, Hyperbolical, Intellectual, Jovial, Keen, Laughable, Merry, Novel, Original, Peculiar, Quizzical, Romantic, Splendid, Transcendent, Unobjectionable, Volatile, Waggish, Extravagant, Youthful, and Zigzaggy'.
In the pantomime, an entreaty to literacy and knowledge, Intelligence sends Proverb to help Jack Horner with his studies, Jack fends off Ignorance with the Sword of Perseverance, and sent to a 'Fairy Aquarium' with a coral palace to see what can be achieved by Imagination.
The spectacular visual scenery provided by William Beverley, in particular the 'Fairy Aquarium', was universally praised; indeed even the The Times, who dismissed Blanchard's efforts stating that 'People do not expect to be edified and instructed at a pantomime' were effusive in their praise: 'As its wonders gradually revealed themselves, and the circumambient air, no less than terra firma, became peopled with floating nymphs and soaring fairies, the applause was vociferous and continuous, and a summons first for Mr E. T. Smith, the manager, and next for Mr Beverley, the artist presented the climax of excitement'.
