Not guilty

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Manager / Director:
Henry C. Jarrett
Henry Palmer

Conductor(s):
Giuseppe Operti

Price: $1.50 parquet, parquet circle; $1 dress circle; $.75 general admission; $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 September 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jun 1870, Evening
07 Jun 1870, Evening
08 Jun 1870, Evening
09 Jun 1870, Evening
10 Jun 1870, Evening
11 Jun 1870, Evening
11 Jun 1870, 2:00 PM

Program Details

Not guilty adapted for America by Thomas J. Hemphill.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Fifth Regiment Band;  Fifth Regiment Drum Corps;  Owen S. [comedian] Fawcett;  Charles Melton, Jr. Walcot;  Mrs. C. M., Jr. Walcot;  McKee Rankin;  Charles H. Morton [actor];  Virginia [actress] Buchanan
2)
Not guilty
Text Author: Phillips
3)
Not guilty, [incidental music]
Composer(s): Operti

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 June 1870, 12.

Full cast list. Includes plot synopsis.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 June 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 07 June 1870, 7.

“…The battle scene at the end of the third act was really good, yet the audience could well spare some of the military evolutions, and the display of the drum corps, which might serve very well in a drill room, could also be dispensed with.”

4)
Review: New York Post, 07 June 1870, 2.

“…There was a large amount of very good military music, and a full supply of professional drumming…”

5)
Review: New York Herald, 09 June 1870, 7.

Account of a male audience member who became mentally unstable and had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital in the course of the performance on 06/08/70.

6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 June 1870, 8.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: New-York Times, 12 June 1870, 4.

“…[T]he music has been written and selected by Signor Operti, who has restored the orchestra of the house to its pristine rank by resuming the baton.”

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 June 1870, 86.

“…A regiment band, a drum corps, and, the programme [illeg.], one hundred and fifty soldiers of the Garibaldi Guard, were added to the forces behind the scenes so that the picture might not be marred by the lack of that pomp and circumstance of war so necessary for its complete ideality and stirring effect….The house was well filled on the opening night, but the play is not destined to have a run.”