John Hollingshead (9 September 1827 – 9 October 1904) was an English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century...
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Chronicles Gordon Hollingshead (1892–1952), American movie producer John Hollingshead (1827–1904) English theatrical impresario Holly Hollingshead (1853–1926)...
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Gaiety Theatre, London (section Hollingshead years)
the development of modern musical comedy. Under the management of John Hollingshead until 1886, the theatre had early success with Robert the Devil, by...
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are automotive vehicles. In his article, "Right through the Post", John Hollingshead describes mail vans from the point of view of a letter navigating...
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2009. Hollingshead, Iain (1 April 2006). "Whatever Happened to … Canonising John Paul II?". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 22 October 2014. Hooper, John (29...
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the piece. The Ballet Master was W. H. Payne Impresario and author John Hollingshead, the lessee of London's Gaiety Theatre since 1868, had produced a...
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17 Biographical file for John D'Auban, list of productions and theatres, The Theatre Museum, London (2009) Hollingshead, John. My Lifetime, vol 2, p. 124...
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literature and the theatre. Merivale wrote many farces and burlesques. For John Hollingshead he produced a burlesque, The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled, performed...
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of tendons and muscles.' Another account by London theater manager John Hollingshead described the experience as both sad and depressing: "It wanted little...
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Penelope Fitzgerald Alexander Frater Joyce Grenfell A. P. Herbert John Hollingshead Thomas Hood Chris Hutchins Douglas William Jerrold Dillie Keane C...
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The Contrabandista (1867) was not as successful. In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment...
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expenses of each of their shows. Sullivan wrote to a former producer, John Hollingshead of the Gaiety Theatre, saying: "You once settled a precedent for me...
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remained at the Opera Comique to play King Portico in Princess Toto when John Hollingshead took over the management of that theatre from Carte. See "Opera Comique"...
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of the Gaiety Theatre (21 December 1868), under the management of John Hollingshead, Maclean was the first Sir Gilbert Ethelward in 'On the Cards,' a...
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Shepherdess Walk, off the City Road in east London. According to John Hollingshead, proprietor of the Gaiety Theatre, London (originally the Strand Music...
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Procter. Other contributors to Household Words included James Payn, John Hollingshead, Harriet Martineau, Frances Shayle George, William Duthie and Henry...
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in London. He reached the peak of his popularity after he joined John Hollingshead's company at the Gaiety Theatre, London in 1876, starring in the musical...
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Michael Hollingshead (?–1984?) was a British researcher who studied psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin and LSD, at Harvard University in the mid-20th...
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stagecraft to the British stage in the 1860s. In 1871, the producer John Hollingshead brought together the librettist W.S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur...
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165 Ainger, p. 169 Jacobs, p. 126 Rees, p. 89: Sullivan wrote to John Hollingshead, saying: "You once settled a precedent for me which may just at present...
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Weller, or, The Pickwickians, in 1837. This was followed in 1871 by John Hollingshead's stage play Bardell versus Pickwick. The first successful musical...
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400 houses in an area less than 400 yd (370 m) square"; and in 1861 John Hollingshead, of The Morning Post, in his Ragged London noted that the Nichol had...
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Offenbach had by now become highly popular in London's West End. John Hollingshead of the Gaiety Theatre presented Offenbach's operettas to large and...
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successes. The theatre also staged ballet and light opera. In the 1860s, John Hollingshead took over management at the Alhambra and made it famous for its sumptuous...
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Carte. In 1885, Edwardes became a manager at the Gaiety Theatre with John Hollingshead, who soon retired. For the next three decades, Edwardes ruled a theatrical...
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proved a success but Santley could not persuade the Gaiety's manager, John Hollingshead, to produce Auber's Le Cheval de bronze as a follow-up. Feeling that...
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Milton Hollingshead, Jr. (February 25, 1900 – May 13, 1975) was the inventor of the drive-in theater. Created in the early 1930s, Hollingshead's drive-in...
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Gilbert and Frederic Clay's comic opera Princess Toto produced by John Hollingshead. He also gave "Richard Temple's Dramatic Recital" at Peckham in 1881...
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processional, and it became Sullivan's best-known hymn. At the end of 1871 John Hollingshead, proprietor of London's Gaiety Theatre, commissioned Sullivan to work...
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entertainment was first produced at the Gaiety Theatre by its proprietor, John Hollingshead (also a member of the Club), as the Wednesday matinee on 13 February...
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