Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Manager / Director:
Robert W. [manager] Butler
E. G. [manager] Gilmore

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 April 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
13 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
14 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
15 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
16 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
17 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Siegrist Family;  Theatre Comique, corps de ballet;  Parkhurst and Collins;  Sidney Franks;  Charley White;  Emma Alford;  James F. Wambold;  Charles Thatcher;  William Arlington;  J. C. Kelley;  George H. Coes;  J. C. Stewart;  Emma [actress] Grattan;  Lew Rattler
2)
Glass put in
Text Author: Arlington
3)
Black dwarf, The
aka African dwarf; African dwarf Tommy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 December 1870, 6.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 24 December 1870, 302.

“Attired in elaborate and tasteful costumes, such as are usually worn in burlesque, she [Emma Grattan] sings some of the choicest morceaux of the latest dramatic songs, and other popular recent musical productions.”