The Kingdom of Wrenly Collection #3: The Bard and the Beast; The Pegasus Quest; The False Fairy; The Sorcerer's Shadow

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Former Music Hall Venues, Music Halls in Paris, Paris Olympia, Folly Theatre, Royal Aquarium, Alhambra Theatre, Canterbury Music Hall, Empire, Leicester Square, Charing Cross Music Hall, Golders Green Hippodrome, Surrey Theatre, Hippodrome, London, Oxford Music Hall, Weston's Music Hall, Wilton's Music Hall, London Pavilion, Hackney Empire, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, Hoxton Hall, Greenwich Theatre, Evans Music-And-Supper Rooms, Bobino, Théâtre Mogador, Royal Standard Music Hall, Palace Theatre of Varieties, Strand Musick Hall, Apollo Saloon, Charing Cross Theatre. Excerpt: Folly Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The building opened as the Lowther Rooms in 1840. It was the residence of the Fathers of the London Oratory of St. Philip Neri from 184856 and was used for lectures. Here, in 1850, John Henry Newman delivered his Lectures on Anglican Difficulties, after his conversion to Catholicism. On the departure of the religious order, which moved to the Brompton Oratory, the hall became Woodin's Polygraphic Hall in 1855, where William S. Woodin gave monologue entertainments. In 1869, the building was converted to a small Music hall and playhouse called the Royal Charing Cross Theatre and, in 1872 was renamed the Charing Cross Theatre and was advertised as the Theatre Royal, Charing Cross, in 1874-75. The theatre opened on 19 June 1869 with W. S. Gilbert's burlesque of Norma, The Pretty Druidess on the bill, and in 1870 it held Gilbert and Frederic Clay's The Gentleman in Black. In 1872, it hosted J. S. Clarke's revival of Sheridan's The Rivals, featuring Mrs Stirling in the role that was to make her famous as Mrs Malaprop. The name Charing Cross Music Hall was also adopted in the late 1880s by the brothers Carlo and Giovanni Gatti for... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13676128