HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE.
MB. J. 0. WILLIAMSON’S OPERA COMPANY.
The Gilbert and Sullivan revival, which is to be inaugurated on Monday night nexi at His Majesty’s Theatre by Mr J. G. Williamson’s splendid Repertoire Opera Company, is rather a striking sign of the times. The place of legitimate opera has for some years past been in, at any rate, partial danger of beiDg usurped to some extent by musical comedy, that inconsequential type of entertainment that seeks Co do no more than amuse theatregoers by a series of specialities and sparkling musical numbers without regard to coherency of plot. Apparently there is a growing tendency nowadays for the substitution of something more solid, and Mr J. C Williamson, alive to the signs of this' meets his publio by giving them the favor! ice old operas of the two greatest collaborators of the age. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera stands alone as a class that irresistibly attracts all portions of the community, and each of the series seems to have a perennial fasoination that neither familiarity nor repetition can blunt Consequently the three nights’ season commencing on Monday evening next with the charming Japanese oomic opera. “ The Mikado,” is bound to I come as a frankly agreeable event in our theatrical life, and crowded houses are sure to oventuate during the brief visit of the oompauy to Gisborne. “ The Mikado ” Will be followed by ” The Yeoman of the Guard, and “ Patience ”oh the following lilesday and Wednesday eveniogs. When it is know that the combination under notice has just completed phenomenally i successful seasons in Australia, and more I recently in Wellington, it will be realised I that a rich and rare treat is in store for the [ music-loving public of this city. The box plans will be opened by Mr Miller on the stage of His Majesty’s Theatre at nine oclock on Wednesday morning next. Precedence of booking will take place according to ballot. Season tickets will be allotted first. In order to proven speculators monopolising the best seats, no one will be allowed to book more than ten seats for each production
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 2
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353HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 2
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