Merry wives of Windsor

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 June 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Dec 1869, Evening
21 Dec 1869, Evening
22 Dec 1869, Evening
23 Dec 1869, Evening
24 Dec 1869, Evening
25 Dec 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Merry wives of Windsor, The, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  James Henry Hackett (role: Falstaff)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 December 1869, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 December 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 December 1869, 6.

“Mr. Hackett continues to attract large and fashionable audiences to Booth’s theatre [sic] by his artistic impersonation of jolly, fat Sir John Falstaff… The present is the last week of Mr. Hackett’s engagement at this house…”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 December 1869, 3.
5)
Announcement: New York Sun, 20 December 1869, 1.

Brief

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1869, 7.

Notes that the next plays scheduled at this theater are Guy Mannering and Hamlet.

7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1869, 7.

“Mr. Mollenhauer, leader of the orchestra at Booth’s Theater, has written a symphony on Collins’s Ode to the passions, which will by and by be produced at that house—Mr. Booth reciting the poem, and Mr. Mollenhauer and the orchestra executing the music.”

8)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 December 1869, 303.
9)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 27 December 1869, 4.

Brief and part of a sweeping overview of performances on Christmas Day. “…It is worthy of note, though, that Mr. Hackett closed his engagement at Booth’s, by an uncommonly brilliant performance of Falstaff, in the presence of a crowded house.”