In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, " It mutters a bit " instead of " Not really.

The interior of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where Michael Arne primarily worked from 1756-1767.

Michael Arne had a daughter Sarah who was a leading singer at Drury Lane from 1795 to 1800.

In November 2006, Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary entitled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month.

* Drury, Shadia B., and Michael Enright.

Under Susannah's guidance, Michael started out as a stage actor at Drury Lane before he reached the age of ten.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

The Royal English Opera company under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison, made their last performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 11 December 1858 and took up residence at the theatre on 20 December 1858 with a performance of Michael Balfe's Satanella and continued at the theatre until 1864.

Michael Drury, describes these techniques as helping the practitioner to develop " a deep and spiritual self-knowledge.

Michael Drury describes these techniques as helping the practitioner to develop " a deep and spiritual self-knowledge.

" Listed alongside Chossudovsky were Sunera Thobani, Shannon Bell, John McMurtry, Shadia Drury, Michael Keefer, Taiaiake Alfred, Leo Panitch, Kathleen Mahoney, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Sophie Quigley, and Joel Bakan.

In 1791 the Drury Lane Theatre was demolished, and Grimaldi was loaned to the Haymarket Theatre, where he appeared, briefly, in the opera Cymon, which starred the tenor Michael Kelly.

Fellow police officer Michael Drury has alleged that Rogerson was involved in his attempted murder.

In the West End, he appeared with Michael Crawford in Billy at Drury Lane, sang Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd, played all the men in the Mitford Girls and General Peron in Evita.

Under Waterhall's coaxing, the piece also became the long-running Drury Lane musical, Billy ( 1974 ), starring Michael Crawford, and a television sit-com both in Britain ( 1973 – 4 ) and in the United States ( 1979 ).

Michael Drury, on 25 February 2011 in a letter to the Irish Times wrote, " Official circles in Ireland recognised that Dr Hempel behaved correctly throughout his mission, given the narrow limits of his position.

It is claimed that the first Cinderella Pantomime in England was the 1804 production at Drury Lane, for which the music was by Michael Kelly.

In 1838 he became conductor of the English opera at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the period of Michael William Balfe's great popularity ; his own operas produced there were The Gipsy's Warning ( 1838 ), The Bride of Venice ( 1844 ), and The Crusaders ( 1846 ).

He also notably co-composed the music to the three act opera Almena with Michael Arne, the son of Thomas Arne, which premiered in 1764 at Drury Lane.

Gates performed at the charity event " Broadway To West End by Special Arrangement " on 4 October 2009 at the Drury Lane Theatre, singing " Why God, Why?

She then turned to drama, and two of her plays were produced at London's Drury Lane theatre by David Garrick's company in the 1760s.

She performed at Drury Lane for several years and later returned to Dublin, appearing in a variety of plays.

She thereupon obtained an engagement at Drury Lane, where her beauty rather than her ability slowly brought her into favour, and it was not until ten years later that she was generally acknowledged as the best actress of her time.

She launched her acting career and took to the stage, playing Juliet, at Drury Lane Theatre in December 1776.

She performed in stage productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dames at Sea at the Drury Lane Theater, Chicago, and appeared in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

She appeared with Kit and The Widow in Tomfoolery during 2005 and in the premiere one night only staging of a new musical version of Little Women at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

She was apprenticed to a mantua-maker, however, she acquired some theatrical experience in the provinces, and appeared at Drury Lane on 22 February 1783 as Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

She had joined the Drury LaneTheatre in London by that year, and her first play, The Perjur'd Husband, appeared.

She first appeared in London as Melinda in The Recruiting Officer in 1714 at Drury Lane.

She made her London debut on 3 November 1968 when she sang Abigaille in a concert performance of Nabucco at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, an event mounted by the London Opera Society.

She was soon playing a wide variety of parts, mostly comedy, at the Haymarket, Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

She was Lady Sash in the Camp, assigned to Sheridan, Drury Lane, 15 Oct. 1778 ; Mrs Sullen in Colman's Separate Maintenance, Drury Lane, 31 Aug. 1779 ; Cecilia in Miss Lee's Chapter of Accidents, Haymarket, 5 Aug. 1780 ; Almeida in Pratt's Fair Circassian, 27 Nov. 1781 ; and enacted the heroines of various comedies and dramas of Mrs. Cowley, Mrs. Inchbald, General Burgoyne, Miles Peter Andrews, and of other writers.

She and her husband remained with the depleted parent troupe when the senior actors walked out to set up their own cooperative company, and during the consequent brief actor shortage at Drury Lane, she played more important parts, notably Flareit in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift and young Tom Fashion ( as a breeches role ) in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse in 1697.

She continued to appear in minor roles at Drury Lane up to 1710, and had her first and only taste of female lead roles at the theatre operated by William Penkethman at Greenwich during the summer season of 1710.

She also starred in " I Love My Wife " at the Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago.

Wrote The King and The Miller of Mansfield and it's sequel, Sir John Cockle, both of which appeared at Drury Lane in 1736 and 1737 respectively.

: September – Wrote Drury Lane Theatre Address at request of Lord Holland.

In 2004 the pair worked with music journalist Jim Drury on the retrospective Squeeze: Song By Song.

* The Desert Song ( Sigmund Romberg )-London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on April 7 and ran for 432 performances

A somewhat different version of the sketch ( leading into The Lumberjack Song ) was also featured on the Monty Python Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane album.

* Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song by Jim Drury, first published 2003, Sanctuary Publishing.

" No Song " outsold even " The Haunted Tower ", and proved the best-selling show at Drury Lane for the following decade.