Black Crook

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
William Wheatley

Manager / Director:
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Price: $.75; $1 dress circle secured; $1.50 parquette and parquette circle reserved; $.50 family circle; $8, $10 private boxes; $1 all seats Saturday matinee

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 April 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Nov 1866, 7:30 PM
27 Nov 1866, 7:30 PM
28 Nov 1866, 7:30 PM
29 Nov 1866, 1:00 PM
29 Nov 1866, 7:30 PM
30 Nov 1866, 7:30 PM
01 Dec 1866, Matinee
01 Dec 1866, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Extra matinee performance on Thanksgiving Day.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Black crook, The, [play]
2)
Black crook, The, [incidental music (Baker)]
Composer(s): Baker

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 November 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 29 November 1866, 4.
3)
Article: New York Clipper, 01 December 1866, 270.

Comments on sermon on the Black Crook delivered by a Brother Smyth at Cooper Institute on Nov. 18.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 December 1866, 4.
5)
Article: New York Clipper, 08 December 1866, 278.

Further comments on Smyth sermon; also William Gordon Bennett's crusade in the New York Herald against the “undressed beauties.”