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:
23 February 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM
17 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

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

Mr. Hooter, who plays “an owl,” and Mr. Scaly, who plays “a carp,” are probably pseudonyms.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Colman Jr.
3)
Text Author: Planché, Walcot
Participants:  Laura Keene's Theatre, corps de ballet;  Laura Keene's Theatre, chorus;  Mr. [Laura Keene's] Williams (role: A crow);  Walter Lennox (role: Lord Cut);  Mr. [Laura Keene's] Scaly (role: A carp);  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown (role: Prince Naryred);  Mr. [actor] Hooter (role: An owl);  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke (role: Molly Mopps);  Routh Goshen (role: Gallifron, the giant);  Stuart Robson (role: Lord Thrust);  Mrs. John Wood (role: Queen Lucidora, Page Pitchin, and Original Jacobs, an Old Jew Peddler);  John T. Raymond (role: Count Pleniposo);  Charles Melton, Jr. Walcot (role: King Lachrymose);  Owen Marlowe (role: Viscount Verysoso);  James Henry Stoddart (role: Marquis Fiddlefaddle);  Isabella Nickinson (role: Pappilotina);  Miss M. delete Thompson [Laura Keene's] (role: Fairy windup)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 February 1863, 7.
Full cast.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 February 1863, 8.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 February 1863, 2.
“’The Fair One’ has been pruned and freshly supplied with jokes, so that it is now a very lively and pleasant affair.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 8.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 7.
Time.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 23 February 1863, 5.
“More Planche and less Walcott is the unanimous demand. Walcott’s ‘best scenes’ are extremely bad.”