White Cockade

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 October 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 May 1868, 8:00 PM
15 May 1868, 8:00 PM
16 May 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
White cockade, The, [play with music]
Text Author: Phillips
Participants:  Charles [actor] Fisher;  B. T. Ringgold;  James William, Jr. Wallack;  J. B. [actor] Polk
2)
White cockade, The, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Baker

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 May 1868, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 May 1868.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 May 1868, 3.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 May 1868, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 May 1868, 8.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 13 May 1868.
7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 May 1868, 7.

Cast list.

8)
Review: New-York Times, 15 May 1868, 4.

Brief; no mention of music.

9)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 16 May 1868, 46, 2d col., middle.
10)
Review: New-York Times, 16 May 1868, 4.

“The other female characters were absolutely magnificent—save that in a species of wildness various Scotch songs were sung, and sung so comically that we suggest their extraction from the play as the only mode of returning to reason.”