Bowery Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Bowery Theatre (after 1/67)

Proprietor / Lessee:
William B. Freligh

Manager / Director:
William B. Freligh

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 April 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Dec 1869, Evening

Program Details

PROG DET: There are two advertisements on 12/04/69 in the New York Herald listing different programs and performers for the Bowery Theatre that evening. The single advertisement in the New York Times is nearly the same as the second in the New York Herald, but not exactly so. Music in Gotham here lists the works and performers that appeared in at least two of these citations (with the full contents of each citation provided in each citation entry below).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Torres Brothers;  Robert [pantomimist] Butler
2)
Lady of the lake
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Dodging for a wife, [farce]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
4)
Phantom bride, The; or, The Castilian bandit
aka Castilian bandit
Text Author: Barnett [dramatist]
5)
Jack Robinson and his monkey, [melo-drama]
Text Author: Thompson

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 December 1869, 12.

Performers: Torres Brothers; Robert Buter [pantomimist].
Program: Faustus; or, The demon of Drachenfels.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 December 1869, 12.

Performers: Jones Brothers; La Roke; Robert Butler (pantomimist).
Program: Lady of the Lake; Voltigeus Ærien; Dodging for a wife; Castilian Bandit; Jack Robinson.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 December 1869, 9.

Performers: Torres Brothers.

Program: Lady of the Lake; Dodging for a wife; Castilian bandit; Jack Robinson and monkey.