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3 unusual facts about Royal Command Performance


Command performance

Royal Command Performance, any theatrical or musical performance requested by a monarch.

George Lederer

Then crossing the Atlantic, it played for seven months, and received a Royal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in England.

Royal Command Performance

For the annual Royal Variety Performance performed in Britain for the benefit of the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund, see Royal Variety Performance


Ella Shields

Ella worked with many stars over the years, including a very young Julie Andrews in the late 1940s with whom she shared the same bill of a Royal Command Performance.

Gertrude Johnson

After the war the company continued to tour nationally, and in 1954 gave a Royal Command Performance at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in front of Queen Elizabeth II.

Poi E

Its popularity that same year grew further when it was well received by British listeners as the Patea Māori Club toured the United Kingdom, playing at the London Palladium and the Edinburgh Festival, as well as giving a Royal Command Performance.


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George Alex Stevens

His first successful song was "The Huntsman", sung by Dan Leno at a Royal Command Performance before King Edward VII in 1901.

Oswald Stoll

In 1912, he founded the Royal Variety Performance (originally Royal Command Performance) a now-annual charity show which benefits the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.

Beginning with the first event in 1912, and continuing until 1926, Stoll was instrumental in presenting the Royal Variety Performance (originally Royal Command Performance) a now-annual charity show benefiting the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.