Black Crook
Event Information
Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden
Manager / Director:
William Wheatley
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: $.75; $.50 family circle; $1 dress circle secured; $1.50 parquette and parquette circle reserved; $8, $10 private boxes; $1 all seats Saturday matinee
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 July 2021
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
08 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM09 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM
10 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM
11 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM
12 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM
13 Oct 1866, 1:00 PM
13 Oct 1866, 7:30 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“Niblo’s Garden is filled to overflowing every night with the admirers of the French ballet and magnificent scenic effects. The ‘Black Crook’ has been the greatest success of the season.”
“In the naked drama of the ‘Black Crook,’ at Niblo’s, the imported ballet girls nightly ‘crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow’ dancing. The play draws nearly as well as ever, and the most attractive feature of this raree show, the closing scene, is always witnessed amidst the greatest enthusiasm. When this spectacle was first produced here, the press attributed its success altogether to the dancers, while the author of the play received no credit whatever for his share of the work. And yet ‘The Black Crook’ was recently produced at the Metropolitan Theatre, Buffalo, without the imported nudities, and its success has been of the most marked character, the house being crowded to repletion every evening. Will those foreign critics and managers who condemn native productions make a note of this?”