American Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [472 Broadway; 6/67-4/68]

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Price: $.35; $.50 reserved; $.25 gallery

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 November 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM
05 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM
06 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM
07 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM
08 Jun 1867, 2:30 PM
08 Jun 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  American Theatre, corps de ballet;  George H. Coes;  Dick Sands [minstrel dancer];  Eloise [vocalist] Clyde;  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen;  Sam S. [Ethiopian comedian] Purdy;  Charley [minstrel] Pettingill;  George R. Edeson;  Hughey [minstrel] Dougherty;  Walter Eaton;  Lucy Clinetop;  Sallie Clinetop;  Amalia Zuccoli;  Eugenia Zuccoli
2)
"My father sold charcoal"
aka My father sould charcoal; Me father sould charcoal
Composer(s): Traditional
Participants:  Johnny [Ethiopian comedian] Queen
3)
Good for nothing, The
aka Nan, the good for nothing; Nan the good for nothing ; Crazy Nan
Text Author: Buckstone

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 June 1867, 70, 2d col., bottom.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 16 June 1867, 78, 2d col., bottom.

“Surging crowd.”  Discusses redecoration of auditorium.  “George Edeson does the comic singing, and having been on Broadway for a long time is a favorite with his audiences. . . . Johnny Queen’s song and dance of ‘My Father Sould [sic] Charcoal’ is one of the best acts we have seen for a long time; he not only dresses the act well, but acts just as if he has been brought up to the business.  It is a screaming song and dance.”