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The next show that Edwardes produced at the Gaiety was Dorothy (1886), a comic opera similar to the Gilbert and Sullivan operas that he had produced for Carte, but the Gaiety's audiences were used to burlesques, and so Edwardes sold the rights to Dorothy, which became a hit at another theatre.
Mar 26, 2017 · The Gaiety was famous for its burlesques, comic improvisations, gorgeous women, and bawdy humour. Edwardes wanted to attract a more sophisticated audience to the Gaiety, so he produced a comic opera, Dorothy, at the venerated venue on 25 September 1886.
- William A. Everett
- 2017
Hollingshead's last production at the theatre was the burlesque Little Jack Sheppard (1885–86), produced together with his successor, George Edwardes. Hollingshead called himself a "licensed dealer in legs, short skirts, French adaptations, Shakespeare , taste and musical glasses."
audience to the Gaiety, so he produced a comic opera, Dorothy, at the ven-erated venue on 25 September 1886. The male-dominated Gaiety audience, though, favoured burlesque, so Edwardes sold Dorothy to his accountant, Henry J. Leslie, who reworked it and took it to the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, where it became a runaway hit.
- William A. Everett
- 2017
Abstract. George Edwardes (1855–1915) was a leading producer in London in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. His fame at the Gaiety Theatre, Daly’s Theatre, and...
The first Gilbert & Sullivan opera (Thespis) and several Offenbach operas were staged there. Hollingshead’s partner George Edwardes succeeded to the management in 1886 and introduced the new form ‘musical comedy’ (often said to have been invented by Edwardes himself) in 1893.
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Following A Gaiety Girl (1893) and The Shop Girl, Edwardes produced a succes-sion of shows with the word‘girl in the title, demonstrating the construction ’ of a discernible brand. These included The Circus Girl (1896), A Runaway Girl (1898) and The Sunshine Girl (1912).
