Theatre Comique: Grand Revival and Re-opening

Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Henry Brougham Farnie
William Horace Lingard

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 February 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Feb 1869, Evening
02 Feb 1869, Evening
03 Feb 1869, Evening
04 Feb 1869, Evening
05 Feb 1869, Evening
06 Feb 1869, Evening

Program Details

Henry Brougham Farnie, dir. and producer.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lingard's Burlesque Troupe;  Lillie [actress] Hall;  Dickie [actress] Lingard;  Emma [actress] Laton;  Alice [actress] Dunning;  Lina Edwin;  Ethel [burlesque actress] Norman
2)
Pluto; or, The magic lyre, [Farnie]
Text Author: Farnie
Participants:  George Atkins (role: Clotilda);  William Horace Lingard (role: Pluto);  Alice [actress] Dunning (role: Orpheus);  Lina Edwin (role: Eurydice);  Ethel [burlesque actress] Norman (role: Aristoxus);  Lillie [actress] Hall (role: Proserphine)
3)
Living statues
Participants:  William Horace Lingard

Citations

1)
Article: New York Clipper, 30 January 1869, 342, 2d col., middle.

A detailed description of the new theater and the opening planned.

2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1869, 343.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 February 1869, 12.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 February 1869, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 01 February 1869, 5.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 02 February 1869, 7.

The theater reopens after the fire of December 4, 1868. It cost $20,000. It seats 1,500 people.

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 February 1869, 350, 3rd col., middle .
8)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 358, 3rd col., middle.

“Mr. Lingard was favorably received in his sketches. Up to the present moment his ‘On the Beach at Long Branch’ has proved his most successful song. Byron’s burlesque of ‘Orpheus and Eurydice, bunglingly adapted for this city under the title of ‘Pluto,’ introduced Alice Dunning as Orpheus, Ethel Norman as Aristoxus, Lillie Hall as Proserphine, Lena Edwin as Eurydice, George Atkins as Clotilda, and Wm. Lingard as Pluto. The burlesque has been fairly placed upon the stage, some of the dresses being rich, while the last scene is really pretty; in fact, the best of any of the closing scenes of the burlesques at present being performed in this city. . . . Miss Ethel Norman is not a good singer or dancer. Her dress was very handsome, but we should advise her to put some covering over her nakedness, as such a display of her charms, particularly when she dances, is displeasing to many of the female spectators.”