White’s Athenaeum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Athenaeum

Manager / Director:
Charley White

Price: $.50 parquet; $.75 orchestra chair; $.25 gallery; $4 private box

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 December 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
20 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
21 Aug 1872, 2:30 PM
21 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
22 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
23 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
24 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Charley White Company; J. C. Stewart; Andy McKee; Luke Schoolcraft; Charles [minstrel vocalist] Nichols; Charley White; Washington Norton [minstrel]; Stevie Rogers

2)

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: Luke Schoolcraft

3)

"Flowers were blooming, The"

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: Charles [minstrel vocalist] Nichols

4)

aka Stump oration; Any other man

5)

Military on the brain

Participants: Charley White

6)

Prima donna act

Participants: Washington Norton [minstrel]

7)

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: Stevie Rogers; Andy McKee

8)

Participants: J. C. Stewart

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 August 1872, 7.

2)

Review: New-York Times, 20 August 1872, 5.

“Mr. Charles White has opened the Athenaeum, at No. 525 Broadway, with a company of fifty first-class artists. The entertainment they supply comprises instrumental and vocal music, comic sketches, ‘stump’ orations, gymnastics, and selections from opera bouffe, and all the performances are good specimens of their kind. The house has been rearranged and redecorated, the auditorium is well lighted, the seats are roomy and comfortable, and the scenery and dresses are quite new.”

3)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 31 August 1872, 174.