Lydia Thompson Company

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 April 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 May 1870, Evening
03 May 1870, Evening
04 May 1870, Matinee
04 May 1870, Evening
05 May 1870, Evening
06 May 1870, Evening
07 May 1870, Evening
07 May 1870, 2:00 PM

Program Details

First appearances of Neil Warner and M. Lanagan with Lydia Thompson’s troupe. Wednesday matinee originally scheduled to benefit Mr. W. H. Bowditch, but though it seems that the performance took place, the benefit component was postponed to May 11. “Come where my love lies dreaming” performed in the course of the Sonnambula burlesque.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe;  Neil [actor] Warner;  Eliza Weathersby;  Harry Jackson;  William B. Cahill;  McKee Rankin;  M. [actor] Lanagan;  Lina Edwin;  Lydia [actress] Thompson;  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Pauline [actress] Markham
2)
Mosquito
Text Author: Dumas
3)
Sonnambula, La, [burlesque (Byron)]
Text Author: Byron
Participants:  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Eliza Weathersby
4)
"Come where my love lies dreaming"
Composer(s): Foster
Participants:  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Pauline [actress] Markham;  Eliza Weathersby;  William B. Cahill

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 April 1870, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 May 1870, 8.

Mosquito is “written expressly for Miss Thompson by Alex. Dumas.” Full cast list with roles. Multiple cards on the same page, the last two of which notes that the scheduled benefit for W. H. Bowditch on Wednesday afternoon (05/04/70) has been postponed to 05/11/70.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 May 1870, 7.

Mosquito “abounds in sensational effects and situations, and there is abundant protean business for Miss Thompson in it.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 May 1870, 4.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 02 May 1870, 2.
6)
Announcement: New York Sun, 02 May 1870, 3.
7)
Review: New York Herald, 03 May 1870, 7.

Long review of Mosquito; no mention of music.

8)
Review: New-York Times, 03 May 1870, 4.

“Alexander Dumas, père, has much to answer for, and his last work is not his choicest. That the author of Monte Cristo and the Three Guardsmen should also be the author of ‘Mosquito,’ is a melancholy illustration of literary degeneracy…The piece is well adapted to gratify a general audience. There is plenty of music, and there are plenty of startling tableaus, and these are diversified by a fair sprinkling of song, dance and terrific combat…”

9)
Review: New York Post, 03 May 1870, 2.

Includes plot summary; no mention of music.

10)
Review: New York Sun, 03 May 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

11)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 May 1870, 4.

Extensive review of Mosquito. No mention of music. Separate paragraph on same page announces Bowditch benefit.

12)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 07 May 1870, 38.
13)
Review: New-York Times, 08 May 1870, 5.

Favorable review; no mention of music.

14)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 May 1870, 46.

In the Sonnambula burlesque, “‘Come where my Love lies Dreaming’ was so well sung by Beckett, Miss Markham, Miss Weathersby and Cahill, that it received two encores.”