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:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 January 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
13 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
14 Oct 1868, 2:30 PM
14 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
15 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
16 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Oct 1868, 2:30 PM
17 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

First performance of Fanchette in America.

Event included unidentified comic sketches and statues by Lingard.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Wife's first lesson ; Wife's lesson
Text Author: Kemble
Participants:  E. B. [actor] Holmes (role: James);  Conway Cox (role: Rivers)
3)
Composer(s): Levy

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 30 September 1868.

“Susan Galton’s English Opera Company appears next week as a further proof of the desire of the manager, Mr. White, to make this theatre a fashionable resort. Lingard is good for the entire season.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 October 1868, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 October 1868, 214.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 October 1868.

“At the Theatre Comique Miss Susan Galton and the English opera bouffe troupe will be the star attraction this week. The operetta Fanchette will be given this evening for the first time in this country, and the mimic Lingard will favor his patrons with a number of new sketches.”

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 17 October 1868, 222.
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 17 October 1868, 223.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 24 October 1868, 230.

“Susan Galton’s English Opera Bouffe Troupe, lately performing at Wood’s Museum, commenced at the Theatre Comique on the 12th inst. in the French operetta of ‘Fanchette.’ Susan Galton, who is a niece of Louisa Pyne, possesses an agreeable face, good stage presence, is a charming singer and a vivacious actress, but she labors under the disadvantage of having to bolster up considerable dead wood in the support she is supposed to receive from the majority of the performers making up her company. During the operetta Susan Galton sang ‘The Lover and the Bird’ is excellent style, and was most deservedly encored. The evening’s entertainment commenced with ‘A Day After the Wedding,’ with a change in the cast, as previously produced here. Conway Fox appeared as Rivers, in place of Maurice B. Pike, and E. B. Holmes as James, in place of J. T. Raymond. The change did not improve the piece at all. Mr. Lingard’s comic sketches and statues continue in favor with the audience, as does Prof. Hilton’s very clever ventriloquism. Business keeps first rate at this place.”