Man of Honor: POSTPONED EVENT

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Dec 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Postponed to Monday (12/22/74) owing to lack of insufficient rehearsal time. See separate event entry of that date.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Man of honour, A
aka Man of honor
Text Author: Boucicault
2)
Man of honour, A, [incidental music]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 December 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 December 1873, 4.

Premiere of A man of honor. The play is a “legitimate modern comedy in five acts, written expressly for this theatre” and will be presented with “appropriate incidental music.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 December 1873, 4.

“For this comedy special scenery has been painted, and everything on the stage will be new—except the actors, who, for the most part, are well-established favorites…Early applications should be made for seats.”

4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 18 December 1873, 10.

Full cast list.

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 December 1873, 2.

“[A]ppropriate Incidental Music (arranged by Mr. Thomas Baker).” Scene synopsis.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 21 December 1873, 9.

The comedy “was not produced at Wallack’s last night, as announced. A large audience was disappointed by this bad management. Want of sufficient rehearsal was the excuse for postponing the production until to-morrow (Monday) evening.”