Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)
Manager / Director:
Benjamin A. Baker
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
10 June 2016
Includes full cast.
Act 1 “Betrothed and Discarded”
Sc. 1: The house of the Cortlands on the avenue. The story of a New Year’s Night
Sc. 2: The hatroom of the Tuesday Sociable. The tell tale letters.
Sc. 3: Delmonico’s ballroom. The beautiful wolves of society.
Act 2 “Where the Poor Live”
Sc 1: A basement in Rivington Street. A new phase of paternal love. The sad life of a beautiful daughter.
Act 3: “The Last Hope of the Outcast”
Sc. 1: The Tombs Police Court. A morning with Judge Bowling. Justice for everybody.
Sc. 2: Exterior of the Tombs. The most agreeable view of it.
Sc. 3: The piers of the city and Hudson river by starlight. How the lost tribes spend their evenings.
Act 4: “The Iron Pillow”
Sc. 1: A train at Long Branch. The lessons which the sad heart taught the weak one.
Sc. 2: The hedge near [illeg] The latest fashionable arrivals at a popular watering hole.
Sc. 3: The station shed by Shrewsbury Bend. The Down express train.
Act 5: “Dreaming and Waking”
Sc. 1: Pearl’s boudoir at Long Branch. How a beauty went to sleep and how the dawn came for a fugitive.