Laura Keene's Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Laura Keene's Theatre (1862-63)

Proprietor / Lessee:
Laura Keene

Manager / Director:
Laura Keene

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Event Type:
Choral, Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM
11 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM
12 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM
13 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Thomas Baker, arr. & cond.; Mr. J.G. Maeder, arr.

Fair one with the golden locks includes:
Opening Chorus, “Lucidora, surnamed the Fair One” (chorus)
Medley, “There are Ladies who dwell” (Wood)
Aria and Chorus, “Comb it genteelly” (Wood, Raymond, Brown, chorus)
Three Part Song, “Fair Queen, I beg my suit you’ll grant” (Wood, Raymond, Brown)
Duet, “Madam, with all humility” (Wood and Brown)
Song, “Lucidoram the pride of this heart” (Brown)
Brindisi, “Ills, so great, oh!” (Wood)
Chorus, “See, here comes the King” (chorus)
Trio, “Simple as A, B, C” (Wood, Walcot, Raymond)
Duet and Chorus, “Begone, Sir” (Wood, Walcot, chorus)
Duet, “Sir, a secret” (Wood, Walcot)
Concerted Piece, “Here’s a go” (Wood, Walcot, Raymond, Brown, chorus)
“NOTE – This piece is a novelty never before attempted.”
Overture (company – “The Characters sing a celebrated Overture.”)
Trio, “From these coves could I fly, love” (Wood, Walcot, Brown)
Finale, “Now our rivalry is o’er” (Wood, chorus)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Wilks
2)
Text Author: Planché, Walcot
Participants:  Laura Keene's Theatre, corps de ballet;  Laura Keene's Theatre, chorus;  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown (role: Prince Naryred);  John T. Raymond (role: Count Pleniposo);  Charles Melton, Jr. Walcot (role: King Lachrymose);  Mrs. John Wood (role: Queen Lucidora, Page Pitchin, and an Old Jew Peddler)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 February 1863, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 February 1863, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 February 1863, 7.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 16 February 1863, 8.
“[I]mmense audiences nightly . . . The piece has been improved since the first night, and more fun has been crowded into the closing scenes. . . . The scenery is very pretty, and the music worth hearing, but the characters – Mrs. Wood’s excepted – do not amount to very much, and are not very well acted. Mrs. Sedley Brown, for example, does not seem to understand that she is playing a burlesque, and Mr. Charles Walcott, Sr., understands perfectly what he ought to do, but appears not quite able to do it. . . . The Arabian Giant is quite a star.”