Japanese Royal Company

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $1.50; $1

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 August 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM
25 Jan 1868, 1:00 PM
25 Jan 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Japanese dances.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Japanese Royal Company

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 January 1868, 7.

Advertises performance for 01/21/68, which did not occur.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 January 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 January 1868, 7.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 January 1868, 4.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 25 January 1868, 5.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New-York Times, 25 January 1868, 4.

“. . . There has been an intermission, filled by the native squeaking and thumping, called national music. . . . The native orchestra gives a very shrill national shriek as the aged party prostrates himself upon a table . . .”

7)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 January 1868, 8.

The event was overcrowded...It is worth seeing.

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 February 1868, 342.

“The house was only half full. After a long wait the curtain was raised . . . . After some delay in setting the stage for an act which was discovered to be all wrong, the traps were cleared away and more delay occasioned by preparing for the right act, which was that of introducing a child, said to be only five years of age, who balanced upon his feet a drum raised upon a number of small tubs(?). This he accomplished after several misses. . . . At the close of this set, Isaac C. Pray came forward and stated that the troupe had not had sufficient time for rehearsal, as the directors of the Academy had not informed the troupe that the house was too occupied on the day of the performance for a Philharmonic rehearsal, consequently the Japs could not rehearse their ‘machinery’ . . . . The fact is, the novelty has died out, and we question if any troupe of Japs, no matter how good they may be, can attract, particularly during the present lull in theatricals.”