Event Information
Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
8 February 2020
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
19 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
20 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
21 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
22 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
23 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
24 Jul 1869, 2:00 PM
24 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
Program Details
“DORA at 8 o’clock. BLACK-EYED SUSAN at 10.â€
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 July 1869, 12.
“Mr. J. F. Cathcart will make his first appearance at Wallack’s theatre [sic] to-morrow (Monday), July 19, in the character of Farmer Allan.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 July 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 19 July 1869, 6.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 July 1869, 5.
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 July 1869, 8.
Positive review; no mention of music.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 20 July 1869, 3.
Positive review; no mention of music.
7)
Review: New-York Times, 20 July 1869, 4.
Positive review, and especially of Cathcart; no mention of music.
8)
Review: New-York Times, 21 July 1869, 5.
Positive review; compares the performances to those of seventeenth-century Italians in France and remarks that audiences should show greater appreciation for Black-eyed Susan.
9)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 July 1869, 5.
No mention of music; encourages readers to see this program before it is withdrawn at the end of the week
10)
Announcement: New York Herald, 22 July 1869, 3.
“Mr. Frederick Robinson, who for the past month has been delighted our citizens with his clever impersonation of Farmer Allen, in the life-like drama of ‘Dora,’ seceded from Wallack’s on last Saturday evening, and has gone to St. Johns, N. B., to play a star engagement. His place at Wallack’s is at present ably filled by Mr. J. F. Cathcart.”
11)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 July 1869, 5.
12)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 24 July 1869, 127.
13)
Review: New York Clipper, 31 July 1869, 134.
Brief and positive review of Cathcart; no mention of music.