Dundee Music Hall and Opera House programme 1, page 1
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Programme
This printed programme lists the running order for an evening’s entertainment at Dundee Music Hall and Opera House. Audiences enjoyed a mixture of comic songs, sentimental ballads, burlesque performances, dance, and musical acts, ending with God Save the Queen. Unlike large advertising posters, programmes such as this guided audiences through the evening’s performances and offer a valuable insight into the variety of Victorian popular entertainment.
Object details
- Object type
- Programme
- Production date
- - 1866
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 16.0 cm
- Museum number
- MH/DMH/17
Source collection
Local History Centre Poster Collection, Dundee Central Library
The object’s story
Transcription
DUNDEE MUSIC HALL
AND OPERA HOUSE.
Proprietors, Messrs. Macleod Brothers
PROGRAMME
OF THIS EVENING.
1.Overture, Band.
2.Irish Comic Song, Mr T. Coyne
3.Operatic Burlesque, Brothers Mortimer.
4.Comic Song, Mr. F. Laroche
5.Sentimental Song, Miss Agnes Clayton
6.Comic Song, Mr J. Layfield
7.One Legged Dance, Don Pattos
Comic Song, Mr. Gray
8. Irish Comic Song and Dance Mr. T. Coyne
9.Operatic Burlesque, Brothers Mortimer
10.COMIC SONG, Mr F. Laroche
11.Sentimental Song, Miss A. Clayton
12.Comic Song, Mr Layfield
Finale,—“God Save the Queen,” Band.
ON SATURDAY
Additions will be made to the above Programme, as the Entertainment commences an hour earlier than on other Nights.
This Programme is subject to alterations by the Proprietors or Manager.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
It is requested that the Audience will desist from Encoring when they hear the Bell rung twice, as that signifies that the Encore will be responded to.
BOWES BROTHERS, PRINTERS.