American Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Butler's American Theatre [444 Bdway--before 3/66]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Paul Brilliant

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Jan 1863, Evening
20 Jan 1863, Evening
21 Jan 1863, Evening
22 Jan 1863, Evening
23 Jan 1863, Evening
24 Jan 1863, Evening
24 Jan 1863, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Program also included Bedouin Brothers, gymnasts.

Venue advertised as The Great American Music Hall.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  American Theatre, corps de ballet;  Tony Pastor;  Charley White;  Bob [minstrel] Hart;  Thomas Henry [Ethiopian comedian] Ryan;  Lew Simmons (banjo);  Johnny Wild;  Kitty Blanchard;  J. Briggs

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 January 1863, 7.
“EVERY PERFORMER OF EMINENCE In the Terpsichorean, Vocalistic, Ethiopian, Gymnastic and Pantomime professions. . . . Charley White, the great Ethiopian artist, in his original Negro Farces, Burlesques and Comic Sketches.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 January 1863, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 January 1863, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 January 1863, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 January 1863, 7.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 January 1863, 7.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 January 1864, 7.