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Journal Article
The Bedford Music Hall
2013
Overview
There were scores of music halls in metropolitan London in the 1890s, but it is the Bedford music hall in Camden Town that still matters most to posterity, for the single fact that painter Walter Sickert took for his subject [ Image omitted: Sickert started chronicling the Bedford at a time when music hall fare—ballet, comic singers, and novelty acts—began to attract a more affluent and educated audience than the working class patrons who had long been the entertainment’s core constituency. Little Dot Hetherington at the Bedford Music Hall (c. 1888–89) catches the singer in mid-gesture, pointing to her love object seated in the “gods” as she hits the critical moment of the chorus. On the interior, the seats were re-covered in red plush, the balcony seats were widened, and a motorized stage curtain, a major labour-saving device, was added.
