Notable Performers
- Dan Leno actor and comedian
- Lupino Lane (actor and film director, actually great-nephew of Sarah Lane)
- Vesta Tilley (male impersonator)
- Arthur Lloyd (Scottish singer, songwriter, comedian)
- Joseph Reynolds (actor)
- George Barnes Bigwood (Resident low comedian, and occasional stage manager)
- James Anderson, a renowned Shakespearian actor of the time, was engaged at a salary of £180 a week in 1851.
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