New Bowery Theatre: J .F. Poole Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Bowery Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
James W. Lingard

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 October 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Mar 1863, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Foster Brothers;  Charles Edgar, Sr. Dobson;  Charley White;  Tony Denier;  George C. Boniface;  Thomas Grattan Riggs;  W. H. Ashton;  Charley [minstrel] Gardner;  Thomas L. Donnelly;  Fanny Denham;  Master [minstrel] Gibbs;  George B. McFarland;  H. W. [aerialist] Penny;  Frances LeRoy;  Caroline Edgal;  Heloise Markel
2)
East Lynne, [unknown playwright]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
"Pilgrim fathers, The"
Composer(s): Browne
Text Author: Hemans
Participants:  Charley White;  Thomas Grattan Riggs
4)
Gymnastic routine
aka Gymnastic exercises; Ring feats; Gymnasium scene; Gems of the gymnasium
Participants:  H. W. [aerialist] Penny
5)
Merchant of Venice, The, "Trial scene"
Text Author: Shakespeare
6)
Medley, unidentified
Participants:  Frances LeRoy
7)
Comic dance on stilts
Participants:  Tony Denier
8)
Comic songs
Participants:  Thomas L. Donnelly
9)
"Hop light loo"
aka It was down in Carolina
10)
Acrobatic act
Participants:  Foster Brothers
11)
Banjo solos
Participants:  Charles Edgar, Sr. Dobson
12)
Dance, unidentified
aka Extravaganza dance
Participants:  Caroline Edgal
13)
"Gay young clerk in a dry goods store, The"
Composer(s): Hays
14)
Song and dance
Participants:  Master [minstrel] Gibbs
15)
In and out of place
Text Author: Johnson
16)
"No Irish need apply"
Composer(s): Poole
Text Author: Poole

Citations

1)
: History of the New York Stage, vol.II, 0000, 202.
Full program, with additional names.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 March 1863, 7.
One main ad and several small ads. “Five Pieces, twenty Songs and Dances . . . Burlesque, Farce, Pantomime, Minstrelsy, Gymnastics, Dancing, Singing . . . The Three-Legged Wonder – Tripes Miraculum – The sensation Dance of the age by Tony Denier.”