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 PM
27 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)


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Corps de ballet, unidentified;  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown;  Ione [vocal/actor] Burke;  Mrs. John Wood
2)
Mr. and Mrs. Peter White
aka Mr. and Mrs. White
Text Author: Raymond
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
3)
Pet of the petticoats, The
Composer(s): Barnett [composer]
Text Author: Buckstone
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
4)
"Dear friends around me smiling"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
5)
"Pious child, The"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
6)
"Sweet eyes"
Composer(s): Barnett [composer], Werner
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
7)
"Sestette"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
8)
"Good-bye sisters"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
9)
"Vive la companie"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1863, 7.
Song titles listed.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 January 1863, 7.
Song titles listed. Pet of the Petticoats “will be performed for the first time.”
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 January 1863, 8.
“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)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 January 1863, 7.
Cast.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 January 1863, 7.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 27 January 1863, 8.
“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.”