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The Theatre Royal in Windsor The Theatre Royal is an Edwardian theatre on Thames Street in Windsor in Berkshire . The present building is the second theatre to stand on this site and opened on 13 December 1910.
The Geisha was a popular Edwardian musical comedy. Edwardian musical comedy is a genre of British musical theatre that thrived from 1892 into the 1920s, extending beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions.
The theatre opened with a civic gala evening on 19 November 1904 [4] and a full variety programme commenced the following Monday. In 1932, it was converted to a temporary cinema, [ 5 ] the auditorium and front-of-house area were gutted and the circle, gallery and boxes replaced by a 600-seat cantilevered circle.
The Geisha, a story of a tea house is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts. The score was composed by Sidney Jones to a libretto by Owen Hall, with lyrics by Harry Greenbank. Additional songs were written by Lionel Monckton and James Philp. The Geisha opened in 1896 at Daly's Theatre in London's West End, produced by George Edwardes. The ...
Percy Anderson (22 March 1851 – 30 October 1928) was an English stage designer and painter, best known for his work for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company at His Majesty's Theatre and Edwardian musical comedies.
Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions.
The Capitol Theatre is a historic theatre in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Opened on December 30, 1920, by the Loew Theater Company owned by Marcus Loew at a cost of approximately CA$ 600,000 . Designed by Toronto architect Thomas White Lamb , it was the largest single floor theatre in Canada at the time, with 1,995 seats.
In the United Kingdom, the Edwardian era was a period in the early 20th century that spanned the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910. It is commonly extended to the start of the First World War in 1914, during the early reign of King George V .