£125.00
Date 13/10/1871
London The Kings Barracks Theatre – Aladdin – Wonderful Scamp – 1871
A small four page folded card theatre programme from The Kings Barracks Theatre, London, dated 13 October 1871, for Aladdin – Wonderful Scamp.
The cast lists H T Granger Esq, J M Batten Esq, Miss Alice Vaughn and Miss Ellen Whyte, the ‘Esq’ styling typical of gentlemen amateurs appearing in barracks theatricals of the period.
Military and amateur theatre ephemera like this rarely survives, making it a charming find for collectors of old theatre programmes from the Victorian era.
| Production | Aladdin – Wonderful Scamp |
|---|---|
| Venue | The Kings Barracks Theatre – London |
| Cast | H T Granger Esq, J M Batten Esq, Miss Alice Vaughn, Miss Ellen Whyte. |
Condition: V Good, Vlcr, this has some cover markings
Did you know?
- Aladdin, or the Wonderful Scamp was a burlesque by the prolific Victorian dramatist Henry James Byron, first staged at the Strand Theatre in 1861.
- H J Byron later wrote the comedy Our Boys, one of the longest-running plays of the Victorian stage.
- Victorian burlesques retold familiar stories in rhyming couplets packed with puns and popular songs.
SKU: T05030
