Pippin

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Conductor(s):
Michael [conductor] Connolly

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 January 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1870, Evening
12 Apr 1870, Evening
13 Apr 1870, Evening
14 Apr 1870, Evening
15 Apr 1870, Evening
16 Apr 1870, Evening
16 Apr 1870, 2:00 PM

Program Details

The vocal quartet “Hard times” seems to have been performed in the course of Pippin, but it is not entirely clear (see New York Herald ad, 04/14/70, p. 8).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Pippin; or, The king of the gold mines
Text Author: Beckett
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe;  Lina Edwin;  Lydia [actress] Thompson;  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Pauline [actress] Markham;  Eliza Weathersby;  Harry Jackson;  William B. Cahill
2)
Pippin; or, The king of the gold mines, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Connolly
3)
"Hard times come again no more"
Composer(s): Foster
Text Author: Foster

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 April 1870, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 April 1870, 5.

Full cast list with roles.

3)
Announcement: New York Sun, 11 April 1870, 2.

“The Lydia Thompson troupe have been unusually successful at Niblo’s. They will continue their performances indefinitely.”

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 April 1870, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1870, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 April 1870, 5.

"Mr. Jackson’s imitations of Fechter are the best features in the entire burlesque.”

7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 April 1870, 8.

One of several cards for Niblo’s Garden. “The new nursery rhymes and the quartet of Hard Times receive from six to eight encores nightly. They will be sung at the matinee on Saturday at Niblo’s.”