Bowery theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Bowery Theatre (after 1/67)

Manager / Director:
William B. Freligh

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM
14 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM
15 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM
16 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM
17 Mar 1871, 2:00 PM
17 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM
18 Mar 1871, 7:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Johnny Thompson
2)
Day well spent
Text Author: Oxenford
3)
On hand; or, True to the last
Text Author: McCloskey

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 March 1871, 4.

Special matinee on Friday, St. Patrick’s Day. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 14 March 1871, 10.

Thompson played solos on forty different musical instruments. 

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 25 March 1871, 406.

“…in which he [Johnny Thompson] acted the character of Jack Norton and impersonated in the course of the drama eight other characters, assumed as disguised for carrying out the plot, besides playing solos upon the clarionet, Chinese fiddle, harmonicon, toy violin, toy trumpet, harmony flute, a cow’s horn, bass viol, banjo, harp and cornet-a-piston, singing several songs and dancing jigs and character dances. It is seldom that such varied qualifications are found united in one person.”