Crimson shield
Event Information
Venue(s):
Bowery Theatre (after 1/67)
Manager / Director:
John E. [actor-manager] McDonough
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
3 February 2019
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
26 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM27 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
28 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
29 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
30 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
31 Oct 1868, 8:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“Some persons delude themselves with the idea that it is impossible for the east side theatres to produce anything really good. They think that these establishments are behind the age in reference to the production of the drama in that magnificence which characterizes its bringing out elsewhere. This is an error, and one that will readily be admitted by those who pay a visit to the Old Bowery theatre and see the ‘Crimson Shield.’ The palmy days of Old Drury in the time of Hamblin are reproduced. A drama was never put on the stage of this house with such splendid mounting, and this assertion is made with the memory of ‘King John,’ the ‘Last Days of Pompeii’ and other pieces, with casts embracing the names of Hamblin, John R. Scott, Forrest, Wallack and Brougham in days gone by before our eyes. The cancan dance in the ‘Crimson Shield’ is the most dashing and spirited display of terpsichorean art that can be imagined and is nightly greeted with rapturous encores.”