Cinder Ellen up too Late

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Fred Leslie
as the servant in Cinder Ellen up too Late

Cinder Ellen up too Late is a musical

Osmond Carr, Scott Gatti, Jacobi, Robertson, and Leopold Wenzel. Additional lyrics were written by Basil Hood. The show was a burlesque of the well-known pantomime and fairy tale, Cinderella
.

The piece was first produced in

Fred Leslie as "a servant". Adelaide Astor had the small role of Templina and later the larger one of Fettalana, and Topsy Sinden danced in the piece.[1] Lottie Collins sang her sensationally popular song, "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" as an interpolation in the show every evening.[2]

The title was a "playful allusion" to the real first name, Ellen, of the Gaiety's famous star, Nellie Farren.[3] After the company's return from Australia, and before the opening of Cinder Ellen in London, Farren experienced an attack of rheumatic fever which aggravated her spinal disease. She had to withdraw from the London production of Cinder Ellen. Her illness progressively crippled her, and Farren rarely performed after this.[4] Farren's withdrawal left Kate James to open in the title role in London.[3]

Background

This type of burlesque was popular in Britain at the time. Other examples include The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole (1877), Blue Beard (1882), Ariel (1883, by F. C. Burnand), Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed (1883), Little Jack Sheppard (1885), Monte Cristo Jr. (1886), Miss Esmeralda (1887), Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887), Mazeppa, Faust up to Date (1888), Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (1888), Carmen up to Data (1891) and Don Juan (1892, with lyrics by Adrian Ross).[5]

Fred Leslie, who played comic characters and wrote many of its pieces under his pseudonym, "A. C. Torr".[8] In the early 1890s, as Burlesque went out of fashion, Edwardes changed the focus of the theatre from musical burlesque to the new genre of Edwardian musical comedy.[9]

Characters and casts

The following list shows the names of the 1891 London cast, followed by the names of the 1892 cast:

Sylvia Grey as Linconzina
  • Cinder-Ellen – Kate James; Letty Lind
  • Linconzina – Sylvia Grey; Katie Seymour
  • Fettalana – Florence Levey; Adelaide Astor[10]
  • Mrs. Kensington Gore – Emily Miller; Miss Holmes
  • Lord Taplow – Maud Hodson; Florence Lloyd
  • Lord Eastbourne – Blanche Massey; Ethel Earle
  • Lord Soho – Hetty Hamer; Louie Pounds
  • Mrs. Bayswater – Miss Kate Welwyn (1892 only)
  • Sir Peterborough Court – Violet Durkin; Maud Boyd
  • Lord Whitefriars – Miss Dunville; Miss Farrington (called Lord Blackfriars in 1892)
  • Sir Waterloo Bridge – Miss Norton; Lily Harold
  • Catherina – Lilian Price
  • Grazina – Maud Wilmot; Alice Gilbert
  • Furnivalzina – Violet Monckton
  • Griffina – Eva Greville; Bob Robina
  • Templina – Adelaide Astor; Miss Maud
  • Victorina – Lily McIntyre; Topsy Sinden
  • Pages (1892 only) – Phoebe Carlo and Lilian Sedgewick
  • Prince Belgravia – E. J. Lonnen; Maggie Duggan
  • Sir Ludgate Hill – Arthur Williams; Charles Danby
  • Lord Leatherhead (1892 only) – Fred Storey
  • Charles Hollywell (1892 only) – Arthur Playfair
  • Peckham – Mr. Harris; Mr. Barry
  • Gnorwood – Mr. Walker; E. D. Wardes[11]
  • Footman – Mr. Hill (both productions)
  • A Servant –
    Fred Leslie
    (both productions)

Notes

  1. ^ The Era, 4 June 1898, p. 10
  2. ^ Hollingshead, p. 64
  3. ^ a b Hollingshead, p. 63
  4. ^ Some information about Farren Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Programme for Carmen up to Data Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Arthur Lloyd Music Hall site (on Gaiety) Cuttings, accessed 1 Mar 2007 Archived 12 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Theatrical Humour in the Seventies", The Times, 20 February 1914, p. 9
  8. ^ Stewart, Maurice. "The spark that lit the bonfire", in Gilbert and Sullivan News Spring 2003, London: The Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
  9. ISBN 0-304-29372-5
  10. George Grossmith, Jr.
  11. ^ possibly a pseudonym for George Edwardes

References

  • Adams, William Davenport. A dictionary of the drama (1904) Chatto & Windus
  • Hollingshead, John. Good Old Gaiety: An Historiette & Remembrance (1903) London:Gaiety Theatre Co

External links

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