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Issue Details: First known date: 1884... 1884 Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther
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A pantomime based on the popular fairytale of Cinderella, the highlights were reportedly the grand procession (purchased from the 1883 Drury Lane production), an opening modelled on Macbeth, and scenes of Christmas cards ranging from Bethlehem to England to a fern-tree gully picnic. The Melbourne production also alluded to the bootmakers' strike.

Notes

  • Williamson Garner and Musgrove's programs for both the 1884 and 1885 Melbourne and Sydney productions identify English librettist T. F. Doyle as the original author and that Edmund Finn localised and made it up-to-date. Newspaper reportage and advertisements in the Age and Argus during December 1884 further indicate that his libretto was used for the previous year's Cinderella pantomime at Drury Lane. Evidence from The Entr'acte (London) records on the other hand that E.L. Blanchard was responsible for that production (29 December 1883, p. 11b).
  • There is also the possibility that the 1885 Sydney production was localised by E. Lewis Scott.

Production Details

  • 1884: Theatre Royal, Melbourne ; 26 December 1884 - 2 April 1885

    • Director George Musgrove; Producer/Manager Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, and Henry R. Harwood; Music Director W. H. Harrison and Oscar Barnet; Music Arranger W. H. Harrison; Scenic Art George Gordon, Mr Peake, G. Ashton, W. H. Patterson; Chorus Mons. Massartic and Augustus Harris; Costumes Kennedy and Phillips, August and Cie, Miss Fisher, Messrs Harrison, Miss Yates; Stage Manager John Wallace; Director of Comic Scenes Will Simpson.
    • Cast incl. Maggie Moore, Nellie Stewart, Docy Stewart, Maggie Stewart, Aggie Stuart, Tilly Lake, Julia Simmons, Lilly Forde, Sara Ford, Dolly Ford, Effie Bevan, Miss Carlton, Miss Atkinson, Miss N. Grey, Miss B. Duncan, Miss Melrose, Amy Chalmers, Miss L. Chalmers, Miss Torrence, Miss Austin, Miss Synnot, Miss Love, Miss Kerr, Miss Harris, Miss Robertson, Miss A. Grey, J. R. Greville, Edwin Kelly, Harry Taylor, Will Simpson, Harry Daniels, Mr Gladstone, Harry Benham, John Wallace, E. H. Ryan, Mons. Masssartic, M. Anderson.

    -84 performances.

    1885: Theatre Royal, Sydney, 26 December 1885 - 12 February 1886

    • Producer/Manager Williamson, Garner and Musgrove; Director George Musgrove; Music Director/Arranger W. H. Harrison; Lessee Samuel Lazar; Scenic Art George Gordon and Mr Peake; Chorus. Augustus Harris; Costumes Kennedy and Phillips, August and Cie, Miss Fisher, Messrs Harrison, Miss Yates; Stage Manager John Wallace.
    • Cast incl. Nellie Stewart (Cinderella), Docy Stewart (Prince Peerless), Lance Lenton (a step sister), J. R. Greville (a step sister), Julia Simmons (Fairy Godmother), John Forde (The Baron), Harry Daniels (a burlesque tutor), Aggie Kelton (a valet), Lilly Forde (a page), Ethel Harcourt (a page), Sara Forde, Dolly Forde, Effie Bevan, Miss Carlton, Miss Atkinson, Miss N. Grey, Miss B. Duncan, Miss Melrose, Amy Chalmers, Miss L. Chalmers, Miss Torrence, Miss Austin, Miss Synnot, Miss Love, Miss Kerr, Miss Harris, Miss Robertson, Miss A. Grey, R. E. Watson (Harlequin), John Wallace (a grotesque page/Clown), Mr Francisco (Pantaloon), Tilly Lake (Columbine), Norman Ross (Policeman), Mr Levison (Father Time), Mr Benham (Hankypanky).
    • 40 performances

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Works about this Work

Pantomime John Rickard , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fifty Books for Fifty Years : Celebrating Half a Century of Collecting 2008; (p. 11)
Theatre Royal 1885 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 December 1885; (p. 8)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal : 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 December 1884; (p. 10)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal - 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 December 1884; (p. 4)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal : 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Argus , 27 December 1884; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal 1885 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 December 1885; (p. 8)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal : 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Argus , 27 December 1884; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal - 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 December 1884; (p. 4)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Theatre Royal : 'Cinderella' 1884 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 December 1884; (p. 10)
— Review of Cinderella, Her Sisters, Her Sorrows and Her Little Glass Slipper ; Or, The Fairy Godmother Who Wouldn't Let the Bad Step-Farther Edmund Finn , 1884 single work musical theatre
Pantomime John Rickard , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fifty Books for Fifty Years : Celebrating Half a Century of Collecting 2008; (p. 11)
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This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive

Details have also been derived in part from the Annotated Calendar of Plays Premiered in Australia: 1870-1890.

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