On the Road Again
On the Road Again
On the Road Again
Beth Marquis
| Event | Date | Venue Location | Troupe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minstrel Show | 3 February 1845 - 8 February 1845 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Yankee Mellor |
| Minstrel Show | 10 February 1845 - 15 February 1845 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Yankee Mellor |
| Dramatic | 15 February 1847 - 15 February 1847 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Lynne, Mr., New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders |
| Dramatic | 16 February 1847 - 20 February 1847 | Liverpool, Lancashire | New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders |
| Dramatic | 23 July 1849 - 28 July 1849 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Harper, E.R. |
| Dramatic | 24 September 1849 - 29 September 1849 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Millicent, J., the English Juba, Phillips, Ethiopian Minstrel & Nigger Dancer |
| Variety | 3 March 1851 - 8 March 1851 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Pelham, Richard |
| Dramatic | 31 March 1851 - 5 April 1851 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Pelham, Richard |
| Dramatic | 20 August 1851 - 20 August 1851 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Pelham, Richard |
| Dramatic | 11 October 1852 - 16 October 1852 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Uncle Tom's Cabin Troupe (Liverpool-Adelphi, 52) |
| Dramatic | 18 October 1852 - 23 October 1852 | Liverpool, Lancashire | Uncle Tom's Cabin Troupe (Liverpool-Adelphi, 52) |
pp177-206.
VICTORIA
”
Mr. Holloway opened the Christian Street playhouse
under the name of the Victoria. The initial performance
took place on November 13, 1843,” (191)
“[…]About 1846, a townsman, W. J. Hammond, who had
been in partnership with Mr. Raymond at the Liver, and who
had made an attempt to manage the local Theatre Royal,
took the theatre under his care. Down to this time the building
had been outwardly a very plain-looking structure, with
an ordinary brick front, while the interior had become dirty
and dingy with time. Mr. Hammond decided to revive the
departed glories of the house. Accordingly, he gutted the
building, refitted and decorated the interior in a most beautiful
manner, and put an ornamental face on the front wall, surmounting
the whole with several statues, one of which was
blown down in the 'sixties, and the others afterwards removed.
He re-opened the house as the new Theatre Royal
Adelphi, on Easter Monday, April 13, 1846, when Charlotte
and Susan Cushman appeared as Romeo and Juliet before a
crowded house, though the prices had been increased, the
charge for the best seats being 75. 6d. No bonnets were
allowed in the boxes, there being a retiring-room for ladies.
The prices of admission were afterwards considerably reduced.[…]” (192)
”1805 Olympic Circus opened in Christian street. This had succeeded the Philip Astley's circus established at Christian street in 1789
and seemed to be a venue for a lot of equestrian events. In 1824 a sewer burst and expensive alterations were needed. After an argument over liability between the proprietors and John Cook, proprietor of the circus Cooke decided to build an establishment of his own and bought land at Great Charlotte street, and Roe street. He named it the New Olympic Circus. This later became successively the Royal Ampitheatre and the Royal Court (see below). In 1831 the place was rebuilt and renamed the Queen's Theatre. After various changes it was renamed The Victoria in 1843. Then in 1846 W. J Hammond, formerly of the Liver Theatre Church street and the Theatre Royal rebuilt the interior and reopened it as Theatre Royal Adelphi commonly known as the 'Delly'.”