Paris and Helen

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-York Theatre (1866-69)

Proprietor / Lessee:
Broadway between Prince and Houston Sts. Buckley's Hall

Conductor(s):
Henry Tissington

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 August 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1868, Evening
21 Apr 1868, Evening
22 Apr 1868, Evening
23 Apr 1868, Evening
24 Apr 1868, Evening
25 Apr 1868, Evening
25 Apr 1868, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Paris and Helen; or, The Grecian elopement
Text Author: Molineux St. John
Participants:  S. B. [actor] Villa (role: Achilles);  James [actor] Hurley (role: Ajax I);  W. [actor] Correster (role: Ajax II);  J. O. [actor] Neal (role: Philocomenos);  George Lingard [actor and tenor] (role: Agamemnon);  Agnes [actress] Wallace (role: Lena);  Sophie Worrell (role: Helen);  J. [actress] Wakeman (role: Parthena);  Irene Worrell (role: Paris);  Jennie Worrell (role: Orestes);  Welsh Edwards (role: Calchas);  James C. Dunn [actor] (role: Menelaus);  Lizzie Davey (role: Glance)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 April 1868, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 April 1868.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 20 April 1868, 4.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 23 April 1868, 9.

No mention of music.

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 April 1868, 5.

Announces death in Havana at age 36 of Reuben Lowell, “the actual lessee and manager of the New York Theatre, though not the nominal one.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 26 April 1868, 5.

“Mr. Molyneux St. Johns’ new burlesque of ‘Paris and Helen’ continues to attract excellent audiences at the New-York Theatre, and, something more to the point, seems to amuse all comers. It is cleverly presented by the Miss Worrells and their assistants, and will be played another week—every evening during the week and on Saturday afternoon. Offenbach's music has been admirably curtailed to fit the resources of the establishment, by Mr. Tissington.”

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 02 May 1868, 30.

Announces death in New Orleans of Reuben Lowell, about 34 years of age and “the ostensible lessee of the Worrell Sisters’ Theatre” en route back to New York from Havana, where he had gone to benefit his health (consumption).