Rip Van Winkle

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Price: $1; $.75; $.50

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM
28 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM
29 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM
30 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM
31 Oct 1873, 8:00 PM
01 Nov 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Rip Van Winkle, [play by McWade]
Text Author: McWade
Participants:  Robert [actor] McWade

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 October 1873, 7.

“Behold! We hear the public call. Mark our answer. [Lists prices.]” (See related article on ticket prices in the separate event entry of 10/15/73: Article on theatre ticket prices and the working class.)

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 October 1873, 13.

“Return to specie payment basis, people’s popular prices.”

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 27 October 1873, 2.

Announces return to specie prices.

4)
Review: New York Post, 28 October 1873, 4.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 28 October 1873, 5.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 28 October 1873, 7.

Compliments McWade’s new version. No mention of music.

7)
Review: New York Sun, 29 October 1873, 3.

No mention of music.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 01 November 1873, 246.

The poor attendance of the previous weekend owes, “it is thought, to the panic, and high tariff of admission, which latter is to be reduced to a specie-payment basis on Oct. 27, vix.: 50cnts, 75cnts, and $1; and on that evening Robert McWade is to commence an engagement in his own adaptation of Washington Irving’s legend of ‘Rip Van Winkle.’” Lists more of the cast.

9)
Review: New York Clipper, 08 November 1873, 254.

Long plot synopsis. “…Enough has been cited to demonstrate that Mr. McWade’s boast of originality is not by any means an idle one. There is little of Irving’s sketch in his dramatization…” Positive review; no mention of music.