Wood’s Museum and Menagerie

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Price: $.30

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 November 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Mar 1870, 8:00 PM
22 Mar 1870, 8:00 PM
23 Mar 1870, 8:00 PM
24 Mar 1870, 8:00 PM
25 Mar 1870, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Open daily 9 am-10 pm.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Blondes Burlesque Troupe;  Ada [actress and dancer] Harland;  Emily [vocalist] Pitt;  Moses William Fiske;  Louis Joseph Mestayer [actor];  Lizzie [actress] Willmore
2)
Area belle, The
Text Author: Brough
3)
Sappho, [burlesque]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 March 1870, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 26 March 1870, 406.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 02 April 1870, 414.

“We thought the ‘William Tell; burlesque was poor enough, but ‘Sappho’ does not even reach the ‘Tell’ standard.