About Gatti's Music Hall
For many, life in Victorian Britain was bleak. Carlo Gatti’s Music Hall Theatre gave Londoners an evening of laughter and recreation to dispel the gloom of everyday life. In its heyday "Gatti's in the Arches" was one of London's popular music halls. Carlo himself was long gone but members of his family ran music hall venues such as "Gatti's Palace of Varieties" (Also known as "Gatti's over the Water") from around the 1860s onwards. We know that in 1867 the great man himself petitioned the magistrates for what we would today call an entertainent licence and gave his address as "Wharf Road, Islington" which was most probably in fact what is now New Wharf Road, and the London Canal Museum. The Gatti family had complicated business interests that were interwoven but music hall was most definitely part of the Gatti story. Celebrating that aspect of history we welcome The New Players' Theatre Company to perform a show that Victorian audiences might have recognised.
About The New Players' Theatre Company
The New Players' Theatre Company are delighted that they will be returning to the London Canal Museum following the sold-out performance for Gatti's 200th birthday celebration in 2019 and again in 2023 and 2024. They have presented music hall at The Charing Cross Theatre for many years, under the arches at Villiers Street, and they take great pleasure in bringing music hall to theatres and venues in London and around the country. So let's step back to the good old days and enjoy an evening of fun and frolics.
The company performaning at the museum in 2019
About the show
This performance at London Canal Museum will start at 1930. There will be a bar selling wine and beer from 1830 onwards, during the interval and after the show. The show will finish at around 2130.
About the museum as a venue
Apart from its historic connections the museum is well-suited to theatrical events. On two floors, the ground floor will be where you arrive and coat storage will be available. The museum shop will be open and the exhibits of the ground floor including those relating to Carlo Gatti may be viewed before the performance.The bar is likely to be on the ground floor too. The layout upstairs ensures that you are never far from the stage with any type of ticket. Unlike a big theatre, the audience will be close to the stars of the show.
