Patrie
Event Information
Venue(s):
Grand Opera House
Proprietor / Lessee:
James, Jr. Fisk
Manager / Director:
Clifton W. Tayleure
Price: $1.50; $1; $.75; $.30
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
4 October 2019
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
31 May 1869, 8:00 PM01 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
02 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
05 Jun 1869, 1:30 PM
05 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“It is announced to-day that the season at Mr. Fisk’s Grand Opera House will close with the present week, and until Saturday night ‘Patrie’ will be given every evening. The play has much improved since its first performance, and the same can be said of the audiences. It may have been owing to the lateness of the season that it has not produced that lively degree of public interest that was expected, but it is certainly more talked about and more visited this week than it was last week. It is stated that Mr. Fechter will be the next attraction at the Grand Opera House, though as yet no official announcement has been made to that effect.”
“The Grand Opera House closes on Saturday evening next, after a season of nearly three months. ‘Patrie,’ which is now in its second week, has attracted several large audiences, and actually required on one occasion the exhibition, for the first time in the annals of this theatre, the bulletin of ‘Standing Room Only.’ The piece, however, has not drawn largely enough to compensate for the managerial wear and tear which are needed to ‘push’ on. Had it been produced earlier in the season it would doubtless have proven a trump card. It will, however, be revived again next winter. Two or three performances of ‘Patrie’ will be given in Brooklyn by Manager Tayleure after the close of the season in this city. The Grand Opera House opens next season late in August with Fetcher, who will then appear in his great Parisian hit of ‘Rouge et Noir.’”
“A rumor has been current the past week that the abrupt closing of the Grand Opera House was owing to the foreclosing of the mortgage held by Mr. S. N. Pike for the property sold by him to Mr. Fisk; that Mr. Fisk had paid only $150,000 cash, and that the many theatrical enterprises of Mr. Fisk having proved failures, he was unable to make any more payments. These reports are all unfounded, so we are informed upon the authority of Mr. Pike, who says that he received for the first payment $350,000, and that he is not anxious to regain possession of the house.”