New Idea

Event Information

Venue(s):
New Idea, The

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Minstrel, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 August 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jun 1863, Evening
02 Jun 1863, Evening
03 Jun 1863, Evening
04 Jun 1863, Evening
05 Jun 1863, Evening
06 Jun 1863, Evening
06 Jun 1863, 2:30 PM

Program Details

The New Idea

Performers and/or Works Performed

4)
Composer(s): Thomas
Participants:  Gustavus Geary

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 May 1863, 7.
“Grand Change of Performance.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 June 1863, 7.
“Grand Opening of the Summer Season.”
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 June 1863, 7.
Geary song.  “A.M. Hernandez, having recovered from the effects [illeg.] injuries sustained by him on Saturday last, will positively appear in . . . The Battle of Farnborough . . .  and the pantomime of The Unfortunate.”

COMMENT: Does this mean he WASN’T performing Farnborough and The Unfortunate MON and TUE?
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 June 1863, 12.
“THOMAS, CLARKE, THOMPSON, ROSS and BUTLER in Banjo Solos and comic Ethiopian Acts every night.”
 
5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1863, 62.
Performers.  “Vocalizaition, Ballet.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1863, 64.
Ad for Southern refugee.  

COMMENT (WDG): I think this ended the previous Thursday.  See 05/25/63 entry for New Idea.
7)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 June 1863, 9.
Lists ten people and then says, "and thirty other performers.”