Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 August 2019

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, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Ben Cotton and Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels;  Dick Ralph;  Charley White;  Ida DeVere;  Eva Brent
2)
Excise; or, Trials and tribulations
aka Excise trials
3)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Samuel M. Sharpley

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 October 1867, 6.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 October 1867.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 October 1867, 222.

Parts illegible.  “Ben Cotton is one of those quiet end men that requires to be seen several times before to appreciate their style.  The oftener we see him the better we like him.”