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Brandon Thomas

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Walter Brandon Thomas (24 December 1848 – 19 June 1914) was an English actor, playwright and songwriter, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt. [1]

57 relations: Ada Leverson, Albert Rollit, Amy Brandon Thomas, Arthur Cecil, Arthur Wing Pinero, B. C. Stephenson, Bloomsbury, Broadway theatre, Brompton Cemetery, Bury St Edmunds, Charley's Aunt, Chelsea, London, Clement Scott, Coon song, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Darrell Fancourt, Dion Boucicault Jr., Edward Jakobowski, Ellaline Terriss, Farce, George Bernard Shaw, George Edwardes, Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street), Hall Caine, Hamlet, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Kingston upon Hull, Lancashire, Liverpool, Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, Madge Kendal, Marion Terry, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, Music hall, Oscar Wilde, Prescot, Punch (magazine), Richard II (play), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play), Royal Court Theatre, Royal Marines, Royalty Theatre, Sacred Songs and Solos, Shaftesbury Theatre, St James's Theatre, Sweet Lavender, Terry's Theatre, The Guardian, The Queen of Brilliants, The Times, ..., Vokes family, W. S. Gilbert, W. S. Penley, Weedon Grossmith, West End theatre, William Hunter Kendal, William Shakespeare. Expand index (7 more) »

Ada Leverson

Ada Esther Leverson (née Beddington; 10 October 1862 – 30 August 1933) was a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle.

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Albert Rollit

Sir Albert Kaye Rollit (1842 – 12 August 1922) was a British politician, lawyer, and businessman.

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Amy Brandon Thomas

Amy Marguerite Brandon Thomas (9 March 1890 – 6 May 1974) was an English film and stage actress.

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Arthur Cecil

Arthur Cecil Blunt (1 June 1843 – 16 April 1896), better known as Arthur Cecil, was an English actor, comedian, playwright and theatre manager.

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Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 – 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.

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B. C. Stephenson

Benjamin Charles Stephenson or B. C. Stephenson (1839 – 22 January 1906) was an English dramatist, lyricist and librettist.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds is a historic market town and civil parish in the in St Edmundsbury district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Clement Scott

Clement William Scott (6 October 1841 – 25 June 1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph and other journals, and a playwright, lyricist, translator and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century.

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Coon song

Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotyped image of black people.

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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until 1982.

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Darrell Fancourt

Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson (8 March 1886 – 29 August 1953), known as Darrell Fancourt, was an English bass-baritone and actor, known for his performances and recordings of the Savoy operas.

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Dion Boucicault Jr.

Dion Boucicault Jr. (born Darley George Boucicault; 23 May 1859 – 25 June 1929) was an actor and stage director.

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Edward Jakobowski

Edward Jakobowski (17 April 1856 – 29 April 1929) was an English composer, especially of musical theatre, best known for writing the hit comic opera Erminie.

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Ellaline Terriss

Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.

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Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Edwardes

George Joseph Edwardes (né Edwards) (8 October 1855 – 4 October 1915) was an English theatre manager and producer of Irish ancestry who brought a new era in musical theatre to the British stage and beyond.

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Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street)

The Globe was a Victorian theatre built in 1868 and demolished in 1902.

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Hall Caine

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Liverpool Institute High School for Boys

The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in the English port city of Liverpool.

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Madge Kendal

Dame Madge Kendal, (born Margaret Shafto Robertson; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was an English actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known for her roles in Shakespeare and English comedies.

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Marion Terry

Marion Bessie Terry (13 October 1853 – 21 August 1930) was an English actress.

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Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

Mount Pleasant is a street in Liverpool City Centre.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Prescot

Prescot is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Richard II (play)

King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Royal Marines

The Corps of Royal Marines (RM) is the amphibious light infantry of the Royal Navy.

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Royalty Theatre

The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho, which opened in 1840 as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938.

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Sacred Songs and Solos

Sacred Songs and Solos was an 1877 hymn collection by the evangelical duo of Ira David Sankey and Dwight Lyman Moody.

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Shaftesbury Theatre

The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden.

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St James's Theatre

St James's Theatre (est. 1835) was a 1,200-seat theatre located in King Street, at Duke Street, St James's, London.

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Sweet Lavender

Sweet Lavender is a play in three acts by Arthur Wing Pinero, first performed in 1888.

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Terry's Theatre

Terry's Theatre was a West End theatre in the Strand, in the City of Westminster, London.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Queen of Brilliants

The Queen of Brilliants is a comic opera in three acts with music by Edward Jakobowski and a libretto by Brandon Thomas.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Vokes family

The Vokes family were three sisters, one brother and a second foster brother popular in the pantomime theatres of 1870s London and in the United States.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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W. S. Penley

William Sydney Penley (19 November 1851 – 11 November 1912) was an English actor, singer and comedian who had an early success in the small role of the Foreman in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

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Weedon Grossmith

Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) with his brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star George Grossmith.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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William Hunter Kendal

William Hunter Kendal (16 December 1843 – 7 November 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Thomas

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