Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart [actor, minstrel]

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Sep 1873, Evening
09 Sep 1873, Evening
10 Sep 1873, Matinee
10 Sep 1873, Evening
11 Sep 1873, Evening
12 Sep 1873, Evening
13 Sep 1873, Matinee
13 Sep 1873, Evening

Program Details

Jennie Yeamans seems only to have performed at the matinees. American debuts of Gray and Weldon.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart;  Johnny Wild;  Frank Kerns;  Ada [singer] Wray;  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  Jennie Yeamans;  Maud Gray;  Gus Hanford;  Kitty [dancer] O'Neil
2)
Mulligan guards, The
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart
3)
Statue of the period, The
Participants:  Maud Gray
4)
Dissolving statue, The
Participants:  Maud Gray
5)
Big injun
aka Big indian
Text Author: Norton

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 07 September 1873, 13.

Full cast list.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 September 1873, 4.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 September 1873, 196.

“…Gus Hanford sang Dutch songs, which were favorably received…The programme was filled out with Little Jennie Yeamans’ character songs; serio-comic songs by Jennie Hughes…”