New Apollo Hall

Event Information

Venue(s):
Apollo Hall

Price: $.50; $1 reserved seats; .30 balcony

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Burnett appeared as thirty different characters; Taylor as twenty characters.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  James H. [Ethiopian comedian] Taylor;  James W. Sharpley [concertina];  Alfred B. [humorist] Burnett;  Mrs. R. A. [serio-comic] Brennan;  R. A. [baritone] Brennan

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 November 1868.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 November 1868, 246, 3d col., middle.

Brief, no mention of music.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 November 1868, 254, 3d col., top.

“Mr. Taylor appeared, in addition to his previously noticed songs, as a modern swell and the character song of ‘Happy Uncle Joe,’ all of which were given in his usual quaint and pleasing style. . . . Prof. Sharpley appeared in a concertina solo. Taken altogether, the entertainment is one of the most pleasing we have witnessed for a long time, and every act is enthusiastically encored.”