Little Nell and the Marchioness
Event Information
Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
18 September 2023
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
07 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM08 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
09 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
10 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
11 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
12 Sep 1868, 1:30 PM
12 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
Program Details
“Through the kindness of Mr. Junius B. booth, an arrangement has been effected by which six special nights, this miniature venus and diamond edition of dramatic delights is enabled to postpone her Boston engagement for one week, and to gratify a universally expressed desire by appearing in that beautiful creation of Dickens’ genius, framed and set to the drama by John Brougham, Little Nell, in which character she first built a home in the affections of New York. It will be presented with its full perfection of scenery, cast, and costumes on Monday, September 7.”
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
Discusses cast for forthcoming production of Little Nell. No mention of music.
“To-night, and for the rest of this week, Miss Lotta will resume the character of Little Nell, by which she has been best known here. With the performance on Saturday night her engagement will close, and after a few days’ interval, the regular season will begin.”
“But though Firefly has flown Lotta remains, and as Little Nell and the marchioness she will continue to amuse and delight New Yorkers for one week longer, after which she departs for the “Hub.”
“The week has been one of prosperity for all of our best places of amusement, but has not been in any respect an eventful one, either dramatically or musically. Miss Lotta, as Little Nell and the Marchioness, has been the especial favorite. Her farewell matinée to-morrow will undoubtedly call out an immense attendance.”
“Lotta terminates her present engagement at Wallack’s Theatre with the close of the present week. Fire Fly was withdrawn after the performance on the 5th inst. and for her last nights Lotta revives ‘Little Nell, the Marchioness.’”
No mention of music. “Miss Lotta closed on Saturday night, at Wallack’s, the most successful week of her very successful career. The house was crowded uncomfortably, and the young favorite received the most flattering demonstration from the audience, at the close being called out in front of the curtain, when she expressed her gratitude with as much earnestness as brevity. She appears to-night in Boston. Wallack’s this week will be turned over to the tender mercies of the scrubbers, the painters, the carpenters, the upholsterers, &c., and will come out of the ordeal clean, fresh and comely, in readiness for the regular season, which will probably begin a week from to-night.”
“Lotta closed a five weeks’ engagement at Wallack’s on the 12th inst., four weeks of which were consumed in the representation of her new play, the Fire Fly, written for her by Edmund Falconer, but which cannot be claimed as a success. The last week of her appearance was devoted to Little Nell and the Marchioness, which far eclipses the Fire Fly in interest, and which may be set down as Lotta’s strongest card. She has attracted a series of good houses, and may come again at some future time, at another house, with increased success.”