Romeo and Juliet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Manager / Director:
Mark Smith

Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 February 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Feb 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Mark Smith (role: Friar Lawrence);  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Romeo);  Edwin Adams [actor] (role: Mercutio);  Aug. W. [actor] Fenno (role: Capulet);  Mary [actress] McVicker (role: Juliet);  Harry [actor] Langdon (role: Tybalt)
2)
Composer(s): Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 January 1869, 7.

Public sale of tickets to begin 25 Jan. at Irving Hall.

2)
Article: New-York Times, 29 January 1869, 5.

“Mr. Booth’s Theatre.”

3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 January 1869, 342, 3d col., bottom.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 February 1869.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 February 1869.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 04 February 1869, 5.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: Courrier des États-Unis, 05 February 1869.

[first column is missing] “…The theater in itself doesn’t have anything very artistic. On the exterior, it’s a clumsy structure, in a mediocre style, and more remarkable for its mass than for its architectural merit. Inside, it’s comfortable and richly decorated. The hall is much less big than that at Pike’s, now the Grand Opéra; neither does it have [Pile’s} delicate elegance; it’s more glittering and less distinguished. It lacks hallways. Traffic there is strangled: you’re forced to step on [other people’s] coats, and in case of fire, no matter how small the crowd, you’d have to walk over each other.

“In sum, it’s a hall for spectacles that has its price tag, but that’s still far from being the ideal theater that the City of New York wants.”

8)
Article: New York Clipper, 06 February 1869, 350, 2d col., middle.

Details of the auction for the sale of seats at Irving Hall on 25 Jan. and description of Edwin Adams’s forthcoming engagement for Saturday nights.

9)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 February 1869, 351.
10)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 February 1869, 358, 2d col., middle.

Includes Booth’s remarks preceding the performance; no mention of music.