Sinbad the sailor
Event Information
Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden
Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer
Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer
Conductor(s):
Michael [conductor] Connolly
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
8 November 2019
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
14 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM15 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
16 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
17 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
18 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
19 Jun 1869, 2:00 PM
19 Jun 1869, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“At ‘the coolest theater in the city’ (?)—Niblo’s—‘Sinbad, the Sailor,’ is nightly drawing crowded houses.” Continues, but no mention of music.
"Miss Weathersby, who arrived in this country from England a few weeks ago under engagement to the Elise Holt Troupe, and who appeared with them in Philadelphia, is announced to appear at two theatres in this city this week. First, she is announced under engagement to the Lydia Thompson Troupe, to appear as Hafiz in ‘Sinbad the Sailor,’ lately played by Maggie Desmond, and to open with Elise Holt at the Waverly as Mercury in ‘Paris.’ There appears to be a demand for the lady.”
“The President had, for the matinée, visited the Clodoches at Niblo’s, and amused himself like a king. Only, there’s a truth that they would be sensible not to repeat too much, [which is] that well-brought-up people, en masse, are absurd. –Let’s say well-brought-up people, it’s acknowledged, are sublime.—In brief, well-brought-up people, who were in the majority at Niblo’s hall, conducted themselves simply like clowns. If they had, at his entrance, saluted the President with a triple salvo of bravos, that’s very good. But it should have stopped there. Not at all; they went beyond the limits. The good public renewed the uproar in the middle of the performance, and pushed the thing to [the point of] demanding a speech. That was too much. M. Grant likes speeches very little, and, since he doesn’t like them, he doesn’t make them. It’s perhaps because he doesn’t know how. They were never able to know. Whatever it may be, he followed the statecraft that he pursued in regard to Cuba: he didn’t know how to either resist the pressure or go with the tide; he took his hat and went away.
“Curtain!”
“‘Sinbad the Sailor’ continues the attraction presented by the Lydia Thompson Troupe at Niblo’s Garden… There was quite a falling off in the attendance the past week, and every evidence is given of the decline of this kind of amusement. Like opera bouffe it has seen its best days. On Saturday evening, the 19th, President Grant occupied a private box.”