Wood’s Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 April 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
03 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
04 Nov 1868, Matinee
04 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
05 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
06 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
07 Nov 1868, Matinee
07 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe;  Mary Wells;  Louis Joseph Mestayer [actor];  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Ada [actress and dancer] Harland
2)
Did you ever send your wife to Jersey?
3)
Ixion; or, The man at the wheel
Text Author: Burnand

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 November 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 November 1868, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 November 1868, 5.
“The entertainment which is to precede “Ixion” at Wood’s Museum this week, will be the old farce with the interrogating title, “Did You Ever Send Your Wife to Jersey?” Mr. BECKET, Miss ADA HARLAND, and Miss MARY WELLS have parts in it. On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons the burletta of “Cinderella” is to be presented.”
4)
Review: New-York Times, 05 November 1868, 4.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 November 1868, 246, 3d col., bottom.

Brief (one paragraph); no mention of music.

6)
Announcement: New-York Times, 07 November 1868, 5.
7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 November 1868, 254, 3d col., top.