Event Information
Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
21 May 2018
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
28 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
29 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
30 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
01 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
02 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
03 Oct 1868, 1:30 PM
03 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 September 1868.
Includes quotation from the New York Times: “No more innocent or entertaining performance has been given since this generation was young.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 September 1868, 9.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 28 September 1868, 7.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 28 September 1868, 4.
“At the Olympic, Humpty Dumpty, reconstructed and mute at his stupendous success, continues upon the bills, and this fact, together with the nightly announcement of ‘standing room only,’ is a sufficient proof of his popularity and success.”
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 30 September 1868, 2.