Dr. Colton’s Laughing Gas Exhibition

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Price: $.15; .25 for 2

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Feb 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 February 1863, 7.
“The entertainment will commence with a GRAND CONCERT, of forty minutes, by the famous QUARTETTE OF FATHER REED’S ‘OLD FOLKS,’ in costume, in which they will delight the audience with enrapturing song.”
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 February 1863, 8.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 February 1863, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 February 1863, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 February 1863, 7.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 26 February 1863, 8.
Colton and Father Reed “filled the Cooper Institute to overflowing last week.”