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unusual facts about Little Theatre, Haymarket



Barbara Angell

She began as an actress with Melbourne's Little Theatre (later St Martins) under Brett Randall and Irene Mitchell, for whom she debuted in their 1955 production of The Guinea Pig.

Beaworthy

Henry Courtney Selous (b.Haymarket, London, 1803; d.Beaworthy, Devon, 24 September 1890), was an English artist, painter, illustrator and lithographer.

Charles Dieupart

In late 1707 Dieupart became involved in establishing an operatic project at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

Charles Francis Coghlan

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

Charles H. Marsh

In October 1862, one year after his enlistment, Marsh was captured by Confederates near Haymarket, Virginia.

Domenico Reina

He joined John Ebers's company at the King's Theatre, Haymarket and in 1823 sang in the first London performances of Gioachino Rossini's operas Ricciardo e Zoraide, La donna del lago and Matilde di Shabran.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway

Services started between Glasgow Queen Street and Haymarket on 21 February 1842.

Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway

"Six miles 1507 yards, approximately, from a junction with the N.B.R. (E & G Section) at…the bridge carrying the Caledonian Railway Granton and Leith branches over the N.B. at Haymarket, and terminating at a junction with the N.B.R. some 200 yards south east of... Portobello Station".

Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway

This was one of only two connections between the rival networks in Edinburgh (the other being at Haymarket) until the Caledonian's 1 August 1903 opening of the Leith New Lines from Newhaven to the east end of Leith docks.

Ettore Petrolini

He also performed in London at the Little Theatre, in Berlin at the Kurfürstendamm Theater, and in Vienna at the Komödie Theater, where his burlesque impression of Hamlet was considered hilarious.

For Whom the Bell Chimes

First performed at The Haymarket Studio Theatre, Leicester on 20 March 1980, directed by Robin Midgley, with a cast including; Phil Bowen as 'X', Roy Macready as Masterman, Derek Smith as Colonel Fenwick.

Francis Godolphin Waldron

On 9 June 1795 he was, at the Haymarket, the first Prompter in George Colman's New Hay at the Old Market.

Fred Terry

At the Haymarket, he was particularly known for his role of Charles II in the play Sweet Nell of Old Drury by Paul Kester, which became one of his signature roles.

George Brewer

He is believed to have written a novel, Tom Weston, when in the navy, but his first appeal to the public of which there is evidence was a comedy, How to be Happy acted at the Haymarket in August 1794.

George Selth Coppin

In 1862 he built the Haymarket Theatre on the south side of Bourke Street, and in 1863 Mr and Mrs Charles Kean played a season there.

Haymarket Books

Haymarket also publishes accounts of various revolutions such as Alexander Rabinowitch's The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Building the Party and All Power to the Soviets by Tony Cliff about the Russian Revolution, along with books about the Spanish Revolution and the German Revolution.

Haymarket Books publishes a range of titles, including books about contemporary politics, such as Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects, Arundhati Roy's Field Notes on Democracy, and Amy Goodman's Breaking the Sound Barrier.

Haymarket Martyrs' Monument

Following the Haymarket affair, and trial and executions, August Spies, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, and Albert Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery (later merged with Forest Home Cemetery).

Haymarket, Edinburgh

The Haymarket railway station is here and is called at by the busy commuter services to Glasgow and Fife, as well as long-distance services to Carlisle, Inverness and Aberdeen.

Haymarket, London

This practise continued to the reign of William III, by this time, carts carrying hay and straw were allowed to stand in the street and sell free of tolls.

Haymarket, Virginia

In the early 1990s The Walt Disney Company drafted plans to build a theme park near Haymarket, named Disney's America.

Henry Kemble

After two years alternating between the Haymarket and touring the provinces, first with Ellen Terry and then with Mrs Scott-Siddons, he reappeared on February 1882 at the Court Theatre as the Revd Mr Jones in Dion Boucicault's adaptation of My Little Girl and as Mr Justice Bunby in F. C. Burnand's farce The Manager.

International Working People's Association

In the aftermath of the 1886 Haymarket bombing and the repression launched against prominent leaders of the American anarchist movement such as English-language newspaper editor Albert Parsons and German-language newspaper editor August Spies, American sections of the IWPA began to disintegrate rapidly.

Isaac Rand

In a letter to Samuel Brewer, dated ‘Haymarket, July 11, 1730’ (Nichols, Illustrations, i. p. 338), he says that the Apothecaries' Company ordered this to be printed.

Jean-Baptiste Malter

He and his wife joined the company of French actors raised by Francisque for the 1734-35 season at the Haymarket, as well as making several trips back and forth between London and Paris.

John Baldwin Buckstone

As manager of the Haymarket, he surrounded himself with an admirable and effective ensemble company, including Edward Askew Sothern, Henry Compton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles James Mathews and the Kendals.

Lincoln Haymakers

Lincoln's Arena, the Pershing Center, is located near a historic region in Lincoln named the Haymarket.

Madame Céleste

She now gave up dancing, and appeared as an actress, first at Drury Lane and then at the Haymarket.

Melbourne Hall

Coke travelled in the Netherlands and he turned to Nost, the famous statuary born in the Austrian Netherlands, with premises in Haymarket, London, who provided lead figures of amorini, vases, baskets of flowers and mythological figures, still identifiable at Melbourne, and most notably the lead "Vase of the Seasons" (1705), that is one of the finest examples of Baroque sculpture in lead in an English garden.

Newcastle Haymarket

Haymarket Metro station has been completely rebuilt, at a cost of £20 million, and was officially reopened by the Princess Royal in 2010.

Oscar Neebe

Neebe, who had been involved with (and then expelled from) the Socialist Labor Party and active in the trade union movement prior to the Haymarket Affair, joined the Industrial Workers of the World soon after its founding in 1905.

Rhoda Montemayor

West Side Story, Rosalia Leicester Haymarket Theatre/Paul Kerrison

SSC Yugal

The Yugal-Prague licensed Club was originally located in Pagewood, and later as S.S.C. Yugal the licensed club moved to Haymarket.

Thomas Talfourd

In 1839 Glencoe, or the Fate of the Macdonalds, was privately printed, and in 1840 it was produced at the Haymarket.

Tim Supple

Other work in the theatre includes: Beasts and Beauties, Too Clever By Half (Norwegian National Theatre, Bergen); Much Ado About Nothing (Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin); The Cosmonauts Last Message...(Donmar Wharehouse); Oh What a Lovely War, Guys and Dolls (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester); Billy Budd (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).

Virginia Railway Express

VRE is studying an extension of the Manassas Line west to the communities of Gainesville and Haymarket.

William Duncombe

His competition was Farinelli singing at the Little Theatre, Haymarket, and Duncombe said that the "quivering Italian eunuch" was too much for the stiff Roman statesman.

Winter Street Concourse

It can be used to pass freely between these two major transfer stations without boarding a Red Line train, and is therefore a means of transfer between the Green and Orange lines (this type of connection is also possible at Haymarket and North Station).


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