Humpty Dumpty

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

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

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 September 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
11 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
12 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
13 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
14 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
15 Aug 1868, 1:30 PM
15 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Humpty Dumpty includes the Austins’s zouave drill.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Humpty Dumpty
Text Author: Fox
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Charles Austin;  Carrie Austin;  Rita Sangalli
2)
Zouave drill
aka Lightening Zouave drill
Participants:  Charles Austin;  Carrie Austin

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 09 August 1868, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 August 1868, 2.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 August 1868, 7.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 August 1868, 158.

“The venerable ‘Humpty Dumpty,’ which has been running ever since last season at the Olympic, is doing fairly. At the matinee on the 15th, there was a very good audience present. In fact, the old piece at this house draws far better than new plays at some of the other theatres.”