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Dan Leno in the 1880s. George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.
Dan Leno. Dan Leno, pseudonimo di George Galvin (Londra, 1860 – 1904), è stato un attore teatrale inglese. Dopo il debutto nel 1885 alla Forester's Music Hall, emerse come straordinario comico per le sue interpretazioni di personaggi della vita di ogni giorno, soprattutto donne.
Dan Leno (born Dec. 20, 1860, London, Eng.—died Oct. 31, 1904, London) was a popular English entertainer who is considered the foremost representative of the British music hall at its height in the 19th century. In 1901, Leno gave a command performance for King Edward VII, becoming the first music-hall performer to be so honoured.
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Dan Leno (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904) was an English comedian and stage actor, famous for appearing in music hall, comic plays, pantomimes, Victorian burlesques and musical comedies, during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. [1] He originated and popularised many songs, sketches and monologues in his music hall acts and made ...
Year PerformedTitleNotesDescription1876"Pity the Poor Italian Boy"First performed in Ireland under his ...Song1878"Pongo the Monkey"First presented at Pullan's Theatre of ...Sketch1878"Torpedo Bill"Follow up sketch to Pongo the Monkey, ...Sketch1881"A Nobleman in Disguise"Performed alongside The Leno Family at ...SketchDan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.
- Peter Ackroyd
- 282 pp
- 1994
- 1994
Dan Leno: the original Pantomime Dame. by Helen Peden, Curator, Printed Heritage Collections 1601-1900 and British Library curator of exhibition Victorian Entertainments: There Will Be Fun.
George Wild Galvin, better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era. He was best known, aside from his music hall act, for his dame roles in the annual pantomimes that were popular at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, from 1888 to 1904.
