Kenilworth

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Price: $1; $.50-$1 extra reserved; $.50 family circle; $10, $15, $18 boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Nov 1872, Evening
30 Nov 1872, Matinee
30 Nov 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Kenilworth; or, Ye queene, ye earle, and ye maydenne
aka Kenilworth; or, Ye queen, ye earl, and ye maiden; Kenilworth; Ye queene, ye earle, and ye maydenne; Ye queen, ye earl, and ye maiden
Text Author: Halliday, Lawrance
Participants:  Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 November 1872, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Times, 30 November 1872, 1.

“All the songs and dances were, of course, re-demanded.”

3)
Review: New York Sun, 30 November 1872, 3.

Brief; no mention of music.

4)
Review: New York Herald, 30 November 1872, 7.

“…and the music and the singing—the latter, as a general thing, not of the best—went a great way towards killing two hours and more rather pleasantly than otherwise.”