£55.00
Date 17/09/1888
London Prince Of Wales Theatre – Miss Esmeralda – Burlesque Dancing 1888
A Victorian theatre programme from the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, dated 17 September 1888, for the burlesque Miss Esmeralda, with burlesque dancing.
The principal cast includes Miss Ada Blanche, Florence Dysart, Jenny Dawson and Mr Charles Boss. The piece playfully sends up Victor Hugo’s tale of the gypsy dancer Esmeralda.
Burlesque was hugely popular in the 1880s, and programmes like this are a colourful slice of late Victorian theatre memorabilia for collectors of old theatre programmes.
| Production | Miss Esmeralda – Burlesque Dancing |
|---|---|
| Venue | Prince Of Wales Theatre – London |
| Cast | Miss Ada Blanche, Florence Dysart, Jenny Dawson, Mr Charles Boss. |
Condition: fair/Good, cfld, lcr, this is old paper and brittle, has edge tears and nicks out of it
Did you know?
- Esmeralda is the heroine of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
- Ada Blanche became one of the leading principal boys of Drury Lane pantomime in the 1890s.
- The Prince of Wales Theatre in Coventry Street opened in 1884 as the Princes Theatre and took its present name in 1886.
SKU: T05032
