Article on theater receipts for January 1869

Event Information

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Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau
Paul Juignet

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Published

Last Updated:
23 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Feb 1869

Citations

1)
Article: Courrier des États-Unis, 25 February 1869.

“CHOSES ET AUTRES” [Begins by stating that all the artists at the French theater are sick, but Grau and Juignet manage to keep going nevertheless.]

“Before leaving the stage, let’s note in passing the daily receipts of New York’s principal theaters. They are estimated as follows, on average, for the past month [January 1869]:

            Tammany……………………………………..$4,000

            Wood’s………………………………………....3,000

            Niblo…………………………………………....2,500

            Théâtre Francais………………………………..2,000

            Wallack………………………………………...1,500

            Booth…………………………………………...1,500

            Brougham………………………………………...900

            Broadway……………………………………….1,000

            New York………………………………………...600

Bryant’s Minstrels, etc………………………….2,000

Circus & itinerant shows………………………..3,000

Concerts…………………………………………2,000

Total…………………………………………  $25,000

These figures are without doubt exaggerated, but they give an almost exact proportion of the relative importance of different New York theaters.

The balls swarm to finish the festive [season]/ Let’s mention first the handsome ball of La Concorde and La Sincerité, last week, that attracted a solid and serious segment of our population, and which had a magnificent success. And the evening before yesterday, there took place a little masked ball, by invitation only, a small party, at the Victor residence on 13th Street. They danced and danced vigorously, and supped plentifully until the [early hours] of the morning….[rest is partially illegible and incomplete]