Wood’s Museum and Menagerie

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1870, Evening
26 Apr 1870, Evening
27 Apr 1870, Evening
28 Apr 1870, Evening
29 Apr 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Theresa Wood [dancer-voc];  Miron Winslow Leffingwell;  Olivia [actress] Rand;  Moses William Fiske;  Marion Fiske
2)
1870 burlesque
Participants:  Theresa Wood [dancer-voc];  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Romeo Jaffier Jenkins);  Olivia [actress] Rand;  Moses William Fiske (role: Prince Brie)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 April 1870, 7.

“Mr. Leffingwell will appear at Wood’s Museum next week, as Romeo Jaffier Jenkins, in the delineation of which part he has acquired much popularity.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1870, 16.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 April 1870, 6.

Brief.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 April 1870, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 26 April 1870, 9.

“…Moses Fiske at first did not come up to his previous standard of excellence, but as he bent down to the task assigned him in the burlesque he improved wonderfully. His personation of Prince Brie was decidedly good, and the rendition of the song ‘I’m Jubilee Jim of the Marines’ was loudly cheered from parquette to ceiling…” No further mention of music.

6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 April 1870, 30.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 May 1870, 38.

A mixed review with little mention of music. Notes that Marion Fiske, who made her debut on 04/25/70, “sings cleverly.”

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 07 May 1870, 38.

Notes that a “property boy” shot himself with “a charge of powder” while playing with a loaded pistol backstage on 04/26/70.