Formosa

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 August 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Sep 1869, Evening
21 Sep 1869, Evening
22 Sep 1869, Evening
23 Sep 1869, Evening
24 Sep 1869, Evening
25 Sep 1869, Evening
25 Sep 1869, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Isabel [actress] Freeman (role: Nelly);  Ada [actress and dancer] Harland (role: Earl of Eden);  Charles [actor] Thorne, Jr. (role: Tom Burraghs);  Annie [actress] Lansdale (role: Mrs. Boxer);  Patti [actress] Mackworth (role: Edith Borroughs);  Harry Pearson [actor-voc] (role: Sam Soker);  Kate Newton (role: Jenny Formosa);  William Holston (role: Bob Sanders);  Charles H. Morton [actor] (role: Major Jorum)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 September 1866, 11.

“FORMOSA will be presented with DELIGHTFULLY  REALISTIC SCENERY.” 

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 19 September 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 September 1869, 7.

No mention of music.

4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 25 September 1869, 199.