French Theatre: Scribot, Chandora, Saunier, and Carnel Farewell Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
French Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Mar 1867, Evening
23 Mar 1867, Evening

Program Details

Unclear if the honored actors actually performed at this event.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Monsieur Scribot;  Mlle. Caruel;  Rosa Saunier;  Monsieur Chandora
2)
Supplice d’un homme, Le
Text Author: Grangé, Thiboust
3)
Amour d’une ingénue, L’
Text Author: Guillemot, Abraham

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 March 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 March 1867, 7.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 22 March 1867.

No mention of music. A “large and fashionable audience.”

4)
Review: New-York Times, 25 March 1867, 5.

Detailed plot summary for Supplice d’un homme. No comment on music, but of the French actors the reviewer writes, “It is remarkable how the French comedians who came among us so modestly, and have continued their performances without ostentation, have rendered some of our most cherished performers distasteful. Not because the novelty of new faces and new tongues attract us for a period to be measured by the limit of ordinary transient fancies, but because we see in them an Art to which on the American stage we are (save in exceptional theatres) mostly strangers: the art of being natural and distinct in the most dissimilar types of nature.”