Henry Pettitt
Henry Alfred Pettitt (7 April 1848 – 24 December 1893), was a British actor and dramatist.[1]
With Augustus Harris, he wrote the play Burmah, produced on Broadway in 1896. With G. R. Sims, he created a substantial body of very successful works, including In the Ranks (1883, 457 performances at the Adelphi Theatre) and The Harbour Lights (1885, 513 performances at the Adelphi). Their Gaiety Theatre musical burlesques included Faust up to date (1888), which remained a hit for several years and coined a new meaning for the phrase "up-to-date", meaning "abreast" of the latest styles and facts. Their next hit was Carmen up to Data (1890). Both of these were composed by the Gaiety's music director, Meyer Lutz.[2] His Hands Across the Sea (1887), starring William Elton and Isabel Morris, was a favourite in Australia, perhaps on account of its treatment of French convicts transported to New Caledonia.[3]
Pettitt died in Fulham and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the main entrance path from the north gate.
References[]
- ^ Wilman, George (1882), "Henry Pettitt", Sketches of living celebrities, London: Griffith and Farran, pp. 119–124
- ^ Program for Carmen up to Data Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Entertainment". The Colonist. I (XXXVIII). Tasmania, Australia. 6 October 1888. p. 14. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
External links[]
- Henry Pettitt at the Internet Broadway Database
- Henry Pettitt at IMDb
- Henry Pettitt at Find a Grave
- Henry Pettitt papers at John Rylands Library, Manchester.
- 1848 births
- 1893 deaths
- British male stage actors
- British dramatists and playwrights
- Burials at Brompton Cemetery
- 19th-century British male actors
- British male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century British dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century British male writers
- British actor stubs