American Theatre

Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Robert W. [manager] Butler

Manager / Director:
John M. La Thorne

Conductor(s):
Fred Van Olker

Ballet Director / Choreographer:
Paul Brilliant

Event Type:
Orchestral, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Jan 1863, Evening
27 Jan 1863, Evening
28 Jan 1863, Evening
29 Jan 1863, Evening
30 Jan 1863, Evening
31 Jan 1863, Evening
31 Jan 1863, 2:30 PM

Program Details

The Olga (Spanish Divertissement)
1st – Introductory Dance (Ladies of the ballet)
2nd – Mongador Polka (Mary Blake, Ross, Archer, Bogart, Scott, A. Blake)
3rd – Olga Polka Mazourka (Blanchard)
4th – Grand Finale (Blanchard, M. Blake, Ross, and Corps de Ballet)

J. Wambold, banjoist and Ethiopian comedian [WED-SAT]; Dan Shelby, Ethiopian comedian [WED-SAT]; Fred Shaw, comic vocalist and comedian [WED-SAT]; Kathleen O’ Neil, Irish vocalist, danseuse and comedian [THU-SAT]

Venue advertised as The Great American Music Hall.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1863, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 January 1863, 7.
“First week of the beautiful Spanish Divertissement, ’The Olga,’ Arranged expressly for this establishment by Mons. Paul Brilliant. . . . Charley White, the world famed Ethiopian comedian and author of all the popular Negro Farces and Burlesques of the Day.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 January 1863, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 January 1863, 7.

“THE SONGS, DUETS AND OPERATIC PERFORMANCE. THE BALLETS AND DANCES, THE SABLE MINSTRELSY, THE GYMNASTIC FEATS, THE SOLOS AND CONCENTRATED [sic] PIECES OF THE ORCHESTRA, THE ETHIOPIAN SPEECHES, BURLESQUES, ETC. . . . To-night, first appearance of . . . J. WAMBOLD, the renowned Banjoist.”

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 January 1863, 7.

6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 January 1863, 7.

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 January 1863, 7.

Mentions Van Olker.  Two small ads for the matinee.