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Location: London
County: London (city-county)
Type: Variety
Venue: Vauxhall Gardens
Date: 25 September 1848-30 September 1848
Date notes: <div class="noteheading">Performance Days Within Run:</div>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>Monday Evening (September 25)
<LI>Tuesday Evening (September 26)
<LI>Wednesday Evening (September 27)
<LI>Thursday Evening (September 28)
<LI>Friday Evening (September 29) {“which will positively be the last night of the season”}
</UL>
<ul class="notes">
<LI>Originally advertised as the "last five nights”
</UL>
<p class='noteEntry'><strong>Part of a longer run (June - October, 1848) </strong></p>
Notes:
Performers Listed:
Juba
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
"Mdlle Macarte, the first equestrian in England”
"the renowned Lion King, Van Amburgh, with lions, tigers, &c.”
Other Event Info Available:
benefit (September 29)
ticket info
weather
Note: All ‘Other Info’ Categories list information that can be found about each item in relation to this event and/or the writings surrounding it.
Bibliographic Sources
Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle October 1, 1848: 1: 1 (1st relevant ad).
Performance Type Indicated:
Variety
Troupe Name as Given:
not listed
Performers Listed:
none
Days & Times Given:
“Friday night” (past)
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
not specified for this event
Other in Record:
weather:
Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle September 24, 1848: 2: 1.
Performance Type Indicated:
Variety
Troupe Name as Given:
“Pell’s Serenaders”
Also (other race-related):“Bedouin Arabs”
Performers Listed:
“Juba”
Days & Times Given:
“last five nights”
“Friday night, which will positively be the last night of the season”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
“Mdlle Macarte, the first equestrian in England, for five nights only”
“last five nights of the renowned Lion King, Van Amburgh, with lions, tigers, &c.”
Harvard Theatre Collection, Vauxhall Microfilm v.7, Unidentified Clipping (dated 28.9.48): 132 (2nd article in 5th block on LS).
Performance Type Indicated:
Variety
Troupe Name as Given:
not given
Performers Listed:
none
Days & Times Given:
"Last Night of the Season To-morrow, Sept. 29”
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
“the unrivalled artistes of this establishment”
“celebrated dance, by six juveniles, Mdlles. Turtle, Macqueen, Hayman, Desborough, Mendez, and Ryan from the ballet of Coquilla, pupils of Benjamin Barnett, Esq.”
“Hungarian Polka by Miss Hayman and La Petite Ryan”
“Mr. J.G. Day, of Sheffield, will give his celebrated Transcripts from the Antiques, on Living models”
“a variety of other entertainments”
Other Info in Record:
audience:
("Mr. Wardell has the honour to inform his friends and the public")
benefit:
(Wardell – Sept. 29)
ticket info:
("tickets may be had at the gardens")
Lambeth Public Archives, Clippings Albums Unidentified Clipping (dated 9.24.48)
Info in Record:
Performance Type:
Variety
Troupe Name: “Pell’s Serenaders”, Also (other race-related): “Bedouin Arabs”
Performers Listed: “Juba”
Days & Times: “last five nights” (presumably Monday-Friday of the ensuing week)
Venue Name: “Vauxhall Gardens”
Other Acts on Bill: “Mdlle. Macarte, the first Equestrian in England”, “the renowned Lion King, Van Amburg, with Lions, Tigers, &c.”
Other:
benefit (Wardell, Friday evening),
ticket info
Morning Chronicle (London) October 1, 1848: 1: 1.
Performance Type Indicated:
Variety
Days & Times Given:
“Friday night” (past)
Other Acts on Bill Listed:
not specified for this event
Other Info in Record:
weather:
Sept. 29 performance cancelled “in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather on Friday night, which prevented the Gardens being opened”