Wallack’s Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Theodore Moss

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 January 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jul 1869, Evening
06 Jul 1869, Evening
07 Jul 1869, Evening
08 Jul 1869, Evening
09 Jul 1869, Evening
10 Jul 1869, Evening
10 Jul 1869, 2:00 PM

Program Details

Black-eyed Susan “with new scenery, costumes and appointments, and music arranged and adapted under the direction of Mr. Charles Koppitz.” For related content, see also event entry of 07/10/69: Article on the clapping habits of theater audiences

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Selwyn Theatre Company [Boston];  H. F. [actor] Daly;  C. H. [actor] Vandenhoff;  Lizzie [actress] Price;  Kitty Blanchard;  Stuart Robson;  Frederic [actor] Robinson
2)
Dora
Text Author: Reade
Participants:  H. F. [actor] Daly;  C. H. [actor] Vandenhoff;  Lizzie [actress] Price;  Kitty Blanchard;  Frederic [actor] Robinson (role: Farmer Allen)
3)
Black-eyed Susan; or, The little bill that was taken up
Text Author: Burnand
Participants:  Kitty Blanchard (role: William, the Bill of the Play);  Stuart Robson (role: Captain Crosstree)
4)
Black-eyed Susan; or, The little bill that was taken up, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Koppitz

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 July 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 July 1869, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 July 1869, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 07 July 1869, 3.

Positive review; no mention of music. “The cast of both pieces is the same as characterized their representations at the Fifth Avenue theatre [sic]. The change of base, however, from the cramped confines of the boards at the ‘gilded bandbox’ to the commodious stage of Wallack’s has proved beneficial to both the company and the pieces and is likely to prove remunerative to the management.”

6)
Review: New York Post, 07 July 1869.

Positive review; no mention of music.

7)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 July 1869, 7.

“DORA AT 8 P.M., BURLESQUE AT 10.”

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 July 1869, 110.

“An Elephant.—Mr. Henderson, copartner with Lydia Thompson in the ‘Burlesque Troupe,’ and the importer of the Lauri Family, experiences some difficulty in his efforts to obtain an opening for the latter party since their failure at Wallack’s Theatre. He tried to alternate performances with the G. L. Fox troupe, but Manager Duff, of the Olympic, couldn’t see it. He then tried to induce Charley White to speculate with them at the Theatre Comique, but Charles declined.”

9)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 10 July 1869, 110.

Notes the Selwyn Theatre Company transfers from the Fifth Avenue Theatre to Wallack’s this week and praises the troupe’s performances in the city thus far. No mention of music.

10)
Review: New York Clipper, 17 July 1869, 118.

Brief; no mention of music. Notes “the company appear to greater advantage than at the Fifth Avenue house.”