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Nellie Navette (1865–3 August 1936) was a well-known British music hall serio-comic performer of the late Victorian era. Famous as a pantomime Principal boy, comedienne, dancer and singer, she made frequent appearances at such venues as the East End Pavilion Theatre and the Tivoli Theatre of Varieties on The Strand where she appeared alongside such entertainers as Lottie Collins, George Robey, Tom Costello and Marie Lloyd, among others.

In 1889 she appeared in the pantomime Little Jack and the Big Beanstalk at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Liverpool. In 1893 she introduced her new ‘Floral Electric Dance’ which she first performed at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square in London with "kaleidoscopic effects" by Mr. A.L. Fyfe and specially written music by Georges Jacobi,

In April 1893 she appeared at the opening night performance of the West London Theatre of Varieties in London, while in 1895 she introduced the song and accompanying dance The Coon's Serenade. In 1900 she was on the bill at the Tivoli Theatre in Birmingham.

Nellie Navette died in August 1936 aged 71 and is buried in Streatham Park Cemetery in London.

See also

• List of dancers

References

1. ^ Streatham Park Cemetery and South London Crematorium - London Gardens Online
2. Nine Early Programmes for the Tivoli Theatre on the Strand, London - Arthur Lloyd database
3. R. J. Broadbent, Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Benjamin Blom, New York & London (1908, reprinted 1969) - Google Books pg. 291
4. Nellie Navette on Footlight Notes database
5. "London Correspondence", The Birmingham Daily Post, Birmingham, England, Monday 23 January 1893, p. 5b
6. "The Alhambra", Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales, Wednesday, 25 January 1893, p. 4g
7. Sheetmusic for The Coons Serenade (Song and Dance)
8. A Silk Programme for the Grand Reopening of the Tivoli Theatre in Birmingham - Birmingham Hippodrome Heritage database
9. Nellie Navette in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
10. Grave of Nellie Navette, Streatham Park Cemetery - The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America

External links

• Nellie Navette on Find a Grave
• Portraits of Nellie Navette on the National Portrait Gallery website

• 1865 births
• 1936 deaths
• Music hall performers
• British vaudeville performers
• English women comedians
• English women singers
• English female dancers
• 20th-century British dancers
• 19th-century British dancers
• Women of the Victorian era
• Burials at Streatham Park Cemetery