Iolanthe

Sinopse

Boston Bijou Theatre Company Thos. N. Hastings, president, Geo. H. Tyler gneral manager, John J. Braham, musical conductor, E.H. Hastings, treasurer. Gala opening of the Bijou Theatre, Monday evening, Dec. 11th, 1882. The entertainment will commence withthe national airs, Bijou Orchestra, opening address written expressly for this occasion by Mr. Wm. T.W. Ball, delivered by Prof. Geo. W. Blish, to be followed with the great comic opera by Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, under the management of Mr. Ed. E. Rice and by special permission of Mr. R. D'Oyly Carte, Mr. CHas. Harris, stage manager, from the London Theatres will superintend the first presentation in this city of "Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri," (in two acts). Elaborate costumes by Godtschaux of Paris and New York, charming scenic effects by Mr. Ed. LaMoss, mechanical effects, P. Henderson Reeve's Military Band. Orchestra of soloists. The entire theatre lighted by Edison's incandescent lights (Weber's piano is used at this theatre).