Dead Heart

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
16 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
17 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
18 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM
20 Dec 1873, Matinee
20 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Dead heart
Text Author: Webster
Participants:  Edwin Adams [actor];  Charles Leclercq, Jr.

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 December 1873, 283.

“Edwin Adams must be somewhat of an unfeeling actor, for not satisfied with giving us his ‘Marble Heart,’ he proposes next to present us with his ‘Dead Heart,’ which will certainly prove him to be a heartless man. (Note—Mr. Adams will please to understand that we do not rashly charge him with heartlessness, etc., as he might suppose were not this explanation given; but that we merely so insinuate as a bit of pleasantry to ‘make the groundlings laugh,’ as he will understand)…” Goes on in this manner.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 December 1873, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 December 1873, 4.
4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 December 1873, 4.

Long review. No mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 16 December 1873, 5.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Sun, 17 December 1873, 3.

No mention of music.

7)
Review: New York Post, 17 December 1873, 4.

No mention of music.

8)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 December 1873, 310.

The page number at the upper left reads 810, but that is clearly a typo and should read 310.  Brief. “Only a moderate business has been done” at the Olympic of late.