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Theatre Royal playbill: Humpty Dumpty, [Jan 1858]

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Theatre Royal playbill: Humpty Dumpty, [Jan 1858]
Sheffield_City_Centre
1851-1899

Theatre Royal

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

Glorious success of Humpty Dumpty.

Every evening

a favourite drama!

And the

pantomime

until further notice.

Tomorrow evening, Friday, grand fashionable night [1858]!

Under the patronage and presence of W. Hutchinson, Esquire, Master Cutler,

when will be performed the little treasure and the pantomime.

To conclude 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.

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

Boxes 2s., Reserved seats, 2s. 6d. may be taken at Mr Evans', Norfolk Street.

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

Original at Sheffield City Archives: BC/16/27.

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