Legend of Norwood
Event Information
Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)
Proprietor / Lessee:
Broadway between Prince and Houston Sts. Buckley's Hall
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
23 September 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
18 Nov 1867, Evening19 Nov 1867, Evening
20 Nov 1867, Evening
21 Nov 1867, Evening
22 Nov 1867, Evening
23 Nov 1867, Evening
23 Nov 1867, 2:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
Quotations from various other publications: “The scenery was good and the music was good.” (The World, 11/12.)
“The thrilling effect of the tableaux in the second act of the reading of the proclamation of war, the departure of the volunteers, and the charming effect of the New-England Nutting Party by moonlight in the first act, are always greeted with deserved encores, while the splendid camp scenes and dangers amid which the gentle hospital nurses pursue their holy duties in the third act, and the sly humor of the Deacon’s courtship, and the darky Pote taking the temperance pledge and ‘swarin off,’ in the last act, are sufficient to insure [sic] the success of any piece. The tableaux [sic] of the return of the volunteers at the end of the play produces a rare thing in New-York—a demand for the raising of the curtain after it has fallen for the evening.”
“Superb Military Music!” “The performance terminates at 10 ½ o’clock.”
“A new drop-curtain has been added to the New York Theatre. It is the work of Minard Lewis, the well-known artist, and represents a view of the grand staircase at the Central Park as seen from the water. It is as about as beautiful in design as anything of the kind in the City. The scene is full of variety and life, and the subject offers such opportunity for the graphic pencil to work a triumph in representaing foliage, architecture, water and animal life, that it is surprising no previous artist has taken hold of it.”
“ . . . How nicely they are gathering in the church people at the Worrell Sisters’ New York Theatre, where they are playing Brother Beecher’s ‘Norwood.’ Why its [sic] almost as good as prayer meeting; the illusion is increased from the fact that the drama is given in what was until a year or two ago, a church. Here is something about it in verse, which, we trust, our readers will not be averse to read:—
ON YE RELIGIOUS DRAMA OF ‘NORWOOD.’
The drama no more is immoral,
For Daly and Howard and Worrell
To Hen Beecher went
And got his consent
To play his new novel called ‘Norwood.”
So, plain it must be to each citizen—
Whose brain the least bit of good wit is in --
That a play can’t be sinister
When a good minister
Says, ‘Yes, play my novel called ‘Norwood.’
So, now all our dominies must
In theatrical sermons be just
For sensation drama
A papa and mama
Has gained by the novel called ‘Norwood.’