Christmas at the Small Empire Music Hall

From the musical tradition which gave birth to the antics of Charlie Chaplin! Join Centenary for Christmas At the Small Empire Music Hall, as they follow three generations of performers as they navigate the world of the English Music Hall from before World War I to the advent of radio. Like its American sister – Vaudeville – singers, dancers and comedians populated the variety entertainment of the day, where families gathered for a rousing evening of fun and songs including such classics as “I’m ‘enery the 8th I am, ‘enery the 8th I am, I am….”

The characters in Christmas at the Small Empire Music Hall were inspired by real-life Music Hall performers, such as the renown Charles Coborn, who routinely had the audience singing along with him on such numbers as "Two Lovely Black Eyes," which he sang, tongue-in-cheek, in 7 different languages.