Black Crook

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Manager / Director:
William Wheatley

Price: $1 regular and $.50 family circle for matinee

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Oct 1867, Evening
15 Oct 1867, Evening
16 Oct 1867, Evening
17 Oct 1867, Evening
18 Oct 1867, Evening
19 Oct 1867, Evening
19 Oct 1867, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Black crook, The, [play]
Participants:  Jarrett and Palmer Ballet Troupe

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 October 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 October 1867, 7.
3)
Article: New York Herald, 17 October 1867, 6.

Names Black Crook and Devil’s Auction among “undressed ballet” and praises the influx of moralizing dramas like Marie Antoinette and the dramas performed by Fanny Janauschek.

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 October 1867, 222.

“. . . the pretty dancers continue to ‘crook the pregnant hinges of the ones that thrift may follow.”