The Lyceum was later managed by Madame Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Charles James Mathews from 1847–55, who produced James Planché's "extravaganzas" featuring spectacular stage effects. Their first big success was John Maddison Morton's "Box and Cox". Tom Taylor's adaptation of "A Tale of Two Cities", with Dickens himself as consultant, played in 1860, shortly after end of its serialisation and volume publication. Charles Fechter, who managed the theatre from 1863–67 also favored spectacular productions. In 1866, Dion Boucicault's "The Long Strike" (his adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester novels "Mary Barton" and "Lizzie Leigh") was produced here. Ethel Lavenu, the mother and grandmother of actors Tyrone Power, Sr. and Tyrone Power performed in a number pieces at the theatre in the 1860s. W. S. Gilbert produced three plays here. In 1863, his first professional play, "Uncle Baby", premièred. In 1867, he presented his Christmas pantomime, called "Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren", and in 1884, he produced the drama "Comedy and Tragedy".