Natalie

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
Humphrey Bland

Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Event Type:
Play With Music, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 September 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Aug 1863, Evening

Program Details

Natalie was written expressly for Powers. First time.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Death barge of the Loire
Text Author: Selby
3)
aka Death barge of the Loire
Composer(s): Mollenhauer [viola-vn]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 10 August 1863, 7.

Winter Garden “will open its next [season] on this day next week, under the able management of Mr. Humphrey Bland and the stellar auspices of Mrs. D.P. Bowers.” 

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 August 1863, 5.

Says opening night was Monday.  “Mr. Mollenhauer has composed some incidental music.”

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 17 August 1863, 5.

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 August 1863, 7.
“This popular place of amusement has been entirely CLEANSED AND RENOVATED. . . . NEW MUSIC by the Orchestra (which has been considerably augmented), under the direction of Mr. Mollenhauer.”
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 August 1863, 3.
No mention of music.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 August 1863, 7.

7)
Review: New-York Times, 19 August 1863, 8.

No mention of music.  “‘Natalie’ lurches awkwardly toward the sensation school; and, in fact, is rather Boweryish in the first act.”

8)
Review: New York Herald, 19 August 1863, 4.
“The Winter Garden was reopened Monday evening . . . with a new manager, a new company, a new star, and a new piece. . . . Of the play itself, it may be said, on the whole, to have been a success.”
9)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 19 August 1863, 8.

No mention of music.  “On the whole, a more acceptable performance . . . has not been given this season.”

10)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 22 August 1863, 147.

11)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 22 August 1863, 150.
“New Music, by Mr. Mollenhauer.”
12)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 August 1863, 7.

13)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 August 1863, 7.

14)
Review: New York Clipper, 29 August 1863, 155.

"We attended on Tuesday evening the 18th; the attendance was not very large. . . . The play is not really one that will hold the stage successfully for any length of time.”