Ixion

Event Information

Venue(s):
Waverley Theatre

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 October 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Jun 1869, Evening
08 Jun 1869, Evening
09 Jun 1869, Evening
10 Jun 1869, Evening
11 Jun 1869, Evening
12 Jun 1869, Evening
12 Jun 1869, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Burnand
Participants:  Felix [comedian] Rogers (role: Minerva);  Jenny [actress] Willmore (role: Ixion);  Mary Sedley [actor-voc.] Brown (role: Jupiter);  Charles T., Jr. Parsloe (role: Ganymede);  Betty Rigl;  Emily Rigl;  Lizzie [actress] Willmore (role: Juno);  Irene [actress] Gay (role: Apollo);  Minnie [vocalist] Jackson (role: Mercury)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 June 1869, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 June 1869, 12.

“LA BELLE FLEURISH DANCE by Misses Betty and Emily Rigl.”

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 07 June 1869, 7.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 June 1869, 4.

Brief. “‘Ixion,’ by the Willmore & Rogers troupe, holds the stage of the Waverley.”

5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 June 1869, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 12 June 1869, 78.

“The Felix Rogers Troupe continue at the Waverley Theatre, and announce the present as the last week of the burlesque of ‘Ixion.’ Emily and Betty Rigl, danseuses, appear each evening in some of their most popular dances. Business was pretty fair the past week.”