Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Manager / Director:
Theodore Moss
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 May 2016
“A banjo solo for the Marchioness [played by Miss Lotta] is certainly a daring thing.”
“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.”
“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.”