Wood’s Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 May 1870, All Day
17 May 1870, All Day
18 May 1870, All Day
19 May 1870, All Day
20 May 1870, All Day
21 May 1870, All Day

Program Details

Performances of Field of the cloth of gold at 2pm and 8pm every day.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Louis Joseph Mestayer [actor];  Mrs. Edward [actress] Wright;  Alice M. Harrison [vocal-actor];  Miron Winslow Leffingwell;  Olivia [actress] Rand;  Edith [banjo] Irving
2)
Field of the cloth of gold, The
Text Author: Brough

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 May 1870, 8.

Full cast list.

2)
Announcement: New York Sun, 16 May 1870, 2.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 May 1870, 2.

The burlesque “abounds in songs, dances and witticisms…The banjo playing of Miss Edith Irving and the Ethiopian acts by John Pendy are entertaining enough, and form quite a feature of the burlesque.”

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 May 1870, 5.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 May 1870, 7.
6)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 May 1870, 5.

Notes success of Field of the cloth of gold.

7)
Review: New York Herald, 17 May 1870, 7.

No mention of music.