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The Good Old Days (1953 to 1983) was a popular BBC television light entertainment programme recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties, which aimed to recreate an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.
The Edwardian era was the last time women wore corsets in everyday life. [ citation needed ] According to Arthur Marwick , the most striking change of all the developments that occurred during the Great War was the modification in women's dress, "for, however far politicians were to put the clocks back in other steeples in the years after the ...
Edwardian musical comedy began in the last decade of the Victorian era and captured the optimism, energy and good humour of the new century and the Edwardian era, as well as providing comfort to audiences seeking light entertainment during the First World War.
It was one of several musicals set in the Edwardian and Victorian era following the success of Oliver!. The female star, composer and lyricist all came from the satirical television series That Was the Week That Was. More was approached to do the musical by Bernard Delfont. More wrote in his memoirs, "My first reaction was that I couldn't sing ...
In the United Kingdom, with the Victorian era and Edwardian era. The Holy See of the Catholic Church contested Italy's claim over Rome; as a result, the pope became a "prisoner in the Vatican". This period coincides with the reigns of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius X.
A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
The fashion in the late Victorian era and Edwardian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so full-length pieces were often presented together with companion pieces. [10] During the original runs of the Savoy Operas, each full-length work was normally accompanied by one or two short companion pieces.