Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
James E. [manager, proprietor] Hayes

Manager / Director:
George Washington Lafayette Fox

Conductor(s):
Anthony, Jr. Reiff

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
14 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
15 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
16 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Jan 1868, 1:30 PM
18 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Clifton W. Tayleure, business manager.

Rosa Cooke's role as Oberon included singing.

The songs "I know a bank," "Lo! Hear the gentle lark," and "Where the bee sucks" were included in the performance of the play.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Midsummer night’s dream, A
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Bottom);  Rosa Cooke [soprano] (role: Oberon)
2)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein
aka Midsummer night's dream
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
"I know a bank"
Composer(s): Horn [composer]
Text Author: Shakespeare
4)
"Lo! Hear the gentle lark"
aka Gentle lark; Lo! Here the gentle lark
Composer(s): Bishop
5)
Tempest, The, "Where the bee sucks"
Composer(s): Arne

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 04 January 1868, 311.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 January 1868, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 January 1868, 5.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 January 1868, 326.

Brief; separate from review on the same page. Notes that this is the "twelfth and last week but two" of Midsummer Night's Dream.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 January 1868, 326.

Tongue-in-cheek review by “Our Jim.” No mention of music.