Fifth Avenue Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Theatre (1867-73)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Nov 1867, Evening
05 Nov 1867, Evening
06 Nov 1867, Evening
07 Nov 1867, Evening
08 Nov 1867, Evening
09 Nov 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Miron Winslow Leffingwell;  Blanche Chapman
2)
Shylock; or, The merchant of Venice
Text Author: Talfourd
Participants:  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Shylock);  Blanche Chapman (role: Gratiano)
3)
Cinderella; or, The lover, the lackey, and the little glass slipper
aka Cinderella e la comare; Cinderella burlesque; Cinderella; or, the prince, the lackey, and the little glass slipper; Clorinda, the girl of the period
Text Author: Byron
Participants:  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Clorinda)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 November 1867.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 November 1867.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 November 1867, 5.

“Miss Blanche Chapman has replaced Mrs. Ledley Brown [sic] in the burlesque company at the pretty Fifth Avenue Theatre, and appeared last evening for the first time, as Eratiano [sic].  Her physique is rather slender for burlesque, but she has youth and beauty, and these are patent charms in an actress and form an agreeable substitute for many telents [sic]. Miss Chapman has spirit nevertheless, and a good voice.”

4)
Review: New York Herald, 08 November 1867, 3.

 “Shakespeare himself might have a hearty laugh over the strange, grotesque dress in which his Shylock struts on the boards of this pretty little theatre, in the person of Mr. Leffingwell, one of the best burlesque actors in the metropolis. Miss Blanche Chapman makes a very prepossessing Gratiano, and Mrs. Leffingwell a proportionately attractive Narissa. The burlesque is a side spiltting affair, and is received with laughter and applause by the fashionables that congregate at this establishment.”