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:
29 January 2016

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: Thomas L. Donnelly; Fanny Denham; Master [minstrel] Gibbs; George B. McFarland; Charles Edgar, Sr. Dobson; H. W. [aerialist] Penny; Charley White; Frances LeRoy; Tony Denier; Caroline Edgal; George C. Boniface; Heloise Markel; Thomas Grattan Riggs; Foster Brothers; W. H. Ashton; Charley [minstrel] Gardner

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)

Participants: Thomas L. Donnelly

9)

"Hop light loo"

aka It was down in Carolina

10)

Participants: Foster Brothers

11)

Participants: Charles Edgar, Sr. Dobson

12)

Dance, unidentified

aka Extravaganza dance

Participants: Caroline Edgal

13)

"Dry goods clerk, The"

14)

Participants: Master [minstrel] Gibbs

15)

In and out of place

Text Author: Johnson

16)

No Irish need apply

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.”