Wood’s Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Price: $.50; $.25 children under ten

Event Type:
Opera, Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 May 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Sep 1868, All Day
22 Sep 1868, All Day
23 Sep 1868, All Day
24 Sep 1868, All Day
25 Sep 1868, All Day
26 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The museum is open from 8 am until 10 pm (except on Sunday). Two Offenbach operettas every afternoon at 2 pm (except on Saturday). None of the citations indicate which Offenbach operettas were performed this week, only that Susan Galton took part in them. Fanchon every evening at 8pm. Friday performance to benefit Maggie Mitchell.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  James W. Collier;  Maggie Mitchell;  Susan Galton;  Alice [actress] Logan
2)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Offenbach
Participants:  Susan Galton
3)
Fanchon, the cricket
aka Fanchon, the little cricket
Text Author: Waldauer
Participants:  James W. Collier;  Maggie Mitchell (role: Fanchon);  Alice [actress] Logan (role: Madalon)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 10 September 1868, 2.

For Lydia Thompson’s English burlesque company.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 September 1868, 2.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 18 September 1868, 5.
4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 19 September 1868, 8.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 September 1868.
6)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 September 1868, 4.
7)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 September 1868, 8.
8)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 September 1868, 4.

“Crowded houses are the order of the day at Wood’s Museum. Miss Maggie Mitchell has died as the heart-broken Lorle for the last time this season, and will prance about for the next six nights as Fanchon, the Merry Cricket, which will close her engagement in this city. When Miss Mitchell again plays Lorle, she will do well to discard the swan-like imitation of singing while dying, which certainly produces no other effect upon her auditors than to destroy what ever of pathetic interest or emotion she may have awakened within their stoical bosoms by her previous interpretations of the character of the loving and trusting maiden.”

9)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 September 1868, 2.
10)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 September 1868, 4.

Mitchell’s engagement closes with the present week.

11)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 September 1868, 7.
12)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 September 1868, 5.
13)
Review: New York Post, 22 September 1868, 2.

Brief; no mention of music.

14)
Review: New York Sun, 23 September 1868, 1.

No mention of music.

15)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1868.

No mention of music.

16)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 September 1868, 8.

Positive review; no specific mention of music.

17)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 September 1868, 2.
18)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 September 1868, 8.

Announces Friday’s benefit for Maggie Mitchell.

19)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 September 1868, 198.

“Maggie Mitchell is in the last week of her present engagement at Wood’s Museum. For her closing performances she revives Fanchon, Lorle having been produced since the opening of her engagement up to the 19th inst.”

20)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 September 1868, 4.
21)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 27 September 1868, 4.
22)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 03 October 1868, 206.

“Maggie Mitchell closed her engagement at Wood’s Museum on Sept. 26th. During her last week she appeared as Fauchon, a character which she has made a specialty of, and in which she is excellent. She was supported by Miss Alice Logan, who made her debut as Madalon. She is a sister of Celia and Olive Logan, and is a talented, prepossessing and pleasing actress.”