Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
02 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
03 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
04 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
05 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
06 Dec 1873, 2:00 PM
06 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Owens Dramatic Company;  John E. Owens
2)
Everybody's friend
Text Author: Coyne
Participants:  John E. Owens (role: Major Wellington De Boots)
3)
Solon Shingle; or, The people’s lawyer
aka Uncle Solon Shingle
Text Author: Jones

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 November 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 30 November 1873, 4.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 02 December 1873, 6.

“There is a moral epigrammatic piquancy in the fact that when nearly all the theatres have lowered their prices Wood’s Museum has raised its style of entertainment.”

4)
Review: New York Herald, 04 December 1873, 3.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 13 December 1873, 294.

No mention of music; notes good attendance.