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

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 February 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Apr 1870, Evening
19 Apr 1870, Evening
20 Apr 1870, Evening
21 Apr 1870, Evening
22 Apr 1870, Evening
23 Apr 1870, Evening
23 Apr 1870, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

3)
Composer(s): Foster
Text Author: Foster

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 April 1870, 9.

Multiple cards on the same page. The new nursery rhymes and the quartet of Hard Times receive from six to eight encores nightly.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 April 1870, 4.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 18 April 1870, 7.

Brief. Notes that Pippin “is far inferior as a burlesque to ‘The Forty Thieves.’”

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 April 1870, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 18 April 1870, 5.
6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 April 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

7)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 April 1870, 22.

Notes that Lydia Thompson may shortly appear in a “legitimate drama,” but provides no details.

There is another paragraph on this page in a different column about the general popularity of Pippin.