It specialises in the commissioning and production of new writing, interspersed with occasional revivals and classic productions.

There was a 1941 film version with Bob Hope, a national tour and occasional revivals.

The works at hand, though, deserve an occasional revival, if only for their scoring variety.

This is not to deny that the piece deserves an occasional revival.

Although neither work has enjoyed more than very occasional revivals, both have been much admired by critics and musicologists.

And occasional revivals prove it still durable.

After 1840, the religious fervor had died down, although occasional revivals did continue in the 40s and 50s.

Since then Fletcher has increasingly become a subject only for occasional revivals and for specialists.

The genre died out towards the end of the century, with occasional brief revivals in the twentieth century.

Interest declined in the later 1960s but there have been occasional revivals since the 1970s.