Wives as they were, maids as they are

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fifth Avenue Theatre (1867-73)

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Price: Matinee: $1 reserved; $.50

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 May 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
07 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
08 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM
11 Dec 1869, 2:00 PM
11 Dec 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Everybody’s friend was originally scheduled as the play for the Saturday evening performance, but was at some point substituted, for an unknown reason, with Wives as they are.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Wives as they were, and maids as they are
Text Author: Inchbald
Participants:  Edwin L. [actor] Davenport (role: William Dorillon);  D. H. Harkins (role: Sir George Evelyn);  William Davidge, unidentifiable (role: Lord Priory);  Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport (role: Lady Mary);  Agnes [actress] Ethel (role: Lady Priory);  Mrs. Francis Chanfrau (role: Miss Dorillon);  George [comedian] Holland (role: Oliver)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Sun, 29 November 1869, 2.

“Fifth Avenue Theatre.—Mr. Daly has shown the most admirable activity in his management of his theatre. His programmes are varied, and he busies himself in taking down from dusty shelves the brave old plays this generation knows but little of, but that in their own day were famous: such, for instance, Hoadley’s ‘Wives as they were, Maids are they are,’ not done here for thirty years past, and now in rehearsal.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 December 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 December 1869, 12.

Notes that the play Everybody’s friend will be performed Saturday night, which seems to have been substituted with another performance of Wives as they were.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 06 December 1869, 7.
5)
Announcement: New York Sun, 06 December 1869, 2.

Lengthy announcement with cast list; no mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 07 December 1869, 10.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: New-York Times, 07 December 1869, 7.

No mention of music.

8)
Review: New York Post, 07 December 1869, 4.

No mention of music.

9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 December 1869, 7.

Advertises Everbody’s friend for Saturday evening.

10)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 08 December 1869, 4.

No mention of music.

11)
Review: New York Sun, 08 December 1869, 2.

No mention of music.

12)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 December 1869, 3.

For Wives as they were, maids as they are, not Everybody’s friend. Two cards on one page.

13)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 December 1869, 7.

Advertises Wives as they were, maids as they are for Saturday evening.

14)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 December 1869, 294.

No mention of music.