Davenport Brothers

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $.75 reserved; $.50

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
19 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
20 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Davenport Brothers

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 March 1869, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 March 1869, 5.

Brief. “The Davenport Brothers will give their first performance in this city since their return from Europe, at Steinway Hall, tomorrow evening. They are announced for six entertainments.”

3)
Review: New York Sun, 20 March 1869, 2.

“A committee from the audience is appointed to tie up the brothers, which they do as well as they know how, which usually is very bunglingly; then the doors are shut, and immediately the instruments begin to play, and the cabinet becomes a small pandemonium; hands are thrust out of the aperture in the front; bells are thrown out, the fiddle scrapes, the tambourine jingles, the bells ring, and when the disturbance is at the height the doors are thrown suddenly open, and the two brothers are discovered sitting bound as before, and as motionless as the statue of Memmon.”