Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Proprietor / Lessee:
Augustin Daly

Manager / Director:
Augustin Daly

Conductor(s):
Auguste Predigam

Price: $1.50 orchestra, $1 parquette circle, $2 parlor chairs, $1 admission, $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Aug 1873, 7:45 PM
20 Aug 1873, 7:45 PM
21 Aug 1873, 7:45 PM
22 Aug 1873, 7:45 PM
23 Aug 1873, 1:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Midsummer night’s dream, A
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Bottom);  Annie Kemp;  D. H. Harkins;  Fanny Hayward;  Catherine [actress] Rogers
2)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein
aka Midsummer night's dream
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Thrice married
Text Author: Paul

Citations

1)
Article: New York Herald, 03 August 1873, 3.

Forthcoming season; roster.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 07 August 1873, 2.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 August 1873, 4.

Chief attraction for many: G. L. Fox as Bottom.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 August 1873, 9.

Cast listing.

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 18 August 1873, 2.
6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 August 1873, 5.

No mention of music. 

7)
Review: New-York Times, 20 August 1873, 5.

Cast listing. “…’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ deserves better music, or rather the better execution of that selected; for, if properly rendered, none sweeter could be wished than Mendelssohn’s score. M. Predigam, however, needs a stronger force to cope with it. As for the vocal selections, those assigned to Mrs. Bowler received ample justice; the California quartet, in our judgment, might advantageously have been left in California.”  

8)
Review: New York Sun, 20 August 1873, 1.

No mention of music; cast listing. 

9)
Review: New York Post, 20 August 1873, 2.

No mention of music. 

10)
Review: New York Herald, 20 August 1873, 7.

“The king and queen of the fairies were represented respectively by Mrs. Annie Kemp Bowler and Miss Fanny Hayward, the acting and singing of both ladies giving satisfaction.” 

11)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 23 August 1873, 166.

Names of dramatic company members.

12)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 August 1873, 174.

No mention of music; cast listings.