Academy of Music

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Proprietor / Lessee:
[Lessee] Herold
[Lessee] Sheldon

Price: $.50 parquette, balcony, box; .25 children under 10 and family circle; $10 premium box

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 October 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Feb 1863, 8:00 PM
20 Feb 1863, 8:00 PM
21 Feb 1863, 3:00 PM
21 Feb 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details

With 200 children and a Corps de Ballet of 25 ladies.

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
aka Cendrillon; Cinderella; or, The good fairy and the little glass slipper
Text Author: Kelly
4)
aka Home sweet home
Composer(s): Bishop
Text Author: Payne
Participants:  Miss Allinson
5)
aka Coming through the rye
Text Author: Burns
Participants:  Miss Allinson
6)
aka Weeping, sad and lonely; When the cruel war is over; This cruel war
Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]
Text Author: Sawyer
Participants:  Miss Allinson

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 February 1863, 7.
Full casts, prices. Allinson is a “young English prima donna.” Two of the five “Trained Shetland Ponies” are named Little Mac and Burnside, which are names of Union generals.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 February 1863, 7.
“For a short season only . . . Commencing THURSDAY . . . TWO HUNDRED BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CHILDREN Will appear in the gorgeous spectacle entitled, THE VISION OF FAIRY-LAND, Or, Festival of Spirits. For particulars, see Herald.”
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 February 1863, 8.
4)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 February 1863, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 February 1863, 7.
Prices, performers. “Second Night of the Fairy Troupe, Cinderella. Grand March of the Fairy Guard.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 February 1863, 7.
7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 February 1863, 5.
8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 February 1863, 7.
Times.