Music Hall Days is a truly wonderful DVD programme. It is released through Green Umbrella and is presented by Lionel Blair. The programme was filmed at the headquarters of the Grand Order of Water Rats, at the Grays Inn Road, London. The programme starts by shoeing some sombre shots of old closed down music halls. Crumbling ruins and demolition sites are their fate, now. The music halls, the implication was, will never come back.
But as Lionel Blair ... ...out, there is more to music hall than "just" singing. Music hall encompassed all sots of acts, from "dancing to juggling."
Indeed, one of the bills displayed on the programme includes operatic arias, comedians and comediennes, a female impressionist (a lady who does impressions, in case you get the wrong idea!) male and female ballad vocalists, ballet, mimics, orchestral pieces, an eccentric comedienne, Risley performers (apparently some type of ...
Martinscholes 21.12.2005
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Sit back and enjoy the great days of yesteryear as this incredible programme guides us ... more
through the mystical era of the Music Hall.Presented by Lionel Blair, we trace the origins of the Music Hall right back to the days of the riotous Bartholomew Fayres...
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