Walter Hope Wallack

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 July 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

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

Program Details

Solo actor/singer; impersonations of 20 characters with quick changes between; 40 songs and dances; Folio of oddities; All the year round.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Walter Hope Wallack

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 04 June 1868, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 June 1868, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 June 1868, 4.

For 8 June.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 June 1868, 5.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 June 1868, 4.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 June 1868.
7)
Review: New-York Times, 10 June 1868, 4.

“Mr. W. H. Wallack sings several songs, and was we are bound to add vociferously applauded. But in all fairness we must say that he sings very badly. Art is not necessarily implied in such efforts, but moderation might take its place. It is an act in inhumanity to bellow forth three verses of ‘Annie Laurie’ in a falsetto, which is not even true in the matter of intonation. There is little, however, to chose [sic] between Mr. Wallack’s falsetto and his natural voice. Both are bad and should be used in a charitable and friendly way.”

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 13 June 1868, 78, 2d col., bottom.
9)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 June 1868, 86, 3d col., top.

“Then again, when he sang he gave from four to five stanzas, which sorely tried the patience of his hearers. Did he possess a musical voice, there might be some excuse for this; but his singing was very outré. His change to female attire was but a change in dress only, for his voice is such that it cannot be made to sound the least effeminate. He is troubled with a lisp and all his words that end with an ‘s’ are given in a prolonged hissing style, which sounds too much like affectation to be agreeable.