Busybody

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Conductor(s):
Thomas Baker

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 February 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Oct 1871, 8:00 PM
31 Oct 1871, 8:00 PM
01 Nov 1871, Matinee
01 Nov 1871, 8:00 PM
02 Nov 1871, 8:00 PM
03 Nov 1871, 8:00 PM
04 Nov 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Charles James Mathews;  Mr. Brode;  Master Julius Peters
2)
Busy body, [comedy]
aka Busie body; Busybody
Text Author: Centlivre
3)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
4)
"Take now this ring"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
"Happy be thy dreams"
Composer(s): Thomas
Text Author: Carpenter [dramatist-lyricist]
Participants:  Mr. Brode
6)
"Brigands, Les"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Master Julius Peters
7)
"Happy as a bird"
Composer(s): Brougham

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 October 1871, 5.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 October 1871, 7.

Complete cast list.

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 31 October 1871, 4.

No mention of music; complete cast list.

4)
Review: New York Herald, 31 October 1871, 7.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 11 November 1871, 254.

Complete cast list. “The music furnished by Mr. Baker’s orchestra deserves more than a passing notice. The overture, ‘Poet and Peasant,’ was excellently rendered, and the entre act music consisted of ‘Take Now This Ring,’ played as a duet for two cornets, the ballad, ‘Happy be thy Dreams,’ arranged as a violin solo, performed by Mr. Brode; a vocal polka, ‘Les Brigands,’ the voice part sung by Master Julius Peters, which was encored, and a song by John Brougham, ‘Happy as a Bird,’ with soli, for flute and clarionet.”