School

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 August 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM
20 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM
21 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM
22 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM
23 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM
24 Apr 1869, 2:00 PM
24 Apr 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The New York Herald announcement of 04/19/69 notes that Stoddart and Polk have been given the week off. The advertisements of the same day in that paper and in the New York Times list Stoddart as a perfomer (and omit Polk).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
School, [comedy, 4 acts]
Text Author: Robertson [dramatist]
Participants:  Lester Wallack;  James Henry Stoddart;  Charles [actor] Fisher;  John Gilbert [actor]
2)
Galop on airs from Hervé’s L’Oeil crevé
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 April 1869, 7.

“Messrs. Stoddart and Polk have not left Wallack’s company, as was reported, but are allowed a brief vacation from ‘School,’ that they may prepare for the arduous labor of the coming summer and fall season.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 April 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 19 April 1869, 5.

“The last nights of ‘School’ is the burden of this week’s announcement from Wallack’s.”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 April 1869, 7.

Full cast list. “NEW SCENERY—MUSIC—COSTUMES.”

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 April 1869, 4.

Part of longer announcement listing “final weeks” of different troupes and theaters across the city.

6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 April 1869, 5.

Brief. “A very brilliant and spirited gallop, founded on airs of ‘L’Œil Crevé,’ has been introduced at Wallack’s this week.”