After Dark

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Conductor(s):
Howard Glover

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 May 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
19 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
20 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM
21 Nov 1868, 1:00 PM
21 Nov 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Program detail: Presented for the first time in America. Scenes:
Act I: Victoria Station, Blackfriars Bridge
Act II: The Lilacs, Green Chamber
Act III: Elysium Music Hall, Underground Railway
Act IV: The Lilacs, as before

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
After dark; or, London by night
aka Scenes of life in London
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Alexander [actor] Fitzgerald;  Edith [actress] Challis;  Belvil [actor] Ryan;  Louisa [actress] Moore;  Sydney [actor] Vane;  Charles [comedian] Peters;  McKee Rankin
2)
After dark, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Glover

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 09 November 1868, 5.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 10 November 1868, 8.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 November 1868.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 November 1868.

The management, in presenting this the first spectacular novelty of the season, with an especial cast introducing many new candidates for public favor, beg leave to state that the new scenery, mechanical effects, music, costumes, etc. . . . are from models and sketches furnished expressly for this establishment by the author, Dion Boucicault.

5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 14 November 1868, 254, 3d col., middle.
6)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 November 1868, [5].
7)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 November 1868, 5.
8)
Review: New York Post, 17 November 1868.

No mention of music.

9)
Review: New-York Times, 17 November 1868, 5.

“An introduced song may be omitted, as much because it is out of place as because it is ineffective.”

10)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 November 1868, 8.

No mention of music.

11)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 November 1868, [2].
12)
Review: New York Herald, 20 November 1868, 10.

This piece is attracting large audiences with its railroad scene, which is the best ever produced on the stage in the country. It is so excellent that the audience screams with delight and fright.

13)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 November 1868, 262, 2d col., middle.
14)
Review: New York Clipper, 28 November 1868, 270, 2d col., middle.

Plot synopsis; “Another name for this scene would answer just as well as that of Music Hall, for the only performance given on the miniature stage is a song called ‘Tommy Dodd,’ by Ernee Clarke, a vocalist from Weston’s Music Hall, London. The song is by no means one that pleases, nor does Mr. Clarke’s singing of it please. As this gentleman came over here for the new Tammany Hall place of amusement, we prefer to wait until we see him there before speaking of his abilities, further than to say that his singing could be cut out of this piece without injuring it in the least.”