Lancers

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 May 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Lancers, The
Text Author: Vernon
Participants:  Arthur Matthison
2)
Lancers, The, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Baker

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 May 1870, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 May 1870, 8.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 May 1870, 10.

No mention of music.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 28 May 1870, 2.

“…The pleasure of the drama, we may say, is very much enhanced by the delightful music that intersperses it. The solo in the first act, sung by Mr. Arthur Matthison, is fully deserving of the applause it receives.”