Fifth Avenue Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Theatre (1867-73)

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Oct 1867, Evening
29 Oct 1867, Evening
30 Oct 1867, Evening
31 Oct 1867, Evening
01 Nov 1867, Evening
02 Nov 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown;  Miron Winslow Leffingwell
2)
Shylock; or, The merchant of Venice
Text Author: Talfourd
Participants:  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown (role: Gratiano);  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Shylock)
3)
Cinderella; or, The lover, the lackey, and the little glass slipper
aka Cinderella e la comare; Cinderella burlesque; Cinderella; or, the prince, the lackey, and the little glass slipper; Clorinda, the girl of the period
Text Author: Byron
Participants:  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Clorinda)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 October 1867, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 October 1867.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 28 October 1867, 4.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 30 October 1867, 4.

“Mr. LEFFINGWELL’S Shylock we take to be one of the best specimens now to be seen of burlesque acting.”

5)
Review: New York Herald, 31 October 1867, 3.

“The Fifth Avenue theatre has become, thanks to Mr. Leffingwell and Mrs. Sedley Brown, as favorite a resort to New Yorkers as the Théàtre du Palais Royale…”

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 09 November 1867, 246.

“played… to good business, and the same bill repeated this week.  The burlesque was carefully studied, the performances were perfect in their parts and acquitted themselves to the satisfaction of all present. As a burlesque it is one of the best we have witnessed for some time. It is replete with humor, alternating with passages of the highest tragic coloring, and the most humorous and laughter-moving touches of wit happily blended . . . Mr. Leffingwell’s make up for the Jew as well as his acting, was as ridiculous as could be wished. His singing, lamentation and jig dancing in the market place, where he learned the loss of his daughter and money bags, as well as Antonio’s loss, were very laughable, and elicited shouts of applause. His drunken song was also encored.”