Lottery of Life

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jun 1868, Evening
09 Jun 1868, Evening
10 Jun 1868, Evening
11 Jun 1868, Evening
12 Jun 1868, Evening
13 Jun 1868, Evening

Program Details

Beginning of the summer season.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Lottery of life, The
aka Policy officer of existence
Text Author: Brougham
Participants:  John Brougham

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 31 May 1868, 4.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1868, 70, 2d col., middle.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 June 1868, 7.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 June 1868, 4.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 June 1868, 7.

Includes cast list.

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 June 1868, 5.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 June 1868.

Cast list.

8)
Announcement: New York Herald, 08 June 1868, 4.
9)
Review: New-York Times, 09 June 1868, 4.

No mention of music.

10)
Review: New York Herald, 09 June 1868, 4.

No mention of music.

11)
Review: New-York Times, 10 June 1868, 4.

No mention of music.

12)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 11 June 1868.
13)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 13 June 1868, 78, 3d col., middle .
14)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 June 1868, 86, 3d col., middle.

No mention of music.

15)
Review: New York Herald, 22 June 1868, 5.

(no music mentioned)

16)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 02 July 1868.

“songs, dances”

17)
Announcement: New York Sun, 25 August 1868, 2.

“Mr. Brougham’s vivacious comedy still keeps its place on the stage at Wallack’s, and continues to draw full houses. Its graphic pictures of metropolitan adventure, sparkling dialogue, and exciting plot, all combine to amuse and to interest the beholders, and to send them away thoroughly satisfied with their evening’s entertainment. The scene of the concert saloon is particularly good in its way. The pretty waiter girls’ were never so charmingly represented as they are by the young ladies of Mr. Brougham’s troupe, and the Ethiopian minstrels would do credit to themselves as independent performers.”