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venues operated by Harry Rickards, an influential impresario whose Tivoli. | venues operated by Harry Rickards, an influential impresario whose Tivoli. | ||
| − | in 1900 he leased the Bijou Theatre in Australia to present, inter alia, the [[New Tivoli Minstrel and Speciality Company]] | + | in 1900 he leased the Bijou Theatre in Melbourne Australia to present, ''inter alia'', the [[New Tivoli Minstrel and Speciality Company]] |
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== | ||
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Harry Rickards ()[] was an American "comic vocalist", circus performer and impresario
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Biography
venues operated by Harry Rickards, an influential impresario whose Tivoli.
in 1900 he leased the Bijou Theatre in Melbourne Australia to present, inter alia, the New Tivoli Minstrel and Speciality Company
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performances as comic vocalist
The Rickards' Combination
In Australia it was billed as The Rickards' London Star Comique Combination during a tour in 1873[1]
This name is given to an act consisting of "The Flying Trapeze, Miraculous Dives, Daring Flights" presented by the "Great Rickards", Lottie D'Aste, Katrine Angellian and Frank Angellian, presented on 27 October 1877 in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as an after performance to Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused (Hazlewood) and a ballad by Miss Wynne.
Sources
The Sydney Morning Herald (25 August, 1873)[2] D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
The Age, 8 September, 1900[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.353, 362, 366, 394
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