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:
4 June 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 May 1870, Evening
17 May 1870, Evening
18 May 1870, Matinee
18 May 1870, Evening
19 May 1870, Evening
20 May 1870, Evening
21 May 1870, Evening
21 May 1870, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe;  Lydia [actress] Thompson;  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Eliza Weathersby
2)
Mosquito
Text Author: Dumas
3)
Sonnambula, La, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
aka Sonambula; Sonnambula Amina; S.o.n.n.a.m.b.u.l.a.; or, The supper, the sleeper, and the merry Swiss boy
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Harry [actor] Beckett;  Eliza Weathersby

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 May 1870, 3.
2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 May 1870, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 May 1870, 7.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 May 1870, 5.

Brief.

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 18 May 1870, 3.

“The severe and prolonged indisposition of Mr. Harry Jackson, the eminent comedian, deprives ‘Mosquito,’ at Niblo’s, of what might justly be called its most attractive feature.”