Jane English and the Troupe St. Denis

Event Information

Venue(s):
Laura Keene's Theatre (1862-63)

Manager / Director:
Jane English

Event Type:
Choral, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 September 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jun 1863, Evening
23 Jun 1863, Evening
24 Jun 1863, Evening
24 Jun 1863, 2:30 PM
25 Jun 1863, Evening
26 Jun 1863, Evening
27 Jun 1863, Evening
27 Jun 1863, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Wives of Paris; or, the belles of Notre Dame includes “We are all here” (song).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Milner Operatic Corps;  Jane English and the Troupe St. Denis;  Jane English and the Troupe St. Denis, corps de ballet;  Mlle. [dancer] Auguste;  Henry Agoust [pantomime];  Marie Zoe;  Le Petit Angelo;  Mlle. Marie [dancer]
2)
Wives of Paris; or, The belles of Notre
3)
"We are all here"

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 22 June 1863, 4.
Says Wives of Paris is a new piece, but it played last week.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 June 1863, 7.

“FIFTY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN THE SONGS AND CHORUSES.  During the piece, ‘GRAND CARNIVAL AND BAL – New Groupings and Dancing Fantastique.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 June 1863, 2.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 June 1863, 2.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 June 1863, 7.
“Grand chorus of 50 Ladies and Gentlemen.”
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 June 1863, 12.

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 04 July 1863, 91.
“Jane English has at last hit upon the piece and style of performances that not only seems to suit the times, the people, and herself, but one that pleases the treasurer; for her last production, ‘The Wives of Paris,’ has most decidedly made a hit, for the proof of which, pay a visit any night this week to Laura Keene’s Theatre, and our word for it, you will witness as fine an array of ladies and gentlemen there congregated as has been seen there for a long time.  Night after night the parquet and dress circle are well filled, and the upper part of the house shows a decided increase over the former attendance.  In ‘The Wives of Paris,’ (the title of which, however, has nothing to do with the piece) every taste finds gratification in one part or other of the diversified performances given, which are so effectively put upon the stage.  The piece abounds with any number of pretty girls (?); music, vocal and instrumental, dancing, and gymnastic performances of various kinds.  It pleases the public and draws the ‘postal’ to the ‘treasury department,’ which is all that the management require.  Jane English’s original lease of two months of this house closes this week.”