Jack House in Glasgow - between the 1920's and the 1930's
from Music Hall Memories, pages 101-102:
The King’s was a fine theatre.... It was there that I was introduced to the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan. I had an aunt who was a school teacher and every time I mentioned a show I’d seen, she would say, ‘Ah, but have you ever seen The Mikado?’ I was sixteen at the time and you know what you’re like when you’re sixteen....
I determined that wild horses wouldn’t drag me to see The Mikado, but my Aunt Annie did. She arranged a party of four and announced that she would pay for the seats...
...The orchestra tuned up, the auditorium lights went … more >>
cite as
Jack House, Music Hall Memories (Glasgow, 1986), p. 101-102. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1409323885422 accessed: 5 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
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Ruddigore
written by Arthur Sullivan |
performed by D'Oyly Carte Company |
Mikado
written by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert |
performed by Bertha Lewis, D'Oyly Carte Company, Darrell Fancourt, Henry Lytton, Leo Sheffield |
The Sorcerer
written by Arthur Sullivan |
performed by D'Oyly Carte Company |
Utopia Limited
written by Arthur Sullivan |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between the 1920's and the 1930's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:51:25 +0100