Oscar, the Half Blood

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Theatre [beginning Jan 15, 1866]

Proprietor / Lessee:
W. O. Bowers

Manager / Director:
W. O. Bowers

Conductor(s):
Napoleon Gilles

Price: $1.50 orchestra chairs; $1 balcony chairs; $.75 parquet and dress circle; $.35 gallery

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
26 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
27 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
28 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
29 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM
30 Mar 1867, 1:30 PM
30 Mar 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  F. M. Bates;  Mrs. F. M. Bates
2)
Oscar, the half blood
Text Author: SchoĢˆnberg [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 398.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 23 March 1867, 399.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 March 1867.

Performers. “New Music by the Chef d’Orchestra, Napoleon Gilles.”

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

Music by Napoleon Gilles.

5)
Review: New York Herald, 26 March 1867.

No mention of music. Oscar is a “long, dreary five act play. . . . A numerous audience was present.”

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 406.
7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 March 1867, 407.

Full cast, prices, matinee information. “New Music.”

8)
Review: New York Herald, 31 March 1867.

Just a mention in a list of matinees.

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 April 1867, 414.

Only one line about music, most of which is  illegible.Mrs. Bates’ “attempt at vocalism” was not very good. The play suffered from “its extreme length, being overburdened almost to suffocation with dialogue, and though a few sentences, happily constructed and ingeniously introduced, are occasionally heard, there are so few, compared to the mass of dullness with which they are hemmed in.”