Lina Edwin’s Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Lina Edwin's Theatre

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 March 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Nov 1870, 8:00 PM
30 Nov 1870, 8:00 PM
01 Dec 1870, 8:00 PM
02 Dec 1870, 8:00 PM
03 Dec 1870, 2:00 PM
03 Dec 1870, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Idle apprentice
Text Author: Farnie
3)
aka Too much good for nature; Romeo Jaffier Jenkins
Text Author: Falconer
Participants:  Miron Winslow Leffingwell (role: Romeo Jaffier Jenkins)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 27 November 1870, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 November 1870, 9.

Complete cast listing.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 30 November 1870, 10.

“The music is far above the usual average of burlesques, and as there are some very pleasing and well trained singers in Miss Edwin’s company, this department received full justice, and the encores were numerous.”

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 10 December 1870, 286.

“The music was well sung and several grotesque clog dances were introduced, which, on two occasions, received double encores.”:Although her [Marion Taylor’s] singing voice is not particularly strong it is correct, and her share of the music was very enjoyable.” “A travestie upon the whispering chorus from the ‘Brigands’ was introduced at the end of the third scene, which was so agreeably rendered that the audience re-demanded it. A quartet in scene second, sang without orchestral accompaniment, was likewise rapturously encored.”