Three Dwarfs

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Oct 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Three Dwarfs
2)
Lorenz und seine Schwester
Text Author: Friedrich
3)
Tasse Tee, Eine
Text Author: Drost
4)
Flotte Bursche; oder, Das Bild der Madame Potifar
Composer(s): Suppé
Text Author: Braun [librettist]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 October 1867, 8.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 October 1867.
3)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 October 1867, 8.
4)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 26 October 1867, 6.

Full cast lists included.

5)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 31 October 1867, 8.

The performance was sold out, as is usually the case when the Three Dwarfs perform. The audience was very pleased.

6)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 02 November 1867, 201.

The event was for the benefit of the three “little artists” Jean Piccolo, Jean Petit and Kish Joszi. The theater was well attended for a change. The performance of the three was very pleasing, very authentic in the portraying of the different characters with an excellent sense of humor.

The operetta itself is light entertainment and the score somewhat “engineered”; the music, however, is very melodious and reminiscent of old folk and student songs (…). The fact that the “Burschen” are played by women seems to have appeal to a part of the audience. Except for Mrs. Schermann, none of the female “Burschen” looked convincing. Miss Haffner sang her part fairly well and also looked decent as a student. The libretto of the operetta derives from the play Die Tochter Pharaonis.