Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand - Theater Playbill for Miss Stephens' First Night... July 2nd, 1825... Beggars Opera... Rosina... Spoil'd Child

London, 1825. Unbound. Broadside 1 sheet. Very good condition, edge-worn Catherine Stephens (1794-1882) was well known for her beautiful soprano voice, particularly of ballads. William Hazlitt, who spoke of her and Edmund Kean as the only theatrical favourites he had, wrote his first theatrical criticism on her in the Morning Chronicle. After hearing her as Polly and as Mandane, Leigh Hunt said that they 'are like nothing else on the stage, and leave all competition far behind;’ Thomas Noon Talfourd recalled the days when he heard her send forth 'a stream of such delicious sound as he had never found proceeding from human lips.' William Oxberry gave her unmixed praise. A portrait painted by John Jackson hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Theatre Royal that still stands today opened in 1812. It has been the residency of well known actors including; Edmund Kean, comedian Dan Leno, and the musical composer and performer Ivor Novello.Since the Second World War, the theatre has primarily hosted long runs of musicals, including Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, 42nd Street and Miss Saigon, the theatre's longest-running show. The theatre is owned by the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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