Olympic Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Aug 1867, Evening
06 Aug 1867, Evening
07 Aug 1867, Evening
08 Aug 1867, Evening
09 Aug 1867, Evening
10 Aug 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
David Copperfield
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Brougham (role: Micawber)
2)
Pocahontas; or, The gentle savage
aka Po-ca-hon-tas; or, Ye gentle savage; Belle sauvage, La
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Brougham (role: Powhatan);  Emily Thorne (role: Pocahantas)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 August 1867, 3.
2)
Review: New York Post, 07 August 1867, 4.

“Mr. Brougham’s conception of the character of Micawber is, to our mind, the most perfect and consistent we have ever seen embodied on the stage.”

3)
Review: New York Post, 09 August 1867, 2.

No mention of music.

4)
Review: New-York Times, 12 August 1867, 5.

Brougham’s personations of Dickens’s characters. 

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 August 1867, 150, 2d col., bottom.

"It is singular that a manager will permit stage carpenters to go behind the scenes in such a condition so that it is impossible for them to know one scene from another, and nearly ruin the interest of the piece, as was the case on the evening of the 12th inst.”  No mention of music.