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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1887

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The Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 694

"Lady Audley's Secret" and "Checkmate" have been played at the Gaiety Theatre, with Mr. and Miss Vivian in leading parts. The business has not been very encouraging. Other engagements…

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 694

"Esmarelda" was withdrawn on Friday, and on Saturday evening "The Ticket-of-Leave Man," was given with a good cast, including Miss Myra Kemble, who played May Edwards with a pathos and power…

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A Fashionable Charity Ball

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 7

The Dublin Freeman contains an elaborate account of the fancy dross ball lately held in aid of the hospital conducted by the Sisters of Charity…

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Amusements. the Italian Opera at the Theatre Royal—"belisario."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 15

The production of Donizetti's "Beli[?]o" has been subject of great speculation this week, owing to the flourishing accounts that have been circulated about it; and last night a well-attended theatre evinced expectant…

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Benefit Concert at Temperance Hall

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 5

A first class and successful concert was given by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. Blacksmiths, Patternmakers, Millwrights, Coppersmiths, &c., Balmain Branch, under the…

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M. and Madame Poussard's Concert

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 694

A programme of music far above the ordinary standard of concerts in Sydney was submitted by M. and Madame Poussard on Monday last, at the Y. M. C. A. Hall. The opening number was the first…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1887 · page 5

This theatre was crowded to overflowing on Saturday night by an audience full of expectation as to the merits of the Cogill Brothers' Minstrel and Burlesque Company. The first part of the entertainment consisted of…

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Griterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1887 · page 5

A new and original comedy drama in three acts, entitled "The Queen's Shilling," was produced for the first time in the colonies at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday evening, and a very good audience witnessed the representation…

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Amusements. Gaiety Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1887 · page 4

At the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night every parrot the house was thronged: standing room was even out of the question and the Coghill Brothers Minstrel and Burlesque…

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Amusements. the Italian Opera at the Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1887 · page 5

M. Simonson's New Royal Italian Opera Company were announced to repeat the opera of "Belisario" at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, but the company, instead of performing "Belisario," repeated the opera of…

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Amusements. Royal Standard Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1887 · page 10

Charles Reade's famous drama "It's Never too Late to Mend" was revived at the Standard Theatre last evening with great success. A very large audience witnessed the representation, and applauded the stirring bu[?]-familiar…

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Italian Opera at the Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1887 · page 10

Donizetti's tragic opera, "Belisario," was performed last night to a fair audience, but, so far as the performance was concerned, with great success. The execution was in many respects a great improvement on that of last week. The…

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Standard Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1887 · page 11

A sacred and classical concert will be given at the Standard Theatre on Good Friday evening, the whole receipts of which, without any deduction whatever, will be handed over by Messrs.Alfred Dampier and Frank Smith to the Bulli…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1887 · page 11

A special concert will be given at the Criterion Theatre on Good Friday next, when an interesting programme, including Mendelssohn's overture to the "Midsummer Night's Dream," will be presented. Mr. Charles…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1887 · page 11

A special concert will be given by Mr. Martin Simo[?]sen at the Theatre Royal, on Good Friday evening, when an excellent programme, including Rossini's great oratorio, "Stabat Mater," will be presented by his Royal…

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Amusements. Concert in the New Masonic Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1887 · page 10

Last night the members of the Metropolitan Liedertafel, assisted by Mr. Hallewell, Miss Frances Saville, Mr. F. M'Quade, Mr. Allpress, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Huenerbein, Mrs. Dobbie, and Miss Cowley, gave a most enjoyable…

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The Euphonic Orchestral Society's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1887 · page 10

A well-managed instrumental and vocal concert (complimentery) was given at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, last evening, by the members of the Euphonic Orchestral Society. The society was established in the…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 April 1887 · page 6

This evening a grand concert will be given at the above-named theatre, under the respective conductorship of Messrs. J. A. Dolany and Charles Huenerbein. The performance will commonce with the overture to "A…

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Royal Standard Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 April 1887 · page 6

Messrs. Alfred Dampier and Frank Smith have most appropriately set this evening apart for the cause of charity. A grand s[?]red and classical concert is to be given for the benefit of the sufferors by the Bulli disaster, and a very…

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