Under the Gaslight
Event Information
Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)
Manager / Director:
Benjamin A. Baker
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
10 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
26 Aug 1867, Evening27 Aug 1867, Evening
28 Aug 1867, Evening
29 Aug 1867, Evening
30 Aug 1867, Evening
31 Aug 1867, Evening
31 Aug 1867, 2:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
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.