Laura Keene's Theatre
Event Information
Venue(s):
Laura Keene's Theatre (1862-63)
Proprietor / Lessee:
Laura Keene
Manager / Director:
Laura Keene
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
24 October 2010
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
26 Jan 1863, 7:45 PM27 Jan 1863, 7:45 PM
Program Details
The Pet of the Petticoats includes the songs:
“Dear friends around me smiling” (Wood)
“Pious child, The” (Wood)
“Sweet eyes” (Wood)
“Sestette” (Wood)
“Good-bye sisters” (Wood)
“Vive la companie” (Wood)
“Dear friends around me smiling” (Wood)
“Pious child, The” (Wood)
“Sweet eyes” (Wood)
“Sestette” (Wood)
“Good-bye sisters” (Wood)
“Vive la companie” (Wood)
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Citations
3)
“Mrs. John Wood is drawing capitally at Laura Keene’s. This evening the comic operetta, ‘The Pet of the Petticoats,’ will be revived, with Mrs. John Wood in one of her best parts and several of her best songs.”
4)
Song titles listed. Pet of the Petticoats “will be performed for the first time.”
5)
“The theatre was very crowded, and the performance went off admirably. Mrs. Wood . . . appeared to excellent advantage as Paul, and her beautiful specimen of Sabbath school melody, ‘The Pious Child,’ was most heartily encored. . . . [W]e have seldom seen so few errors on a first night.”