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My calendar, The London Stage 1960–1980: A Calendar of Dramatic Productions, Performers, and Personnel, is now available. It runs to 1,600 pages and lists over 10,400 productions. The following extract from the introduction should give readers some idea of what’s in the calendar:
As the title of this work indicates, the calendar focuses on dramatic works, essentially plays, but includes musical plays, musicals, revues, and some pieces that generically are indeterminate. Generally I have omitted operas, ballets, mime, puppet shows, improvisations, variety shows, music-hall productions, rehearsed readings, outdoor shows (for example at Covent Garden Market); however, and perhaps capriciously, I have not hesitated to include some such items of particular interest.
For each production at the theatres selected, I have attempted to provide the following information: title of production, genre, number of acts, author, theatre, date of performance, date of first performance if earlier, sources for cast details, performers, production personnel, and references to reviews (generally for the first night, although additional references are occasionally included). I have included only productions of entire works to which the fee-paying public was admitted. Generally, amateur and private performances are omitted, although I have made exceptions for the amateur productions at the Questors and the Tower, Canonbury, because of those theatres’ longevity, their high standards, and the significance of many of their productions which rivaled the professional stage. Wherever possible I include references to sources where a description of the plot may be found. The comment section may include the name of the production company, the reactions of theatre critics, interesting information about the production, a plot description (where a published source has not been located), the first-night reception by the audience, noteworthy performances and/or staging, when the work was first produced in New York, and the like.
The following sample production, with a point-by-point explanation, should make clear what readers can expect to find in the calendar: [a] 69.284 [b] The National Health, or Nurse Norton’s Affair [c] (C, 2a) [d] Peter Nichols. [e] OLD VIC [f] 14/10/69.* 126 perf. [g] Cast: NTA; Stage 23/10/69, 17; Theatricalia; Variety 29/10/69, 70; WWT/15. Rees Gerald James/David Ryall; Tyler Patrick Carter; Ash Robert Lang; Foster Bernard Gallagher; Ken John Nightingale; Flagg Harry Lomax; Loach Charles Kay; Mackie Brian Oulton/Kenneth Mackintosh; Matron Mary Griffiths; Sister McPhee Maggie Riley; Staff Nurse Norton Cleo Sylvestre; Nurse Sweet Anna Carteret; Nurse Lake Isabelle Lucas; Nurse Helen Fleming/Elizabeth Adair; Barnet Jim Dale; Michael John Flint; Prince John Hamilton; Mr. Boyd Paul Curran; Neil Robert Walker; Dr. Bird Gillian Barge; Indian Student Malcolm Reid; Old Woman Gabrielle Laye; Chaplain George Brown; Theatre Staff, Other Visitors, etc. Tom Baker, Frederick Bennett, Jean Boht, Michael Edgar, Roger Forbes, Michael Harding, Norma Streader. Dir Michael Blakemore; Dgn Patrick Robertson; Light Robert Bryan; Mus Marc Wilkinson; Ch Claude Chagrin: Cakewalk Malcolm Goddard; Sm John Rothenberg; Dsm Richard Mangan. [h] Plot: Demastes/2, Fletcher, Hischak/2, 77, Hochman, Law, Salem, Vinson, Weintraub. [i] Reviews: Birmingham Post 17/10/69, 9; Daily Mirror 17/10/69, 20; Guardian 17/10/69, 10; Illustrated London News 1/11/69, 30; New Statesman 24/10/69, 588; Observer 19/10/69, 32; Spectator 25/10/69, 554; Stage 23/10/69, 17, 20/1/72, 15; Times 17/10/69, 15, 20/1/71, 12; Tribune 24/10/69, 11; Variety 29/10/69, 70. [j] Comment: MPS 149. National Theatre. Press night was 16/10; apparently there were no previews. Tribune was troubled by the numerous overlapping styles and the attempt to generate comedy out of human pain. “Not a play but an extravaganza: a documentary revue … mocking our attitudes to the healing arts by juxtaposing parody with reality” (Observer). Spectator praised the performances of Charles Kay and Bernard Gallagher. Nichols has produced “another offbeat entry of brilliance and importance, superbly produced,” although it is rather long and “certainly not for the squeamish” (Variety). Times (17/10) praised Nichols as the only British dramatist capable of portraying “modern Britain on stage” and then sending “the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race.” Illustrated London News dubbed it the year’s best play and praised the entire cast. In 1971 Times (20/1) complained about the withdrawal of the production from the National’s repertoire while “generally acknowledged duds are being held over well into the next booking period.” The production stayed in repertory until 18/3/72. See also Lloyd Evans, 164–68. The first New York production was at the Circle in the Square Uptown 10/10/74.
[a]. Productions are arranged chronologically; when more than one play was produced on the same day, productions are arranged alphabetically by title. 69.284 indicates that this was the 284th production in 1969. This entry number is used to index the title, author, theatre, and company. In the indexes the entry numbers have been abbreviated in order to save space. Thus, for example, a work performed four times in 1969 with the entry numbers 69.1, 69.5, 69.108, 69.284 would appear in the indexes as 69–1, 5, 108, 284. Double-bills are grouped together alphabetically under the same production number and differentiated by the addition of an “a” and “b”: see, for example, 72.458a After Magritte and 72.458b The Real Inspector Hound. Similarly, items in triple or more bills receive a terminal a, b, c, d, etc.; see for example the quintuple bill 64.217a–217e, or the eightfold 69.90a–69.90h. A late or corrected entry in the calendar is denoted by the addition of a decimal number: see 67.48.2 and 79.463.2.
[b]. The title of the work. Occasionally (for example, with foreign language items) alternative titles may also be provided in brackets [. . .].
[c]. The genre of the work and the number of acts, scenes, or other divisions; here, a comedy in two acts.
[d]. The author(s). Details of adaptation, translation, indebtedness to another work (where appropriate) are provided immediately after the author.
[e]. The theatre where the production was performed. When a play transferred to another theatre during the course of the same production, this information is also given. All theatres are in London unless indicated otherwise.
[f]. The date of the official opening night together with the number of performances (the latter is given only if I have located a reliable source for that number). Note: the date format used throughout the calendar is day/month/year; all dates refer to the twentieth century unless specified otherwise. A first production in 1960–1980 (as here) is denoted by an asterisk *; otherwise I provide the date of the first production when known. Double asterisks ** denote the revival of a play for which the first production details have been given earlier in this calendar. I also indicate when a performance might be the first performance in London if I have reason to suspect an earlier performance in, for example, the British provinces or the USA. The date of the production may be modified with the addition of (Ln), (m), or (Lt) which indicate a lunchtime, matinée, or late-night performance respectively. A production which I have been unable to date exactly is placed at the beginning of the month and/or year in which it occurred.
[g]. These are sources, printed and online, where performers and some production personnel may be found, followed by the performers and personnel when available.
[h]. These are sources where a description of the plot may be found; the list of references is to be found on pp. xvii–xxii.
[i]. A bibliography of first-night reviews (occasionally with additional reviews). A representative (though by no means exhaustive) sample of daily, weekly, and monthly reviews is provided. William T. Stanley’s Broadway in the West End: An Index of Reviews of American Theatre in London, 1950–1975 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1978) provides a bibliography of reviews of Broadway plays performed in London during that period.
[j]. Comment: Information relating to some aspect of the production in question. In this instance, the comment section includes: 1) MPS 149: The number of the playscript of this production in the Modern Playscripts Collection: playscripts submitted under Section 11 of the Theatres Act of 1968, which stated that a copy of any new and hitherto unpublished play performed in public in Great Britain should be delivered to the British Library. Use the MPS number to locate a play in the British Library catalogue: https://tinyurl.com/3azs3e6a. Apparently compliance with this requirement was low; 2) National Theatre. The producing organization for the piece, here the National which moved later to the South Bank; 3) Press night. During the period under consideration, there was growing usage of previews (paid or unpaid), an official opening night, and a press night which sometimes coincided with the official opening night but could be any later date (presumably to give a production time to “run in”). Occasionally a review might be the result of the critic attending a rehearsal; 4) The reviewers’ comments are typical, representative and generally selected to convey the overall tenor of each review; 5) Detail about the duration of a production performed in repertory; 6) A source/reference for further information about the production; here a collection of excerpts from theatre critics; 7) Details of the first New York production where applicable. It is worth noting that there was considerable transatlantic traffic of productions in both directions during this period.
In addition to the calendar itself there are three indexes: title, author and company, and theatre. The author index includes dramatists, librettists, lyricists, composers, novelists, writers, translators and the like; also included are numerous producing companies, many of which functioned in a collaborative, authorial fashion particularly at fringe venues.
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ABBENSETTS, Michael (1938–2016) ABERCROMBIE, Ian (1936–2012) ABSE, Dannie (1923–2014) ADAIR, Hazel (1920–2015) ADAM, Theo (1926–2019) ADAMS, Julie (1926–2019) ADLER, Richard (1921–2012) AIELLO, Danny (1933–2019) AINSLEY, Paul (1945–2013) ALBANESE, Licia (1913–2014) ALBEE, Edward [Franklin] (1928–2016) ALBERTAZZI, Giorgio (1923/25–2016) ALBRECHT, Gerd (1935–2014) ALEXANDER, Cris (1920–2012) ALLAN, Jed (1938–2019) ALLEN, Billie (1925–2015) ALLMAN, Robert (1927–2013) ALONSO, Fernando (1914–2013) ALONSO, Alicia (1921–2019) ANDERSON, Rona (1928–2013) ANDERSSON, Bibi (1935–2019) ANGELOU, Maya [Marguerite Johnson] (1928–2014) ANSPACH, Susan (1939?/42?–2018) ANTES, Jerry (1927–2019) ANTHONY, Charles (1929–2012) APTED, Michael (1941–2021) ARBUS, Allan (1918–2013) ARMSTRONG, R.G. (1917–2012) ARQUETTE, Alexis (1969–2016) ARTHUR, Carol (1935–2020) ASHERSON, Renée (1915–2014) ASNER, Edward (1929–2021) ATKINSON, Barbara (1926–2015) ATTENBOROUGH, Sir Richard (1923–2014) AUBERJONOIS, René (1940–2019) AVERY, James (1948–2013) AVIAN, Bob (1937–2021) AYRTON, Norman (1924–2017) AZNAVOUR, Charles (1924–2018) BABILÉE, Jean [né Guttman] (1923–2014) BACALL, Lauren [Betty Joan Perske] (1924–2014) BACQUIER, Gabriel (1924–2020) BAILEY, Norman (1933–2021) BAIN, Conrad (1923–2013) BAKER, Mark (1946–2018) BANES, Lisa (1955–2021) BARABÁS, Sári (1914/18–2012) BARAKA, Amiri [né Everett Leroy Jones; LeRoi Jones] (1934–2014) BARNES, Billy (1927–2012) BARTOLETTI, Bruno (1926–2013) BARTON, John (1928–2018) BATE, Anthony (1927–2012) BAYLER, Terence (1930–2016) BEACH, Gary (1947–2018) BEACH, Ann (1938–2017) BEAN, Orson (1928–2020) BEATTY, Ned (1937–2021) BEDFORD, Steuart (1939–2021) BEDFORD, Brian (1935–2016) BELCOURT, Emile (1926–2017) BENESH, Joan Dorothy [née Rothwell] (1920–2014) BENNETT, Hywel (1944–2017) BENNETT, Richard Rodney (1936–2012) BENTLEY, Eric (1916–2020) BERGEN, Polly (1930–2014) BERGONZI, Carlo (1924–2014) BERLIND, Roger (1930–2020) BERLINGER, Warren (1937–2020) BERMAN, Shelley (1925–2017) BERNARD, Kenneth (1930–2020) BERNHARDT, Melvin (1931–2015) BERRY, Cicely (1926–2018) BEST, James (1926–2015) BEVAN, Donald (1920–2013) BEWES, Rodney (1937–2017) BIKEL, Theodore (1924–2015) BINKLEY, Howell (d 2020 [64]) BLACKHAM, Joyce (1934–2018) BLACKMAN, Honor (1925–2020) BLAIR, Lionel [né Ogus] (1928–2021) BLOOM, Verna (1938–2019) BLUM, Mark (1950–2020) BOGDANOV, Michael (1938–2017) BOLOGNA, Joseph (1934–2017) BOND, Sheila (1928–2017) BONNER, Frank (1942–2021) BOOTHE, Powers (1948–2017) BORGNINE, Ernest (1917–2012) BORKH, Inge (1917–2018) BOSCO, Philip (1930–2018) BOULEZ, Pierre (1925–2016) BOWEN, John (1924–2019) BOWIE, David (1947–2016) BOYLE, Katie (1926–2018) BRADY, Terence (1939–2016) BRAMBLE, Mark (1950–2019) BREAUX, Marc (1925–2013) BRECKNOCK, John (1937–2017) BRENNAN, Eileen (1932–2013) BREUER, Lee (1937–2021) BRICUSSE, Leslie (1931–2021) BRIERS, Richard (1934–2013) BRIGHTON, Pam (1946–2015) BRITTON, Tony (1924–2019) BROOK, Faith (1922–2012) BROOKES, Jacqueline (1930–2013) BROWN, John Russell (1923–2015) BROWN, Trisha (1936–2017) BROWN, William F. (1928–2019) BRYAN, Dora [née Broadbent] (1924–2014) BUCH, René Augusto (1925–2020) BUCKMAN, Jennifer (1940–2019) BULLINS, Ed (1935–2021) BULLOCH, Jeremy (1945–2020) BURKHARDT, Gerry (1946–2017) BUTTON, Jeanne (1930–2017) BYRD, Thomas Jefferson (1941?–2020) BYRNE, Patsy (1933–2014) BYRNE, Peter (1928–2018) CABALLÉ, Montserrat (1933–2018) CAESAR, Sid (1922–2014) CAFFREY, Sean (1940–2013) CALDWELL, Zoë (1933–2020) CAMPANELLA, Joseph (1927–2018) CANARY, David H. (1938–2015) CAPOBIANCO, Tito (1931–2018) CAREY, Harry, Jr (1921–2012) CARLOS, Laurie (d 2016 [67]) CARLTON, Bob (1950–2018) CARNE, Judy (1939–2015) CARROLL, Diahann [née Carol Diahann Johnson] (1935–2019) CARROLL, Helena (1928–2013) CARROLL, Janet (1940–2012) CARSON, John (1927–2016) CARTER, Myra (1930–2016) CARTER, Elliott (1908–2012) CARTER, Steve Horace (1929–2020) CARTER, Jack (1922/23–2015) CARVER, Brent (1951–2020) CATHEY, Reg E. (1958–2018) CAVANAUGH, Christine (1963–2014) CERQUETTI, Anita (1931–2014) CHAMBERS, Emma (1964–2018) CHAMPION, Marge [née Marjorie Celeste Belcher] (1919–2020) CHANNING, Carol (1921–2019) CHARNIN, Martin (1934–2019) CHARRAT, Janine (1924–2017) CHASEN, Heather (1927–2020) CHATER, Geoffrey [né Robinson] (1921–2021) CHAUVIRÉ, Yvette (1917–2016) CHETWYN, Robert [né Suckling] (1933–2015) CHISHOLM, Anthony (1943–2020) CHOUTEAU, Yvonne (1929–2016) CIMINO, Leonardo (1917–2012) CLARK, Brian (1932–2021) CLARKE, Mary (1923–2015) CLAYTON, Lawrence (1956–2020) COE, George (1929–2015) COHAN, Robert (1925–2021) COHEN, Lynn (d 2020 [86]) COLE, George (1925–2015) COLE, Natalie (1950–2015) COLE, Olivia (1942–2018) COLLINGS, David (1940–2020) COLLINS, Gary (1938–2012) COLLINS, Pat (1932–2021) COLSON, Kevin (1938–2018) CONNELL, Elizabeth (1946–2012) CONNERY, Sean (1930–2020) CONNORS, Mike (1925–2017) CONRAD, Robert (1935–2020) CONVILLE, David (1929–2018) CONWAY, Kevin Bryan (1942–2020) COOK, Barbara (1927–2017) CORNWELL, Charlotte (1949–2021) CORRI, Adrienne (1930–2016) CORSARO, Frank (1924–2017) COWLES, Matthew (1944–2014) CRAGUN, Richard Allan (1944–2012) CRAZE, Tony (1944–2016) CREGAN, David (1931–2015) CROSS, Ben (1947–2020) CRUTCHLEY, Kate (d 2013 [69]) CUKA, Frances (1936–2020) CUMMINS, Peggy (1925–2017) CURRY, Julian (1937–2020) CURTIN, Phyllis (1921–2016) D’AMBOISE, Jacques (1934–2021) DANIELS, Danny (1924–2017) DANTZIG, Rudi van (1933–2012) DARIUS, Adam (1930–2017) DARLING, Jean [née Dorothy Jean LeVake] (1922–2015) DARRIEUX, Danielle (1917–2017) DAVALOS, Richard (1930–2016) DAVENPORT, Nigel (1928–2013) DAVID, Hal (1921–2012) DAVIES, Peter Maxwell (1934–2016) DAVIES, Howard (1945–2016) DAVIS, Ann B. (1926–2014) DAVIS, Garry (1921–2013) DAVIS, Nancy [Mrs. Ronald Reagan] (1921–2016) DAVIS, Sir Colin (1927–2013) DE HAVILLAND, Olivia (1916–2020) DEBUSKEY, Merle (1923–2018) DEE, Ruby [née Ruby Ann Wallace] (1922–2014) DELLA CASA, Lisa (1919–2012) DENKER, Henry (1912–2012) DENNEHY, Brian (1938–2020) DEUTEKOM, Cristina (1931–2014) DILLER, Phyllis (1917–2012) DILLMAN, Bradford (1930–2018) DOBBS, Mattiwilda (1925–2015) DOBSON, Kevin (1943–2020) DOCHERTY, Peter (1944–2020) DODD, Ken (1927–2018) DOMINGUEZ, Oralia (1925–2013) DONAT, Peter (1928–2018) DONCASTER, Stephen (d 2018 [98]) DONEN, Stanley (1924–2019) DONLAN, Yolande (1920–2014) DONLEAVY, J.P. (1926–2017) DOSSOR, Alan (1941–2016) DOTRICE, Roy (1923–2017) DOUGLAS, Kirk [né Issure Danielovitch] (1916–2020) DOWLING, Vincent (1929–2013) DREW, David (1938–2015) DRURY, Alan (1949–2019) DRURY, James (1934–2020) DUKAKIS, Olympia (1931–2021) DUNHAM, Joanna (1936–2014) DURNING, Charles (1923–2012) DUVAL, Denise (1921–2016) DVORÁKOVÁ, Ludmilla (1923–2015) DYSART, Richard A. (1929–2015) EASTON, Richard (1933–2019) EDA-PIERRE, Christiane (1932–2020) EGGERTH, Marta (1912–2013) ELGAR, Avril [née Williams] (1932–2021) ELIAS, Rosalind (1929–2020) ELLIOTT, Bob [of Bob and Ray] (1923–2016) ELMORE, Steve (1936–2017) ELVIN, Violetta (1925–2021) ELYOT, Kevin (1951–2014) ENGEL, Georgia (1948–2019) EPSTEIN, Alvin (1925–2018) EVANS, Harvey (1941–2021) FABRAY, Nanette (1920–2018) FARENTINO, James (1938–2012) FARINA, Dennis (1944–2013) FARMER, Peter (1941–2017) FARRON, Julia (1922–2019) FEIST, Gene (1923–2014) FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence (1919–2021) FERRÁ, Max (1937–2017) FICHANDLER, Zelda [née Diamond] (1924–2016) FIELDING, Fenella (1934–2018) FINKEL, Fyvush (1922–2016) FINLAY, Frank (1926–2016) FINNEY, Albert (1936–2019) FISCHER-DIESKAU, Dietrich (1925–2012) FISHER, Carrie (1956–2016) American actress FLEMING, Rhonda (1922–2020) FO, Dario (1926–2016) FONDA, Peter (1939–2019) FONTAINE, Joan (1917–2013) FORBES, Elizabeth (1924–2014) FORBES, Bryan [né Clarke] (1926–2013) FORDIN, Hugh G. (1935–2019) FORSTER, Robert (1941–2019) FORSYTH, Bruce (Sir) [né Bruce Forsyth Johnson] (1928–2017) FOSTER, Paul (1931–2021) FOSTER, Paul (1931–2021) FOWLDS, Derek (1937–2020) FOX, Bernard M. (1927–2016) FRACCI, Carla (1936–2021) FRANKLIN, Bonnie (1944–2013) FRANKLIN, Frederic (1914–2013) FRASER, John (1931–2020) FREEDMAN, Gerald (1927–2020) FREEMAN, Al, Jr (1934–2012) FRELICH, Phyllis (1944–2014) FRENI, Mirella (1935–2020) FRID, Jonathan (1924–2012) FRIEL, Brian (1929–2015) FRISBY, Terence [“Terence Holland”] (1932–2020) FROST, David (1939–2013) FURR, Teri (1965–2019) FURST, Stephen (1955–2017) GABOR, Zsa Zsa (1917–2016) GAM, Rita (1927/28–2016) GANDOLFINI, James (1961–2013) GARFIELD, Allen (1939–2020) GARLAND, Patrick (1936–2013) GARNER, James (1928–2014) GARSON, Willie (1964–2021) GASKILL, William (1930–2016) GAVIN, John (1931/1935–2018) GAYNES, George [George Jongeyans] (1917–2016) GAZZARA, Ben (1930–2012) GEDDA, Nicolai (1925–2017) GEIDT, Jeremy (1930–2013) GELB, Arthur (1924–2014) GELIOT, Michael (1933–2012) GEORGE, Collin (1929–2016) GIBSON, Virginia (1925–2013) GILMORE, Peter (1931–2013) GIMBEL, Norman (1927–2018) GIORDANI, Marcello (1963–2019) GLASS, Ron (1945–2016) GLINES, John (1933–2018) GLOWACKI, Janusz (1938–2017) GOLD, Jack (1930–2015) GOLDMAN, William (1931–2018) GOODWIN, John (1921–2018) GORR, Rita (1926–2012) GOTTFRIED, Martin (1933–2014) GRADY, Don (1944–2012) GRANT, Clifford (1930–2021) GRANT, Micki (1941–2021) GRANTHAM, Leslie (1947–2018) GRASS, Günter (1927–2015) GRAY, Kevin (1958–2013) GRAY, Elspet [Baroness Rix] (1929–2013) GREGORY, Don (1934–2015) GRIFFIN, Hayden (1943–2013) GRIFFITH, Andy (1926–2012) GRIFFITHS, Richard (1947–2013) GRIMES, Tammy (1934–2016) GRODIN, Charles (1935–2021) GROSBARD, Ulu (1929–2012) GROUT, James David (1927–2012) GUEST, Ivor (1920–2018) GUILLAUME, Robert (1927–2017) GUNTER, John (1938–2016) GURNEY, A.R., Jr (1930–2017) GUY, Rosa (1922/28–2012) HAGMAN, Larry [Hageman] (1931–2012) HAIGH, Kenneth (1931/32–2018) HALL, Peter Reginald Frederick (1930–2017) HAMILTON, Lawrence (1954–2014) HAMLISCH, Marvin (1944–2012) HAMMOND-STROUD, Derek (1926–2012) HANDMAN, Wynn (1922–2020) HANDS, Terry (1941–2020) HANNA, Gillian (1944–2019) HANNAN, Eilene (1946–2014) HANSEN, Peter (1921–2017) HARBOTTLE, G. Laurence (1924–2015) HARDY, Robert (1925–2017) HARPER, Heather (1930–2019) HARPER, Valerie (1940–2019) HARRIS, Barbara (1935–2018) HARRIS, Julie (1925–2013) HARRISON, John (1924–2018) HARRISON, Noel (1934–2013) HARRON, Donald (1924–2015) HART, Cecilia (1948–2016) HARWOOD, Ronald (1934–2020) HAYGARTH, Tony (1945–2017) HAYNES, Jim (1933–2021) HEADLY, Glenne (1955–2017) HEARD, John (1945?–2017) HEATON, Anne (1930–2020) HEDGES, Anthony (1931–2019) HEDISON, David [or Al] (1927–2019) HEELEY, Desmond (1930–2016) HELMOND, Katherine (1934–2019) HEMSLEY, Thomas (1927–2013) HENDERSON, Florence (1934–2016) HENRY, Buck (1930–2020) HENSON, Nicky (1945–2019) HENZE, Hans Werner (1926–2012) HEPTON, Bernard (1925–2018) HERD, Richard (1932–2020) HERINCX, Raimund (1927–2018) HERMAN, Jerry (1932–2019) HERRMANN, Edward (1943–2014) HICKS, Barbara (1924–2013) HILL, Lucienne [née Palmer] (1923–2012) HILLERMAN, John (1932–2017) HITCHCOCK, Pat (1930–2021) HOBBS, William (1939–2018) HOCHHUTH, Rolf (1931–2020) HOFFMAN, William M. 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WEBB, Lizbeth (1926–2013) WEBER, Carl (1925–2016) WEDGEWORTH, Ann (1935–2017) WEKWERTH, Manfred (1929–2014) WELDON, Duncan Clark (1941–2019) WELDON, Charles (1940–2018) WELLAND, Colin (1934–2015) WELLER, Walter (1939–2015) WENHAM, Jane [née Figgins] (1927–2018) WESKER, Arnold (1932–2016) WESLEY, John (1947–2019) WEST, Adam (1928–2017) WHEELER, David (1925–2012) WHELAN, Peter (1931–2014) WHITE, Betty (1922–2021) WHITE, Michael Simon (1936–2016) WHITE, Leonard (1916–2016) WHITELAW, Billie (1932–2014) WHITEMORE, Hugh (1936–2018) WHITMAN, Stuart (1929–2020) WHITROW, Benjamin (1937–2017) WILBUR, Richard (1921–2017) WILDER, Gene (1933–2016) WILLARD, Fred (1939–2020) WILLIAMS, Camilla (1919/22–2012) WILLIAMS, Andy (1928–2012) WILLIAMS, Sammy (1948–2018) WILLIAMS, Dick Anthony (1938–2012) WILLIAMS, Heathcote (1941–2017) WILLIAMS, Hugh Steadman (1935–2016) WILLIAMS, Robin (1951–2014) WILLIS, Jerome (1928–2014) WILMER, Douglas (1920–2016) WILSON, Julie (1924/25–2015) WILSON, Snoo (1948–2013) WILSON, Elizabeth (1921?–2015) WILSON, Sandy (1924–2014) WINDOM, William (1923–2012) WINDSOR, Barbara [née Deeks] (1937–2020) WINTERS, David (1939–2019) WINTERS, Jonathan (1925–2013) WISE, Herbert [né Weisz] (1924–2015) WOLSK, Eugene V. (1928–2013) WOOD, Charles (1932–2020) WOOD, Peter (1927–2016) WOODS, Aubrey (1928–2013) WOOLFENDEN, Guy Anthony (1937–2016) WOOLLAM, Kenneth (1937–2020) WOUK, Herman (1915–2019) WRIGHT, Samuel E. (1948–2021) WRIGHT, Samuel E. (1948–2021) WRIGHT, Max (1943–2019) WRIGHT, Martha (1923/26–2016) WULP, John (1928–2018) WYMARK, Olwen [Mrs Patrick Wymark] (1934–2013) WYMORE, Patricia [or Patrice] (1926/27–2014) WYNGARDE, Peter (c. 1926/27–2018) You can sort or clean your list in a variety of ways. YOUNG, Alan (1919–2016) ZADAN, Craig (d 2018 [69]) ZADEK, Hilde (1917–2019) ZAPATA, Carmen (1927–2014) ZEFFIRELLI, Franco (1923–2019) ZIMBALIST, Efrem, Jr (1918?–2014) ZORICH, Louis (1924–2018)
The actor George A. Cooper, born 7/3/1925, died on 16/11/2018. His obituary can be found here.
In the indexes to my London Stage calendars a number of entries that should be attributed to George A. Cooper are listed under George Cooper, another actor contemporaneous with George A. Cooper. In the 1950s George A. Cooper performed at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, but omitted his middle initial. He added it later in order to avoid confusion with George Cooper. Therefore, the following entries listed under George Cooper should be attributed to George A. Cooper:
52–118; 53–15, 25, 32, 38, 44, 61, 76, 87, 100, 114, 217, 235, 256, 292, 305, 311, 326, 345; 54–15, 35, 69, 100, 123, 134, 141, 191, 215, 247, 271, 321; 55–9, 28, 85.
There’s a review of Elizabeth Robins’ play, Votes for Women (1907), recently produced at Newcastle-under-Lyme in England. You can read it here.
The Shakespeare Diaries has now been deemed worthy of academic study! See Tomasz Kowalski’s comparison of The Shakespeare Diaries with Christopher Rush’s Will in Other Modernities.
Re: item 58.127. You, Too, Can Have a Body. The first performance occurred on BBC TV on 3/3/57. The first stage performance was at the Connaught, Worthing, 29/7/57. It later toured the provinces extensively before its performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, 24/3/58 and then at the Victoria Palace 2/6/58.
I was recently perusing the excellent website Over the Footlights [www.overthefootlights.co.uk] and came across an entry for a musical, Very Good, Eddie! This had been performed in 1918 at the Palace, a theatre which I had excluded in the 1910-1919 Calendar on the grounds that it presented variety entertainments. However, I clearly should have made an exception for this musical comedy. Below is the entry as it might have appeared; the information has been gathered from several sources, not least the invaluable Footlights mentioned above.
18.121b Very Good, Eddie! (MC, 2a) Jerome Kern (mus) and Schuyler Greene (lyr) and Melville Gideon (songs) and Sylvio Hein (songs) and Guy Bolton (bk) and Philip Bartholomew (bk; based on his Overnight, 1911). Palace 18/5/1918. 46 perf [w/W, Th, S mats; add mat 21/5]. 1st perfd Van Curler, Schenectady, 9/11/15. Eddie Kettle Nelson Keys; Dick Rivers Walter Williams; Percy Darling Stanley Turnbull; Al Cleveland Ralph Lynn; George François de Rougemont André Randall; A Purser George Grundy; Coloured Steward E. Trimmingham. Georgina Kettle Helen Temple; Elsie Darling Nellie Briarcliffe; Mme Matroppo Veronica Brady; Elsie Gray Madge Saunders; Victoria Lake Beryl Harrison; A Booth Girl Evie Graham. Pres Alfred Butt; Dir Guy Bragdon; Ch George Shurley; Mus dir Jaques Heuvel. Reviews: Stage 23/5/1918, 12; Times 20/5/18, 9. Comment: The plot concerned two couples of differing heights who cross paths on a boat headed to a honeymoon inn in Poughkeepsie and who accidentally trade partners in a farcical manner (Playbill). Times said the piece did not live up to the expectations aroused by the success of the New York production (Princess 23/12/15, 341 perf) but thought it was “just an ordinary cheerful, easy-going musical comedy.” The “first-night audience was thoroughly appreciative.” Stage provided a lengthy description of the “slight but quite sufficiently complicated plot” and concluded the production “provide[d] agreeable light entertainment, and there is no offence in it, despite Eddie’s happily passing exhilaration due to a ‘high ball’ and a ‘chaser.’”
Here’s a review in The Year’s Work in English Studies (2016):
“J.P. Wearing’s epic series of reference books on the London stage has proved an invaluable resource for theatre scholars since it first started to appear in the 1970s. Covering details about productions at every major London theatre from the 1890s to the 1950s, The London Stage: A Calendar of Plays and Players eventually spanned sixteen volumes. The indexes have now been republished in two monumental editions, which retain the same chronological divisions into decades (1890-9, 1900-0, etc.) with related material. This new publication also includes four key indexes to aid information-gathering: general, genre, theatre, and title. While there has been the occasional quibble about discrepancies with production figures, Wearing’s work remains the most reliable and informative source on plays in London during the first half of the twentieth century, and many will find this two-volume edition of great help.”
“Visitors to Reading jail this autumn might encounter Patti Smith reading the four-and-a-half-hour entirety of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, or see new artworks by Steve McQueen, Nan Goldin or Marlene Dumas dotted around echoing corridors and empty cells.
Artangel announced on Thursday that it was taking over one of the most notorious prisons in the UK, the place where Wilde spent a harrowing, soul-destroying two years from 1895-97” (Guardian, 21 July 2016).
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