As You Like It

Event Information

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

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 December 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Oct 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
As you like it
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  D. H. Harkins (role: Jaques);  J. B. [actor] Polk;  Mrs. [actress] Scott-Siddons;  Emilie [actress] Kiehl;  Miss E. [actress] Lewis;  Amy [actress] Ames;  William (Pleater), Sr. Davidge (role: Touchstone);  Clara Jennings;  George H. [actor] Clarke (role: Orlando);  Marie Wilkins

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 October 1869, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 October 1869, 5.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 October 1869, 4.
4)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 October 1869, 235.
5)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 November 1869, 246, 3d col. .

Miss Ames’s dress caught fire during the performance on the 26th. She escaped with only slight burns.