Faust

Event Information

Venue(s):
Fourteenth-Street Theatre

Manager / Director:
Jacob Grau

Price: $1; $1.50 reserved

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 December 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Sep 1870, 8:00 PM
23 Sep 1870, 8:00 PM
24 Sep 1870, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Seebach’s American debut.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Goethe
Participants:  Marie Seebach (role: Gretchen)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Sun, 11 July 1870, 2.
2)
Article: New York Herald, 17 August 1870, 6.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 27 August 1870, 2.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 September 1870, 4.

Names of artists engaged to appear with Maria Seebach; theatres from which they will come.

5)
Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 03 September 1870, 4.

Anticipation surrounding the arrival of Marie Seebach; biographical sketch.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 September 1870, 7.
7)
Announcement: New York Post, 09 September 1870, 2.

Tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the theatre be named the Polyglot Theatre.

8)
Article: New York Herald, 19 September 1870, 7.

Actress’s arrival from Germany; her artistic career; forthcoming debut.

9)
Article: New-York Times, 19 September 1870, 5.

Actress’s arrival in New York with her dramatic company; forthcoming American debut; biographical and career sketch.

10)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 September 1870, 5.

Arrival of Marie Seebach in New York.

11)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 September 1870, 7.

Anticipation regarding Mme. Seebach’s debut.

12)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 September 1870, 5.
13)
Announcement: New York Sun, 22 September 1870, 2.
14)
Review: New York Herald, 23 September 1870, 6.

Seebach’s performance as Gretchen.

15)
Review: New York Herald, 23 September 1870, 7.

Miss Seebach’s American success.

16)
Review: New York Post, 23 September 1870, 2.

No mention of music. 

17)
Review: New-York Times, 23 September 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

18)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

19)
Review: New York Post, 24 September 1870, 2.

Brief; no mention of music.

20)
Review: New York Sun, 24 September 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

21)
Review: New-York Times, 25 September 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

22)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 October 1870, 206.

No mention of music.