Robin Hood

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 April 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jul 1872, Evening
23 Jul 1872, Evening
24 Jul 1872, Evening
25 Jul 1872, Evening
26 Jul 1872, Evening
27 Jul 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Robin Hood; or, The maid that was arch and the youth that was archer
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 July 1872, 7.

Includes names of members of the company.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 23 July 1872, 7.

“The singing on the whole was rather thin.”

3)
Review: New York Post, 23 July 1872, 2.

No mention of music.

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1872, 8.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Sun, 23 July 1872, 2.

“Miss Thompson grows plumper and prettier season after season, and if her voice shows signs of weakness and wear, she has lost none of that arch raillery and buoyancy of spirit that have made her a popular favorite.”

6)
Review: New-York Times, 23 July 1872, 5.

Authorship of the piece unnamed on the bill. “Some of the concerted music was cleverly and carefully sung.”

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 July 1872, 134.

Cast listing. “The music, with which it was liberally interspersed, evinced taste in selection and was correctly and spiritedly rendered.”