Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Charley White
Sandy [proprietor] Spencer

Manager / Director:
William Horace Lingard

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
01 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
02 Sep 1868, Matinee
02 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
03 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
04 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM
05 Sep 1868, Matinee
05 Sep 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  McKee Rankin;  William Horace Lingard;  Prof. William [ventriloquist] Hilton;  Joseph Kline Emmet
2)
Eldorado-Quadrille, op. 194
aka Eldorado quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss
Participants:  McKee Rankin

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 31 August 1868, 4.

“Lingard continues his comic specialities at the Theatre Comique, while this peculiar line of business has a recruit in Mr. James Taylor, whose comicalities are to be seen at Dodworth Hall.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 August 1868, 2.

No program given.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 05 September 1868, 174.

“The Theatre Comique continues to be liberally patronized, the house being uncomfortably filled each evening. The principal attractions are Lingard, in his comic sketches and statues; Hilton, the ventriloquist, and Emmet, the Dutch comedian.”