THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 105, 1 October 1874, Page 2

THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT.

To the Editor of the Olohe.

Sir, —I see the present lessees are still under the impression that anything is good enough for a Christchurch audience, not only in the shape of pieces, but also in the selection of songs. Fancy an infant prodigy coming on the stage, and singing night after night, such a class of song as “Itickled her under the chin !” and other songs of a similarly edifying (?) nature. It would appear as if the stage manager did not dare ask any adult member of the company to sing such a description of song, trusting to the youthful appearance of the singer tocarry him through; as I question very much if one of older years would have been allowed to have got as far as a second verse in such a line of business. When Igo to a so-called respectable theatre I do not wish to be a listener to what, in the mildest term, is known as a “coal-hole” song. If such is to continue to be the rule of things, let the management say so, and change the 1 ! name of the place, and call it after its strong-tending propensities, viz; “ Free and Easy,” or some such appropriate and more suitable appellation, but do not delude the public into the belief that they are going towitness agenuine class of entertainment If such a state of things is to continue the sooner the patrons of ‘ ‘ legitimate drama ” withdraw their support, the better it will be for all concerned, as, by their presence, they to ci certain extent acquiesce in tlie pioductions placed on the stage, which are only fit to be witnessed by an audience who are not over-nice in their discrimination, and who believe in “ quantity not quality.” By-the-bye, I see by the Gloucester street journal that in future the theatre advertisements will only appear in the papers issued from that establishment! Too bad, upon my word, Mr Editor. Why, how will the Cashel street luminaries manage to exist after such a sudden and substantial withdrawal of support from their advertising columns ? Well, I will give you my widow s mite towards it—put me down for an extra copy of the Globe — O'ish —that will go a great way towards making up for the serious inconvenience the proprietor will suffer owing to the sad disaster. Yours, &c., DECENCY. Christchurch, October 1. 1874.