No Thoroughfare

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lewis Baker [mgr-actor]
John F. [manager] Cole

Conductor(s):
Henry Tissington

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 November 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
10 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
11 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
12 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM
13 Jan 1872, 2:00 PM
13 Jan 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
No thoroughfare
Text Author: Dickens, Collins
Participants:  William Jermyn Florence (role: Jules Obenreizer);  Mrs. William Jermyn Florence

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 January 1872, 7.

“Revival of the famous French dramatization of Charles Dickens’ story.”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 January 1872, 7.

No performance Monday evening [due to the death of proprietor James Fisk, Jr.].

3)
Review: New York Herald, 10 January 1872, 4.

No mention of music.

4)
Review: New York Post, 10 January 1872, 2.

“The excellent orchestra at the Grand Opera House deserves a word of praise. It numbers many excellent performers and is led with ability. The selections last night were particularly charming.”

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 January 1872, 7.

“...the famous dramatization of Charles Dickens’ romantic Christmas story, originally presented in Paris with the title of L’Abime (the Abyss).”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 10 January 1872, 4.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 10 January 1872, 5.

No mention of music.

8)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 January 1872, 2.

Future of the Grand Opera House, in view of Fisk's death.

9)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 January 1872, 5.
10)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 January 1872, 334.

No mention of music.