Later Victorian booths, particularly those used for Christmas parties and other indoor performances, were gaudier affairs.

The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue for William Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado ( 1885 ).

However, after the heyday of Victorian choral societies, he noted a " rapid and violent reaction against monumental performances ... an appeal from several quarters that Handel should be played and heard as in the days between 1700 and 1750 ".

She revived old Victorian songs and ballads, many of which she retained for her performances in another revue entitled Riverside Nights.

In 1889, Emma Cons, a Victorian philanthropist who ran the Old Vic theatre in a working-class area of London, began presenting regular fortnightly performances of opera excerpts.

It ran for 245 performances, closing on 9 June 1894, a modest success by the standards of the late Victorian theatre, although it was a shorter run than any of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1880s collaborations.

During this time frame there were also major independent voices who defied links to well-known American poetic movements and forms such as poet and literary critic Robert Peters, greatly influenced by the Victorian English poet Robert Browning ’ s poetic monologues, became reputable for executing his monologic personae like his Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria into popular one-man performances.

The inaugural programme included a fireworks display, parade, vintage car display, Henley rowing regatta, river floats including a " Lord Mayor's houseboat ", cycling race, tennis at Kooyong, concerts including performances by the Victorian Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic choir, crowning of the Queen of Moomba and riverside carnival.

After a Student Union organised performance at the University of Melbourne, fellow Victorian universities RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology cancelled their scheduled performances because of the band's lewd behaviour at Melbourne University.

" Opera à la Carte " ( selected ten-minute opera scenes ), The Face on the Bar Room Floor ( a 30-minute cabaret opera ), and Victorian Salon Recitals ( solo luncheon performances ), are produced alongside the main opera season by assistant directors and apprentice singers as part of the Bonfils-Stanton Artists Training Program.

Both batsmen and bowlers from Solihull School have been cited in the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack for outstanding performances over the course of a season.

His performances during that English season saw him named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1966, acclaimed as " one of the most accomplished batsmen in contemporary cricket ".

Upon the resumption of cricket, Macartney stamped himself as one of the leading batsmen in the world with his performances during the 1921 Ashes tour.

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

Kazan became known as an " actor's director " because he was able to elicit some of the best performances in the careers of many of his stars, such as Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, James Dean, Julie Harris, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach and Natalie Wood.

Feldman's performances on American television included The Dean Martin Show and Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine.

Concerning the group's reputation for womanizing and heavy drinking, Joey Bishop stated in a 1998 interview: " I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy, or Peter drunk during performances.

Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader praised the adaptation by Kazan and the " down-to-earth " performances of James Dean and Richard Davalos.

The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day like Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, the Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and Little Anthony & the Imperials That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.

The first season ( 1993 – 1994 ) was a moderate success, garnering the cast, especially Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain, critical praise for their performances.

In 1969 jazz performances began at its Dean Street restaurant, London.

The two-day celebration featured film and video screenings by Steina and Woody Vasulka, Vito Acconci, Robert Ashley, Nam June Paik, The Kipper Kids, John Cage, and Robert Wilson ; musical performances by Laurie Anderson, Booji Boy, Glenn Branca, Philip Glass Ensemble, Brian Eno, Fab Five Freddy, Love of Life Orchestra, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich and Musicians, Z ' EV, Talking Heads, and George Lewis ; and dance performances by Laura Dean, Bebe Miller, and Arnie Zane.

The film also featured performances by experienced actors as well as up-and-coming stars, including two recipients of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ( Dean Jagger and Gig Young ) and several who have been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, including Dean Jagger, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Hugh O ' Brian, and Gig Young.

The series featured numerous performances and cameos by notable guest stars including: Dean Martin, Kim Basinger, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Abe Vigoda, Morey Amsterdam, Shelley Fabares, Shelley Berman, Savannah Smith Boucher, Alex Trebek, Sid Caesar, Slim Pickens, Isabel Sanford, Maureen McCormick, Cesar Romero, Doc Severinsen, Mamie Van Doren, Muhammad Ali, Robert Loggia, Kurt Krakowian, Leslie Nielsen, Lola Falana, Rudolph " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, Heather Menzies ( Urich's real-life wife ), Eve Arden, Barbi Benton, Lisa Hartman, Shelley Winters, Wayne Newton, Captain & Tennille, Wolfman Jack, Tanya Roberts, Lorne Greene, Erin Gray, Gary Lockwood, William Garbacz, June Lockhart, Michael Cole, and Dick Butkus.

Filmed in the fall of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the film features appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton.

Supporting players Dean Stockwell and Mercedes Ruehl also received praise for their performances.

Ween joined members of Japanese group Boredoms to form noise rock supergroup Z-Rock Hawaii, and Dean is also a member of hardcore band Moistboyz which sometimes features Dave Dreiwitz during live performances.

Lanza also performs a sequence of imitations of famous singers of the era — Perry Como ; Frankie Laine ; Dean Martin ; and Louis Armstrong-" When The Saints Go Marching In " — committing to film what was one of his favorite party performances.

The film was directed by Arthur Penn, with supporting performances by Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Forrest, John McLiam and Kathleen Lloyd.

She served as an advisor to the 1957 Patti Page TV series The Big Record, and also was creative consultant and vocal arranger for The Judy Garland Show, Judy Garland's highly rated 1962 television special with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and she kept busy with nightclub and television performances, as well as overseeing her successful " Eloise " franchise.

Sue Dunderdale directed the episodes and the performances of McFadden, Kemp and Dean have been described as memorable and filled with high-tension drama.

Sue Dunderdale directed the episodes and the performances of McFadden, Kemp and Dean have been described as memorable and filled with high-tension drama.

As an actress, Holloman is best known for her performances as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and as Tina Kennard in The L Word.

After theatrical performances in The Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings he became an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.

Other notable stage performances of Henry V include Charles Kean ( 1859 ), Charles Alexander Calvert ( 1872 ), Walter Hampden ( 1928 ), and Ty Jones ( 2011 ) in an all black cast.

It was contended that any rights that C / F International had to license the Tom Jones show did not include the right to make and license separate recordings of the performances on the show and that any rights that C / F International had in the Tom Jones show ' no longer existed due to numerous breaches of contract.

The multi-million dollar TV song & dance extravaganza was filmed around the world and included production numbers of classic songs from the era, lavish costumes and guest performances from Jones, John Wayne and Bob Hope.

The chain was named after Arthur Treacher ( 1894 – 1975 ), an English character actor who was known as " the perfect butler " for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several Shirley Temple films, and the role of Constable Jones in Disney's Mary Poppins.

For their three New York performances, the band members wore exactly the same clothes to facilitate seamless editing of the film, except for John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page who wore different sets of attire on some of the nights, which created continuity problems.

As well as recording sessions with Dusty Springfield, Jones also played bass for her Talk of the Town series of performances.

In live performances, Jones ' keyboard showpiece was " No Quarter ", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and sometimes including snatches of " Amazing Grace ", Joaquín Rodrigo's " Concierto de Aranjuez ", which had inspired Miles Davis ' Sketches of Spain, and variations of classical pieces by composers such as Rachmaninoff.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

During a 7-night stint at The Town Hall in New York City, Bright Eyes welcomed the following guests on stage for special performances: Lou Reed on May 25 ; Ben Kweller on May 26 ; Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice on May 28 ; Norah Jones, Little Willie and Derrick E on May 29 ; Nick Zinner, Maria Taylor and Ben Gibbard on May 30, Steve Earle on May 31, and finally Ron Sexsmith and Britt Daniel on June 1.

This musical history of London's Oxford Street was directed and narrated by McLaren and included performances by The Happy Mondays, Tom Jones, Rebel MC, Kirsty MacColl, John Altman and Sinéad O ' Connor.

During his time with Nine Network he provided backing guitar for performances by artists including Tom Jones and Lou Rawls.

* April 11 – The New Musical Express poll winners ' concert takes place featuring performances by The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Kinks, the Searchers, Herman's Hermits, The Anita Kerr Singers, The Moody Blues, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Donovan, Them, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones.

The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.

Jones and Alexander, who both had starred in the theatrical version, each received best actor Academy Award nominations for their performances.

* Johnny Jones London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on June 1 and ran for 349 performances

* Little Johnny Jones Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 7 and ran for 52 performances

Between 1605 and 1640, Jones was responsible for staging over 500 performances, collaborating with Ben Jonson for many years, despite a relationship fraught with competition and jealousy: the two had famous arguments about whether stage design or literature was more important in theatre.

In the summer of 1963, Vaughan went to Denmark with producer Quincy Jones to record four days of live performances with her trio, Sassy Swings the Tivoli, an excellent example of her live show from this period.

Tom Jones wore codpieces during concerts, and the lead singer of 1980s music group Cameo Larry Blackmon wore a large, bright-red codpiece in all of his performances, which was his trademark.

At the age of two, Monica followed in her mother's footsteps with regular performances at the Jones Hill Chapel United Methodist Church in Marilyn's hometown Newnan, Georgia.