Theatre Comique

Event Information

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

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 May 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Dec 1870, 1:30 PM
26 Dec 1870, 7:00 PM
27 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
28 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
29 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
30 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM
31 Dec 1870, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Theatre Comique, corps de ballet;  Parkhurst and Collins;  Siegrist Family;  George H. Coes;  Ben Cotton;  J. C. Stewart;  William [clog dancer] Ashcroft;  Emma [actress] Grattan;  James F. Wambold;  Sidney Franks;  William Arlington;  Emma Alford;  Mlle. [dancer] Augusta;  J. W. [dancer] Morton
2)
Jolly Santa Claus; or, The fairy of the mistletoe
3)
Black book, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 December 1870, 12.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 January 1871, 318.

“Miss Emma Alford in answer to encores sang some very pretty ballads sweetly, more particularly a Welsh melody. Miss Emma Grattan, a burlesque singer, with a rich and costly change of costume, has a fine stage presence and good facial expression, but a better and more vivacious selection of music is desirable; those she sang on the evening of the 26th ult. being too monotonous. W. Ashcroft as the ‘Lively Moke,’ with his performance on a variety of musical instruments, including a lilliputian fiddle and trombone, mere toys, with his humorous oral interludes, was laughable to a degree.”