Benefit to the Sufferers by Destruction of Niblo’s Garden

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
John F. [manager] Cole

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 July 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 May 1872, 1:30 PM
11 May 1872, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The listing for the matinee and evening programs below is separated by “Intermission.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

My neighbor's wife

aka Rich and poor

Text Author: Bunn

2)

Irishman and Negro

3)

"Fine old English gentleman, The," [song]

aka Old English gentleman

Text Author: Dance

4)

5)

6)

aka Comic ditty

7)

8)

Honeymoon, The

aka Honey moon

Text Author: Tobin

9)

Schneider and little fraud

Text Author: Unknown playwright

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 May 1872, 7.

For Thursday. “Tendered by the entire dramatic and musical profession of this City.” Comedy, opera, burlesque, ballet.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 May 1872, 7.

“A general desire causing the change from Thursday’s date.”

3)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 May 1872, 9.

Programme details; names of artists to appear.

4)

Announcement: New York Clipper, 18 May 1872, 54.

“It is to be regretted that the Grand Opera House benefit in aid of the sufferers by the burning of Niblo’s Theatre did not prove successful. Benefits for ‘sufferers’ are too hastily arranged, in most instances, and frequently managed by gentlemen who have not the necessary judgment, owing to not being performers, and much is said and done by them to the exclusion of the advice and services of those actors whose names and influence would ensure the success which should be the only aim of all interested.”

5)

Review: New York Clipper, 18 May 1872, 54.

“The attendance at the matinee was quite meagre and at night only fair. This was owing probably to lack of management and to undue haste in giving the benefit performances.”