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BUNN, ALFRED (1796-186o)

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BUNN, See also:ALFRED (1796-186o) , See also:English theatrical manager, was appointed See also:stage-manager of See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:theatre, See also:London, in 1823. In 1826 he was managing the Theatre Royal, See also:Birmingham, and in 1833 he undertook the See also:joint management of Drury Lane and Covent See also:Garden, London. In this undertaking he met with vigorous opposition. A See also:bill for the abolition of the patent theatres was passed in the See also:House of See also:Commons, but on Bunn's See also:petition was thrown out by the House of Lords. He had difficulties first with his See also:company, then with the See also:lord See also:chamberlain, and had to See also:face the keen rivalry of the other theatres. A See also:long-See also:standing See also:quarrel with See also:Macready resulted in the tragedian assaulting the manager. In 184o Bunn was declared a bankrupt, but he continued to See also:manage Drury Lane till 1848. Artistically his See also:control of the two See also:chief English theatres was highly successful. Nearly every leading English actor played under his management, and he made a courageous See also:attempt to establish. English See also:opera, producing the See also:principal See also:works of See also:Balfe. He had some See also:gift for See also:writing, and most of the libretti of these operas were translated by himself. In The Stage Before and Behind the See also:Curtain (3 vols., 184o) he gave a full See also:account of his managerial experiences.

He died at See also:

Boulogne on the 20th of See also:December 186o.

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