The V&A Theatre & Performance Department has digitised the entire contents
of several original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company prompt books, used in Savoy
Theatre productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the late 19th Century.
You can see what's believed to be the pre-production prompt book of The
Mikado (1885), as well as a later prompt for this work dating from the 1880s;
Princess Ida; and two prompt books for The Pirates of Penzance.
Go to:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/objects_theatre_perfo
rmance/doyly_carte/index.html
Best wishes,
Beverley Hart
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