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)

18 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details

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

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Regular fix!, A
Text Author: Morton
2)
Fair one with the golden locks, The
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 Original Jacobs, an Old Jew Peddler)

Citations

1)
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.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 February 1863, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 February 1863, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 February 1863, 7.