New Idea
Event Information
Venue(s):
New Idea, The
Proprietor / Lessee:
J. C. Curran
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
5 April 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
08 Jun 1863, Evening09 Jun 1863, Evening
10 Jun 1863, Evening
11 Jun 1863, Evening
12 Jun 1863, Evening
13 Jun 1863, Evening
13 Jun 1863, 2:30 PM
Program Details
Mr. [John Dogherty] J. Doherty, Irish comedian [performed SAT]
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Emma Gardener; S. Francis; John N. [composer] Senia; Marietta Zanfretta; Hugh Clarke [minstrel/variety]; Antonio Grossi; [New Idea - Free & Easy] Barnes; J. C. Franklin; Mlle. Mentz; Charles DeVere; Mlle. Congreve [New Idea]; W. [New Idea] Thomas; Mlle. Corelli; W. Ross; Mlle. Douglass; Gustavus Geary; M. Thompson [New Idea]; George Levantin; Agnes Sutherland; S. Linsley; Robert Levantin; John J. Dougherty; Esther [pantomimist] Martinetti; Francois Levantin; A. M. Hernandez; Mlle. Prestigue; James Levantin
3)
aka Dancing master from Paris;
French dancing master, The [petite comedy]
Participants: A. M. Hernandez
8)
aka Dear mother I've come home to die
Composer(s): Tucker [comp.-cond.-voc.]
Participants: Gustavus Geary
Citations
1)
Hernandez “in his wonderful performance of the DANCING MASTER AND GUITAR SOLO.”
2)
“Then came a Fox, both cunning and keen, who proposed an entire change of the scene; with minstrelsy, vaudeville, pantomime here, he opened the house with the name ‘New Idea.’ But the people of New York are not apt to take hold of an idea that’s new, until they’ve done with the old; and that’s why it’s not prospered as well as it might, and why the house isn’t filled every night. Fox is out of it now, for some time has been-o, in Phillymaclink, at Fox’s Casino, Mr. Curran has charge of the ‘Idea’ just now, and with Hernandez and others gives a very fair show; but the people don’t show as thick as they ought—perhaps it’s because they don’t give it a thought, with the draft hanging over them, ready to cover them, unless, for a release, they’re ready to fork out three hundred a piece.”