Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart [actor, minstrel]

Manager / Director:
John F. [1833-93] Poole

Price: $.50 parquet & dress circle; $1 reserved seat; $.25 family circle

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:

This event is still undergoing additional verification.

Last Updated:
15 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 Mar 1874, Evening
10 Mar 1874, Evening
11 Mar 1874, Matinee
11 Mar 1874, Evening
12 Mar 1874, Evening
13 Mar 1874, Evening
14 Mar 1874, Matinee
14 Mar 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart;  May and Porter [banjo duettists];  Charley White;  Johnny Wild;  James H. Budworth;  R. M. [dancer] Carroll;  Jennie Yeamans;  Alice [child singer] Bennett;  Tom Granger;  Ernest [actor] Byne;  Gerard [actor] Byne;  Prof. [trained birds] Gilbert;  Kitty [dancer] O'Neil;  Mrs. Johnny Wild
2)
Happy pair, A
aka Breakfast table, The
Text Author: Theyre-Smith
Participants:  Ernest [actor] Byne;  Gerard [actor] Byne
3)
Imitations
aka Impersonations
Participants:  James H. Budworth
4)
Mulligan guards, The
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart
5)
Who owns the line?
6)
"Muldoon, the solid man"
Composer(s): Harrigan
7)
Terrible example, A
Participants:  Harrigan and Hart
8)
Italian padrone; or, The slaves of the harp
Text Author: Poole
9)
Comic songs
Participants:  Alice [child singer] Bennett
10)
Songs and dances
Participants:  Tom Granger
11)
Banjo duets
Participants:  May and Porter [banjo duettists]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 March 1874, 11.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 10 March 1874, 7.
“At the Theatre Comique an immense audience was gathered last night. The usual excellent variety performance was bettered, if it could be so, by the appearance of new performers, the most important of whom was Mr. Ernest Byne, a personator of female characters. His acting was excellent and his singing in falsetto soprano wonderfully exact…” 
 
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 21 March 1874, 406.

“…J. H. Budworth, attired in evening dress, sang a fresh song, during the course of which he gave excellent imitations of the late Edwin Forrest, of Barney Williams, Chas. Fechter, and others, the excellence of which was attested by the liberal applause of the audience. He was several times recalled, and sang other fresh selections. Little Alice Bennett, who has a remarkable voice, both as regards strength and purity, for one of her age, gave complete satisfaction in serio-comic songs…The auditorium was densely crowded, and hundreds were turned from the doors nightly…”