| Show OLD SADLERS SADLER S WELLS THEATER famous playhouse has taken on new lease of 2 fe ii many a regretful paragraph has been written lately over the supposed approaching demolition of sadler sadlers s veils theater the sentiment sentiment how ever seems to have been wasted for sadler s wells theater brought brough t up to modern requirements by an expends ture of several thousands has just een reopened the theater corn com fenced as a music house as far back ai 1683 and for more than a century the place was one of the chief resorts of fashion royalty itself patronizing the chalybeate spring discovered by the owner in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many famous actors walked the boards at sadler sadlers s wells the Grim aldis father and son appeared there braham the famous tenor sang there in his youth edmund kean charles and thomas dibdin and belzoni were all connected v ith the theater and in 1832 came T P cooke as the original william in black ey d susan in 1846 sam tel i el phelps resolved to produce all shakespeare s plays at sadler s wells and for many years shakespeare held the stage there thirty of the plays mere ere actually produced and occupied 4 nights hamlet ran for then came a time of closed doors until in 1879 the house was rebuilt and opened by miss bateman it has had many vicissitudes since then and sadler wells theater now seems to be in a fair way to a fresh lease of life |
