Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Robert W. [manager] Butler
E. G. [manager] Gilmore

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler
E. G. [manager] Gilmore

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1870, 7:45 PM
26 Apr 1870, 7:45 PM
27 Apr 1870, 7:45 PM
28 Apr 1870, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Theatre Comique, corps de ballet; J. C. Stewart; Erminie [dancer] Venturoli; Jennie [vocalist] Kimball; Robert Frazer; Tommy Sully; Lew Simmons; E. N. [Minstrel] Slocum; George H. Coes; Master Barney

2)

Ching chow hi

3)

Betsy Baker; or, Too attentive by half

aka Betsey Baker

Text Author: Morton

Participants: J. C. Stewart (role: Marmaduke); Jennie [vocalist] Kimball (role: Betsey Baker)

4)

Two temptations, The

5)

Darkies’ jubilee, The

aka Darkeys' jubilee

6)

Ballet, unidentified

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1870, 16.

2)

Announcement: New York Herald, 25 April 1870, 6.

Brief.

3)

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

“Lew Simmons and E. N. Slocum closed at the Theatre Comique on April 30th, and are now at the Adelphi Theatre, Boston, where they remain two weeks and go thence to Philadelphia to attend to the fitting up of their new minstrel hall.”