A NEW AUSTRALIAN UNWRITTEN BURLESQUE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 179, 28 December 1893, Page 9

A NEW AUSTRALIAN UNWRITTEN BURLESQUE.

There was produced in the Town Hall, Fitzroy, Melbourne, on the nth of December, a novelty in the shape of an unwritten burlesque on ‘ Pygmalion and Galatea.* Great curiosity was aroused . lO® DCrtOniBMIBC® IJTOHI tu® Is&CL lu<U - ■

Pat Finn (‘A King of Shadows and Dreams’) was responsible for the burlesque. The cast included no less than ninety-four names. The principal characters were as follows : —Galatea, Miss Annie Douglass; Pygmalion, Miss Nan Gallagher; Mephistopheles, Mr E. B. Boothman; Fairy Queen, Miss Ethel Yelverton ; Little Lillian, Little Lillian ; Vocalique, Mr Harry Allnutt. The procession in fairyland introduced no end of the heroes and heroines of nursery rhyme, all of whom were dressed in the most elegant style. The marches, which were personally invented and superintended by Mr John Caesar, more than held their own with anything that has been seen of late years even on the metropolitan stage. It was confidently expected that Mr P. Finn would give the audience something out of the usual run of burlesque; and he did. At every point the young Melbournite broke fresh ground, the general verdict being a really excellent and thoroughly enjoyable evening’s performance. Miss Annie Douglass as Galatea, Nan Gallagher as Pygmalion, and Mr E. B. Boothman as Mephisto, could hardly be improved upon. An amusing incident occurred during the evening. One of the performers, a Mr Cumberland, glided noiselessly to a side door in the hall and admitted ‘ dead heads,’ but the managerial eye was on the festive Cumberland, and the tribe were detected. The face of Mr C., on discovering he was found out was a sight for a photographer. The 1 Unwritten Burlesque’ has added another feather in the cap of the ‘ King of Shadows end Dreams?