Event Information

Venue(s):
St. James Theatre (1870-73)

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM
04 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM
05 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM
06 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM
07 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM
08 Mar 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Swayne Buckley and Sam Sharpley’s Burlesque Opera Troupe;  Eva Brent
2)
Masks and faces, [musical burletta]
Text Author: Poole
3)
Barney's courtship
aka Emigrants, The; or, Good-bye to ould Ireland
4)
Sonnambula, La, [burlesque (Unknown author)]
aka Sonambula; Sonnambula Amina; S.o.n.n.a.m.b.u.l.a.; or, The supper, the sleeper, and the merry Swiss boy
Text Author: Unknown playwright
5)
Music on the brain
6)
There’s where the laugh comes in
aka That's where the laugh comes in
7)
"Alphabet"
aka Alphabetical song

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 March 1873, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 March 1873, 390.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 March 1873, 398.

“The music of the original opera [La Sonnambula] was rather too closely followed; there was a lack of the minstrel or burlesque element, and the performance was rather tamely received.”