Humpty Dumpty abroad

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grand Opera House

Price: $.50; $.40 family circle; $.50, $1 extra reserved

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM
23 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM
24 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM
25 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
25 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM
26 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM
27 Dec 1873, 1:30 PM
27 Dec 1873, 7:45 PM

Program Details

Special Thursday (12/25/73) matinee this week for Christmas.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 December 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1873, 4.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 December 1873, 6.

Praise for the pantomime, which it calls the best “ever produced on the New York stage.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 December 1873, 2.

“The famed Marten [sic] family will give their Tyrolean Songs and always popular Cat Duet.”

5)
Review: New York Post, 27 December 1873, 2.

No mention of music.

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 03 January 1874, 318.

Brief and positive review; includes praise for the Martens’ “Tyrolean songs and cat duet.”