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4 unusual facts about The Rivals


Count Primo Magri

Together they operated a famous roadside stand in Middleborough, Massachusetts, and with their troupe composed of other dwarves as well as people of regular height travelled the world, performing plays such as The Rivals and Gulliver Among the Lilliputians before the public and royalty, including Queen Victoria.

Josephine Hull

The Rivals (May 7, 1923 - May 1923, billed as Mrs. Shelley Hull)

Peter Pratt

In 1964, for example, he appeared in All in Love, a musical based on Sheridan's The Rivals.

William Dowton

He played with great success Mr. Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, Clod in Young Quaker, Rupert in Jealous Wife, Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garrett, Governor Heartall in The Soldier's Daughter, and Dr. Cantwell in The Hypocrite at the Lyceum on 23 Jan. 1810.


Edmund Joseph Sullivan

He soon graduated to the more prestigious role of book illustrator, producing illustrations for editions of Lavengro and the plays School for Scandal and The Rivals.

Robert Waldman

Over the years he has composed, arranged, and orchestrated incidental music for the Broadway stagings of numerous dramatic plays, including The Rivals, Dinner at Eight, Ivanov, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The School for Scandal, The Heiress, and Abe Lincoln in Illinois.


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Bronze Stalk Trophy

Designed by nationally recognized sculptor and DeKalb, Illinois (home to Northern Illinois University) artist Renee Bemis, the trophy depicts several cornstalks in tribute to the prevalence of maize around the respective home states of the rivals.

Jessica Swale

She has directed a number of plays, including The Busy Body, The Belle's Stratagem (nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director award in 2011), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Rivals, Mad Kings and Englishmen, The School for Scandal, The Glass Tower, Palace of the End, Bedlam, Winter, Finding Alice, etc.

Salabat Jung

But no fighting had taken place between the rivals, when Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung II died on 16 October 1752.

Steve Katsos

Guests of the Steve Katsos show have ranged from budding local musicians such as Will Dailey & The Rivals, The Luxury and The Self-Proclaimed Rockstars, artists and comedians such as Lenny Clarke, Jimmy Tingle and Mike Koutrobis to established celebrities and personalities such as Candy O'Terry, Joe Wong, Rick Dumont, Dave Zeltserman, Governor Michael Dukakis and even sitting Governor Deval Patrick, and many others.

Vaughn Gittin

He is also one of the rivals you have to beat in two career modes, Drift and Muscle and if you beat him in the 2 story modes, you could earn his Monster Energy Falken Tire Ford Mustang in drift mode and his RTRX in muscle mode.