Rare theatrical broadside with manuscript annotations on the performance as it occured
Woodin, W S (quick change monologist)
W. S. Woodin's Cabinet of Curiosities, an entirely new and original Musical, Mimetic, Pictorial, Graphical, Polygraphical & Anthropological Entertainment...
Polygraphic Hall London,
March 26th 1860
Rare theatrical broadside of Woodin’s vocal entertainment. With extensive manuscript annotations in ink and pencil, fully describing that evening’s performance, with comments on the various scenes, costume changes, vocal performance, including “old - spectacled - small voice”, “something like Albert Smith’s falsetto”, “small clear voice & dressed well as young lady of last century”, “dialect not distinct” etc. Neatly tipped on mount along all edges. 510 by 250mm (20 by 9¾ inches). This program also contains a scarce mention of “smell” effects created for the theatre with the scene in the winter garden being “Accompanied by a perfume of the rarest flowers, produced by Mr Eugene Rimmell’s new patent process”. Woodin had acquired the theatre in 1855/6.
£500
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