comedietta

comedietta

(kəˌmiːdɪˈɛtə)
n
(Theatre) old-fashioned a short comic stage or musical production
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References in classic literature ?
William Button, of Tooley Street, in 'the highly novel and laughable hippo- comedietta of The Tailor's Journey to Brentford.'
Graham Moffat's Scottish Comedietta, "Till the Bells Ring", in 'Miscellaneous Items', p.
After a two-year absence from the London stage, Ward opened at the Olympic on Saturday 6 January 1883 as Stephanie de Mohrivart in Hermann Merivale and Charles Grove's comedietta Forget-Me-Not as the main piece, her 719th rendition of the role she made famous.
Mary Collette was then to act with her father in the first performance of Alec Nelson's comedietta The Landlady for a matinee at the Shaftesbury Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) on 4 April 1889, a forepiece to Malcolm Watson's play Calumny.
Walkes' dramatic sketch A Pair of Lunatics (with Oswald Yorke), Effie in her own comedietta Cousin's Courtship (again with Oswald Yorke), and Kitty in S.
(21) In the meanwhile Mary had acted in a matinee performance of her mother's comedietta Robert at the Queen's Gate Hall (South Kensington) in June 1900 with her aunt Mrs Ida Fletcher-Elmes and Kate Phillips in the cast (Era, 16 Jun.
The Giant ??-Dec-1896 Producer 15-Mar-1897 J T Tanner Stage Manager ??-Apr-1897 S Carlton Stage Manager H Talbot 11-Jun-1897 G Herbert Stage Manager F Hart 02-Aug-1897 J T Tanner Stage Manager 24-Dec-1897 S Rogers Producer (lib.) Violet 26-Dec-1898 A Sturgess Producer C Raleigh E C Matthews HENRY IRVING PERIOD (1899-1901) Date Theatre Play Genre 15 Apr-1899 Lyceum Robespierre Drama (toured 11 Sep-13 Oct) 26-Dec-1899 Garrick Puss in Boots Pantomime 20-Feb-1900 Garrick Bootle's Baby Comedy 16-Jun-1900 Lyceum Olivia Farce 30-Jun-1900 Lyceum Waterloo Play The Bells Drama 17-Jul-1900 Lyceum The Merchant Comedy of Venice 24-Jul-1900 Lyceum The Lyons Mail Play Nance Oldfield Comedietta ??-Mar-1901 Terriss' A Trip to Mus.