Princess's Theatre, London

The building opened in 1828 as the "Queen's Bazaar" and housed a diorama by Clarkson Stanfield and David Roberts.

[1] After an unsuccessful series of promenade concerts, alterations were made on the interior, and the theatre was reopened on 26 December 1842 with Vincenzo Bellini's opera La sonnambula.

The theatre, by now under the management of John Medex Maddox, presented operas and other entertainments, such as General Tom Thumb.

H. J. Byron wrote a series of Christmas pantomimes for the theatre, beginning in 1859 with Jack the Giant Killer, or, Harlequin, King Arthur, and ye Knights of ye Round Table[3] and followed the next year by Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!

[4] In 1863, Sefton Parry, recently returned from Cape Town, appeared as Cousin Joe in the farce The Rough Diamond.