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Theatre Royal playbill: Humpty Dumpty, 18-21 Jan 1858

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Theatre Royal playbill: Humpty Dumpty, 18-21 Jan 1858
Sheffield_City_Centre
1858/01/18
1851-1899

Theatre Royal

Lessees and managers Messrs. Wolfenden and Melbourne, 25, Arundel Street,

Sheffield.

Glorious success of Humpty Dumpty.

Grand

juvenile nights!

Half price to boxes and pit:

Boxes 1s., Pit, 6d., Gal. 6d.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan 18, 19, 20 and 21, 1858

To commence with the grand historical pantomime, introducing a variety of local, vocal, moral and whimsical events, (on a scale of grandeur never before witnessed in Sheffield), entitled

Humpty Dumpty!

Crook’d Back Dick and Jane Shore, or Harlequin

Pearl Prince and Grape Queen!

Patronised by the Siamese ambassadors.

(The especial guests of Her most Gracious Majesty, the Queen),

and the elite of the town ...

Programme of the concluding pieces on each of the above-mentioned evenings;

On Monday, Children in the Wood.

On Tuesday, The Spitalfield’s Weaver. On Wednesday, The Little Treasure.

On Thursday, Hunter of the Alps!

The managers beg to announce they have made arrangements with the Midland Railway Company for special train from Sheffield to Rotherham, on Tuesday evening, at Half Past Ten O'clock, at the usual fares.

[Performers (and characters?)]: Mr Abbott, Miss S A. Booth, Miss M. Cuttress, Mr Denial, Mrs Sarah Gamp, Mrs Harris, Mr Hemmings, Herr Hendrick, Mr Hicks, Mr M. Hildebrand, Mr Irish, Miss Jackman, Mr Jackson, Mr Louis Leglere, Monsieur T. Le’Grape, the Brothers Longneck, Miss MacGregor, Mr Marchant, Mr Mew Mew, The brothers Oxen, Mr Quickheel, Mr Rivers, Mr Squeak Squeak, Mr Staunton, Mr N. Teason, Masters T. and J. Thompson, Mr Wilson.

[Printed by] W. R. Marsden, 26, Change Alley, Sheffield.

Original at Sheffield City Archives: BC/16/25.

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