Belle’s stratagem

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1870, Evening
28 Apr 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Cowley
Participants:  Madeline Henriques (role: Letitia Hawly);  James William, Jr. Wallack (role: Doricourt)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 April 1870, 4.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 18 April 1870, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 April 1870, 5.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1870, 16.
5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 April 1870, 4.

“To-morrow Mr. Lester Wallack is to act in the [sic] ‘The Bell’s [sic] Stratagem,’ and on the after evenings the same experienced, accomplished and brilliant artist is to appear in a series of ever-attractive old comedies.”

6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 April 1870, 6.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 April 1870, 9.

Full cast list with roles.

8)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 April 1870, 4.
9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 April 1870, 7.
10)
Review: New York Herald, 26 April 1870, 9.

Positive review. No mention of music.

11)
Review: New-York Times, 26 April 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

12)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 April 1870, 4.

Full cast list with roles. No mention of music.

13)
Review: New York Post, 26 April 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

14)
Review: New York Sun, 26 April 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

15)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 April 1870, 7.

No mention of music.

16)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 May 1870, 38.

Brief review of all the plays given at Wallack’s the week of 04/25/70, noting that “[t]he revival of the old English comedies at Wallack’s Theatre has been attended with much success.”