a photo of tom taylor lewis carroll
the 1850s more successful decade theatre. dion boucicault s broken vow staged in 1851, planché began writing olympic again, , john maddison morton wrote many plays house. other playwrights featured @ olympic in 1850s robert b. brough, francis burnand, john stirling coyne, john oxenford, mrs alfred phillips, john palgrave simpson, tom taylor, , montagu williams. theatre managed actor-manager alfred wigan 1853 1857. staples of repertoire in 1850s , 1860s continued comedies, many featuring great actor , comedian frederick robson. notable exception tom taylor s celebrated 1863 social melodrama, ticket-of-leave man, based on french dramatic tale, le retour de melun. starred henry neville, went on play in on 2000 performances of work. nellie farren spent 2 productive years @ theatre in career.
drawing of scene princess, 1870
in 1863, theatre closed extensive alterations , improvements c. j. phipps, later architect of savoy theatre (1881), lyric theatre, shaftesbury avenue (1888), majesty s theatre (1897) , many others. capacity of theatre @ time 889. olympic reopened performances of girl left behind me , hidden hand , wife s bonnet in november 1864. burnand s contributions in 1860s included fair rosamond – maze, maid, , monarch; deerfoot; robin hood – or, forrester s fate!; cupid , psyche – or, beautiful butterfly; acis , galatæa – or, nimble nymph , terrible troglodyte! , king of merrows – or, prince , piper. morton s plays included ticklish times; husband order; regular fix!; , gotobed tom!. in 1870, w. s. gilbert became of theatre s notable authors, producing princess. later gilbert plays @ olympic ne er-do-weel (1878) , gretchen (1879).
henry neville managed theatre 1873 1879. 1870s saw staging of wilkie collins s dramatisations of own novels, woman in white , moonstone; , charles collette in own one-act musical farce striking title, cryptoconchoidsyphonostomata, or while s had! (1875), had opened trial jury earlier year @ royalty theatre. olympic of period described edward walford, in book old , new london (1897), having shown principally melodramas of superior kind. time time, operas , operettas presented, including quite adventure, , claude duval or love , larceny edward solomon , henry pottinger stephens, , rival production of h.m.s. pinafore mounted in 1879 richard d oyly carte s erstwhile partners.
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