Laura Keene's Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Laura Keene's Theatre (1862-63)

Proprietor / Lessee:
Laura Keene

Manager / Director:
Laura Keene

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
06 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
07 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
08 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
09 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM
10 Jan 1863, 7:30 PM

Program Details

Fall not in love,” “I’ll speak my mind,” and “When first I heard the tambour rattle” are part of The Invincibles.

Jenny Lind at last - Mrs. Wood as Jenny Leatherlungs, “in which character she will give her celebrated imitations of Brignoli, Amodio, Grisi, and Patti.”

The Invincibles - Mrs. Wood as Victoire; w/ entire company; Corps de Ballet; and Regiment of the Invincibles performing Military Manoeuvres and Marches.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Corps de ballet, unidentified;  Mrs. John Wood
2)
Jenny Lind at last; or, The Swedish nightingale
aka Jenny Lind; Jenny Lind at last; Swedish nightingale; Jenny Leatherlungs
Text Author: Reach
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood (role: Jenny Leatherlungs)
3)
Invincibles, The
Text Author: Morton
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood (role: Victoire)
4)
"O never fall in love"
aka Fall not in love
Composer(s): Lee
Text Author: Morton
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
5)
"I'll speak my mind"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood
6)
"When first I heard the tambour rattle"
Participants:  Mrs. John Wood

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 January 1863, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 January 1863, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 January 1863, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 January 1863, 7.
Wood is the “Queen of Comedy and Song . . . Operatic Airs, Songs, Choruses.”
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 05 January 1863, 2.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 January 1863, 7.
Lists songs. “Enchanting Music.”
7)
Review: New-York Times, 06 January 1863, 8.

“The most brilliant, dashing, versatile of comic actresses – Mrs. John Wood – made her first appearance at Laura Keene’s theatre last evening, after an absence of two seasons from the stage. . . . [She] met with as cordial and enthusiastic a reception as she could possibly have desired.  Mrs. Wood has lost none of that thorough sense of humor and vigorous ease of action which formerly distinguished her, and she sings and dances as well as if she had not been out of practice a single night. She is admirably sustained by Miss Ione Burke, Mr. Raymond and the other members of Miss Keene’s Company.”

8)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 January 1863.
9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 January 1863, 7.
10)
Review: New York Herald, 12 January 1863, 3.
“Mrs. John Wood made her rentrée and has renewed her former successes.”
11)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 12 January 1863, 1.
The play is imported from the French repertory.