Bowery Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Bowery Theatre (after 1/67)

Manager / Director:
William B. Freligh

Price: $.75 balcony, orchestra; $.50 parquet, dress circle; $.30 boxes; $.20 amphitheatre; $5, $7 private boxes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Oct 1873, Evening
21 Oct 1873, Evening
22 Oct 1873, Evening
23 Oct 1873, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Maggie [vocalist] Fielding;  John [vocalist] Fielding
2)
Ginger snaps
Text Author: Unknown playwright
3)
Turf digger’s doom, The
Text Author: Foster

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 October 1873, 13.

The Fieldings “will introduce their extraordinary Music Specialties” in The turf digger’s doom.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 November 1873, 246.

“…The drama did not achieve success, and after the first few evenings was cut down and performed as an afterpiece. John Fielding as Matt O’Malley and Maggie Fielding as Biddy Mulrooney displayed the possession of considerable histrionic ability and in the performance of their musical specialties—in which they appeared thrice during the drama—met with unqualified success, being encored until they were compelled to desist from sheer exhaustion.”