Event Information

Venue(s):
Banvard's Opera House [JUNE 1867-]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 August 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Mar 1868, Evening
10 Mar 1868, Evening
11 Mar 1868, Evening
11 Mar 1868, 2:00 PM
12 Mar 1868, Evening
13 Mar 1868, Evening
14 Mar 1868, Evening

Program Details

Howard’s “Oh! I’se so wicked” was performed as part of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The play concluded with the tableua "Eva in Heaven." (See advertisement from New York Times.)

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Uncle Tom’s cabin; or, Life among the lowly
Text Author: Aiken
Participants:  Barnum and Van Amburgh Museum and Menagerie Company;  Mrs. George C. Howard (role: Topsy)
2)
"Oh! I'se so wicked"
Composer(s): Howard
Text Author: Howard

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 March 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 March 1868, 7.

“…to conclude with a grand and magnificent allegorical tableaux, EVA IN HEAVEN.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 March 1868.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 11 March 1868.

No mention of music.

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 12 March 1868, 4.