New Church of St. Agnes Benefit

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Proprietor / Lessee:
Sheridan Shook

Manager / Director:
A. M. Palmer

Conductor(s):
Henry Tissington

Price: $1; unspecified extra for reserved/boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Nov 1873, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Dan Bryant; Nelse Seymour; Stuart Robson; William Jermyn Florence; Mrs. William Jermyn Florence; Rose Eytinge; W. H. Montgomery; Effie [actress and singer] Germon; Eliza Weathersby; Emily [actress] Mestayer; E. D. [ventriloquist] Davies; Dora Goldthwaite

2)

Kiss in the dark, A

Text Author: Buckstone

Participants: Stuart Robson; Dora Goldthwaite

3)

Participants: E. D. [ventriloquist] Davies

4)

Thrice married

Text Author: Paul

Participants: William Jermyn Florence; Mrs. William Jermyn Florence; Rose Eytinge

5)

Irish lion, The

Text Author: Buckstone

Participants: William Jermyn Florence

6)

Deaf as a post, [Ethiopian sketch]

Text Author: Leavitt, Egan

Participants: Nelse Seymour

Citations

1)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 November 1873, 4.

Brief. Suggests that Barney Williams and George Rowe will also participate, but no other citation states the same.

2)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 November 1873, 4.

3)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 November 1873, 2.

Full cast list.

4)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 November 1873, 2.

5)

Review: New York Sun, 28 November 1873, 2.

Brief; overview of several performances on 11/27/73. “The Academy of Music, where a benefit for St. Agnes’s Church was given by the Florences, was unable to hold the crowd that sought places.”