Uncle Tom’s cabin
Event Information
Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
22 August 2020
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
20 Sep 1869, Evening21 Sep 1869, Evening
22 Sep 1869, Evening
22 Sep 1869, 2:00 PM
23 Sep 1869, Evening
24 Sep 1869, Evening
25 Sep 1869, Evening
25 Sep 1869, 2:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Eva
Participants: Flora [actress] Lee; George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Deacon Perry); Alice [actress] Cushman (role: Eva); Charles Kemble Fox (role: Lawyer Marks); John B. Studley (role: Simon Legree); Mrs. George C. Howard (role: Topsy); John K. Mortimer (role: George Harris); George Becks (role: (Augustine St. Clare); Mrs. T. J. [actress] Hind (role: Aunt Ophelia); Ida [actress] Vernon (role: Eliza); Asa [actor, manager] Cushman (role: Uncle Tom); Lily [actress] Vining
Citations
3)
“…The new dressing up which the dialogue and certain situations of the play have received at this house, are, to a certain extent, improvements in keeping with the times; yet there seems to be an impression that ‘Uncle Tom’ is now rather out of date, and that it will not pay nowadays to meddle too much with him. At the Olympic, however, he is at present apparently on the tide of success.”
4)
Notes “a fair measure of popular favor” even though “the play is not the ‘sensation’ it was in its early days.”