| Monty Python | Next there was a comedy interlude with members of the | troupe (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) perfo ... |
| The Flying Fruit Fly Circus | ... ay River Performing Group (MRPG) being the most notable company. It spawned | in 1979, and these days conducts many productions through the Hothouse The ... |
| The Goon Show | ... ience-fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit and memorable comedy sounds for | . In 1959, Daphne Oram left the workshop to set up her own studio, the Ora ... |
| American Ballet Theatre | ... miered at the Connecticut College American Dance Festival in the same year. | was the first dance company outside Limon's to include the work in its rep ... |
| Virginia Opera | ... erforming arts center. The Harrison Opera House, in Norfolk, is home of the | . The Virginia Symphony Orchestra operates in and around Hampton Roads |
| The Goon Show | Like | before it, Round the Horne fed off and contributed to the nation's vernacu ... |
| Madison Ballet | ... rchestra, Forward Theatre Company, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the | are some of the professional resident companies of the Overture Center for ... |
| Dralion | ... ars away they returned in 2003 with Saltimbanco. Their European première of | was held at the Hall in 2004 and returned in 2005. 2006 and 2007 saw the r ... |
| Washington National Opera | San Francisco Opera and | began a coproduction of a new Ring Cycle in 2006 directed by Francesca Zam ... |
| Monty Python | ... e, which reunited for the first time since the 1960s. He also appeared in a | sketch, taking the place of Eric Idle. Cook was on the cast album of the s ... |
| Monty Python | ... n mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Sprocket - a later reference on a | album gave rise to the band of the same name. The parody also featured "al ... |
| Circus Maximus | ... e did not overwrite Maxentius' achievements, Constantine upstaged them: the | was redeveloped so that its total seating capacity was twenty-five times l ... |
| Seattle Opera | ... ure Hall of McCaw Hall, the same building at Seattle Center that houses the | . The city contributed $150,000 to the $350,000 project. This auditorium i ... |
| Strasbourg Opera | ... d a number of positions, in Hamburg (1910–1912); in Barmen (1912–1913); the | (1914–1917); the Cologne Opera (1917–1924); and the Wiesbaden Opera House ... |
| Carl Rosa Opera Company | ... the Theatre Royal in Manchester, on 22 April 1897, in a presentation by the | supervised by Puccini. This performance was given in English and starred A ... |
| Welsh National Opera | ... o, after whom the Ivor Novello Awards are named. Idloes Owen founder of the | , lived in Llandaff, Shirley Bassey is familiar to many as the singer of t ... |
| Monty Python | Amongst the influences on | , they are described as "indebted to BBC radio comedy, and particularly to ... |
| The Firesign Theatre | and the American comedy team | |
| Welsh National Opera | ... shed and wide-ranging—it is home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and | , has produced several leading acts itself and, as a capital city, has act ... |
| The League of Gentlemen | ... Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Young Ones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, | , Brass Eye and countless other strange and bold new comedies". Other ALS- ... |
| OperaUpClose | ... production produced by Adam Spreadbury-Maher at The Cock Tavern Theatre for | in December 2009. Originally planned for a 6-week season, it was extended ... |
| CODCO | ... nada has had several prominent satirical television series. Some, including | , The Royal Canadian Air Farce, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes deal directly ... |
| Opera for the Young | ... tre, a former movie palace that was renovated into live theater spaces, and | , an opera company that performs for elementary school students across the ... |
| Houston Grand Opera | In 1985 Jarre was invited by the musical director of the | to perform a concert celebrating Texas's 150th anniversary. Although he wa ... |
| Royal Danish Ballet | ... is a dancer and one time artistic director of the Australian Ballet and the | |
| Madison Opera | The | , the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Forward Theatre Company, the Wisconsin C ... |
| Scottish Opera | ... certs by performers such as Black Sabbath, Big Country, The Proclaimers and | . The hall has hosted sporting events such as wrestling. The new DG One sp ... |
| American Ballet Theatre | ... performed in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House, 23 May 1997, by | |
| Ballet Austin | ... lt partly with recycled materials from the old Lester E. Palmer Auditorium. | is the fourth largest ballet academy in the country. Each year Ballet Aust ... |
| CODCO | Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series | , on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable ... |
| Beyond the Fringe | He and others from | were later to work with Milligan and Sellers on George Martin's LP product ... |
| Austin Lyric Opera | ... estival, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Chaos In Tejas and Old Settler's Music Festival. | performs multiple operas each year (including the 2007 opening of Philip G ... |
| Teatro Comunale di Bologna | ... 6, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello); The | (4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi a ... |
| Marx Brothers | ... er earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the | , of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, mos ... |
| Opera Australia | Baz Luhrmann produced the opera for | in 1990 with modernized supertitle translations, and a budget of only A$60 ... |
| Santa Fe Opera | ... ct form plus sketches of the third act, Lulu made its American debut at the | in New Mexico during the 1963 season, with the American soprano Joan Carro ... |
| The Firesign Theatre | The character of Catherwood in | production of Nick Danger, Third Eye is vocally nearly identical to Major ... |
| Marx Brothers | ... 7 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian and film star as part of the | . His persona in the act was that of a dim-witted albeit crafty con artist ... |
| Tulsa Ballet | ... Larkin, known collectively as the Five Moons. The New York Times rates the | as one of the top ballet companies in the United States. The Oklahoma City ... |
| Marx Brothers | ... mount, Chevalier's name was so recognized that his passport featured in the | film Monkey Business (1931). In this sequence, a little more than halfway ... |
| Marx Brothers | Chico became manager of the | after their mother, Minnie, died. As manager, he cut a deal to get the Mar ... |
| The Goon Show | ... . Spike Milligan, the comedian who was the chief creator and main writer of | , lived in Woodside Park from 1955 to 1974. He was president and patron of ... |
| Hamburg Ballet | ... sdemona, and Max Midinet as Iago. The work remains in the repertoire of the | , seeing its 100th performance in 2008 |
| Circus Flaminius | ... ury Mirabilia Urbis Romae ("Marvels of the City of Rome"), which claims the | – but not the Colosseum – as the site of martyrdoms. Part of the structure ... |
| Monty Python | ... ed that the first person to say "shit" on British TV was John Cleese of the | comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Gr ... |
| Monty Python | #Comic Interlude including four members of | : Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing ... |
| English National Opera | ... l Ruders, premiered in Copenhagen on 6 March 2000, and was performed by the | , in London, in 2003. It was the opening production of the 2004–2005 seaso ... |
| Mobile Opera | ... ents. It is home to the Mobile Opera and the Mobile Ballet. The 60-year old | averages about 1,200 attendees per performance. A wide variety of events a ... |
| Washington National Opera | ... ending the opera together, and even appearing together onstage as extras in | 's 1994 production of Ariadne auf Naxos. Ginsburg was a colleague of Scali ... |
| Al G. Barnes Circus | On May 15, 1922, a large circus elephant known as Tusko escaped from the | , which was making one of its stops in Sedro-Woolley, at that time. The el ... |
| Beyond the Fringe | ... ter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, whose stage show | was a hit not only in Britain, but also in the United States. Other signif ... |
| San Francisco Opera | ... cle, Brünnhilde does not die, but instead gives birth to Siegfried's child. | and Washington National Opera began a coproduction of a new Ring Cycle in ... |
| The Second City | Murray was a performer for | comedic stage troupe in the early 1970s. He has appeared in numerous films ... |
| Cirque du Soleil | | has performed several of its shows at the Hall beginning in 1996 with Salt ... |
| Monty Python | ... l Fringe, and then to the radio and television. Fans include the members of | and the Goodies. On his death some critics choose to see Cook's life as tr ... |
| Birmingham Opera Company | ... er resources than usual. In 1990, the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now | ), presented a two-evening adaptation (by Jonathan Dove) for a limited num ... |
| Fort Worth Opera | ... rmance of "Before Night Falls", an opera by Jorge Martín, took place at the | . The opera follows closely the book by Reinald |
| Santa Fe Opera | ... 6-bit PCM recording in the United States was made by Thomas Stockham at the | in 1976 on a Soundstream recorder. In 1978, an improved version of the Sou ... |
| Virginia Minstrels | ... ted with abolitionism. The minstrel show was invented by Dan Emmett and the | . Minstrel shows produced the first well-remembered popular songwriters in ... |
| Monty Python | ... medy and popular culture. It was cited as a major influence by the Beatles, | (especially Cleese, Chapman, Palin and Jones, less so for Eric Idle |
| Circus Maximus | His altar (ara) was located near the | . It was either underground, or according to other sources, covered with e ... |
| Marx Brothers | In 1912, the | came to town to perform their singing act at the old Opera House. Their pe ... |
| Rabbit Foot Minstrels | ... r in Black minstrel shows, and for several years toured with F.S. Wolcott's | . From 1914, the Raineys were billed as Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators o ... |
| Monty Python | ... , Dave Thompson wrote that "the Stranglers themselves revelled in an almost | -esque grasp of absurdity (and, in particular, the absurdities of modern ' ... |
| Wolf Trap Opera Company | ... s held during the third weekend in July in Clarksville. Wolf Trap hosts the | , which produces an opera festival every summer. Each September, Bay Days ... |
| New York City Opera | ... ünewald. This opera is rarely staged, though a well-known production by the | in 1995 was an exception . It combines the neo-classicism of earlier works ... |
| English National Ballet | Since 1998 the | has had several specially staged arena summer seasons in partnership with ... |
| Whitey's Lindy Hoppers | ... own as "Savoy Lindy Hoppers" occasionally they turned professional, such as | and performed in Broadway and Hollywood productions |
| Mobile Opera | ... rt venue for the city and hosts a wide variety of events. It is home to the | and the Mobile Ballet. The 60-year old Mobile Opera averages about 1,200 a ... |
| The Flying Fruit Fly Circus | ... is also home to the Flying Fruit Fly Circus School, the educational arm of | , that provides educational services with an emphasis on the performing ar ... |