Little Nell and the Marchioness

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Manager / Director:
Theodore Moss

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 May 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
16 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM
17 Aug 1867, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Old curiosity shop
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  Lotta Crabtree (role: Little Nell, Marchioness);  Thomas James [actor Olympic Theatre] Hind (role: grandfather);  J. C. [actor] Williamson (role: Swiveller);  Mrs. [actor] Jarley;  Mr. H. [actor] Coleman (role: Quilp)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 August 1867, 3.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 14 August 1867, 2.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 15 August 1867.

Long review with no mention of music.

4)
Review: New-York Times, 16 August 1867, 5.

“A banjo solo for the Marchioness [played by Miss Lotta] is certainly a daring thing.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 17 August 1867, 151.
6)
Review: New York Post, 17 August 1867, 2.

“The most successful of all [the four new plays now performing in the city] has been Mr. John Brougham’s dramatization of the ‘Old Curiosity Shop’ at Wallack’s, in which Miss Lotta has materially increased her hold on the public favor.”

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 August 1867, 154, 2d col., middle.

“She [Lotta] played with perfect abandon, and won great applause with her banjo solo and songs and clog and jig dancing.  Her duet with Mr. Williamson was very clever and received a triple encore.  She carried the audience with her throughout the piece, and gained a host of fresh admirers by her sprightly rendition of the two characters. . . . The Fair Scene, with negro minstrelsy, gymnastic feats, grand ballet, thimble rigging and Quilp’s evolutions on the tight rope, was very well done.”