Wallack’s Theatre

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.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Selwyn Theatre Company [Boston];  Lizzie [actress] Price;  J. F. [actor] Cathcart
2)
Dora
Text Author: Reade
Participants:  J. F. [actor] Cathcart (role: Farmer Allan);  Lizzie [actress] Price (role: Dora)
3)
Black-eyed Susan; or, The little bill that was taken up
Text Author: Burnand

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.

No mention of music.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 July 1869, 5.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Herald, 20 July 1869, 3.

Positive review; no mention of music.

6)
Review: New-York Times, 20 July 1869, 4.

Positive review, and especially of Cathcart; no mention of music.

7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 July 1869, 8.

Positive review; 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No mention of music; encourages readers to see this program before it is withdrawn at the end of the week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.

No mention of music.

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.